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Zaibatsu
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Posted: 16th Oct 2007 02:17
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I was looking into buying an arcade machine, but not really sure which one I want to get. I was wondering if any of you have any suggestions. I'm looking for an arcade machine made within the last few years, preferably one with a lightgun. Something great for 2 people to play together.

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tha_rami
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Posted: 16th Oct 2007 02:18
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Panic Park. Screw lightguns - this is even better. No doubt. No question.


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Posted: 16th Oct 2007 02:21 Edited at: 16th Oct 2007 02:21
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that machines a bit bright and colorful, and nothing i read even tells me what the game is like.

EDIT:

Just noticed, machines a bit big too

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Agent Dink
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Time Crisis

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Posted: 16th Oct 2007 03:33
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Any Bally Pinball machine

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Posted: 16th Oct 2007 03:42
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Pong

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Hobgoblin Lord
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Posted: 16th Oct 2007 10:07
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last few years only huh.. Arcade machines seem to be a dying breed with how far consoles have come. My suggestions for fun 2(or more) player games would be Gauntlet II, Gauntlet Legends, Rampage, the Simpsons, light gun wise Lucky and Wild was fun.

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Mr Makealotofsmoke
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Time Crisis 4 is good

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Quite expensive surely if you get a very recent game? Personally I would get Operation Wolf or the sequel (think that had 2 guns). Not actually light guns I believe, but works the same none the less. Class game.

On the other hand a friend of mine has a cabinet that has a PC inside and he uses MAME on it. Bloody brilliant it is. Not sure about lightgun games though.

An alternative is to use a projector and one of those light guns that work with them (normal ones don't). Fire up one of the Time Crisis games and it would be awesome! I have a 104" projector screen, so that would be awesome. Someone tell me when the next Time Crisis comes out on the PS3 and I'll have to do some spending!

Personally I always wanted a 4 player original Daytona machine. Goddamn that would be cool. Maybe Sega Rally at a push. I actually have the spare space now that wouldn't effect the rest of the apartment, but it wouldn't go down well And no pool table either

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Digital Awakening
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Posted: 16th Oct 2007 11:29
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You can always get something like this and make your own. If you want a light gun game you can always make your own from a PS2 (which is supported by x-arcades joysticks). Thing is that with a setup like that you get loads of games instead of beeing stuck with a single one.

X-arcade have a nice cabinet if you have the cash. It even comes with 190 built in games.

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I have a hard drive pre-installed with 16gb of games, just waiting on me building that damn cabinet - been planning to do it for years.

I think limiting yourself to a single game is a bad idea, you would get quite sick of it before very long, and modern arcade machines just won't hold their value. I say you should look into getting a MAME cabinet, building your own, or looking for an old cabinet that you can refurbish. It depends what type of games you like really, personally I like things like Bubble Bobble and Ghosts n Goblins, so the hardware required is not too expensive.

One concern I'd have with lightgun games is how well they would work, I mean they can be easy to break - it's a big investment to buy a lightgun arcade cabinet then to have it break down would be a right pain - at least with joysticks and buttons you can easily fix any issues yourself.

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NeoGeo based machine would be great. You would be able to many cool games on it: KOF, Samurai Shadow and Metal Slug as great examples.

My other suggestion would be pinball, but it is just one game. Buying a machine for one game is good for millionaires and owners of game houses.

An other good thing about console based machines is that you may buy accessories to never let the fun end - pistols and glasses for example.

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Posted: 16th Oct 2007 18:50
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One of the biggest games in the pubs here is Big Buck Hunter. Never played it myself, but it seems pretty popular (and uses Light Guns, which are in Pubs, so they must be quite durable!)...

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Don't forget the old 360 Afterburner arcade machine. Now that would be the mutt's nuts indeed. Yes mates, after a crate of beer and vodka chasers, I proclaim that we will reach level 3 on my 360 Afterburner machine that I have hidden in the closet that used to contain my ex-wife's walk in shoe collection! Cue lots of cheering, holding you up as a God, and phoning the cleaners the next day to get rid of that layer of puke that nicely goes over everything when you do the full loop in the game Oh yes...

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Dazzag:
That's hilarious!

Made me think of this old arcade helicopter game where you sit in a chair that rotates a bit when you move the center stick and you got this throttle control on the side. Not a real helicopter simulation as you don't control hight with the throttle but it was fun to sit in. I've never really wasted money on arcades. We don't really have the same arcade culture over here like in US or Japan.

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Quote: "old arcade helicopter game"
Do you mean Thunderblade?

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Posted: 17th Oct 2007 11:40 Edited at: 17th Oct 2007 11:45
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Yeah, that looks like the game I always thought that if I'm to spend a little cash in an arcade I might as well play something that I can't play at home.



Here's someone selling the upright version, with photo and screenshots.

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Quote: "I always thought that if I'm to spend a little cash in an arcade I might as well play something that I can't play at home"
Same here. Well not easily anyway. Personally I would kill for a sweet 4 player Daytona machine. With the ability to use MAME to get a load of other car games of course.

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Pong?

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Alien versus Predator.
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I've been unable to find any info about DarkBasic I/O support suitable for a tech savvy individual to experiment with arcade game control ideas.

That is, can DarkBasic access a parallel port at BIOS level and thus program its lines (setting which to be in/out)?
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