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yalborap:

--- Quote from: Avrus on February 06, 2008, 12:04:28 am ---
--- Quote from: yalborap on February 05, 2008, 11:54:32 pm ---For the record, I am not against preservation of cabs. Rather, I am against YOU and the others on the same side as you in particular. Though yes, I will admit, I don't care about them as much as I could. I'm only 16; arcades were in their swan song by the time I was born, and by the time I was old enough to get properly into games, they were dead in the US.
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Right ... so that's why you wouldn't understand the passion of many of the people here.  I'm 33, I spent every waking moment I could in an arcade.

I took an hour and 15 minutes of buses to get into the 7-11 in downtown Calgary because they were the only place to have Street Fighter 2 Championship Edition.  The lineup was 75+ people from 6 in the morning until 2 or 3 the next morning.

It's a part of my culture and my youth as much as the Atari 2600, cartridges, the Commodre 64 etc.

I mean no disrespect by my post, but I don't think it's something I could explain.  If it wasn't a part of your culture I wouldn't expect you to understand the feelings these cabinets emote.

Judging by the other posters response I expect he's fairly young too because he just doesnt 'get it'. 

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Well, speaking as a guy who has been a gamer longer than he can remember, I can certainly 'get' severe passion for games. I just think it's a little silly to get overly worked up, whether it's over maimed cabs  or what company is better or the rerising costs of console titles or...ANY of it. They're games, right? For better or worse, no matter how much passion we have for them, they are created first and foremost to be fun. Shouldn't we honor that and just enjoy them?

NOTE: I am making an exception for getting overly worked up at the sheer unfairness of a game. That is acceptable and at times mandatory. Devil May Cry 3 Dante Must Die mode, I am looking at you. Ninja Gaiden NES version, I am looking at you and your Xbox reboot too. Contra without the konami code, I am looking at you. Megaman, I am looking at you with rage never before conjured by man.
NIVO:
please maintain subject matter to on topic discussion only.
brandon:

--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on February 05, 2008, 09:15:42 pm ---As a reminder that it isn't just MAMErs who sometimes do bad things to good cabs ...

http://www.brentradio.com/Hellcade.htm

 :cheers:

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I dont get it.. what's wrong with these cabs? ???


J/K!!   ;D :P
brandon:

--- Quote from: Avrus on February 06, 2008, 12:04:28 am ---
Judging by the other posters response I expect he's fairly young too because he just doesnt 'get it'. 

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I'm 29 so I most definitely get it.. what I dont get is folks like Fozzy and Frizzle utterly chewing this guys ass after the fact...  More than one person said their peace over a year ago about how he should restore his Galaxian and not Mame it.  Well.. he heard your advice but choose to do something else.  You dont have to like it but what's done is done.  Has nobody heard of beating a dead horse?  Nobody is asking you to be OK with it... nobody is asking for your praise..  You've stated your opinion and its been noted.  No point in personal attacks or spamming his project thread with off topic stuff.   and like I've stated before.. I personally wouldn't have Mamed that cabinet.  I would've got it working as-is, sold it and used the money to buy parts for an 27" 4-player uber cabinet :D  BUT that's not what he did.  Just because I personally wouldnt have Mamed it that doesnt mean that I'm going to question CSA3D's ethics or morals because he did. 

That pretty much summarizes my opinion on the matter
RandyT:

I'm having a bit of a hard time getting too sentimental over this particular specimen myself.  I definitely like to see a cabinet left in one piece and restored if possible, but when so much is defective or unoriginal that you are replacing or repairing virtually every single item, it's a lost cause.  So much of the end result will be aftermarket, it might as well be a scratch-built copy.

I have a Galaxian sitting behind me that some joker decided should have the entire kickpanel painted black, probably due to similar damage.  I'll probably just print a nice new front for it so it looks presentable again, but I won't pretend that it is going to be as good as if the panel was original, clean and just required some "touching up".  The sides are dirty and need a touch-up, but nowhere close to the condition of this poor beast in question.

I say be happy it didn't get torched so some doofus could put a video of it on You-Tube.

RandyT

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