how many play there cab alot, or got fed up with it?

[G1zm0]

after al you guys completed your builds, how many still play there machine alot (excluding party use)?

and has anyone gotten fed up with it and sold it?

ive been playing game after game, but not for long and then quit game, although i loved  "most" of these games in my childhood

best ones are sega 1984 onwards,neogeo (was ahead of its time)

top 5

outrun
space harrier
shinobi
powerdrift
wonderboy
 

i cant play them as much, graphics are naff now, a bit like the spectrum and c64.
 i loved thoes but cant play them for long. nostalgia was good but only for about 5mins..


dont get me wrong, ive whittled my list right down to about 40 games, as most are just sh**

[TelcoLou]

I still play mine almost every night.

[dkubarek]

I can see how a cab isn't for everyone. I think a casual gamer would be better off with just building a control panel that stores easily or buying a pre-fab one. If you have an LCD TV you can just include emulators as part of your media center. I'm big on living small and avoiding 6-foot-tall pieces of anything in my house unless it's really needed, so I plan to go that route for now. It'll work out great for shooting games if a good LCD light gun comes around. (Imagine shooting games on a 50-inch TV? (I built one cab, but it was for a gift). Still, if you grew up playing at arcades, the cab is the best option, and I'll build mine when I move to a house with a basement.

[ctozzi]

I actually get more enjoyment out of the restoration work and less fun from playing games.

[pinballwizard79]

I play it almost every night usually a quick 15 minutes or so.

The weekends I really tear it up...with or without guests.

Most visitors want to play games like TMNT, Metal Slug or Mortal Kombat.

When its just me I fire up Dragons Lair & then all the classics (centipede, gyruss, gaplus, pacman & so on).

[Jack Burton]

Can I say all of the above?

I play just about every night, unless I've got it so torn apart tinkering with it that I cannot.  

I wish I could play more newer games.  I'm still trying to get Tekken and Virtua Fighter to run well on my setup.

[ghettodish]

Can I say all of the above?

I play just about every night, unless I've got it so torn apart tinkering with it that I cannot.  

I wish I could play more newer games.  I'm still trying to get Tekken and Virtua Fighter to run well on my setup.

...what he said!

[RayB]

best ones are sega 1984 onwards,neogeo (was ahead of its time)

top 5

outrun
space harrier
shinobi
powerdrift
wonderboy

I can see how you wouldn't enjoy a MAME cabinet, considering 3 of those games require a tricked out "driving" set up, or other complex controls.

You have to be a little obsessed with the older stuff, or games that use standard controls.

[severdhed]

mine doesnt get played that much.  when people come to visit, the kids usually want to play, and then after a while an adult or two will wander over and check it out if nobody is using it..i very rarely actually play it though.  my 2 year old wants to play alot, but being 2, can't really do much other than mash buttons and then lose interest.

i really enjoy working on it, changing it, that kind of thing.  lately it is making me angry because the monitor isn't functioning properly. sometimes when i turn it on, the monitor takes several minutes to power up, and when it does, it is just a garbled screen full of colored lines.  the PC is booting just fine, you can hear it boot up and launch games.  i often have to unplug it for a while to get it to work again.  it sucks because i just about have the money i need to get a set of u360s and misc to redo the control panel, but now i dont know if i should do that, or get a new monitor instead.

i find that when i do play games on my cabinet, i play for 15 minutes or so, and then don't touch it for a while.

[Sardu]

my cab is in a spare room on the otherside of the house with lots of other crap in it.  Boxes, bins, clothes etc.    So, while I love all the mame, snes, nes, etc games.... I hate playing in that room.   I feel like I'm  a hermit in a cave when I'm playing.

[daywane]

I am not fed up with cabs or games.
I am fed up on all the delays!
I had a few up and running but once we got a grand baby my wife wanted my arcade room.
She gave me the large TV room.
But then she makes it her catch all room.
I toss a big hissy fit.
we empty it out.
Then Grand baby gets all kinds of big items.
Gym and a walker. Guess were they are!
and the Christmas comes. Guess were the Christmas tree must go.
Mom buys me a chest freezer. guess were it went.
I tossed the old Christmass tree out yesterday.
spent most of the day yesterday storing crap in attic.
I will split wood all day today.
I am off work till 01/05/09
I will spend the rest of my time on converting this

[councilface]

Me and the Mrs play it almost every day. Only Robotron though. Im gunning for the 1986 world record.

[TacoTownCharlie]

I built a kid-size two player cab for the large living room.  In addition to the emulators, we have PC games for the kids such as Putt-Putt, Busytown, Bob the Builder and some Sesame Street titles.  The control panel has a trackball and mouse buttons, which is almost all those games need.

So the cabinet gets some use almost everyday, just not always MAME.  We also have NetFlix and an internet connection; I noticed that Hannah Montana episodes are available for instant viewing so we might move our daughter off the living room TV over to the cabinet.

[daywane]

putt-putt and Freddy fish rocks! for young kids
101 Dalmatians
all three games are for PC but young kids LOVE them
I did not think of these till thge above post.

[unclet]

My kids loved the following PC Games:

Feeding Frenzy
Feeding Frenzy 2

[retrometro]

When ppl come over and put high scores on games i rarely play, i tend to play the crap out of that game for a while until at least my initials are on all the entries and theirs is bumped off.

Otherwise, it gets played every week or two.

[dreamakuma]

Mine gets played daily (My X-men & a dreamcast based arcade cabinet).  Both get plenty of love. And on saturdays, 4-5 people will play it with me. never gets old. I can't even play with controllers anymore!!