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What arcade game "Did it" (AKA: Started/Motivated you down the MAME/Refurb path)

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postalp123:

--- Quote from: desertsand2ktj on September 18, 2006, 12:58:17 pm ---I bought a working JAMMA cabinet with combatribes in it

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You did a service to the world that day that you "Retired" Combatribes.

That game was a ripoff.

ften:
Three part Answer from 3 different portions of my life.

The first time I watched Silver Spoons as a kid I was like why does that bastard Ricky get an arcade, I want one.

Then my goal as a teenager was to one day own a Street Fighters cabinet.

And finally when I saw CmdrTaco, Jubei arcade cabinet a few years ago that was the final straw and I built one.

-FTen

shardian:
No games...I just have a fascination with buttons.  ;D

Seriously I do, but to tell the truth, it was just the whole arcade experience I wanted to capture into my home. I have always wanted my own arcade game, I didn't care which one or how crappy it was. Having all of them was just icing on the cake.

Chris:
I'm one of those who "always" wanted one; I remember thinking about building a cabinet around my 2600 when I was a kid, and some company sold videogame shelves that were vaguely cabinet-shaped.

But oddly enough, it was pinball that got me to build a MAME cabinet.

One of my long-term harebrained schemes (again going back to childhood) was to build my own pinball machine, partially just to do it and partially because it would (so I thought) be cheaper than buying a real one.  By now I was already playing MAME on my PC.  I spent months designing circuits for pinball (with my primitive electronics knowledge) as I vaguely became aware of cabinet building.  Finally on the Visual Pinball forums I saw Black's cabinet and the lightbulb went off: I could put all this work into pinball and end up with a machine that could play one game that was sort of like a real pinball, or I could build one MAME cabinet and have a machine that would play hundreds of games almost exactly like the arcade.  A quick peek on eBay revealed a gutted cabinet complete with glasss, coin door and a fully-populated fighter control panel for 40 bucks in Atlanta, only 2 hours away.  It bid up to $61 by the time I got it.

danny_galaga:

no specific for me, but the last time i played galaxians before mame, was on a cocktail like this pic. so now that i have a cocktail like that, i have a special moment when i put galaxians on. i even make sure i ALWAYS insert a coin in the slot (",)

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