http://gizmodo.com/352147/retro-arcade-gaming-fan-heaven-is-worth-infinite-quarters The guy who did this is just too cool for words. I have a small arcade in my home...12 cabinets plus air hockey but this is just incredible.
My brother used to buy/repair/sell jukeboxes as a hobby in NC. One time while visiting him we drove up to PA to pick up a couple. Normal looking track home. Walked down into the basement, Holycow! 40-50 jukeboxes, 50's style decorations. Probably over $250k in rare jukeboxes (and this was 15+ years ago, I'm sure value went up since). oh, and carrying 200+ lbs of jukebox up narrow stairs.....ouch!!
I want one of those MAME units - they had them at Costco Christmas 06 preloaded with several hundred games, including SF2.
I had one of the Mame machines. It was called a Barcade. It played just like the arcade machines and had over a thousand games, loaded onto a computer built into a case. The case looked like the top part of the arcade machine with the joystick and monitor. The cool thing was it didn't need any quarters. If you played it in the arcade, it was loaded on to the computer. Even with all the games, it only took up about 20GB of space on the hard drive. Had to sell it, because I won it in a contest and didn't have the room in my apartment. I'd like to build one of my own some day, with a Shuttle box, with all the games and atari 2600 and 5200 games.
maybe i can make that a summer project. some happ controls and PCBs, an old arcade cabinet that I can restore, and an old desktop computer.... or i can make it easier, and just buy some x-arcade stick(s), tear the guts out, install em in the cabinet and bypass all the fiddling with controls and PCBs....
I own an arcade business (placing them on locations) I would love to open an arcade with 80's machines however would anyone come? Here is one thats open to the public http://www.1984arcade.com/ I currently own 128 games bust most of them aren't the classics..
I would be there a few times a week... Its definately come back...people want the simplicity and strategy of the older games...the fact that the flash game sites have taken off proves it. If you put it in the right spot and make it upscale you will have lots of males in their 30s and 40s going in...serve some alcohol and snacks and you;ve got a winner. I have 12 classic games in my home arcade.
Question for anyone reading this thread... There was an arcade in Ft lauderdale called Grand Prix Race O Rama....it was shaped like a castle and on route 441 in the late 70s to early 90s. I spent my formative years there almost every day. Problem is I have NO pictures or nostalgia on the place...kinda bums me out. So if anyone happens to remember it and has pics I would love to get some copies. In the early 90s it was demolished to make way for the freeway...they reopened off of I95 but the new place wasnt shaped like a castle...that always bummed me out.
Dave & Busters doesnt have the old games though...its all new crap. Mostly driving and shooting games. its designed to be a 'date' joint focusing on multiplayer games and catering to a young crowd...it does a good job at that. But it doesnt satisfy a classic game hunger...at most they have a Mrs Pac Man, Donkey Kong and a Centipede sitting in a corner somewhere. King Of Kong...Bill Mitchell is a good friend of mine. The arcade I mentioned in the previous post, Grand Prix Race O Rama, was 'our' arcade growing up. I was sitting next to him the day he got to the Mrs Pac Man kill screen for the first time...that was probably 1981 or 1982 I think. We used to have a good time back then. Funny thing is Bill is still living back then...clothes..hair style..interests...hes never left the early 80s. And hes not the ***** they make him out to be in the movie.
I recently sold the donkey kong I restored. It was in fantastic shape, but I was storing it at my parent's house, and my brother left it plugged in - lightning induced power surge torched the monitor, power supply, and without the monitor and power supply I couldn't test the boards. Still sold it for a few hundred bucks because the cab was in great shape. In a telaio-esque moment, I unscrewed the 1981 Nintendo serial number plate from the back before I sold it. I kinda felt like a d*** for doing it, after seeing all the threads about butchered 330GT2+2s, and the like, but the guy I sold it to was going to tear the cabinet completely apart and cannibalize it anyway.
What's really awesome about the original subject matter is the minor details -the change machine -the "pitch in" trash receptacle -the pay phone -the carpet
It is pretty funny... I havent been back to FL to see him in person in over ten years... we just reminisce through email. He might be getting his own reality show.
The abortion comparison was made because they specifically asked him to compare to abortion...then they cut out their question making it look like he came up with that all on his own. He's pretty upset by how they edited it to make him look like a 'villian'.
The guys an ass regardless. Have you read the interview the AVClub.com did with him? While I'm sure some editing was done to help make him look like the "villain" for the movie he most certainly put himself in that role to start with. *edit* Here's the article (His hot sauce is supposed to be very good): http://www.avclub.com/content/node/73909
