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How Did Everyone Get Into This Hobby... and Get it Past Your Wives? haha
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RetroACTIVE:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 12, 2008, 01:58:34 pm ---
It only bothers my wife when it gets unreasonable - parts/games spilling into regular areas of the house, spending too much, taking time away from family. 

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I'm in the exact same boat here now!

It started with mame cab (easy sell)... and spilled over into dedicated cabs... (not so easy sell at this point... too many unfinished)


javeryh:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 12, 2008, 01:58:34 pm ---
It only bothers my wife when it gets unreasonable - parts/games spilling into regular areas of the house, spending too much, taking time away from family. 

--- End quote ---

Same.  It's tough though because technically any time I spend working on it could be "family time" - maybe when the kids get older it won't be so much of an issue.
Ian:
The wife was really supportive of this hobby at first, I have a monster 4 player cab that takes up a good third of our second bedroom. It was completed, and we were both happy, then I realized that my rushed control panel, doesn't hold up to constant abuse. So in essence I am slowly building a new control panel for it, and the wife's patience as run bone dry, she claims it's a black hole, so right now I am biding my time, and getting pieces of the puzzle in small increments.... one day I will have my CP! bwahahahhaha.


I got into this hobby because no matter how good Sega and Nintendo tried, arcade games weren't the same, and I had an obsession with street fighter 2 and mortal kombat. Internet gaming is fine, but it's different when your opponent is right next to you. I needed an arcade.
DeLuSioNal29:
I took a bold move, being that we had just bought a house that same year.  Although I had plenty of room for it, money was tight.  That said:

I did the smart thing by "hyping it up" about how I wanted to buy a MAME arcade that went for around $3,000 and showing her the pictures and websites.  She knew it was always a dream of mine to build an arcade game but she hated the idea that it cost so much.  So then I started raving how I could build my own for a lot cheaper.  See where I'm going with this?

A couple weeks later I found an empty cab for $25 and just brought it home.  She saw it in the garage and then she asked the famous question:  Where I would get the money to "fill it"?  But I was prepared!  I had a ton of stuff that I previously had in storage (they now saw daylight due to our house purchase) and I made a deal with her.  I would sell some of my junk on e-Bay to pay for the parts of the cabinet.  Win - Win situation.

Then, the arcade gods smiled upon me, because one of my items that I posted on e-Bay (a collectible doll) sold for over $1,000!  That's what paid for my control panel and arcade monitor.  (And the wife couldn't touch the "e-Bay funds" since we made that deal... heh heh heh)

So there it is.

~ DeLuSioNaL
HaRuMaN:
DeLuSioNal29 collects thousand dollar dolls... he is teh ghey!
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