Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum

Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: TrAb on July 09, 2009, 10:16:06 pm

Title: Some Vids of my cabinets, Candies and Crazy Taxi
Post by: TrAb on July 09, 2009, 10:16:06 pm
Hey guys i got some vids up of my cabinets and figured id share, i posted about the crazy taxi a while back looking for parts and have since finished it. Tell me what yall think

Blast city
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7u3ZBwcU48 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7u3ZBwcU48)
Egret II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPw83-eY-ME&feature=channel_page (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPw83-eY-ME&feature=channel_page)
Crazy Taxi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha5HaB4XxK0&feature=channel_page (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha5HaB4XxK0&feature=channel_page)
Title: Re: Some Vids of my cabinets, Candies and Crazy Taxi
Post by: Hornpipe2 on July 10, 2009, 12:30:42 pm
These are very cool, Crazy Taxi is one of my favorite games.
Title: Re: Some Vids of my cabinets, Candies and Crazy Taxi
Post by: TrAb on July 10, 2009, 01:34:11 pm
Yeah i really like crazy taxi to. I traded that one for a Sanfrancisco rush machine i had restored. The crazy taxi is worth more but was in semi bad shape. Im happy i did the trade now though i play it ALOT more than i ever though about playing sanfrancisco rush.
Title: Re: Some Vids of my cabinets, Candies and Crazy Taxi
Post by: Turnarcades on July 11, 2009, 10:51:38 am
I want your Crazy Taxi Cab. Gimme!

I'm actually gonna build my own racing cab at some point soon, and this game will feature heavily.
Title: Re: Some Vids of my cabinets, Candies and Crazy Taxi
Post by: Ummon on July 11, 2009, 07:38:21 pm
<in a golem-like voice> nice candys, nice candys

Um, how is crazy taxi different than any other driver from that period?
Title: Re: Some Vids of my cabinets, Candies and Crazy Taxi
Post by: Turnarcades on July 11, 2009, 09:07:41 pm
<in a golem-like voice> nice candys, nice candys

Um, how is crazy taxi different than any other driver from that period?

It's addictive as hell, with a killer soundtrack and a very different game aim than traditional racers. Plus it's not unfair like many arcade racers, where time limits were set at unachievable levels to rape your credits.

Once you could do the boost correctly and drift fast you could get one credit to last you 15-20 minutes; not common with 'simulation control' arcade machines that became prevalent after 2000 where a pound would last you a minute every time.
Title: Re: Some Vids of my cabinets, Candies and Crazy Taxi
Post by: Red on July 12, 2009, 12:35:47 am
TrAb,

How did you hook up your XBox 360 to the Monitor in your Blast City cabinet?
Title: Re: Some Vids of my cabinets, Candies and Crazy Taxi
Post by: danny_galaga on July 12, 2009, 03:44:25 am

Excellent Crazi Taxi cab (",)

I've only just discovered the game recently after reading about it in retro gamer. Also, a friend of mine loves it- his brother was on the 3d chip design team for the dreamcast so naturally he had a dreamcast at home. But hadn't played it since he lived with his brother in London. You shoulda seen his eyes pop when i slipped the gamecube version into my Wii without telling him!

Title: Re: Some Vids of my cabinets, Candies and Crazy Taxi
Post by: Ummon on July 13, 2009, 09:34:55 pm
<in a golem-like voice> nice candys, nice candys

Um, how is crazy taxi different than any other driver from that period?

It's addictive as hell, with a killer soundtrack and a very different game aim than traditional racers. Plus it's not unfair like many arcade racers, where time limits were set at unachievable levels to rape your credits.

Once you could do the boost correctly and drift fast you could get one credit to last you 15-20 minutes; not common with 'simulation control' arcade machines that became prevalent after 2000 where a pound would last you a minute every time.

I dunno. All I saw was wild driving and fantastic, unrealistic crashing.
Title: Re: Some Vids of my cabinets, Candies and Crazy Taxi
Post by: TrAb on July 14, 2009, 12:55:56 am
You just have to play it i guess, its no racing sim thats for sure but i think its alot of fun...
Title: Re: Some Vids of my cabinets, Candies and Crazy Taxi
Post by: danny_galaga on July 14, 2009, 02:15:51 am
<in a golem-like voice> nice candys, nice candys

Um, how is crazy taxi different than any other driver from that period?

It's addictive as hell, with a killer soundtrack and a very different game aim than traditional racers. Plus it's not unfair like many arcade racers, where time limits were set at unachievable levels to rape your credits.

Once you could do the boost correctly and drift fast you could get one credit to last you 15-20 minutes; not common with 'simulation control' arcade machines that became prevalent after 2000 where a pound would last you a minute every time.

I dunno. All I saw was wild driving and fantastic, unrealistic crashing.

It's the free form of it that appeals. You go where ever you want. Of course if you don't maximise your fares, you won't go far. That's the challenge. And it's funny, which isn't common in arcade racers...
Title: Re: Some Vids of my cabinets, Candies and Crazy Taxi
Post by: Turnarcades on July 14, 2009, 08:18:36 am
All I saw was wild driving and fantastic, unrealistic crashing.

And that's not fun?

If you want realism you could always go play a game where you navigate a yellow pizza that has no eyes and takes drugs round a neon maze getting chased by ghosts and occasionally eats massive fruit to keep his cholesterol down....  ;D
Title: Re: Some Vids of my cabinets, Candies and Crazy Taxi
Post by: Red on July 14, 2009, 04:55:40 pm
What does one need to buy to hook up an XBox 360 to an Aracde Monitor?  Thanks.
Title: Re: Some Vids of my cabinets, Candies and Crazy Taxi
Post by: Aceldamor on July 14, 2009, 05:35:46 pm
I would love to have the Harley Davidson cab....
Title: Re: Some Vids of my cabinets, Candies and Crazy Taxi
Post by: TrAb on July 15, 2009, 08:23:50 pm
If you live in GA or nearby its for sale. No motherboard, but has everything else. $150 is all im asking...  ;D