Anyone ever put a game in your gameroom that you didn't really want??

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Anyone ever put a game in your gameroom that you didn't really want??

Not sure if anyone else has reached this point or not, but I have recently added Galaga to the line up, simply because I'm tired of getting the question, "Oh you have real arcade games in your basement?? Cool! Do you have Galaga?". The answer has always been no, which always made me mad for some reason. I've never been a huge fan of Galaga, so maybe that's why I took it personally. I get that it's one of the more popular classics, but I rarely get that question about Pacman or Donkey Kong, etc...

I recently bought out an Op's storage unit and picked up 3 Galagas, so one will remain in the gameroom, just so I can answer "Yes" to the most popular question that I get. :)

Just curious to see if this has happened to anyone else.
 
Yep. It's happened with Rampage and Arkanoid. I was asked about both of those on different occasions by the same 2 guys, found them, restored them, installed them and they sat there pretty much un-played. I've since sold both.
 
I've bought PCBs just because friends like the game back in the day.

Mostly side scrolling JAMMA beat 'em ups, that I then sold off later on (Double Dragon, Bad Dudes, etc.)
 
I just went through the very same dilemma this last week with Galaga. Thought I wanted one, have been asked about one, so I finally bought one. I ended up selling it this week because I know I wouldn't play it and it would just take up space. I know it is an icon, but just being able to say "yeah, i've got one" wasn't enough for me...
 
Sounds like it just come with the Galaga territory...lol

If a Galaga hadn't been in the bulk buy, I would still have to answer "No" to anyone that asked. Not a game that I would search out, but maybe it was meant to be since it was available. :p
 
Yes. I have an Arkanoid II: The Revenge of Doh in my arcade right now. The only reason it's in there is b/c the pizza place only has room for 7 games, and the owner has 8. Thus, this one sits here.

The game DOES get played from time to time, but not much.
 
Yep. Soul Edge (alternately running Soul Calibur, Tekken 3, or other ugly polygonal horse shit).

I can play a fighting game for about 10 minutes before I'm bored, but it gets a decent amount of play from others. Bought the cab because it was a deal sweetener for something else I wanted. I already have a horizontal MAME cab, so it's not even useful for a multi-game.
 
Personally, Arkanoid.

I loved the game on the Amiga, and it was one of two games I first got on the first day stumbling into the hobby in 2001 (on side of the road during cleanup week). However it was in a PacMan that I eventually converted back.

So since cabs proved to never show up around here from 2001 to 2003, I spent time at BYOAC and found close enough plans and pics to build a Centipede/Tempest/DigDug cabaret mini clone out of oak laminated MDF. Went through all that work, put Arkanoid in, and have never played it again in 10 years after building it.

However others play it all the time when they come over and it stays there taking up space and weiging more and deeper than all my other mini cabs (and heavier/deeper than even some of my regular cabs!)

Also, after many eBay purchases, I also have ARK, Tourn ARK, ARK 2: Revenge of Doh! as well as 3-4 variations of bootleg boards that I had at one point intended to put into the cab and use an old DB-25 switchbox (for printers) to select between them. Something else that never got done.


I think in the end it wasn't the game itself, but the addition of 20+ other, classic games, and then ArcadeSD's into the mix that skewed me away from it. But mainly I realized after all the time spent building the cab, I REALLY hate the monitor orientation in those Atari cabaret's and ideally think I will hopefully find an already converted Taito trimline mini (so as not to wreck something) and put it in one of those. I think a smaller screen would help the game.

So if I ever find or replicate that cab, perhaps it would be a perfect fit for Arkanoid and I'd actually play it again.
 
Die Hard, never played it before and never saw it until I looked up some Youtube vids, but the price was right and I wanted to get some kinda cooperative game. Plus I like the movie Die Hard so it was cool in that respect, even if it just got the Die Hard name to attract the American audience. :D
 
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I only add games that I like. I have had a lot of people ask if I had certain games, and sometimes I have had it. No one has actually played a game that they asked about more than a couple of times though. Now I just tell them I will let them know if I see one for sale. No one has actually bought one yet.
 
I only add games that I like. I have had a lot of people ask if I had certain games, and sometimes I have had it. No one has actually played a game that they asked about more than a couple of times though. Now I just tell them I will let them know if I see one for sale. No one has actually bought one yet.

I have both Vertical and Horizontal MAME cabs, so my answer is usually yes. There's a few with crazy controls that I can't emulate properly, but for the most part, I can launch damn near any game.
 
I added a Centipede because most of our female friends had requested it. I rarely played it back in the day, but now that it is in the game room, I've come around. Cool game, definitely has that 'just one more game' factor.

I've also put games in that I had acquired in group deals and was selling (Eswat, Gondomania, etc) so that folks could play them while they were here.
 
I have both Vertical and Horizontal MAME cabs, so my answer is usually yes. There's a few with crazy controls that I can't emulate properly, but for the most part, I can launch damn near any game.

I have a MAME cab as well, but I still have yet to have someone come back to play the game they asked about.
 
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