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| solderguy1:
I told my wife how houses in our area (Santa Clara, Ca) are selling for $500 a square foot and that by rain- and sun-proofing our screened-in room, laying down area rugs, and turning it into a 200 sq-ft gameroom, I got the bargain of the century. "Couldn't afford not to do it, honey" >:D |
| ChadTower:
--- Quote from: javeryh on March 12, 2008, 02:06:47 pm ---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. --- End quote --- I spend most of my hobby time after the kids go to bed. Just works out better that way in my house. |
| Games001:
I ran across the MAME programs back in 1997-98 and never even thought of building my own cabinet. Only after, by a chance of random links, coming across the BYOAC site in Oct of 2007 did I consider the idea of my own arcade at home. It had always been the 'costs' that kept me away from the home arcade concept. In mid Jan 2008 I purchased a number of parts and tools for the purpose of building my first, and not last, cabinet. So far I have a MAME cab with a full set of v123. My wife said as long as the cab had driving games she would throw whatever money and 'yes dearest' comments as needed. |
| mccoy178:
I found this hobby after searching for a Golden Tee cabinet on Ebay for my brother. I have been addicted ever since. I am currently shifting toward cnc routers, so I'm kind of scared where that is going to take me........... :dizzy: |
| knave:
I've kinda covered my entry in a few other threads since I'm fairly new...(about a year) Here's the quick version. I found MAME about 8 years ago when looking for free games for my pocket PC. I didn't bite then...but last year my daughter got a gameboy with the Namco museum. I loved playing that so I figured it was time to DL Mame so I didn't hogg the Gameboy. That lead me to this site and I saw all the cool projects. I started looking in my local CL and poof I had a cab. Wife at first didn't like it but My mom got my first one for me for my birthday. (Yay Mom) Wife couldn't argue much about that. Later after I picked up a few more cabs I stumbled on a game she fell in love with, Puzzle Bobble (Bust-a-move) and now she is hooked. For a while we played every night after the kids go to bed. Now I have six cabs, some projects some dedicated and working. I would get more but I'm just out of room. It just kills me when I see crazy good deals and can't jump on them. But alas, There's always new deals tomorrow. |
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