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General Category => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: arcadepcnut on February 07, 2014, 02:38:46 pm



Title: Hello all from Knoxville TN
Post by: arcadepcnut on February 07, 2014, 02:38:46 pm
Im not new to this hobby. Just wanted to say Hi. I have been in this hobby for over 18 years and built my first cabinet with a Pentium 2 233 :)
I still have that cabinet but its been highly updated!
I have a vertical cabinet and horizontal cabinet and virtual pinball cabinet, touchscreen bartop, and lastly a full size sitdown driving cabinet!
 im working on updating my website. I found this site and this looks to be a good place to get some answers. so HELLO!

All my projects are always all works in progress and there is always "lets put a bigger monitor" "lets put more hardware like soleinoids and flashing lights" "lets upgrade the computer that's in this machine"

endless....


Title: Re: Hello all from Knoxville TN
Post by: iankellogg on February 07, 2014, 02:57:59 pm
welcome.

Are all of your cabs mame? or do you have some proper dedicateds?


Title: Re: Hello all from Knoxville TN
Post by: arcadepcnut on February 07, 2014, 03:11:53 pm
Hello. all my cabs vertical and horizontal are mame.
My driving is a dedicated xbox and my pinball is virtual pinball.
thanks for asking.

I don't have enough space unfortunately to dedicate to real cabinets.
Plus my attention span is very low.


Title: Re: Hello all from Knoxville TN
Post by: iankellogg on February 07, 2014, 03:26:14 pm
I found that when presented with a million games to play on the mame cab i get bored super quick. With the dedicated cabs since you are stuck with them you play them more. I love mame for what it is but I would be perfectly fine without it in my collection.


Title: Re: Hello all from Knoxville TN
Post by: arcadefan1985 on February 07, 2014, 04:38:47 pm
Hello. all my cabs vertical and horizontal are mame.
My driving is a dedicated xbox and my pinball is virtual pinball.
thanks for asking.

I don't have enough space unfortunately to dedicate to real cabinets.
Plus my attention span is very low.

I have quite a few dedicated cabs but recently have had the desire to build a MAME machine. Even If you have a 100 machines there are still 100's more you don't have room for!

Welcome to the boards!


Title: Re: Hello all from Knoxville TN
Post by: Hyderyoda on February 09, 2014, 08:45:01 am
Welcome to the site. Im just over the ridge from you in Hendersonville NC


Title: Re: Hello all from Knoxville TN
Post by: John's Arcade on February 09, 2014, 10:45:56 am
I found that when presented with a million games to play on the mame cab i get bored super quick. With the dedicated cabs since you are stuck with them you play them more. I love mame for what it is but I would be perfectly fine without it in my collection.

Dude, this is 100% true! I have said this before, too! Less choices is actually better!


Title: Re: Hello all from Knoxville TN
Post by: UnwoundS3GA on February 09, 2014, 10:27:50 pm
I found that when presented with a million games to play on the mame cab i get bored super quick. With the dedicated cabs since you are stuck with them you play them more. I love mame for what it is but I would be perfectly fine without it in my collection.

Dude, this is 100% true! I have said this before, too! Less choices is actually better!
Indeed! I have a 60 in 1 in one machine, which I am just going to take out once I get my DK up and running, because I find myself only playing Original Donkey Kong over the rest of the 59 games!