A cool news paper write up on arcade game

I have to ask. Do you ever worry about Namco knocking at your door? Seems like alot of members always bring up the legal issues with the multicades.
 
Dale in the video you're absolutely NOTHING like I pictured you to be. Not that it's a good or bad thing, lol just funny how people come across online different than they are in real life.
 
What does a beefed up processor look like?

I said the same thing. I love this line the best:


The most popular consoles are the $2,000 "multicades" where Mr. Levin's crew retrofits a vintage game cabinet with beefed up processor to play 60 classic games.
 
I said the same thing. I love this line the best:


The most popular consoles are the $2,000 "multicades" where Mr. Levin's crew retrofits a vintage game cabinet with beefed up processor to play 60 classic games.

Yeah when I read that line, I was like Hmmm... that's one way of putting it.
 
I thought this was the best line: the team had just finished working their pinball wizardry on a Mrs. Pacman game


I always figured Dale looked like the Monopoly guy. :)
 
Dale in the video you're absolutely NOTHING like I pictured you to be. Not that it's a good or bad thing, lol just funny how people come across online different than they are in real life.

+3. Hair parted down the middle, wow. :p And I also had no idea you have only been doing this for 5-6 years.

Sell me a lower Joust marquee bracket, pleeeeease? :D
 
... I always figured Dale looked like the Monopoly guy. :)

I thought more like Daddy Warbucks, myself...

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That's pretty cool.

It's not the baby boomers that are buying these though. About the only thing baby boomers had was pong. The rest is Gen X & Y.

Agreed. The classic arcade games were/are mainly a Generation X thing. The '60s is the decade most associated with the youth / teenager / young adult years of Baby Boomers, while it is the '80s for Generation X.

If you go with the definition of "Baby Boomer" which includes people born as late as '64 (1960 is a more usual cutoff date), then some of them would have been playing "Golden Age" games as a "kid" ('79 to '83), but just barely.
 
Wow very cool Dale but I'm with the masses .... you're asking to have Namco go straight up your ass. Publicly promoting illegal multi boards was a stupid move and could cost you your company and I wouldn;t wish that on anyone.
 
Very cool article, props on having such a succesfull business!

i have no IDEA why people would even mention selling 2000$ cabs with pirated boards.. holy crap. A 25 years old guy got 5 years a year or so ago for selling 20$ controllers with a built-in collection of nes titles that plugged straight to a tv. The dude was selling this in a mall stall.

When Nintendo discovered this product, they began taking strong legal action against importers and sellers of the consoles, and have obtained a temporary injunction against the import and sale of video game systems containing counterfeit versions of Nintendo games.

As of Spring 2005, NrTrade quit selling these products, however they still retain stock by other companies. These are still in production in China by Eittek but not massively distributed. On December 16, 2005, the FBI executed search warrants at two kiosks at the Mall of America and also searched storage facilities rented by Yonathan Cohen, 27, an owner of Perfect Deal LLC of Miami, Florida.[1] The consoles, purchased wholesale at $7 to $9 each, sold for $30 to $70 each.[2] After confiscating 1,800 units of Power Player, each containing 76 copyrighted video-game titles belonging primarily to Nintendo or its licensees, Cohen was charged in Minneapolis, Minnesota in January 2005 with federal criminal infringement of copyright for selling Power Player video games at kiosks at the Mall of America and other malls across the nation.[1] In April 2005, Cohen pleaded guilty to selling pirated video games.[2]

Nine days after Cohen's guilty plea, 40 FBI agents arrested four Chinese nationals working in an international piracy ring and seized 60,000 pirated Nintendo Power Player consoles in searches in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan and Maple Shade, New Jersey.[3][4]

In November 2005, Cohen was sentenced to five years in federal prison and required to run ads in mall magazines to tell the public how he illegally sold knockoff video games at Mall of America kiosks.[5]

Several shopping malls quit selling these products, though the product is still sold by other dealers (e.g. flea markets).
 
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Very cool article, props on having such a succesfull business!

i have no IDEA why people would even mention selling 2000$ cabs with pirated boards.. holy crap. A 25 years old guy got 5 years a year or so ago for selling 20$ controllers with a built-in collection of nes titles that plugged straight to a tv. The dude was selling this in a mall stall.

That's crazy. In any event, the OP needs to cross his fingers for luck or something, because that article was rather damning, and can't be undone. Mentioning how much the 60-in-1 "multicades" sell for ($2,000) and his yearly revenue ($700,000, looking toward $1,000,000), and that the "multicades" are the most popular (meaning they account for most of his revenue) = strong ammo against him. Those sort of numbers put the piracy in the "big time" category.
 
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