Anybody else hate Candy Cabs?

[TOK]

Ugliest Cab?

Electrocoin?
Lordsvale?
Xenophobe?

Anyone?

Bally/Sente

 

[Paladin]

After years without having a MAME cabinet, I'm building a MAME rig to go into one of my candy cabs.

 

[gibbous]

For JAMMA swapping and MAME, I definitely DO NOT hate candy cabs.

 

[Les Manley]

Bally/Sente

God Hat Trick is ugly. I remember playing one on location at a Champps back in the day. Best part of the game is the marks you make on the ice when skating.

 

[TOK]

God Hat Trick is ugly. I remember playing one on location at a Champps back in the day. Best part of the game is the marks you make on the ice when skating.

If a cabinet could possibly bend over to take a shit, thats how it'd look doing it.

 

[TK_Monkey]

If a cabinet could possibly bend over to take a shit, thats how it'd look doing it.

Dammit, since you said that I started to see the little cab sticking it's neck out there straining as hard as it can and I can't stop laughing.

 

[gutsman004]

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(there are many forums aimed towards Candy Cabs in general, even) generally accept the classics as a legend instead of "outdated".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.

I understand the points you are making here,but honestly I think you care waaaay too much about this topic and are letting people get under your skin when they bash these cabs.


And no matter how much you sing the praises of candy cabs,if someone has made up their mind that candy cabs suck then you will not be able to change their mind...period.

And really who gives a damn what other people think about them anyway? You shouldn't. If you think candy cabs rock then that's all that should matter.

And as far as baseless badmouthing goes....you do know we're on an online forum,right?