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Please help me decide!
« on: October 01, 2007, 02:10:18 pm »
OK I posted this in the Artwork forum because I have picked a couple of fonts and have some ideas for art to go with the logos.

Basically I can't decide on a name for my cab!  Its a scratch designed upright cab, with rotating monitor and swappable control panels.  Project thread is here.

OK, so the 2 choices I've narrowed it down to are:



and...



Retrotaur came about from the fact the cab's monitor rotates:
Retrotator -> Retrotor -> Retrotaur!
Ideas for this are a dinosaur/godzilla type font with similar dinosaur theme.

Fork'em Over! came from an episode of Futurama where the robot from Berzerk says it. I thought it would be cool to have this on the marquee, demanding players put more money in to play! :)

Anyway, I can't decide so thought I'd ask on here for your opinions, and any ideas you have for artwork.

Thanks :)

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Re: Please help me decide!
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2007, 11:31:00 am »
I think I like "Retrotaur" but not for the reasons you described.  To me it seem like a play on words - "Retro" and "Tour" and with a cool dinosaur theme it could really be unique... How about "The RetroTourous" or something?  I don't know. 

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Re: Please help me decide!
« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2007, 08:23:06 pm »
I'm thinking that you can call it Retrotate... You can make the logo look like this:  (sorry for the crudeness, I whipped this up in a Jiffy)  Just wanted to illustrate my vision.     :)

http://linkedmedia.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/RetROtate.png

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Re: Please help me decide!
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2007, 09:04:26 am »
Cheers Delusional.  I like it :)

I've so much work ahead of me still on the cab, but I expect in a few months I'll be ready for sorting out the name and artwork once and for all!

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« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2007, 11:40:09 pm »
I think Retro'saur' has a better ring to it, but that's just my opinion.

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Re: Please help me decide!
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2007, 07:34:22 pm »
How about "TailSpin"

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« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2007, 02:23:41 pm »
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Re: Please help me decide!
« Reply #7 on: August 16, 2008, 11:59:18 pm »
What did you end up using?

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« Reply #8 on: August 17, 2008, 01:13:38 am »

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« Reply #9 on: August 17, 2008, 05:48:11 pm »
That works..  :)

Does it still rotate?
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