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How Many Games on Your Cabinet?
nitz:
When I first set up my cab, I went through a complete MAME set and handpicked out my favorites and those hidden gems and felt I was all set. I think I had a list of around 200 games. Then I had a friend whose pretty into arcade games ask for a couple of games that I didn't have and I was kicking myself for not just putting them all on there.
So then I took a complete MAME set, filtered out mahjong, mature, trivia, non-working, most CHDs, most clones, most Japan only games (some look interesting but I often can't figure out the gameplay and can never read the text!) and games that I don't have the controls for. I think that left me with around 2200 games, and then I was able to bring up pretty much any game requested! :applaud:
But IMO having them all on there makes it too cluttered and gives too many choices for the average person. It certainly does for me anyway - I think it's more fun to pick from a relatively short list of classics than sift through thousands of games and not being able to decide. When I get my cab going again, my plan is to have a list of vertical games + a list of horizontal games (I plan on a rotating monitor) each with 50-100 games at most. I'll keep the rest of the games on there, but not easily accessible so I can still bring up those games for an arcade enthusiast, but they're not in everyone else's face all the time! ;)
extendedplayarcade:
I don't think i have enough brain cells left but I am sure there is plenty of room in there for a 4 player control panel.
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--- Quote from: extendedplayarcade on July 14, 2010, 04:05:47 pm ---I was thinking of making a cabinet dedicated to only trackball games. But yet again I think a lot :cheers:
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It would be awesome if you could somehow interface it to your mind...
Then you wouldn't even need a control panel
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mwong168:
I think on my MAME cabinet I have around 240-250 games in total but only 10% of them get regular play such as Street Fighter or MK series. The rest are still classics or ones that I remember playing occasionally in the arcades growing up like Narc, Puzzle Bobble, Ninja Gaiden, NBA JAM, etc. I don't see much point in having 20,000+ games on your cab nor playing console emulators like SNES or Genesis on a cabinet when they were never meant to be played on a stand up cab. To each their own I guess.
versapak:
--- Quote from: mwong168 on July 15, 2010, 10:12:28 am ---I think on my MAME cabinet I have around 240-250 games in total but only 10% of them get regular play such as Street Fighter or MK series. The rest are still classics or ones that I remember playing occasionally in the arcades growing up like Narc, Puzzle Bobble, Ninja Gaiden, NBA JAM, etc. I don't see much point in having 20,000+ games on your cab nor playing console emulators like SNES or Genesis on a cabinet when they were never meant to be played on a stand up cab. To each their own I guess.
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SNES and Genesis never meant to be played on a stand up cab?
There are tons of games from SNES and Genesis that are awesome on a stand up cab. Many console games of that era either were originally arcade games or followed the same design of play.
There were 1st party arcade controls released for those consoles for a reason.
DillonFoulds:
Fighting games (such as BATTLETOADS!) work great on an arcade machine (and there's an arcade battletoads port, as well).
Most sports games play great, too! (Hockey for NES)
Platformers side-scrollers work, but they could be better with a controller. Same with RPGs.
Haven't attempted any shooters other than 007 goldeneye, and it too, was so-so. For sure you don't get the accuracy in aiming.
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