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Title: Have we come full circle?
Post by: Ted_Striker on November 02, 2004, 09:13:03 am: Seems that we started out with arcade games, the pc's emulating arcade games, then pc's in arcade cabinet's emulating arcade games, now arcade games with basically a pc in them. We are coming full circle.

http://pc.ign.com/articles/562/562384p1.html (http://pc.ign.com/articles/562/562384p1.html)

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Title: Re:Have we come full circle?
Post by: GGKoul on November 02, 2004, 10:16:40 am: Yep. There is a Madden Football Arcade now too.
Title: Re:Have we come full circle?
Post by: Gunstar Hero on November 02, 2004, 11:47:52 am: Half Life 2 arcade??

I wonder how that's gonna work... The game has no multiplayer mode, and doesn't strike me as a solo arcade experience.
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Post by: teef two on November 02, 2004, 11:54:10 am: Or have pc's always been souped up arcade machines just looking for their proper home!
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Post by: Hoagie_one on November 02, 2004, 01:25:43 pm: they are gonna modify the game for an arcade type experience
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Post by: dreamcastninja on November 02, 2004, 04:21:55 pm: quick someone build a console to emulate the pc...

uhhh wait... hold on a second... nevermind
Title: Re:Have we come full circle?
Post by: RetroJames on November 02, 2004, 05:07:47 pm: Quote from: Gunstar Hero on November 02, 2004, 11:47:52 am
Half Life 2 arcade??

I wonder how that's gonna work... The game has no multiplayer mode, and doesn't strike me as a solo arcade experience.

Smart move will be to network the arcade version so it plays others online regardless of the platform they are playing on...
Title: Re:Have we come full circle?
Post by: DYNAGOD on November 02, 2004, 05:43:34 pm: im curious what a typeX board is gonna go for..
all the game media fo the platform is supposed to be stored on hard disk.
from what ive been getting,basically typeX is really nothing more than a home PC built exclusively for gaming.
security likely will be the only real differentiating factor.

arcade designers evidently got tired of loosing their share to the PC at home, so they decided to put a pc in the arcade.
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Post by: RayB on November 02, 2004, 07:06:49 pm: PC's have been in the arcade before..... 'Round 1991 I recall playing a HORRIBLE game involving a Clown of some sort. The monitor wasn't even an arcade monitor, but a VGA PC monitor. Horrible, horrible game.
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Post by: dreamcastninja on November 03, 2004, 11:40:06 pm: sounds like a real winner... haha
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Post by: paigeoliver on November 04, 2004, 12:09:24 am: Quote from: RayB on November 02, 2004, 07:06:49 pm
PC's have been in the arcade before..... 'Round 1991 I recall playing a HORRIBLE game involving a Clown of some sort. The monitor wasn't even an arcade monitor, but a VGA PC monitor. Horrible, horrible game.

Standard computer hardware has been in the arcades for a LONG TIME. There was a big multiple install of Space Wars at one college or another BEFORE Pong and Computer Space (there is a big web page out there about this somewhere). The Atari 800, Amiga, and 386 based PCs all saw arcade use, and the 486 PC platform was massively popular for countertops and quiz/card games.

I have a complete motherboard/card rack set for Tournament Solitaire and it is a 386 motherboard with a couple of custom ISA cards on it.

And my friend Dave and I both have countertop touchscreens from different companies and they are both 486 based.