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4 Player MAME cabinets
Dawgz Rule:
Have to say that "the beast" is one of my favorite builds. :cheers:
Fursphere:
I built a two player cab. I wanted a four player cab, but didn't have the room at the time. Now I do have the room - and I'm considering either build a 2nd slave cab (mirror'd screens), or just a monster four player cab.
Having a 2nd slave cab makes a lot more sense, since you can play two separate games, or one big four player game (a lot of three player games too).
Only one or two times did I wish I had room for a third player. Never need for a forth.
But as my two sons get older, and my two nephews... well, its only a matter of time before they're fighting over the two player cabinet. lol
paigeoliver:
Note that the Beast there is not a normal 4 player cabinet, it is a pair of linked cabs which is infinitely more playable by adults than 4 250 lb sweaty 35 year old men huddling up to a Gauntlet panel.
Desdinova:
Especially between about now when school is out for summer break through xmas, my 4 player CP gets maxed out at least once a week, sometimes even 2x to 3x a week. That's kids of all ages, family and friends. Now I do like to entertain and welcome people over, but presentation definitely helped here. I loved the full cab look for the time when I built it, but it's charm wore off over the years, it was getting played less and less. I just decided one day that the cab was taking up too much real estate, that I could probably fit a couple of pinball tables in it's place. So I took the CP off the cab and decided to try it out on a ped situated between the couch and tv we use for console gaming, and it became an instant hit.
Now as far as a breakdown of what gets the most action? 4 player beat 'em ups are by far the favorite, multi gun games are also wildly popular, with the spinner and trackball games definitely being the niche gaming experience most appreciated by myself and my amigos who used to crawl the arcades with me back in the day. Does that make them a waste? Well, we were weened on things such as Warlords in our time. Also my 8 y.o is real big on playing Forgotten Worlds with me. And lest I forget, there is even a senior citizen in the family that gets a hoot out of playing Boot Hill every time she is over, because apparently they had kept one on location for years at some Casino in Reno that she used to frequent back in the '70's. So although not quite as often in play as some of the more common control schemes, the dual spinners are still appreciated enough to be well worth the cost, IMO.
kahlid74:
I think it also depends on how your life flows. My wife has a large family who enjoy playing so yeah, 3-4 player gets a good chunk of use about once every three weeks.
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