YoshiM
05-10-2004, 05:30 PM
We've heard of people who mastered the Rubik's Cube with their hands try solving satan's puzzle by using their feet for the extra challenge. Game companies for years have offered up different controllers to give you easier ways to play (more comfortable or a controller with turbo buttons) to completely different ways to approach your games (Power Glove, U-Force, and a funky one handed joystick come to mind). So I'm wondering, did any of you do anything different to change the way you play?
Did any of you ever do anything to change the way you played your favorite games? Tried to play Super Mario Bros. with your feet and a NES control pad? Hooked your Atari VCS to a quadraphonic stereo? Built a special gaming chair with everything you need to get your game on(extra cushion, head phone jacks, snack compartment, optional portable toilet)?
To start this off:
YoshiM's Home NES arcade cabinet.
I saw an ad for a buy-and-build-yourself arcade cabinet in a Game Player's Nintendo Buyers Guide (if I'm not mistaken) and thought that was pretty cool. Arcade sticks, a place for your NES, place for a small TV. Well, I didn't have the money for such a thing but I attempted to build my own...sorta. I was friends with the local arcade owner and he was able to snag an empty arcade cab for cheap (like $10 or $20). With help I hauled the sucker upstairs to my family's apartment and it lived in my room. There was a small shelf where the coin collector was so I could set my NES there. I then strung up the wires to where the original control console would be and put my NES Advantage there. In the middle of the cab I put a stack of greenbar printer paper boxes and set an old black and white TV there (all I had at the time). Drew up a new marquee and I was set. Not the best job but still it was neat.
YoshiM's Speaker Chair.
My TV had a crappy speaker and my office chair wasn't the best for gaming (had a stupid screw that would poke you in the right cheek if you leaned back). I decided to build a "speaker chair". I took an existing chair that pretty much sat on bent metal piping. I took the chair back off and slid two other pipes over each bar the back attached to the pipes reached the bend where the pipe frame bent. I then took a car speaker and mounted it into a heavy duty cardboard box and ran lamp wire out the side, wire nutting the ends to a headphone plug which then ran into the headphone jack on the TV. I cut two holes in the box to slip over the two mounting pipes I just put on and there ya go, speaker chair. Actually sounded pretty good, even if it was in mono. I used that chair for a while until I got a 20" color TV.
Did any of you ever do anything to change the way you played your favorite games? Tried to play Super Mario Bros. with your feet and a NES control pad? Hooked your Atari VCS to a quadraphonic stereo? Built a special gaming chair with everything you need to get your game on(extra cushion, head phone jacks, snack compartment, optional portable toilet)?
To start this off:
YoshiM's Home NES arcade cabinet.
I saw an ad for a buy-and-build-yourself arcade cabinet in a Game Player's Nintendo Buyers Guide (if I'm not mistaken) and thought that was pretty cool. Arcade sticks, a place for your NES, place for a small TV. Well, I didn't have the money for such a thing but I attempted to build my own...sorta. I was friends with the local arcade owner and he was able to snag an empty arcade cab for cheap (like $10 or $20). With help I hauled the sucker upstairs to my family's apartment and it lived in my room. There was a small shelf where the coin collector was so I could set my NES there. I then strung up the wires to where the original control console would be and put my NES Advantage there. In the middle of the cab I put a stack of greenbar printer paper boxes and set an old black and white TV there (all I had at the time). Drew up a new marquee and I was set. Not the best job but still it was neat.
YoshiM's Speaker Chair.
My TV had a crappy speaker and my office chair wasn't the best for gaming (had a stupid screw that would poke you in the right cheek if you leaned back). I decided to build a "speaker chair". I took an existing chair that pretty much sat on bent metal piping. I took the chair back off and slid two other pipes over each bar the back attached to the pipes reached the bend where the pipe frame bent. I then took a car speaker and mounted it into a heavy duty cardboard box and ran lamp wire out the side, wire nutting the ends to a headphone plug which then ran into the headphone jack on the TV. I cut two holes in the box to slip over the two mounting pipes I just put on and there ya go, speaker chair. Actually sounded pretty good, even if it was in mono. I used that chair for a while until I got a 20" color TV.