Originally Posted by
bb_hood
Yeah, Im sure this is what hes thinking of. The Gameroom Classics taito/snk cabinets.
Ive had 2 of these and I would say they really are not that great. 1st of all the are undersized which is the main problem. Playing anything 2 player will suck because you will be right next to 2nd player. The joystick kinda sucks, and on the first unit I bought I had to replace switches in the buttons. Not a big problem, only a few bucks to fix but the buttons are kinda cheap.
The PCB will work on other machines, its JAMMA and you can easily switch between the card with 20 taito games and the 6 snk/neo geo games, but without modification I dont think you can play other pcbs on the Gameroom classics machine. Ive tried and nothing works. So basically you have 20 taito games to choose from and 6 neo geo games if you want to use the arcade unit as it is. Also, the Taito card comes with Arkanoid and Arkanoid 2, and both are pretty much unplayable with the joystick. I love arkanoid and to find this out was a big disappointment.
Also if you are buying the Taito machine, it only comes with 2 buttons for each player. This is enough for the taito games, but some of the neo geo games require 3 or 4 buttons (metal slug 2, king of fighters 96 and samurai showdown).
So if you HAVE to have one of these machines I would look for the Neo Geo version. I would say at around 100-150 its a decent deal because they do look pretty cool but anymore than that is probably not worth it. After awhile they just take up too much space which is why I sold them.