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well i have to say that without MAME my 5 yr old would probably not have
experienced the games i grew up with.. and it's not just MAME but daphne
(laser disk emulation) too. to see my son take such an interest in frogger,
pac man and galaxian helps me keep his inevitable video game playing urges
from straying into the TMNT and street fighter realms for now.
for me.. i wouldn't have thought about getting into fullsize machines had it
not been for someone telling me about MAME. after about 3 days of playing it
i decided I was going to build a cabinet...
http://www.keithcorcoran.com/arcade/mame02.jpg
and within a year i have the DL II cabinet for that project, a defender
cabinet for a multiwilliams project, 2 enduro racer uprights and a space
harrier... hopefully by the end of the summer i'll have a fullsize Ms Pac
cabinet that I'm going to likely build from scratch.
i've been practicing with 2/3 scale machines i've given as gifts for now...
http://www.keithcorcoran.com/arcade/minimspac &
http://www.keithcorcoran.com/arcade/mrmame/build_final.jpg
granted.. MAME can be a detriment to the community in the hands of greedy
'companies' who rely on the average person's desire to have a machine that
plays all these games.. unfortunately, these are the same people that
probably would never have bought a dedicated upright to begin with so
where's the loss to someone like ultracade or namco?
i will say i've heard of people setting up classics on location in generic
cabinets with nothign more then a pentium computer in it running ms pac,
etc. that is MAME gone bad in my opinion.
where am i going with all this? who knows.. what i do know is.. when i can
play crazy climber in my house and remember what it was like to be totally
amazed at the ability to scurry that little bastard up the side of a
building.. then see the look on my son's face when he's engrossed in the
dangers of falling flower pots yelling LOOK OUT DAD! there's no way anyone
can tell me MAME is a bad thing for this hobby.
k
"Raven" <dr_evball@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> It also allows younger folks the opportunity to play the games we loved
> growing up. That wil lead some of them to continue with colecting and
> preserving the "good stuff". Granted, most people won't do it....but
> some will.
>
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