Feeback on a new marquee...

[Smack]

I hacked the q*bert marquee a little. I'm building another cab and wanted something a little wacky.


(I mostly didn't want the word "MAME" on the marquee.)

Whadda you guys think? If anybody wants it, I can make the full size version available to download. (its 13inches by 4 inches).

Smack

[tbombaci]

I think its pretty cool!

-tom

[paigeoliver]

The characters seem to be at different scales. Maybe drop Frogger altogether, then enlarge Peter Pepper and slightly extend the pyramid so that he is on it rather than floating.

Making Q*Bert smaller and Pac slightly larger would help too. I always kind of imagine Pac and Q*Bert being around the same size, but that Q*Bert is huge, and he is taller than Peter Pepper even, who being a human should be just slightly taller than Pauline.

Or, basic height chart.

Kong and Pauline are both correct.

Peter should be Paulines height or slightly taller. As he is now he is quite a bit shorter, even including his hat.

Pac and Q*Bert should be roughly the same height (they seem to be of a related species of leg and head only creatures). Pac's current height or slightly taller would be about right.

The real problem is Frogger. Is he Frog sized, or is he car sized (in the game he is the same size as the car). Complicating the issue is the fact that the look Frogger has had in the NEW Frogger games has sort of overidden his look from the original cabinet (in my mind at least). I am a classic gamer through and through, but when I think about what Frogger looks like, then he looks like the Frogger on the cover of the Playstation and PC versions. So, basically, not sure if the uninformed even recognize the classic Frogger anymore. The NEW Frogger would be about Pac-Man size I believe. Also, the Frogger graphic you used seems to just be in a different style than the rest of the artwork.

[Brax]

Frogger might be a little small, I'd even have him overlap the @!#?@! a bit.

Overall, It's very YOU Smack, nice work.  

[Brax]

Omg, I just noticed Pengo! Bwahahaha!

Nice one.

[Smack]

Definately like the idea of fixing the scal of the characters, I hadn't even picked up on that!

Now that I look at that frogger graphic, it does have a different style. I couldn't find one that looked cartoony (not the newer look though).

I'm gonna mess with it some more this afternoon when I get home from work.

Smack

Thanks for the great feedback!

[Brax]

I dunno about the Frogger style. Personally I think it works. Good 'ole classic artwork. I'd definitely make him larger, overlapping the title a hair and moving him over towards the left a bit. The right hand side is a little heavy with DK and the Space Invaders, moving Frogger over a bit will balance the piece.

Hmmm, DK and the Space Invaders..... Sounds like a band Smack would be in! Heh.

[Smack]

Here's what I got so far.

I think I may leave it like this, it seems prety balanced to me. Whadda you guys think now?



Smack

[RacerX]

I love it!  (How's that for insight?)  

[Brax]

Score.
It's you.  

[walls83]

what do you think about having space invaders go all the way across the back..?  Or maybe galaga on the left side..?  just a thought I love the marquee

[Smack]

I was looking for some galaga artwork, but oculdn't find anything that would fit the look of it. (that's why I dropped the Frogger.) Have you run across any that you think may fit?

Thanks for the great feedback everybody, definately helped alot! I'm contacting emkay.com to get rolling on having it printed!

I'll have to try the space invaders tomorrow and see how it looks before ordering my marquee. Maybe move them more to the center, and have the player controlled ship on the bottom, slightly off center shooting up. I could overlay the missiles over the swearing part of the marquee or something... hmm...

Whoo hoo!

I'll forward it to the BYOAC for the marquee page if you think people may be able to use it / tweak it or whatever...

Smack

[ntjedi]

Sweet job!

[arcadepcnut]

I love it to! I emailed you. I hope you will share this with us. This is great for a classic cab!

[Harakiri]

Looks really great!  

The only thing i don't like much is the barrel that's being used a lot around and the cooker for the same reasons, in spite of that, that looks original mixed with authentic, congrats!

PS: I don't like mame official logo much either!  

[Smack]

Thanks for the kind words ya'll!

Here's a link to the photoshop image I used for printing if anyone wants to use it.

Here's the photoshop file:

www.beerisgoodfood.com/smackmarquee.zip

Here it is as a jpeg:

www.beerisgoodfood.com/smackmarquee.jpg

its 24 inches by 7.2 inches

Props. Hops...

Smack

[Stingray]

Pac and Q*Bert should be roughly the same height (they seem to be of a related species of leg and head only creatures).

A little lesson in arcade biology? I never really thought about that, but you could be right.  

-S