Comment What about star wars, omega race, pole position? (Score 1) 152
Nothing nothing nothing replaces the real thing. Don't get me wrong - MAME is fun when I'm flying or stuck on the train, but then again I can only play keyboard-friendly games. Even with this console, the gameplay is radically different for any game that doesn't conform to (basically) the JAMMA standard.
When people *sit down* in my star wars machine, hold the *controller* and watch the vector graphics on a *low-resolution* 25" wells-gardner monitor, they see why MAME is LAME (don't take that the wrong way - you know what I mean ;) People that play in my arcade never feel quite the same about playing MAME versions of the game afterwards.
In my opinion people tend to fall into two camps - either they are into games and want to collect them and will play MAME on their PC (because it just wouldn't make sense to have a MAME arcade machine) or they are 100% MAME-based and don't want to get into the business of having a bunch of 250 lb. room-stealing boxes sitting around. The problem seems to be that once you get one game, you get the itch and fall into the former camp - thus giving you no reason to buy a product like this. I hope the people behind this product are doing it just for the love of gaming and not for profit as the market just isn't there... But that's just my opinion.
When people *sit down* in my star wars machine, hold the *controller* and watch the vector graphics on a *low-resolution* 25" wells-gardner monitor, they see why MAME is LAME (don't take that the wrong way - you know what I mean
In my opinion people tend to fall into two camps - either they are into games and want to collect them and will play MAME on their PC (because it just wouldn't make sense to have a MAME arcade machine) or they are 100% MAME-based and don't want to get into the business of having a bunch of 250 lb. room-stealing boxes sitting around. The problem seems to be that once you get one game, you get the itch and fall into the former camp - thus giving you no reason to buy a product like this. I hope the people behind this product are doing it just for the love of gaming and not for profit as the market just isn't there... But that's just my opinion.
