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Arcade Collecting => Miscellaneous Arcade Talk => Topic started by: CheffoJeffo on December 22, 2005, 07:36:10 pm
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Just received my latest issue of GameRoom Magazine and found this beauty on the cover. I find myself oddly mesmerized by it.
Wonder if it is too late to put in a call to Santa ?
Cheers.
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I had the opportunity to check one of these out at a trade show in October. My opinion was this: although it is *visually* appealing, it's an operators disaster waiting to happen.
1) the whole thing is a table. Table = a place to set your drink. That equals spilled drinks. Yeah...no.
2) It's shape means that it'll have to be moved a certain way. I asked the Namco guy about moving it around, and he said that 'a couple of guys can move it no problem.' Immediate turn-off. Should be movable by ONE guy no problem. It's not heavy as much as it is awkward.
There were some other things that turned me off to it, but I can't recall them right now.
Probably be fine for home use, though.
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That thing is COOL!
1) the whole thing is a table.
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Maybe that's why there's a large angled disc around the trackball. Keeps drinks and liquid away.
You know darn well a sticky drink is still going to get where it's not supposed to.
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Funky styling. Definitely looks like something that would be better in a home setting, where someone actually takes care of it, though.
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Very Retro! Almost Jetson like if that makes any sense! Cool find Cheffo. I really think you should buy it. :)
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Very Retro! Almost Jetson like if that makes any sense! Cool find Cheffo. I really think you should buy it. :)
I've blown my budget into the spring already (although I think that was true a couple of cabinet ago as well) ... but it would make for an interesting trackball and spinner MAME project.
The sit-down nature of it is appealing -- my uncle had a couple of strokes this past summer and I was toying with the idea of building him a chair-friendly Golden Tee machine.
Cheers
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2) It's shape means that it'll have to be moved a certain way. I asked the Namco guy about moving it around, and he said that 'a couple of guys can move it no problem.' Immediate turn-off. Should be movable by ONE guy no problem. It's not heavy as much as it is awkward.
Is the monitor detachable? Otheriwse it looks like it is the size of a cocktail table judging by the coin door.
Anyway, after playing one of these in the arcade I don;t think you will look at another bowling game.
http://www.hyperbowl.com/products/attraction-specification.html
Hehe, read this review
http://www.barcade.com/game_detail.php?type=game&id=548
"It is a retro look that brings you back to the 50
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Soooooo... what's it retail for?
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Resurrecting this thread because there is one on eBay right now:
$5800 BIN!!! (http://cgi.ebay.com/ROCKIN-BOWL-O-RAMA-ARCADE-by-Namco-buySAFE_W0QQitemZ130009991206QQihZ003QQcategoryZ13716QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
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I had the opportunity to play one yesterday when taking my son to see Monster House.
I was horribly, horribly underwhelmed,
The cabinet is cool, but the gameplay is soft.
I think every other bowling game I have played is better (and is silly not to have an optional shuffeboard game in there).
Cheers.