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Legit arcade machines? Always wanted to get one of those.
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They are but they aren't regular size. These sit on a table. They had one a little bigger than what I was playing with. They seem to be running at around $300 Canadian. I've seen them in my local Walmart as well. They had bigger ones there though.
Oh yeah. I've seen those.
I've got the ability to play about 10,000 games on my XBox, including most arcades from the late 70's up through the early 2,000 and most console and handheld systems. Always wanted to either build my own cabinet or mod one of these newer systems to play all of them, but never got around to doing it and don't see that in the pipeline anytime soon. Plays great with a regular controller on a regular TV right now though (although purists would argue that now it isn't the same since I got rid of all of my old tube TVs, but I don't notice any difference).
I'd really love to have an original arcade in my home someday. I think if I had my pick, it would be Rolling Thunder. Probably my favorite arcade of all time when I was a kid... and I played a lot of them.
The music was just fantastic. Burned into my brain forever.
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I would love one too. Since seeing it for fun I started thinking where I could put it in here. But I would never waste that kind of money on something like that.
I don't know that game. I had a Nintendo system for a few years. Played Mario Brothers.
Don't this game you mentioned. Before I got out of High School a couple of friends and me would go to a local comic book shop and play Galaga. Man, I don't know how much money we pumped into that machine but it was fun.
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Yeah. I think Rolling Thunder would have been after the time you were playing them. I have some vague memories of playing games like Pac-Man and Galaga in an arcade back before my folks split, but by the time I was like 10-12 years old they had advanced a bit and games like Rolling Thunder, Gauntlet and Pyros were big. Then a few years later they even got better with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Simpsons, and fighting games like Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat and Killer Instinct. Around that time I grew out of the arcades myself. Kids don't even play them anymore these days since the home systems are so advanced. I think the only reason there's a market for arcades at all is nostalgia. They've got arcade/bars all over my area, and those retro arcade machines have been around for about a decade but started going mainstream enough to hit WalMart shelves about a year or two ago.
I had fond memories of Galaga and Dig-Dug on my Atari 7800 when I was a kid. Almost as good as the arcade machine and you didn't have to keep pumping quarters into it. 
Now I've got all of them and can play them anytime. You don't need to even buy a beast of a machine like an XBox or have a full computer to play them anymore these days either. With a little machine called a Raspberry Pi that is around 30 bucks and the size of a credit card, if you know somebody who can set it up for you, you could play all of them on your TV with any generic control pad that has a USB port on it. It's not easy to set up on your own though unless you really make a hobby out of it like I have.
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Hey Jack - yeah, I looked it up. The Argentinian ants here behave very differently from your various ant species up there. So ...
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yeah. I think Rolling Thunder would have been after the time you were playing them. I have some vague memories of playing games like Pac-Man and Galaga in an arcade back before my folks split, but by the time I was like 10-12 years old they had advanced a bit and games like Rolling Thunder, Gauntlet and Pyros were big. Then a few years later they even got better with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Simpsons, and fighting games like Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat and Killer Instinct. Around that time I grew out of the arcades myself. Kids don't even play them anymore these days since the home systems are so advanced. I think the only reason there's a market for arcades at all is nostalgia. They've got arcade/bars all over my area, and those retro arcade machines have been around for about a decade but started going mainstream enough to hit WalMart shelves about a year or two ago.
I had fond memories of Galaga and Dig-Dug on my Atari 7800 when I was a kid. Almost as good as the arcade machine and you didn't have to keep pumping quarters into it.
Now I've got all of them and can play them anytime. You don't need to even buy a beast of a machine like an XBox or have a full computer to play them anymore these days either. With a little machine called a Raspberry Pi that is around 30 bucks and the size of a credit card, if you know somebody who can set it up for you, you could play all of them on your TV with any generic control pad that has a USB port on it. It's not easy to set up on your own though unless you really make a hobby out of it like I have.
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Yeah, that would explain why I don't remember it. I do remember when the Mortal Kombat games came out but I never played any of those. Shortly after that the company pulled the games out of the shop.
My tv is too old to do stuff like that and I really shouldn't be thinking along those lines anyways. Seizure disorder and arcade games not a real good mix. But it is fun to think about.
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Things to do on a pretty nice holiday Monday.
Later peeps.
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Hey Jack - yeah, I looked it up. The Argentinian ants here behave very differently from your various ant species up there. So ...
lol Gilda
Argentinian or not, they're a bunch of dicks.
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Yeah, that would explain why I don't remember it. I do remember when the Mortal Kombat games came out but I never played any of those. Shortly after that the company pulled the games out of the shop.
My tv is too old to do stuff like that and I really shouldn't be thinking along those lines anyways. Seizure disorder and arcade games not a real good mix. But it is fun to think about.
If you ever wanted to, let me know. I'm not really in a place to help and most of my stuff is packed away now, but whenever I get my new normal down to a tolerable copaceticism, I'll have more time for these things. :)
Unless you have a super old TV where you had to use a screwdriver to put wires into it, your current TV is fine. They make cables for pretty much anything these days. If you have a tube TV instead of a flat TV, it would just require either a USB to composite or a HDMI to composite cable. We could talk about that stuff if and when we ever do this. As far as setting things up, the internet allows for such huge file transfers these days at a speed that is pretty unreal. All you would pretty much need to do is buy what I would tell you to buy (the credit card sized computer board, a plug to power it, a small aluminum heat sink that you'd just need to pull off some plastic and press onto the CPU chip, a nifty looking case to protect it, a few cables, a controller or two and an SD card), and I could direct you to an image I create that would have everything you needed to "flash" to your own SD card with a free flashing program. After that, you could just hook it all up to your TV, power the thing up and you should be good to go. The only thing you might have to do after that point is "calibrate" the controller you've got. I'd also recommend getting two controllers because it's always more fun to play the games with a friend.
All mine does right now is really list out games and play them when you pick it. I'm working on putting all sorts of other goodies in there like the artwork to the boxes and arcade cabinets as well as preview videos of all the games to check out as you scroll through the numerous lists.
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Masonry sucks, or more accurately I suck at masonry. What an epic failure with that today. Word to the wise... don't use anything with a 5 minute set time unless you're a god at working with it. Otherwise you might as well take your money and just set it on fire.
I only got about half of the stuff patched that I needed to before I ran out. Most of it ended up in the trash.
Worked a bit on fixing a bad window sill and trying to make windows water tight. That's not done either. But when you're dealing with things like drying time, there's really not much you can do.
It's a 50% chance of thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon and night. Going to be visiting my brother, so I'm going to try not to think about it while I'm gone. It's not as if I wasn't going to take on water before I did any of this work anyhow. It hasn't made anything fall over yet.
I pulled up more of the floor that my friend wanted me to before he came back. Glad that he talked me into it. I don't like the look of some of the joists, sills and outer joists down there now that I have full light on the situation. I think I'm going to have to talk him into replacing all of the joists with me before this is done, or at least marrying new ones all the way down the line. I also want brand new sills and outer joists all the way up to the house like we did on the far side as well. This is going to add a few more days of his help for sure, and it will probably more than double what I've already spent up to this point. But it's got to be done. I don't imagine I'm going to be living here more than a few years at max, but I don't want to screw the next owner and leave them with the fucking mess that the idiots who lived here before me left me with.
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Cleaned up the kitchen a bit and got some more stuff in the trash. 1st floor is looking great, especially since I was able to pack up all the stuff that's been hogging the curio cabinet shelves for weeks that I'm bringing down to give to my brother.
Put out a few more mouse traps since I still see the occasional new turd over clean spots. I think I'm going to have to resign myself to that just happening until this porch is fixed and sealed. I'm sure that's where they're getting in.
Now I just need to relax and try to get the problems out of my mind for a few days and enjoy the time with my old man and my brother. Maybe I'll contact the real estate agent down there again and see if she'd be around so I can show the house I like to my dad since only me and my brother went to check out all those houses last time.
Anyhow... I might pop in the morning for a minute, but I'll talk to ya'all when I get back.
Good luck with your projects.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Yeah, that would explain why I don't remember it. I do remember when the Mortal Kombat games came out but I never played any of those. Shortly after that the company pulled the games out of the shop.
My tv is too old to do stuff like that and I really shouldn't be thinking along those lines anyways. Seizure disorder and arcade games not a real good mix. But it is fun to think about.
If you ever wanted to, let me know. I'm not really in a place to help and most of my stuff is packed away now, but whenever I get my new normal down to a tolerable copaceticism, I'll have more time for these things. :)
Unless you have a super old TV where you had to use a screwdriver to put wires into it, your current TV is fine. They make cables for pretty much anything these days. If you have a tube TV instead of a flat TV, it would just require either a USB to composite or a HDMI to composite cable. We could talk about that stuff if and when we ever do this. As far as setting things up, the internet allows for such huge file transfers these days at a speed that is pretty unreal. All you would pretty much need to do is buy what I would tell you to buy (the credit card sized computer board, a plug to power it, a small aluminum heat sink that you'd just need to pull off some plastic and press onto the CPU chip, a nifty looking case to protect it, a few cables, a controller or two and an SD card), and I could direct you to an image I create that would have everything you needed to "flash" to your own SD card with a free flashing program. After that, you could just hook it all up to your TV, power the thing up and you should be good to go. The only thing you might have to do after that point is "calibrate" the controller you've got. I'd also recommend getting two controllers because it's always more fun to play the games with a friend.
All mine does right now is really list out games and play them when you pick it. I'm working on putting all sorts of other goodies in there like the artwork to the boxes and arcade cabinets as well as preview videos of all the games to check out as you scroll through the numerous lists.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I would say that my tv is about 12years old.
Never know but for right now I am trying to figure out to get a futon for a couch. That's really next on my agenda.
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