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Just curious - MAME vs. collecting - one or both?
severdhed:
even if i had room for a dozen cabinets (and the money to acquire them) one of them would have to be a mame cabinet. even though there are only a few games i play frequently...it is so cool when someone comes over to visit and sees the cabinet for the first time..and then they ask "does it have this game?" and to see the look of wonder and amazement when in a few seconds, they can play just about any arcade game they can think of.
Ginsu Victim:
Yeah, I love blowing their minds like that, too. :lol
tcleary:
for games you really really really like I think it's cool to seek out the real deal. I'm a big fan of defender so I found it, and it's a game with unique controls so it's cool to have the correct setup for it. most games I'm fine playing on MAME though. If you start collecting games I highly suggest you be careful and only get ones you really like and will actually play, they are expensive and a huge hassle to deal with. My brother and I have 4 cabinets and just dealing with those takes a lot of time.
TheBrokentoken:
--- Quote from: tcleary on August 15, 2009, 11:08:21 pm ---for games you really really really like I think it's cool to seek out the real deal. I'm a big fan of defender so I found it, and it's a game with unique controls so it's cool to have the correct setup for it. most games I'm fine playing on MAME though. If you start collecting games I highly suggest you be careful and only get ones you really like and will actually play, they are expensive and a huge hassle to deal with. My brother and I have 4 cabinets and just dealing with those takes a lot of time.
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That's pretty sage advice when you think about it. I've got several that I really do like, but I'm definitely not going to put the MAME cabinet out to pasture or anything... it will always have a place. I think that having the real cabinets 'around' the MAME cabinet make for a great combination.
pinballwizard79:
I just wanted to put in my two cents........This will pertain to many folks in here, no hard feelings or disrespect intended.
When people have a mario bros, popeye, donkey kong, donkey kong jr & donkey kong 3 all in a nice neat restored row it kills me since its the same cab, monitor & controls. Same goes for seeing a collection of the mortal Kombat cabs or a line of Neo Geo's......seriously? Even a galaga, pacman, burgertime & etc play in MAME on arcade controls via arcade monitors inside a big arcade cabinet....
How many damn PCB boards to you want to troubleshoot, how many cap kits do you want to do each year....how many control panels do you want to have printed up? Sounds like more work than play to me.
I love MAME because it allows the enthusiast to have space for pinball machines, a pool table, foosball, darts, theater area, bar, bathroom & hell maybe even a stormtrooper.
Some games must be dedicated: paperboy, 720, mechanized attack & etc but everything else is fine.