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> An arcade machine, regardless of how rare it was, would be something I walked straight past though! Too big and heavy. Yeah but there's nothing like standing
by TacticalCoder 3y ago
> An arcade machine, regardless of how rare it was, would be something I walked straight past though! Too big and heavy.
Yeah but there's nothing like standing up in front of an actual arcade cab, one joystick in each hand, and playing Robotron 2084! (one joystick to move in one of eight directions and the other joystick to fire in one of eight directions).
About ten years ago a friend of mine was moving to a smaller house and had no room for his vintage arcade cab... So he offered it to me. I immediately took it (my fancy car wasn't big enough to carry it so I went and borrowed my parents' car).
This cab has already been moved to three (EU) countries (!).
It's fully working, I've got a few PCBs (both originals and bootleg PCBs) and I've got a Raspberry Pi with a Pi2JAMMA adapter, driving the CRT screen...
It's a joy to see my little daughter play on the games I used to play as a kid (like Elevator Action, Buster Bros/Pang!, Bomb Jack, etc.).
It's an amazing relic from really glorious times.
P.S: it used to be in my office room first, then in the living room (which was epic) and now in its new house it's in the laundry room next to the washing machine : )
- Damogran6 3y agoWe had a similar situation...broken Defender cabinet...free A power supply and 3 RAM chips and my kids got to experience unlimited Defender...having 24x7 access to that cabinet like that, you picked up really interesting insights into the code...and the realization that, no matter how much I played, I was never really going to get good at it.