Collector_Gaming
08-17-2011, 08:26 PM
I am not talking whats your favorite classic game.
I am asking whats your favorite arcade cabinet.
While on my last adventure at the famous Fun Spot arcade looking at their arcade museum of amazing classic arcade games. Its really neat to see such wonderful artwork and design and engineering involved to make these amazing works of art.
Sure to some random guy or gal you see a box with a TV in it and a joy stick and a series of buttons.
To me I see someone that sat down thinking long and hard in designing what would sell their game at a arcade in hopes of standing out from the rest
Good examples for me that I played this past weekend are as such
Battlezone
http://media.gamespy.com/columns/image/article/115/1151159/gamespys-top-50-arcade-games-of-all-time-20110223012248773.jpg
you'd put your coin in and you'd peer into a pair of goggles while you grip 2 joy sticks. The idea was to make you feel like you were actually in control of a real tank with controls being that you'd move the joy sticks together forward to move forward and back to move back and foward and back combo to steer giving it that ultimate realism feel.
http://www.emuparadise.me/MAME/cabinets/sharrier.png
Space Harrier. More specifically this style of cabinet
Where you'd have to sit down and be in control of the joy stick in a jet fighter style feel.
The whole machine moved with the control of the joy stick which was in a way ahead of its time at the time period.
Was actually surprised when I played this thing at not only the fact that it moves being such a old game but how responsive it was.
http://www.retiredguyonline.com/images/MC%20cabinet.jpg
missile command which was a cabinet that made you feel like you were in a goverment facility at the helm of control of a legion of missiles used to save the world from evil.
Whats your favorite cabinets?
I am asking whats your favorite arcade cabinet.
While on my last adventure at the famous Fun Spot arcade looking at their arcade museum of amazing classic arcade games. Its really neat to see such wonderful artwork and design and engineering involved to make these amazing works of art.
Sure to some random guy or gal you see a box with a TV in it and a joy stick and a series of buttons.
To me I see someone that sat down thinking long and hard in designing what would sell their game at a arcade in hopes of standing out from the rest
Good examples for me that I played this past weekend are as such
Battlezone
http://media.gamespy.com/columns/image/article/115/1151159/gamespys-top-50-arcade-games-of-all-time-20110223012248773.jpg
you'd put your coin in and you'd peer into a pair of goggles while you grip 2 joy sticks. The idea was to make you feel like you were actually in control of a real tank with controls being that you'd move the joy sticks together forward to move forward and back to move back and foward and back combo to steer giving it that ultimate realism feel.
http://www.emuparadise.me/MAME/cabinets/sharrier.png
Space Harrier. More specifically this style of cabinet
Where you'd have to sit down and be in control of the joy stick in a jet fighter style feel.
The whole machine moved with the control of the joy stick which was in a way ahead of its time at the time period.
Was actually surprised when I played this thing at not only the fact that it moves being such a old game but how responsive it was.
http://www.retiredguyonline.com/images/MC%20cabinet.jpg
missile command which was a cabinet that made you feel like you were in a goverment facility at the helm of control of a legion of missiles used to save the world from evil.
Whats your favorite cabinets?