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How much influence does your better half have over your arcade addiction?
NoOne=NBA=:
My wife thought the first cab was a complete waste of money....until it got finished.
Four cabs and one pin later, we are rearranging the entire house to turn the family room into a game room.
She's already planning a pool table purchase when we get done rearranging.
She wasn't too happy about the cabs accumulating in the dining room, but didn't have any viable alternatives until now.
Fozzy The Bear:
How much influence..... mmmmm Good question...
Well my other half bought me a TurboTwist2 for Christmas last year and some other bits this year. On my birthday she'd found a Jaks Space Invaders that I'm going to turn into a miniature cabinet. For a large portion of last year I was restoring a stripped Virtua Striker that cost very little to buy and sold for a very nice sum and she let me do that in the lounge (mostly because the garage is full of other stuff including two cabs :-[ )
So all in all my other half is a sweetheart about it all. We're quite happy to let each other do whatever we want to do as long as we don't blow money that is earmarked for the bills that must be paid. It's a good level of give and take really.
Yes she gets pissed off at me leaving arcade monitors in the house sometimes.... especially if she falls over them. But most bits are never hanging around for too long, because they end up being used for fixing other peoples machines.
That said, she loves her SNES!! so being able to play all the SNES games on the cab helps a lot! ;D
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
CheffoJeffo:
You know that the muppets are all about keeping their wimminz happy !
:cheers:
TheShanMan:
Well, after about a decade of having my centipede cab in a partial state of mame-ification, my son started showing interest in it so my wife actually said "why don't you get that thing working?" Being TOLD to do it was all the motivation I needed ;D. My custom metal swappable cp is basically done (except for beautification) with one panel so far (2 joysticks) - I need to land my next job before money gets allocated for more controls!
But my whole family, including wife, loves playing it, and that definitely helps to warm her up to the idea of spending in this area. She's fine with me buying what I need to do 2 more drop in panels (single switchable joystick, and trackball), and seems fine with my long term plans for an analog joy/spinner panel, a lightgun panel, and ultimately maybe even a steering wheel panel.
The only problem is now it's hard to get time for ME to play the darn thing. If I ever turn it on, my kids appear in a flash, and how can I selfishly play when I see their excitement for it?
That's where my idea for a cocktail cab comes into the picture. I've joked about it with the wife for years, "hey, wouldn't it be cool to have a cocktail cab as an end table in the family room?" Wife - "I'm not having an ugly arcade machine pretend to be a piece of furniture!" I think she's warming up to it a bit though - I probably just need to come up with some concrete plans for a really nice looking cab that would fit in with furniture (i.e. really nice stained wood, smoked glass top). Then I'd actually get to play whenever I want - just go to the machine that the kids aren't using!
And we've tossed the idea of moving to a new house around. I will have to look with the idea of having a game room for arcade machines, pool table, foosball table, etc. :)
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: TheShanMan on February 08, 2008, 08:26:56 pm ---If I ever turn it on, my kids appear in a flash, and how can I selfishly play when I see their excitement for it?
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Somebody needs more cabs ... ;)
It won't change anything -- the kids always want to play whatever I want to play, but it's nice to have an option.
:cheers: