love the arcade stuff! Still playing quite a bit of street fighter 2 on super NES with my roommate.
I intended to dedicate my desktop computer to mixing, but ended up installing Mordhau, medieval fights game... It's really technical and a lot lot lot of fun at the same time, i recommend it.

Anthony Flack wrote: Fri Jun 03, 2022 1:20 am Former Space Invaders became a Bomb Jack sometime in the 1980s, now has a Raspberry Pi in it.

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It still had the Bomb Jack board in it when I got it but it's glitchy; it needs repairing. Also pictured - a GameELF (blue) and Neo-Geo with multi-cart. Not pictured: The Raspberry Pi. But they are about the size of the GameELF.

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Two cabinets so you have one vertical and one horizontal monitor, you see...

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Well, it's more old-school than most people like to go with these things, and also not the authentic Space Invaders restoration that would please a true nerd, but I like them.

Each cabinet has a cheap wireless keyboard sitting on top. These are able to connect to the Raspberry Pi inside the cabinet in case you need to mess with settings etc.

Is that Raiden II on the machine to the right?

DoDonPachi - check it out.

It can be Raiden II though... well, actually you know what, Raiden II seems to run a bit slow on the Pi. Might need to upgrade to a Pi4 to run that one properly... but I'm thinking of upgrading from emulator to FPGA at some point.

Regarding all of those classic late-eighties to mid-nineties arcade games....I find it hard to believe no one has released an official "Classic Edition"-type console with a three or four dozen of those titles on it. Unless someone has and it's somehow escaped me...? Seems like there'd be a big market for people to play the arcade versions of Super Sprint, Super Off-Road, Rampage, the Double Dragon and Golden Axe games, 720, Paperboy, The Simpsons, the TMNT games and so on, at home. It seems they'll put out arcade-style all-in-one consoles with one or maybe a handful of titles in them, but not many of them in one place. I mean, yeah, those Raspberry Pi things have been around a while, but you'd think there'd be a sanctioned commercial version.

I think it's just a licensing thing, they can make a lot more by just putting 2-3 on each game. BTW, I did get the Simpsons one, will report back tomorrow on how it plays.

BrendanK wrote: I think it's just a licensing thing, they can make a lot more by just putting 2-3 on each game.

This may well be.

DaveA wrote: Thu Jun 09, 2022 1:36 am Seems like there'd be a big market for people to play the arcade versions of Super Sprint, Super Off-Road, Rampage, the Double Dragon and Golden Axe games, 720, Paperboy, The Simpsons, the TMNT games and so on, at home.

A lot of different companies, a lot of different licenses (just clearing the Simpsons for use took some work I guess, and a cut of the profits I'm sure). There have been some "mini" arcade machines released, like the Taito Egret II Mini. They tend to have collections of games specific to one manufacturer.

Plus there's a fair few different control schemes on that list as well. Super Off Road requires three steering wheels to do it properly... cabinets that try to accommodate every control scheme at once risk looking like The Contrabulous Fabtraption of Professor Horatio Hufnagel.

Brendan's Simpsons machine has a rather unusual combination of 4 player sticks + a trackball.

I guess I would be wondering about getting some more 3 and 4 player games on there, like TMNT, Gauntlet, Rampage etc, and I suppose some trackball games like Marble Madness or Missile Command? I've never had a trackball controller. Or three friends who want to hang out playing video games.

Had a little time to play on the Simpsons machine last night - overall the cabinet is pretty nice, but if you're paying attention you can tell it's 500$ if you know what I mean. But it looks nice, the controls are responsive and the screen and sound are all as I remember.

I guess I'm not surprised, but it's funny to me that I could spend a whole afternoon pumping quarters into the main game when I was a kid - I played for 20 minutes, and it's so repetitive. But it is fun and funny, and I'm looking forward to playing it through with the kids (my kids are probably more excited for it than I am.)

I wouldn't have bought it if not for the Simpsons bowling, and honestly I think that is the more fun of the 2 games. I played a couple games after a difficult early morning meeting, and it was a perfect palate cleanser.

Anthony Flack wrote: Thu Jun 09, 2022 12:15 am DoDonPachi - check it out.

It can be Raiden II though... well, actually you know what, Raiden II seems to run a bit slow on the Pi. Might need to upgrade to a Pi4 to run that one properly... but I'm thinking of upgrading from emulator to FPGA at some point.

Yeah, I need to find this. "Bonus!"

BrendanK wrote: Fri Jun 10, 2022 8:27 am I wouldn't have bought it if not for the Simpsons bowling, and honestly I think that is the more fun of the 2 games. I played a couple games after a difficult early morning meeting, and it was a perfect palate cleanser.

Nice. I've never played that one. Bowling games can be surprisingly fun - as can golf games.

Konami's brawlers like Simpsons and TMNT are beautiful, but shallow. Quite basic button mashers, with great art. Probably both are much better with four players. I like them, and they both make good use of their respective licenses (the Simpsons game has Binky and Bongo in it!) but I don't feel like there's a whole lot of technique to master. As far as brawlers go, the late Capcom ones are my favourites - The Punisher, Alien vs Predator etc. I've also been enjoying Streets of Rage 4 on the Switch recently.

An arcade cabinet makes for a great palette cleanser, a quick ten minute blast. That's the sort of games I gravitate to now because I don't have hours of spare time.