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This hobby is full of oddballs. Post your encounters here.
shardian:
I had a rummage sale this past weekend, and a fellow stopped by who saw the games in my garage. It was an interesting encounter, and it got me to thinking: There are many strange people in the hobby that give normal folk who just want to reclaim a bit of our childhood a bad rep. Feel free to post any odd encounters you have had with people relating to the arcade game hobby.
Anyways, I was inside when the guy showed up, and my wife came to get me because he might be interested in buying a game or MAME machine off of me. I chatted with him for a while and showed him some what all I had and told him a bit how some of the MAME and controls stuff worked. The guy was VERY excited every time I told or showed him something new. Hey, that's understandable: it blew my mind when I realized the potential of MAME too... but he was getting a bit too excited. He did say he had never used MAME before because he wanted to get first hand opinions of those who had first. Near the end of the conversation, I asked for his email so I could send him some links. He seemed to freak out a bit, and started mumbling about having email but not using it. Since when does an uber-nerd hardcore gamer with a ps3 and xbox360 NOT use email and frequent gaming related forums and blogs. It was just odd. I then realized he had never told me his name. I was quickly becoming glad that the baby was asleep inside and that I couldn't bring him inside to show him some other stuff for that reason. He mentioned that he might stop by some time in the future again, but I really hope he doesn't.
Ginsu Victim:
One thing I learned real quick when I finished my MAME cabinet:
DON'T TELL EVERYONE!
As excited as I was to show it off (mostly my project announcement), I've had far too many people want to come by and check out the machine. Plenty of people have asked about seeing it, and I've said, "Yeah, we'll have to do that sometime."
Yeah right.
A lot of the wrong people have wanted to come by that I wouldn't have over previous to this, so why now?
shardian:
Yeah, I guess I have been lucky up till now. Everyone I have met locally have been really nice people who have families, nice houses, and most important of all they are pretty normal. I suppose you can say I have taken yet another step in the full experience of the hobby. ;)
Dexter:
From my own experience (retrogaming 10+ years or so with an arcade cab mamed for about 7 of those), people see the cabs running multiple games + systems and blow a gasket. I'm talking intelligent people who are PC literate here. I guess our generation equate 1 cab to 1 game, end of. And the thoughts of having thousands right there in your own home is something a lot of people find it difficult to get their heads around.
When I was first put onto Mame, I was still being amazed that thanks to my PSX I could finally play arcade quality games at home. Next of all I download Mame030 and am hooked. Here I am a decade or so later, owning and building cabs, a 33" showcase cab in the diningroom thats probably going to be exhibit one in the murder trial after my other half crushes me under it (she thinks its a bit too big, I think the rooms a bit too small), a press full of arcade spares in my kitchen (exhibit two), and am posting this on a forum about building arcade stuff.
Its been an experience all right :cheers:
JeepMonkey:
I have found some people at the local auctions can get on my nerves. They are sometimes regular people, sometimes operators or repairmen.
The first guy is the one who must be within three feet of the auctioneer at all times as he moves in front of the games he is currently calling. This person rarely bids.
The next guy is the one who feels it is necessary to lean against / lay on / or generally just be in the way of the item currently being acutioned. Get the hell out of the way, you are not one of the girls from the Price Is Right!
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