[ILUG] OT-ish: standup arcade games

[John P . Looney]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 09:03:44PM +0000, kevin lyda mentioned:
> ok, so years ago a co-worker tweaked my interest in arcade games.
> hw was working on setting up his arcade game (astroids) so he could
> query the high score table via a pc and then post it up via the web.
> a fun h/w+s/w project.  anyway now that i don't envisage moving again
> i'd like to get one (asteroids, 1942, or afterburner).  anyone have
> ideas on where to purchase them in ireland?

 Yeah, funny enough. There is a rental/sales place out in bray. I'm sure
they have old ones. I tryed to get in contact with them before, and they
never called back. Call into any arcade in Dublin & ask where they buy
their stuff, or get it repaired. I'm sure they'll have some old stuff. 

 And give me, and the rest of ILUG a shout when you know what's the story.
The boss has agreed to buy a few machines for the office. (I'm getting too
good at table football :)

 When I was in 2nd year in college, I got my first "real money" job. So, I
called into the arcade on Westmoreland st. that I knew had a working,
original sit-in Star Wars machine. Cost 10p a go - that's how old it was.
And I wanted to buy it. I'd £250 in my pocket. And what happened "Oh, that
was broken up & chucked out over a month ago". Aggghhh.

> as an aside, i highly recommend xmame for folks who don't like all those
> new fangled video games (street fighter is new fangled...).

 How hard do you reckon it would be to make a cocktail-table shaped box,
with an LCD screen, MAME and a nice big disk of all the roms, with a pair
of joysticks at either side ? That would be soooo cool.

Kate

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