Arcade cabinet aquarium?

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Maybe this has already been posted but I hadn't seen it. So for the benefit of others:

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http://www.tomtilley.net/projects/fish-tank/


Found while searching for something else. Ah, serendipity...

EDIT: Watch the shredded Asteroids video on the page at risk of mental injury. What a waste.
 
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I can believe someone thought of it but I cannot believe that no one put a stop to it before construction began. This is one of the worst ideas I've ever seen and I'd put a Star Wars phone chair in every room in my house before I'd ever take in this monstrosity.
 
I can believe someone thought of it but I cannot believe that no one put a stop to it before construction began. This is one of the worst ideas I've ever seen and I'd put a Star Wars phone chair in every room in my house before I'd ever take in this monstrosity.

Apparently someone bought it to restore after a tenant removed the aquarium and tried to grow marijuana with the lighting. I guess they were trying to grow weed in the cabinet. :D

That is funny.

Maybe someone here actually restored the cabinet. It was sold on ebay in 2006.
 
It's a lot of wood, for a relatively small fishtank...
 
Y'know, if you had one of those robotic fish...

...and put a little XBee wireless module in the robofish, and used it to control some servos...

...and you hooked up the wirless module's controller to the control panel...

...and you threw the robofish into the populated aquarium...

...with some fish food stuck to the robofish's tail, so that the real fish would pursue you, unless you spun around to repel them with a tiny jet of water...

...and the game ends when your ship runs out of food and the fish stop chasing it...

...you'd have something that played pretty much like Asteroids, except that it would be in 3D, and would be about fish.

I'd pay $0.25 to play it. Fishteroids anyone?
 
Now I'd buy it if you could control the fish with the joystick and make them shoot lasers out of their mouths with the buttons.:D
 
Now I'd buy it if you could control the fish with the joystick and make them shoot lasers out of their mouths with the buttons.:D

Dr. Evil: You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads! Now evidently my cycloptic colleague informs me that that cannot be done. Ah, would you remind me what I pay you people for, honestly? Throw me a bone here! What do we have?
Number Two: Sea Bass.
Dr. Evil: [pause] Right.
Number Two: They're mutated sea bass.
Dr. Evil: Are they ill tempered?
Number Two: Absolutely.
Dr. Evil: Oh well, that's a start.


 
y'know, if you had one of those robotic fish...

...and put a little xbee wireless module in the robofish, and used it to control some servos...

...and you hooked up the wirless module's controller to the control panel...

...and you threw the robofish into the populated aquarium...

...with some fish food stuck to the robofish's tail, so that the real fish would pursue you, unless you spun around to repel them with a tiny jet of water...

...and the game ends when your ship runs out of food and the fish stop chasing it...

...you'd have something that played pretty much like asteroids, except that it would be in 3d, and would be about fish.

I'd pay $0.25 to play it. Fishteroids anyone?



step away from the beer
 
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