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Psychological effects of cabinet cannibalism?
RyoriNoTetsujin:
--- Quote from: z on July 31, 2009, 02:51:14 pm ---Before you look at dismantling QH you might try to add some other emulators to see if that pulls in any more interest.
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Yeah... I've got NES, SNES and Gen full-collections and Virtual Pinball running on it (all via MaLa.) One roommate just wants to play Medieval Madness and frickin' Uo Poko. I guess I can't blame her for that, both are good games, but damn there are SO many other games. The other roommate is too busy with Fallout 3 on his laptop, and continually breaking our FiOS router trying to "optimize" it, to bother with the classics...
... It doesn't help that just a few hours ago (just after I wrote the first post) I got a great 21" Dell monitor for free off of Craig's List for the cocktail ...
--- Quote from: billpa on July 31, 2009, 03:05:44 pm ---Forgot to add...maybe you need to show your friends some more social games...group trackball games like shuffle shot, world class bowling, american horeshoes, shuuz, golden tee, etc. Or even some fun 4 player games like Sunset Riders, Simpsons, X-Men, etc.
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Actually, World Class Bowling WAS pretty popular with my previous roommates, as was The Simpsons for an evening ... and I did get my Fallout playing roommate some action by setting him and this one girl up with TMNT -- seriously, even he acknowledged that the next morning!
What? She apparently really liked TMNT... ;D
Good memories... UGH... this is making it more difficult... I mean, stuff like that would still be possible with a cocktail, just not as massive, right?
Beretta:
--- Quote from: RyoriNoTetsujin on July 31, 2009, 08:08:15 am ---killing a baby
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yup :'(
if you want a cock tail but can't find the room to add it, then at least sell this one and use the money to build a cocktail.. if you take parts off this one you're still left with the shell.. what was you gonna do with it? that still takes up space.
cocktails are nice, they have a certain charm.. they've got some limitations but one of the things they do have working for them as they work pretty good as a table so thats nice.
as for your friends.. screw them, you either love arcades or you dont, go get new ones.
i know a lot of the newer generation dont give a rats ass about arcade machines..
i've got some 14 and 15 year old cousins i thought would be interested, nope they dont care cause they did'nt grow up with them.. playstation and xbox is all they've known.. dont get me wrong i love playstation,xbox too but it's a different kinda love ;)
cyork2:
This may be way beyond what you would consider but... why not sell it?
I agree it looks great and you did a great job on it. Sell it so it lives on instead of gutting / killing it. If you sell it you get money for the next projet (presumably enough to have even more options than you do now) and you can have the satisfaction of knowing you built something so well that another person paid good money for it.
Maybe I'm crazy but the idea of my first project living on and being enjoyed by someone else seems better than "I tore it apart to build a new one".
Turn a profit.. enjoy capitolism..
Bender:
Wow!
I looked at the Pics
people that come over don't want to play on that???!!??? ???
man, you do have the wrong friends
I wouldn't be able to get my friends off the thing if had an upright that frekkin sweet!
isucamper:
On people rather playing rock band: You can't expect people in a party atmosphere to gravitate towards your cabinet when you have rock band going on. Unless they have a nostolgic love for old arcade games, the draw of the music/rhythm genre is too much for a casual gamer to resist.
On recycling your own cab: Man. Your scratch build reminds me a lot of mine which is nearly finished (isucamper.1up.com). At this point, after everything I put into it, I couldn't imagine tearing it apart. If I were you, I'd really look at what your motives are for doing what you are thinking. If your really itching for another project and you just don't have the space, why not consider building one as a gift for someone, or to give to some youth center or something?
On Malenko calling me a shmuck: <sigh> You've obviously never heard my rock band rendition of Iron Maiden's "The Trooper." It'd rock your princess pony underoos off.
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