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shardian:
In my area, most people don't even give a crap, no matter what I say or show them. It can get pretty depressing. It's not a PS3, so its not cool enough. My spoiled nephew has been staying with us the last few days, and I tried to show him MAME with my desktop controller. I finally got him to play Marvel Superheroes for like 1 minute because he saw he could be Juggernaut...and because I said he wasn't touching the playstation until he at least tried a game. How in the hell does a 7 year old kid not get excited about playing The Simpsons, or X-men?? ??? I mean, I thought it was supposed to be ingrained in them! To be fair though, after I got into the arcade hobby, his dad got jealous and bought a whole truckload of junker arcade games to "one-up" me, so the arcade machine nostalgia has been worn out of the kid I supposed.
The only vindication I have now is that none of his junkers work and they just sit in a empty area of one of his stores. >:D

Malenko:

--- Quote from: genesim on August 23, 2007, 02:45:58 am ---Or how about Tron, or Robotron...etc.     The nail in the coffin is the enterface, and thumbpads just don't cut it for me.

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Actually robotron is pretty good on XBOXLive with the 2 thumb sticks, I had my doubts but the game was only like $4 so I got it; track and feild, galaga, and frogger all play pretty well on the 360 controller.


Just tell him the MAME cab is a one time investment and the classic games on live are $4 or more a pop. I happily have both a 360, and a MAME cab (and a couple arcade machines too ,lol) My nephews prefer my MAME machine to their Wii  :dunno

genesim:
Yeah the problem with that for me is that you are still using your thumbs.

Cradling a game pad has never been good for me...I HATE IT.

Still, the old Atari Joysticks were the last thing I liked, and I had some pretty funky knockoffs for the C64.    They worked though, and at least the thumb was used for pushing buttons alone.    Still hurt though after a while.   

Same with my job, if I can avoid it, I hate working with pippettes.   I would rather use a syringe if possible.   Something about thumb dexterity I guess.

Rob L:
I have both a PS3, xbox360 and have been getting video game systems since the genesis. Regardless of how advanced/pretty games are these days there is no question the old school games (and I include the 16 bit consoles like genesis in this category) just are the most fun and THAT is why I am building up a rig to bring me back to my mouth.

The problem with today's games is that too much focus is trying to make them all realistic and usually that either kills fun factor or brings in a lot of gameplay issues. Make no mistake, there are a few current games that are just as fun as the past stuff but most simply do not have that feel like the games in the day used to.

Chris2:
If you want eye candy, look no further than the various fighting games, especially Street Fighter. I've seen some insane special moves in that game. You also have to let him play a while, get a feel for how great having your own arcade can be. There's a lot of greatness in the past. Have him play my personal favorite games, Berzerk and Galaga.

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