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How often do you play your Mame cab?
Antix:
Never for the last 7 months or so. My machine is at my sisters place in storage as I didnt have the room. However, renovations have started on the house now, so once they are done, I can move it back in!!
Then Im going to finally complete it and set it up properly. Once I finish painting the house that is.........
Zebidee:
Right now? Never. My five cabs are all locked up in a container to go to Thailand, but they'll never get there because I've found out about Thai import restrictions on gaming machines.
So now I'm in Thailand, dreaming of my dream machines and posting on this forum to make myself feel better. Oh well, life could be worse.
I probably won't be able to play them until October. :(
CheffoJeffo:
The only MAME cab I have right now is at the cottage and, when we're there it gets played every day, usually before breakfast and after dinner.
I recently pulled the PC from my vertical MAME at home and dropped in a 48-in-1 and that now gets more play than the vertical MAME ever did, despite the fact that it has fewer games. :dunno
The machine that gets played the most in my house is the Neo Geo 2-slot. Always has been and it seems that it always will be, despite the fact that I haven't played on it in 6 months (I've been on a big Rygar kick lately).
The dedicated Golden Tees are always popular with the adults (and my daughter).
Personally, I am really glad that I turned to the dark side instead of building the "one cab to play them all" as I had originally intended -- I love it when the whole family is downstairs, everybody playing a different game -- it really is like an arcade.
superart:
Mine gets lots of play time, usually a friend or two will stop by announced, unless I have to study. After studying for a few hours I reward myself with a few games (On line if friends aren't at arms lengths, via xbox 360, reg dreamcast, reg ps2, etc). If am not studying am drawing artwork that will go on the cabinet, after drawing about 5 characters I take a break and start playing. Then when schools out, I play it non stop, unless am working (in which case I play the games in my head).
Dazz:
My cabinet was down for about 6 months due to a bad motherboard. I had to upgrade everything to get it back into a working state so that took me a little while to get everything. Since it is back up and running the cabinet is played daily... I work from home quite a bit so throughout the day I will take a break and go play a quick game to relax for a few minutes. Once the kids get home from school they or their friends are always playing it until I kick them off. My cabinet is definitely one of the best investments that I've spent money on in a long time...