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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: Santoro on April 08, 2004, 09:56:15 am
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A guy I work with has a friend with too much money. He bought a machine that was described to me by a non-mamimg geek type like this:
It was a Neo Geo cabinet, profesional looking. {edit: The guts were neo geo The cabinet may or may not have been.)
30" LCD (!!) screen, and no not Plasma, LCD. {edit: It was angled back}
Plays XBOX Games, and the look extremely hi-res, almost HD.
Had a trackball
I am intruigued. My first guess is that it is a hacked import cabinet.
Anyone seen such a beast before? What about without XBOX? 30" LCDs are very rare from what I hear.
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I saw a similar thing on MTV cribs once (seriously). So it does exist, but the guy who had it said there were only a few of them. It looked like it was a legit item the microsoft had used at E3 or something.
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There are plent 30" TV's available. Every self respecting TV-brand has one. I think these are usually HDTV's so that might explain the high res. Dunno if Xbox can do High Res on HDTV though.
Anyway, it sure sounds like a pretty cool cab. I'd assume the rest of the specs are beefed up too.
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http://www.xbox.com/en-us/hardware/highdefinitionavpack.htm (http://www.xbox.com/en-us/hardware/highdefinitionavpack.htm)
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Yea, I actually have one of the hi-def packs. It's kinda lame because even the games that do support it aren't programmed appropriately to take advantage of it.
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There is a $20,000.oo pinball out there that has a plasma virtual playfield. Wish I knew that damn URL....
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Google turns up several pinball machines with a plasma playingfield. Couldn;t find one that actually looked nice though.
(http://www.ict.de/images/produkte/inno03_flipper_2.jpg) (http://www.ict.de/web_update/go.php?nav=742&lang=en)
(http://www.pinballnews.com/news/virtual.jpg) (http://www.pinballnews.com/news/virtual.html)
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Retroblast has this one newly listed:
http://www.homearcadeclassics.com/Plasma_Pinball/
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Retroblast has this one newly listed:
http://www.homearcadeclassics.com/Plasma_Pinball/
:o
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Either way, you've gotta give em credit for doing something really cool. I can't speak for the quality, but from a technical standpoint it's pretty clever.
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Erm... it's not clever, it's a pinball program on a pretty monitor. Nothing clever about it.
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Does something have to be difficult to be clever? I think the wheel was a pretty clever idea, too. And how difficult was that?
I'd rather not argue, but I always feel the need to defend my points. Can't we just leave it where it is?
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Does something have to be difficult to be clever? I think the wheel was a pretty clever idea, too. And how difficult was that?
I'd rather not argue, but I always feel the need to defend my points. Can't we just leave it where it is?
The wheel was innovative and cut manual work exponentially. This is a computer with a monitor. I don't see the analogy.
Basically, this is a digital emulation of a game that is mostly about physics and objects. It's like breaking up with your woman to spend more time with a videotape of her.
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HEH I love that analogy!
But the thing is, you can put a video tape away after you're done watching it.
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Retroblast has this one newly listed:
http://www.homearcadeclassics.com/Plasma_Pinball/
:o