Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: Jeff AMN on February 15, 2007, 01:08:11 pm
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Yeah, I click every button, rotate every stick, check the monitor for burn-in, and check how sturdy the CP is attached on just about every cabinet I approach. This all started after I got interested in MAME and bought Project Arcade last year.
I should probably stop, but it's not like it's illegal (or even immoral) to molest an arcade machine.
So fess up, do you prod, poke, grope, and gaze?
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I occasionally stick my finger in the coin return chute. :laugh2:
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I occasionally stick my finger in the coin return chute. :laugh2:
If money is exchanged, that's solicitation.
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Ha that's a good one.
I was once sited for Robotron aggravated assault for tearing the control panel off it's hinges. We had a bet going on and the joystick kept sticking but the part that threw me over the edge was the guy name spaz that kept laughing at me every time my man would stick. Robotron is hard enough without the guy sticking every 2 seconds, let alone some high lunatic named spaz cackling hysterically with 5 bucks on the line.
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I occasionally stick my finger in the coin return chute. :laugh2:
If money is exchanged, that's solicitation.
I usually only end up with a feeling that I need to wash my hand.
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Yeah, I have that problem too. I'm usually very self conscious of it and often wonder what the kid behind the counter is thinking.
Of course I think nothing of leaning into things like skeeball machine target areas and taking measurements or flexing the rings to try to figure out what off-the-shelf material could be used in their stead.
I haven't been harassed about it yet, but that day can't be far off...
RandyT
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I am constantly looking at layouts, dimensions, button placement...
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How funny! I do this WAY too much. ;D
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I don't "molest" per se but I do check out the design of the cab and layout of the buttons, etc. I've come to realize that I could probably build my own better than 75% of the cabs out there. They are just so beat up after all of this time...
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yup i do that. Just lots of times wish I could see them from the inside as well. But i guess that would be like lifting a girls skirt in public. I'll end up being on an APB from the video game police. >:D
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I always check under the dustwashers, I've even played around with the joysticks on those Grab the Stuffed Animal With the Crane machines at the supermarket.
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Uh, I don't know what your talking about.
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Definitely. I am also an arcade stalker! Wherever I can find games, I check them out. Once my wife and I were eating in a restaurant that is part of a hotel. So, when I had to go to the bathroom, on the way back before returning, I went looking for a game room real quick. Found an X-men four player, redemption machine and pinball! Made the wife hang out for a while after dinner to play a couple of games!
;D
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The looks I get from the teeny boppers at the local theater when I start going on about how blasphemous it is for them to relegate their classic Galaga cabinet to the back corner of the arcade room is comedy gold.
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All I can say is that when it comes to arcade cabs, I know how to push their buttons.
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I'm definitely guilty of fondling the controls. I think I might even be a "peeping tom".
There's a local distributor who has a small showroom. It's by appointment so there's never anyone there, but there's always a slightly different variety of machines sitting around, usually some cabs have their backs off. Last time there was a Simpsons 4-player CP left sitting on the window ledge. I always wondered exactly how the latches were mounted on those. Now I know. If only it were in a better part of town. :(
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Guilty. I always look for an arcade room in all the likely places I might visit (movie theater, mall, pizza, ect). I was even asked to leave (a pizza joint) for taking photos of a cabinet I was thinking of copying.
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I like to play with my track-balls.
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I was even asked to leave (a pizza joint) for taking photos of a cabinet I was thinking of copying.
Ha! The first one to get busted.
Maybe we should start a support group website. But "arcademolesters.com" probably wouldn't sound too good :police:
RandyT
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Guilty. I always look for an arcade room in all the likely places I might visit (movie theater, mall, pizza, ect). I was even asked to leave (a pizza joint) for taking photos of a cabinet I was thinking of copying.
You are kidding?!?! Why in the hell would people be stressin' out on you taking photos of a cabinet? Perhaps you have a beard and look like a terrorist and they thought you were scoping out a possible location for your latest joystick bomb?
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Actually, they might be worried that he was taking photos to possibly stake it out for a return visit with a flatbed truck, and a crowbar...know what I mean?
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Actually, they might be worried that he was taking photos to possibly stake it out for a return visit with a flatbed truck, and a crowbar...know what I mean?
In a bad neighborhood I could see that possibility...
...I still get people driving by my house taking pictures. It freaks me out. I've caught 4 or 5 people doing it and the last guy I ran out to and had a nice little discussion with him. Evidently my house was still on realtor.com or homes.com and they were coming by to take pix of potential houses to buy.
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I got a ton of dirty looks when collecting audio samples of coin changers at the local arcade for the arcade ambience sounds. I think they thought the mini microphone was some kind of device that caused the machine to spit out change. ;D
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I got a ton of dirty looks when collecting audio samples of coin changers at the local arcade for the arcade ambience sounds. I think they thought the mini microphone was some kind of device that caused the machine to spit out change. ;D
Good thing you dont live in Boston.
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Good thing you dont live in Boston.
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I used to check out the joysticks when I went to the arcade to see how loose they were if I was going to play the game. Now I check out the layout, buttons, joysticks, and such as if I was going to buy it.
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I wonder if there are any rehab groups for us Arcade Molesters..... I work for a large arcade so I get to feed my habit every day ;D I even get to take things to pieces :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: and I don't get dirty looks when I'm recording the sounds of machines, just strange looks from the customers ROFL :cheers:
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
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Who have you been talking to?? I didn't think anyone saw me wheel that Galaga machine into the back room...
Personally I blame Saint and his dang book for giving me this affliction. :angry:
Jouster