Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: pinballwizard79 on January 31, 2011, 11:49:01 pm
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When the wife says "we are all out of pepper" you have a Burger Time flashback
;D
Ok, now its your turn
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you see a joystick on a forklift and automatically try to do a hadoken on it
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When you can think of a better use for the wasted space at work that's being taken up by agency files.
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All cheese makes you think of Pacman
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When ever you wear a long sleeve jacket you make your left hand disappear and pretend to shoot like Megaman. If your a really big dork you jump with your left leg bent and your other arm up.
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Shecky wins!
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...If it turns you on when your woman refers to 'it' as your joystick!
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You think you can kick anyones ass just because you own at Mortal Kombat
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You name your cat "Klax".
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...when you see a 65" plasma TV at Best Buy and start mentally planning the cabinet it would take to house it, and wondering if you could get it down the stairs when it was done.
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When relatives come over and give strange looks when they see the Pole Position steering wheel attached to the non-installed control panel, other miscellaneous arcade parts, etc. strung out in the basement. They have no idea what any of that stuff is.....
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You're trying to troubleshoot a monitor problem right after you wake up in PJs in your 20F garage.
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Whenever you see an old CRT monitor or TV laying by the side of the road you think to yourself "I could use that for another mame cabinet!".
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... you sometimes restrict your movements to true 4 way...
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...when you see a 65" plasma TV at Best Buy and start mentally planning the cabinet it would take to house it, and wondering if you could get it down the stairs when it was done.
Snap ;D
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You're talking to the wife about music at your funeral (can't remember why) and you pick the Super Mario Brothers theme tune as your choice and have everyone turn up in arcade related clothing.
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...you can sing along to "Pac Man Fever"...... and do.
--edit spelling
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Whenever you see an old CRT monitor or TV laying by the side of the road you think to yourself "I could use that for another mame cabinet!".
+10 (such a good idea that +1 just wasn't enough)
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Whenever you see an old CRT monitor or TV laying by the side of the road you think to yourself "I could use that for another mame cabinet!".
LOL I do this.
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Your Facebook status reflects that Project Arcade, Version 2.0 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/047089153X/buildyourowna-20) was released today!
You folks know who you are!
:cheers:
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When your girlfriend is trying to plan a California vacation and the discussion starts with "do you want to go to San Francisco before or after the arcade thing (CAX). :)
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.... you go on a family outing to the Zoo and wonder why the big gorilla isn't chucking barrels at you.
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your carpal tunnel has a carpal tunnel.
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...If it turns you on when your woman refers to 'it' as your joystick!
When things like this and the phrase 'Pole Position' make you oddly aroused...........
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...you truly believe you can beat jasonbar or quarterstringer in a competition
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That $14,600 motorcycle makes you think of the max hi score possible on level one of Ms Pacman
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One more
The text notification sound effect on my phone is the Mortal Kombat guy saying "Toasteeeeeee"
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Everytime you look at a kitchen countertop, table, or anything, you imagine how it would look with a built in arcade game.
EDIT: Not sure why it quoted lol.
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You made a whole new door just to get the 4 player X-men into your home.
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and the ultimate one......
You have arcade music on your IPOD!!! Come on, whos guilty?
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and the ultimate one......
You have arcade music on your IPOD!!! Come on, whos guilty?
Not arcade music........ but I do have Commodore 64 music. The SID chip was and still is AWESOME!
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Any sign written in cursive makes you think of Williams
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If, while emptying pockets to do laundry, you find tokens mixed in with the loose change ... just happened to me. ::)
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When watching telly you say "that sound effect/music comes from game XX"
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When watching a dvd, you freeze it anytime you see a pinball / arcade game just so you can make out what it is...
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:laugh2: :laugh2: what does it say when just about all of these apply?
Had to rip open the Amazon package and show the wife the Project Arcade 2.0 book yesterday
and she was like Yeah, Yeah, that's neat ::)
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One more
The text notification sound effect on my phone is the Mortal Kombat guy saying "Toasteeeeeee"
Yea my text notification is the sound it makes when you pick up a key in Gauntlet. LOL
And my ringtone is the song "Dracula's Castle" from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.
I guess I am a game dork.
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Your Facebook status reflects that Project Arcade, Version 2.0 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/047089153X/buildyourowna-20) was released today!
You folks know who you are!
:cheers:
Now Cheffo....that is a book of teaching....to better one self...
Now if you bought this guys book....
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4dZdSReJbBQ/R7DcYXIi0KI/AAAAAAAAAmI/BjsvXxWTC_w/s200/roy_shildt_mr_awesome2.jpg)
Ummm yeah most definitely...you might be a dork...
My boss at works questions if i am working or playing Atari because my email sound is the Pacman death from the 2600 game...lol
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Haha, I think Bender's deal pretty much sums everything up. When you get fired up about something, only to be met by a "so what?"
You have dreams that you are stuck in a video game...
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Not you might be, you ARE an arcade dork when you do this:
http://www.twitvid.com/HZ4DY (http://www.twitvid.com/HZ4DY)
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and the ultimate one......
You have arcade music on your IPOD!!! Come on, whos guilty?
Not arcade music........ but I do have Commodore 64 music. The SID chip was and still is AWESOME!
Walking round town listening to Last Ninja 2 music on yer Ipod LOL
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You have arcade related art (posters, flyers, marquees, etc.) hanging on the walls in your office at work.
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[I've e-mailed him at three or more different addresses and never gotten a response. Been cash in hand for years trying to get it.
:laugh2:
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Not you might be, you ARE an arcade dork when you do this:
http://www.twitvid.com/HZ4DY (http://www.twitvid.com/HZ4DY)
Holy crap! the dude has so much PCP he's rolling in it!
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When you build a bartop for the college course you teach and tailor some of the work so students create old style arcade games and have classic arcade game competitions each year to feed your own habits.
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When you gotta move more than a dozen cabs, just to get one more in the house.
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When you buy a house, everything revolves around the arcade you plan on building in the basement...
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When you buy a house, everything revolves around the arcade you plan on building in the basement...
Heh I am going through this right now. I have denied several houses the wife liked when looking solely based on the fact that it wouldn't work out for my game room. ;D
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When you buy a house, everything revolves around the arcade you plan on building in the basement... loft
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You get excited to build a new PC..because the one you're currently using gets moved into the arcade cab.
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Your current time logged into this forum is measured in weeks...
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When you buy a house, everything revolves around the arcade you plan on building in the basement...
Heh I am going through this right now. I have denied several houses the wife liked when looking solely based on the fact that it wouldn't work out for my game room. ;D
guilty...
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When you peruse a store's laminate section solely to look for colours that would look good on a future project.
When you are at work the majority of website tabs point to pages like KLOV, BYOAC, Ultimarc, GGG and Twin Galaxies.
When you see material odds and ends and think "Man, Ond or Drventure could probably use this for something cool."
When you can't walk past the expensive wood in a hardware store without thinking of Pixel's Mission Control Project.
When you buy a house, everything revolves around the arcade you plan on building in the basement...
Heh I am going through this right now. I have denied several houses the wife liked when looking solely based on the fact that it wouldn't work out for my game room
Guilty as well...the house I ended up buying had the perfect "Man Cave potential"
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I draw the line way sooner than most of you. You are an arcade dork the minute you haul one game cabinet into your home.
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I draw the line way sooner than most of you. You are an arcade dork the minute you haul one game cabinet into your home.
That is when it all starts. Can't have just one...
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The moment for me was the day I started caring about the controls. I went from "An 8 way should work with Ms. Pacman" to "I need a 1.25" red ball 4 way physically restricted leaf joystick to play Ms. Pacman properly".
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and the ultimate one......
You have arcade music on your IPOD!!! Come on, whos guilty?
DiveMaster gave me a ringtone of M.U.L.E. several years ago and it's still the best thing going...
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Half of the clothing you got over the holidays was game related.
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The moment for me was the day I started caring about the controls. I went from "An 8 way should work with Ms. Pacman" to "I need a 1.25" red ball 4 way physically restricted leaf joystick to play Ms. Pacman properly".
OMG I'm SO there.
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Half of the clothing you got over the holidays was game related.
+1 I'm so easy to buy presents for.