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

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Ginsu Victim:


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Had to watch that with the sound off. NOT my kind of band.
However, no sound meant I could concentrate on YOUR work, which was quite well done.
Good work.

dgordon86:


--- Quote from: genesim on March 13, 2008, 04:32:21 am ---My wife helped me build mine...and swears she will never do it again.  But I must say, I couldn't have done it without her.  BLESS HER!

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Same here, my girlfriend is helping me out BIG TIME.  I'm only 21 and I don't want to think about marriage, but if someone can dedicate hours upon hours to helping, hearing me ---smurfette---, all while I throw fits.. boy, shes a-ok in my book!

ids:


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--- Quote from: ids on March 14, 2008, 03:04:44 pm ---And to get it past her, I just do what I want, and take heat for it later.  Once the cab is built, we'll fight about where to put it.  I think some people stay together because of the kids  :dunno

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Build a step stool for the kids, teach them to play, demonstrate to wife how cabinet provides fun and quality time spent with kids (making sure to very subtly throw in a little guilt for her not participating in aforementioned quality time) and she'll be avoiding the issue at least until the kids get old enough to start avoiding you  ;D.

RandyT

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Wise words, no doubt, for those with small children.  Mine are much older than that (18&12).  And the wif doesn't understand how gaming together can be quality time, so again, I do what I want and take hear for it later  :(

severdhed:

mine started about 12 years ago..i was 16 and i dreamed of having an arcade machine in my house.  of course i was in high school, made about $40/week and lived with my parents..so i had to settle for my TV sitting on top of my clothes dresser.  I pulled the top drawer out a little, put a board on top of it, and sat my SNES arcade stick on it and played Mortal Kombat 2 for hours.   

Jump ahead about 8 years, i was reading a game review online and i stumbled across a review of the x-arcade joystick.  About a week later, i bought a two player x-arcade stick and all of the console adapters.  I really wanted it for playing fighting games on my ps2, dreamcast, and xbox.  After some serious Soul Calibur 2 sessions with my friends...i eventually put the x-arcade back in it's box and didn't use it a whole lot for a while. 

Jump ahead a few years, My girlfriend and I decide to move in together...we end up renting a house with a finished basement...so naturally i hooked up my game consoles and set it up as a theater room with my DLP projector.  then one day i am browsing the internet, just wasting time and i decided to play around with MAME.  i had used it many times before, but only with a keyboard, or usb gamepad.  then i remembered my x-arcade unit that was just sitting in the attic collecting dust.  i quickly hooked it up, fired up some Mortal Kombat and was hooked.  after about an hour, i had managed to piece together a MAME pc out of parts i had lying around and set it up in the basement.  i put the monitor on the bar and put the controller on a little stand that i had.  and it was then that i realized that the dream i had of owning my own arcade machine could finally be a reality.   I told my girlfriend what i was planning on doing, and she wasn't real thrilled.  anyway, one day while she was at work, i called around and found an empty cabinet for $20.  i went and picked it up..it had a coin door, marquee light, 3 buttons and a trackball in it. 

i think she was a bit suprised when i told her i bought it, but she was OK with it.  about a month later i asked her to marry me and now she is my wife.  she would get annoyed sometimes when i was workign on it alot, but she understood that it was my hobby and it made me very happy.  This was before we had any children.  I often talked about a second cabinet but she always told me that one was enough.  Well, I finished it up shortly before our son was born...and i named it Zak-Man after our son, Zakary.  I wasn't thinking about it at the time, but that was the smartest thing i could have done.  We are planning on having at least one more child sometime in the next 2 years.  So naturally if i have an arcade machine named after one child, i can't not have one named after the other child.  So even though I have to wait a while, i will get my second cabinet eventually.



Fozzy The Bear:

I can honestly say I've never had a real problem with my other half..... She's kind of easy going about things, except when I leave arcade parts around the house for her to fall over  :-[ It kind of goes like this.....

Me: I'd really like to buy another machine....
Domestic Authorities: Where are you going to put it...
Me: Ermmm I'll work something out  ;D
Domestic Authorities: Hmmm.. Have you fixed the car exhaust, cleaned out the spare room, painted the windows, fixed the broken latch on the kitchen cabinet, put the bin out, made that DVD for my mother, repaired my computer, sold all that junk on e-bay, taken the dog for a walk, cleaned the kitchen, fixed the blinds in the conservatory, cleaned the BBQ out for this weekend..... etc etc etc....
Me: Yes sweetheart, it's all in hand I'll be getting to that soon  :angel: :applaud: >:D
Domestic Authorities: You said that last time  :hissy:
Me: Ahhh!! Yes but... ermmm... but... ermmm.. It's all in hand.

One big bunch of flowers and some chocs and a girly DVD later..
The new cabinet arrives and gets put somewhere  ;D ;D ;D

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)



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