oyama82
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why not?fighting games are the dominant arcade game genre nowadays
Anybody else hate Candy Cabs?
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r2084
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While I don't think they're much to look at, I don't "hate" them. The dedicated and unique cabinets of previous games was part of their overall appeal and attraction, sort of like a flower calling out to bees. The candies kind of look like something you'd find on the near Earth station on Aliens or 2001, very clean and efficient. I wouldn't mind having one at all, even though it wouldn't match any of my other cabinets in the looks department.
xxstatic
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No, I don't hate them, I love them, just as I love classic cabs. Earlier this year I still had 6 of them, but unfortunately I had to downsize my candy colection to three, 2 x New Astro City and 1 x Egret 2 (with a try-sinc chassis). I think these cabs are great for (modern) SHMUP's, like all the Cave ones.
Here is a picture of a bunch of them standing in my living room. the picture is from last year when I organized a group buy.
How the hell do you play one of those if your over 6ft tall?
I'm sorry but they are way to low to the ground for my liking and have about as much style and personality as a bank ATM.
11strings
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haha... so true. You guys are clueless.
rcaido
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Have you ever heard of stools/chairs...Its wonderful invention...
Im pretty sure everyone here has a computer desk, think of it that way...You're pretty much eye level, just get the right chair for your setup.
I really dont see the difference between upright cabinets, except that candy cabinets dont have dedicated game artwork...
xxstatic
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Even with a stool my knees would be in chest sitting at one of those, doesn't look that comfortable, I'll take a bar stool over that seating arrangement.
sosage
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I'm 6'4 and I sit comfortably at mine. I've played on the middle unit of three, with a second player on my machine and the machine next to me with 2 people on it, crammed in a tool shed with 30+ other Street Fighter players and only felt uncomfortable trying to stand up...and that was only because...well...30 of us crammed in a tool shed.
If you don't like it, you don't like it. It isn't, however, like "trying to stick your dick in a Cheerio" - AVGN. Like someone else mentioned, it's like sitting at a small computer terminal.
MaximRecoil
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Am I the only one that can't play arcade games as well sitting down as I can standing up? I tried using a bar stool when I taped my Super Punch-Out Twin Gallaxies submission because I figured I'd be there for a while, but when the game started getting difficult I kicked it out of the way and stood up, because I couldn't play right sitting down.
With console games it doesn't matter, because the controller is handheld, not affixed to anything.
That is my opinion. At least it WAS until I stored one for a buddy. That little white washing machine looking cabinet with the crisp, HUGE monitor is actually winning me over.
Still think it looks like a washine machine though, LOL
Chris
This is actually my first time seeing one and, as Mr. Horse would say......
NO SIR, I DON'T LIKE IT.
rcaido
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I love Candy Cabs but that one is pretty ugly...
Here's a list of different candy cabs
http://hard--candy.com/
Here's a list of different candy cabs
http://hard--candy.com/
Les Manley
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Not to ressurrect an old thread, but I just came upon this and I have to agree that candy cabs, not to mention red tents too, are the ugliest cabs I have seen. I guess if you grew up with them over in Europe or something, but man, they look terribly cheap and ugly. I have zero desire to own either.
I dont like Candy Cab.
Candy Cab= Communism
Only PROS about CandyCab: Easy Clean due to metal cab
Candy Cab= Communism
Only PROS about CandyCab: Easy Clean due to metal cab
Scuba Steve
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I agree with you! Not a fan of red tents either.
norton9478
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Ugliest Cab?
Electrocoin?
Lordsvale?
Xenophobe?
Anyone?
Electrocoin?
Lordsvale?
Xenophobe?
Anyone?
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No "hate," but if someone gave me one, I'd sell it. 
Not a fan.
Mattosborn: That's a great idea, using one of the candy cabs for your son to sit on, while he plays the other one facing it!
Not a fan.Mattosborn: That's a great idea, using one of the candy cabs for your son to sit on, while he plays the other one facing it!
LyonsArcade
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The Capcom "Cute" is a cool one, but only because it's so... well.... cute.
MasterFygar
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Over here arcades are basically dead, over in Japan there are hordes of people lined up to pop a 100 yen coin into the 'newest communist toilet'. You can hate on it if you want too to sound cool or retro, but the fact of the matter is they hold up better than most dedicated cabs and a lot of them are better looking than a lot of our dedicated cabs. Over here when we needed to run a JAMMA game to make money we'd rip a classic up, paint it black and stick a board in the ruins of the legendary. Over there they'd just order a new toilet or freshen an existing one to run the new game. You old-skoolers can at least appreciate the fact it protected classics, right?
Also, if anyone has a working 'communist toilet' to throw out, I'll pay shipping to get it to my place
Also, if anyone has a working 'communist toilet' to throw out, I'll pay shipping to get it to my place
MaximRecoil
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MasterFygar
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My point was that gamers who grew up playing 80s games frequently show a deep disdain for these cabs (as shown by quite a few of the posts here) where members full of 90s arcade gamers (there are many forums aimed towards Candy Cabs in general, even) generally accept the classics as a legend instead of "outdated".
A lot of the more scathing posts here are about how Candy cabs suck because they are, quite frankly, different. It seems like a lot of people are unwilling to put themselves in context enough to see how important they were in gaming history. I can understand disliking their physical appearance--it is certainly an acquired taste--but slamming them overall because they just 'aren't cool like the classics', as seems to be a recurring theme here, just seems like baseless badmouthing.
Some candies are hideous. Some classics are also hideous. It's all a matter of taste, and I don't expect to change someone else's, but I think most should at least acknowledge their place in arcade history. If the candy, the 'generic swap it in and out' cabinet of Japan, had not been developed and incredibly profitable there, we might be without many of the great games we have today. Plus, many of the rarer classics still survive there because candies took the brunt of the conversions instead of poor Tempests, Ms Pacs, Neo Geos, etc.
I do not claim to be able to psychoanalyze successfully. I have made my points and I stand by them. I believe most who have read through this argument many times over the years can see why I felt it needed addressing. I'm not calling out specific members or even this board in particular... this topic has come up before across the web and often it goes over less civilly than it has here. I'm not trying to be overly critical of anyone in particular, but I feel representing the positive of the subject matter should be done. I apologize if my comments have offended any, I feel strongly about the matter and perhaps I let it show too much.
rcaido
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If the majority of peeps in KLOV hate it that's a better chance of us obtaining a candy cab. That's a good thing!
