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Doc Thirst:
Mine is a story of badluck and hard knocks.  Well not really, but I'll tell you anyway.

When I was a kid I loved video games.  I even remember the first game I every played (it was a western themed Atari game) and the first arcade I ever went to (it was a storage shed in a small town with like 5 titles).  The problem was financial.  My folks were never wealthy and truth be told, never had enough money until well after I was out of the house.  Therefore a trip to the (mall) arcade went like this...

Me:  "Wow, mom can I have some quarters?"
Mom:  "Sure, here is $1.25, I'll be back in a hour."

I'm sure you know the rest of the story, 5 plays lasted about 2 minutes, then I spent the rest of the time looking at games wishing I could play.  So lets just say I'm trying to make up for lost time, or more honestly lost quarters.

thebrownshow:
I'm not sure exactly why I built mine.  I had known about MAME for at least 5 years prior, but once I found this place and said to myself "Holy crap, you can actually DO that?" -- I just HAD to build one.  It was all I thought about, kinda like Richard Dryfuss in Close Encounters.

After the fact, though, I think one of the biggest benefits of building my cabinet is the history factor.  A few of my friends have next to zero knowledge about the classics - we're the Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat generation, and that's essentially all they know.  Now I have a machine where we can relive the summer days spent at the local 7-11 drinking Slurpees and trying to figure out finishing moves, yet I can also give them an old-school education and show them how badass Robotron and Defender really are.

M3talhead:
5) I'm not quite right in the head.

RetroACTIVE:
2 > 1 > 3 > 4.... and "I want one too!"

MYX:

--- Quote from: M3talhead on January 26, 2006, 10:49:04 am ---5) I'm not quite right in the head.

--- End quote ---
um yeah, but why did you build it? I don't mean to speak for anyone else, but, I don't think that any of are really right in the head.

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