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thefreakhouse:
After being a longtime visitor to the BYOAC site and then a registered lurker here on the forums for two years I finally placed a parts order (twice actually because I liked the idea so much) with Groovy Game Gear for my first home arcade cab build.
It is going to be a fairly no frills 4 player cab. I am not going to elaborate too much on it here until I get the bulk of it started. Right now its my collection of software, files and an transaction number for my parts.
In the meantime I am trying to come up with a cab name/theme. I have been thinking about building one since 2001. In that time I have managed to over-think the project to death. I have come up with numerous ideas and now feel kind of burned out on all of them. The rest of the names I like...well..all of you took them long ago.
Can anyone name a fictitious arcade game from a movie or TV show?
The only ones I can think off hand are:
The Last Starfighter: Starfighter (someone did that already. Luckee)
Monster House: Thou Art Dead
Any more?
ArtMAME:
Space Paranoids from Tron
Galactic Border Patrol from Strange Brew... Take off ehh... ;D
wbassett:
This is because I just watched this on cable the other night... StarFighter... from The Last Star Fighter!
I was seriously thinking about building this style for my next cab! ;)
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8394
The game doesn't exist and even though Atari was planning on coming out with an actual arcade machine, they scrapped the idea... so you could have the only known StarFighter design! I'm sure someone out there has probably made one, but not that I've seen.
TOK:
My favorite one is The Bishop Of Battle from the movie Nightmares. Emilio Estevez is addicted to the game and can't wait to get to the end. He sneaks into the mall to play and gets a nasty surprise when he gets to the end. ;D
The game itself is a vector and looks like a mix between Tempest and Berzerk.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKTN93kdVK0[/youtube]
javeryh:
Bonestorm!!!