Office Arcade machine

In all seriousness it might be worth going to an arcade if you've got one nearby and seeing if you can have a word with someone about what kind of game is the most used all round? I'd expect different tastes between us computer enthusiast forum users and a diverse office.

I know when I used to live near The Four Thieves and went with my wife and her friends they'd find the skeeball critter racing game the easiest to dip into as opposed to say DDR or the weird table ice hockey they have there. Obviously a whole bank of competing skeeball tables isn't on the cards here but thought it was interesting what stood out to the non gamers.
 
petridish said:
In all seriousness it might be worth going to an arcade if you've got one nearby and seeing if you can have a word with someone about what kind of game is the most used all round? I'd expect different tastes between us computer enthusiast forum users and a diverse office.

I know when I used to live near The Four Thieves and went with my wife and her friends they'd find the skeeball critter racing game the easiest to dip into as opposed to say DDR or the weird table ice hockey they have there. Obviously a whole bank of competing skeeball tables isn't on the cards here but thought it was interesting what stood out to the non gamers.
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Thats a great idea! I have an Arcade club not too far away from me.
 
For £700 your pretty much looking at a mame cabinet like the 1up multi cabs.
Or a single gun for a raw thrills big buck hunter dlx or a small puck hopper motor for a pacman smash air hockey table. Money doesn't go far with arcade machines.
 
If you can find a cheap JAMMA* cabinet then you can buy cartridges with hundreds of games. I have a 1980s JAMMA cab with a Pandoras Box game pack, complete with original CRT monitor. I don't like LCD monitors in arcade machines as they just look fake, which they are really.

*JAMMA is like a generic arcade board edge connector standard that you could slide in and out of arcade machines to change the game.
 
Yeah i agree they look great quality i came across them a little while ago. I haven't used them myself as I built my own a few years back, well still got to finish it. I think there used to be a member on here (Or it might have been another forum i frequented) that used to build them using a original xbox to emulate all the consoles and have a fantastic looking menu etc.

They are not that hard to build and you can get prebuilt raspberry pi images with thousands of roms on but getting them to a decent quality without woodworking/diy skills is a bit of a chore (As i found out) and some of the multicoloured printed vinyl for the sides and other parts can be very expensive.
 
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Ghosts and Goblins for all the office lunatics. Gauntlet 2 for the co-op. Nothing funnier than the "IT" level when playing with other people.
 
Make sure there is no Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat... Its incredibly frustrating getting beaten by a button masher who hasnt a clue but has all the luck..
 
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