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Is there some "friction" in the classic gaming community?
danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: eypyeash on October 21, 2004, 04:09:55 pm ---Well, my two cents:
I'm compelled to buy PCBs mainly because MAME seems like 'cheating'. Computers are tempermental and don't run the games I enjoy fast enough unless I run out and buy state-of-the-art, which I do not have the money for necessarily. However, I do have the cash to plunk down on eBay for a PCB or two every month or so
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dunno which ebay youre using, but my one doesnt seem to let up many cheap pcbs >:( . i just let a jamma galaga pcb go when it went to $220 aus (about $150 yank). i dont know if that was a good price or not but PC parts seem a lot cheaper!!
but, i agree with you about the 'realness' of it all. thats why i was watching that sale. im looking to buying some genuine stuff once i understand what prices are fair...
DYNAGOD:
seeing a 30 dollar color TV crammed into a defender cab with an X arcade control panel drywall screwed into the front is enough to make ANYONE cry.. :D
another one of the reasons i choose a japanese cab.
theyre massed produced in droves, and as a result theres no fearing that you may have killed the last of the white elehphant.
maming a cab should be a way of giving an otherwise unwanted and useless cab a purpose.
spocktwin:
;D But I think the most important part has been left out here. If you pursue this hobby as a hobby then you do what makes you happy. If you are in it for the money then again do what makes you happy. I have a pacman that I have kept true to the fact of not screwing it up not ,for the collectors, but what I wanted to do. I am 44 years old and I spent way too much of my time (although in bars not arcades at my age) putting quarters in a pacman game. You might think I would be bored with it, but I won many a brew on that machine so I want it as pristine as possible.
On the other hand I have a Die Hard machine that some people (go ahead and check it out on KLOV) says it is about as butt ugly as it comes. I bought it dirt cheap on ebay and ended up giving the monitor away to IceCold because I wanted to mame it. My 5 and 8 year old play the devil out of it trying a different game nearly every weekend!! Was maming it worth it??? Hell yes because it is what I wanted and isn't that what a hobby is all about. I am working on my next one and it will be a total built by me so no one can make any comments about me hurting anyone. Yes I am a snob to my own desires but then again if you don't like me well, god bless you and pass another beer!!!
I love this hobby and this board when I retire in 20 or so odd years (yeah like Social Security will be here for me) I hope you still find me lurking here.
TheBourneID:
If anything, I think the Build-It-Yourself community has increased the value of the games, or at least brought about a resurgence of the game nostalgia. I owned a Pac-Man about 10 years ago, and bought it for $350, and it was in pretty decent (although obviously not perfect) shape. Now, they seem to be selling for quite a bit more ($100-$200?), as long as they're original (which I believe mine was). New games are now available for less than $3000, where the older games (when new) were about $3500+. Again, I'm trying to remember back to the early-to-mid 1980's, B.C. (before consoles), when the technology was somewhat new, so this may not be accurate. Is there anyone else that grew up (i.e.--was a teenager) in the 80's that can verify (or refute) what I'm saying?
Sasquatch!:
I think the way you phrased your question has a lot to do with it: collectors see themselves as the true "classic" gaming community, and the MAME community as a bunch of upstarts who can - from time to time - desecrate the "classicness" of the classics. It's probably kind of like how people who are into '60s muscle cars view people who are into ZX racing or something.
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