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Title: Pause Button Color
Post by: j123vt_99 on February 22, 2005, 03:45:35 pm

Based on the other thread about Pause button, if you have a pause button on your cab/cp, what color is it?

Title: Re: Pause Button Color
Post by: SirPoonga on February 22, 2005, 04:00:23 pm

right now it is black.  When I put a theme to my cabinet it will be different.

Title: Re: Pause Button Color
Post by: IntruderAlert on February 22, 2005, 04:19:40 pm

I sort of like the idea of having a hidden pause button so as not to detract from the authentic arcade appearance

Title: Re: Pause Button Color
Post by: GGKoul on February 22, 2005, 04:21:03 pm

Orange button with a black rim.

Title: Re: Pause Button Color
Post by: Chris on February 22, 2005, 04:21:51 pm

My panel has three joysticks, a trackball, four buttons per player, two trackball buttons, and pinball buttons on the sides, so it's already not an authentic arcade experience.

Title: Re: Pause Button Color
Post by: SirPoonga on February 22, 2005, 04:26:58 pm

Quote from: IntruderAlert on February 22, 2005, 04:19:40 pm

I sort of like the idea of having a hidden pause button so as not to detract from the authentic arcade appearance

I've always wondered why people think it detracts from the "authentic" look.  Must be an opinion thing.  Because the older you go the more weird the extra buttons on a cabinet are.  I forgot what old B&W game had a reset scores button on the control panel.  It's in controls.dat....

Title: Re: Pause Button Color
Post by: IntruderAlert on February 22, 2005, 04:30:11 pm

well, it depends on your panel I guess.
If you can make it fit into your scheme I say go for it

Title: Re: Pause Button Color
Post by: FractalWalk on February 22, 2005, 07:58:33 pm

I don't currently have one, but I was planning on adding one on top of my cab. It would sit across from the power button. Did anyone else do this?

Title: Re: Pause Button Color
Post by: Minwah on February 22, 2005, 08:12:19 pm

Mine's black (& is also my IPAC shift key).

Since my speaker panel is black (and also where the start buttons are) I chose black also to make it as 'hidden' as possible (without actually hiding it, making it harder to operate).  Most of the arcade machines I remember didn't have extra buttons of any kind...

SirP: Canyon Bomber ;)

Title: Re: Pause Button Color
Post by: cholin on February 22, 2005, 10:07:22 pm

Mine is my shift button which is between the one and two player buttons.  It is white so that there are three white buttons on the top of the panel, Player I, SHIFT, Player II.  Looks really nice, but I would need to build the cab to put it in to tell for sure.  On the panel alone it looks great.