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HaRuMaN:
I started off with MAME, built a desktop controller just to play in front of my PC.
Now I collect originals. Once we buy a house (in a few months, w00t!) and have more space, I'm going to build a MAME cab. Originally, I don't think I was going to build a MAME cab, but then I saw somunny's cabinets in person, and now I want one!
:afro:
garnerb350:
This is my first Mame build ( started in July 08)....and I am blown away now, knowing that there are people here that grew up with the same fascination that i have for arcades. I've always wanted to collect arcade machines, but when you see the prices that an original cab would cost...it shoots you down.
When I was 14, I worked at a tourist trap near the beach, and I worked in the arcade ( we had about 60 cabs, a shooting gallery, and 40 of these OLD 50's baseball/pinball type games ...) I use to always help the repairmen, because I was interested in how MK or SF2 worked... Arcades blew me away...plus it was freeking awesome to be a 14-17 year old with the keys and giving free credits to the hot chicks in bikinis and ticking off their broke boyfriends.
One of my dreams was that one day I was going to get one of those old cabs and keep it in my man cave. A good friend of mine overheard me saying that I wanted to get an arcade....and he told me about MAME and I have been blown away since... Now in my 30s and it really blows my mind that i am actually building an arcade cab instead of restoring my 72 Chevelle ( which it desperately needs!) My wife thinks i am crazy but she supports me, and my friend who told me about MAME thinks i am crazy because I am wanting to build this MAME cab....he just wants a desktop Mame player.
One thing that is cool is that now I work at a hospital and I was looking through some old storerooms...and LO and BEHOLD...( the arcade gods smiled upon me) I found an old Galaga cocktail cab...The hospital had it for their recreation department... Guess who owns it now? :burgerking:
CheffoJeffo:
bumping for the weekend ...
somunny:
--- Quote from: HarumaN on January 07, 2009, 08:31:00 am ---I started off with MAME, built a desktop controller just to play in front of my PC.
Now I collect originals. Once we buy a house (in a few months, w00t!) and have more space, I'm going to build a MAME cab. Originally, I don't think I was going to build a MAME cab, but then I saw somunny's cabinets in person, and now I want one!
:afro:
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Thanks, Haruman. It would probably be nice if I had you over to actually play them next time.
As for me, I would love to get some original cabinets but space is limited right now.
ctozzi:
i went the MAME way then got a dedicated MK cab and the games are so much better on dedicated, so now I have 4 dedicated MK cabs 1, being a mame. I play the mame alot since it's got 1500 games, but play it to see what dedicated cabinet I want next !