Old arcade style video game from the 80s, around the time of DigDug and Galaga…I had the sensation of teleporting off the side in the Arcane Sanctuary, much like I used to while playing Qbert…
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Yes siree! I really enjoyed that game.
we had a mini dig dug machine. it’s only purpose was to play that game. lol.
I never really got into Q-bert; found it boring.
Galaga, Galaxian, Zaxxon, and Moon Cresta were my jam, though.
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I was the original Space Invaders fan…there was also a game called Submarine where you looked into a glass with handles and fired missiles at boats…Joust, Galaga, Galaxian, all Pac Mans…I almost bought a couple of those cocktail table versions of various Pac Man video tables, they’re not expensive.
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Anyone remember filbert nuts?
Haven’t played it in an arcade, but on the family’s’ first PC in the '90s after switching from a ZX Spectrum clone that ran games and programs from audio cassettes. 
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lol
no don’t know it but kinda feel the vibes
liked (deluxe) Galaga on Amiga tho
knew DigDug from Atari but no fun for me, sucked at it 
Yes. I remember playing Qbert as a kid from a giant floppy. Game was hard.
Carmen Sandiego was the game I played the most. In the days before Google and as a 6 year old, that woman was elusive.
Tempest is my favorite retro arcade game.
As far as modern arcade games if I still played them, you’d find me at one of the MK machines. 
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Dig Dug is a fun game from that era. Never really got that good at it though.
Yes, lol you could ask me about any arcade machines. I own some of my own. PacMan,Super Street Fighter II : New Challengers Edition,a 60 in 1 I bought converted from a PacMan cabaret cabinet(the original boards might have gone bad not sure).Rampage Arcade machine(same one seen in terminator 2 in the arcade place) they are all original too not arcade1ups.I made a pandoras Box cabinet,when I sold off my NeoGeo Big Red machine I took exact dimensions from that cabinet and made an exact replica just solid black and used a pandoras box for it.The pandoras Box is a cheap way to play all your old arcade titles if you dont have the room or money for the originals.The pandoras box actually has something I think is kind of cool, some people say the games repeat but they dont they have some of the same games but youll see things like King of Fighters + or King of Fighters Boss edition.they are just added ones so you can play as the bosses or + usually indicated infinite power ups like SpinMasters+ or MetalSlug+ just gives infinite grenades
I envy you for having actual cabinets. I just don’t have the space or I would buy some.
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I spent my high school years in an arcade from 82-87
I got the Super Street Fighter II for 25 bucks.It was in pieces in someone garage for some reason…so I just had to put it back together…like everything monitor and all, even all the sides and top were apart but looks like it normally would now that its put back together.The PacMan machine I got for technically 75 dollars.I bought an Original Golden tee 2k machine for only 75 dollars and cleaned it up and found someone looking for one and had trades so I traded it for PacMan. the cool thing about pacman is the guy had the original monitor and boards sent in and recapped and everything.Had all the paperwork.GoldenTee is a sought after arcade machine but I think PacMan is actually worth more.But yeah they are heavy and take up room.
Yeah, an original PacMan is pretty sought after from what I’ve heard. I’ve had opportunities to get arcade machines but yeah, no room for them. Maybe when I get a bigger place.
My old USAF buddy did the same - his wife is a kick (butt) artist, and they built a standard vertical cabinet, even got one solid sheet of glass, and he started with one of the boxes that had 256 games or so in it - - but he made it upgradeable, and he later changed out the CPU or box for a 611 in 1 system…they even included two vertical joysticks for 2 players, 6 action buttons each…and his wife did all the graphics on the top and sides of the cabinet…it reminded me of the old Tron video cabinets when that first came out. Really nice. He’s retired, but I told him to start mass producing those things, he’d make some good scratch.
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Last year, or maybe it was 2020… But when I was in Walmart they had half sized arcade cabinets with the whole 60+ games included.
It was around 3 or 400 bucks which wasn’t bad for what it was, but it definitely needed to be placed somewhere that would allow 2 people to stand and button mash like a countertop.
It wouldnt have been the actual 60 in 1 but some anniversary edition arcade1up which are actually supposed to be 3/4 scale but they sure look like half the size.They may be 3/4 size of an original smaller arcade machine or something smaller but my super street fighter is over 6 feet tall.and they definitely arent 3/4 scale of that machine lol
Yeah sounds like your friend made one with a jamma harness and hooked up all the buttons and there 611 in 1 was a jamma board hooked into the jamma harness. I have some of that.I Sold my Neo Geo Goldie arcade cabinet with like a 320 in 1 or something.it basically was all the NeoGeo/SNK games (or all the popular ones at least they could have had more)Thats always a good way to go if you find an arcade cab with bad boards and everything else is good(just dont buy one with a bad monitor a new replacement for a good one can be around 400 dollars), just take out the boards unhook them from the jamma harness and rewire it to jamma if you want to use 6 buttons and basically take the hole cutting thing on your screw driver and add some buttons are wire them up if the cabinet has less than 4 buttons.Usually I dont like going this route unless your going to do it to a undesirable arcade machine.I wouldnt do it to an original pacman machine but I sold my robocop2 arcade machine like 10 years ago and would have done it to that one.I used to work in an arcade place in my 20’s and was there technician.If you get an arcade that needs work dont go digging your hand around random places to see whats wrong before you know what your doing.You could make literally a fatal mistake
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Yeah sounds like your friend made one with a jamma harness and hooked up all the buttons and there 611 in 1 was a jamma board hooked into the jamma harness. I have some of that.I Sold my Neo Geo Goldie arcade cabinet with like a 320 in 1 or something.it basically was all the NeoGeo/SNK games (or all the popular ones at least they could have had more)Thats always a good way to go if you find an arcade cab with bad boards and everything else is good(just dont buy one with a bad monitor a new replacement for a good one can be around 400 dollars), just take out the boards unhook them from the jamma harness and rewire it to jamma if you want to use 6 buttons and basically take the hole cutting thing on your screw driver and add some buttons are wire them up if the cabinet has less than 4 buttons.Usually I dont like going this route unless your going to do it to a undesirable arcade machine.I wouldnt do it to an original pacman machine but I sold my robocop2 arcade machine like 10 years ago and would have done it to that one.I used to work in an arcade place in my 20’s and was there technician.If you get an arcade that needs work dont go digging your hand around random places to see whats wrong before you know what your doing.You could make literally a fatal mistake
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Dude…same thing I told my friend - you should see if there is a scale of production that makes you a good amount of coin, and make these . I shopped these on Walmart last night - you’re right, they are the arcade1up version and they look 1/2 size of normal…but if someone could produce the full size arcade cabinets of old? With tons more game options? I’m not rich, but I’d go $1500 easy for a full size video arcade cabinet of games I fondly remember from the 80s…and even a few I didn’t!!! And then, three years later, if I could change the games to others??? Gold mine.