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kuchta:
I think that a lot of the people that end up on Shark Tank are really just trying to get their product in front of people. While an investment may have been nice, getting millions of people to see their product is huge for promotional purposes. Also, I suspect that many people that watch the show have money to spend and may not have even been aware that full arcade cabinets could be purchased, let alone ones with kegs in them. I bet they will see sales skyrocket (relatively) just from their 5 minutes of airtime. They may even get some sympathy sales for not getting any love from the sharks.

I'm very curious how they were able to license a number of these games though:
http://www.drinkngame.com/game.html

BadMouth:

--- Quote from: kuchta on January 05, 2013, 12:18:16 pm ---I'm very curious how they were able to license a number of these games though:
http://www.drinkngame.com/game.html

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I imagine they're using commercially released PC collections.
I know with the Midway collections, the games can be launched individually by their .exes, so they are easy to incorporate into a front end.

That wouldn't fly for commercial use, but since it is for home use and doesn't have a coin mech on it, they are probably clear.
X-arcade control panels come packed with similar greatest arcade hits collections.

EDIT: and where has Donk (the OP) been?  He used to be on here constantly.

Gray_Area:

--- Quote from: BadMouth on January 05, 2013, 01:33:53 pm ---...and where has Donk (the OP) been?  He used to be on here constantly.

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Yeah, I had to re-look at the date of the original post, cos I always liked Donk's sarcasm. I'd related I was an impassioned groupie, but I didn't get a response. He got a tongue lashing over something several months ago, and he didn't like it, and I think he split because of it.

kuchta:

--- Quote from: BadMouth on January 05, 2013, 01:33:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: kuchta on January 05, 2013, 12:18:16 pm ---I'm very curious how they were able to license a number of these games though:
http://www.drinkngame.com/game.html

--- End quote ---

I imagine they're using commercially released PC collections.
I know with the Midway collections, the games can be launched individually by their .exes, so they are easy to incorporate into a front end.

That wouldn't fly for commercial use, but since it is for home use and doesn't have a coin mech on it, they are probably clear.
X-arcade control panels come packed with similar greatest arcade hits collections.

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Gotcha. That makes sense.

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