"Battle of the Arcades"

rknucklez

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Back in another lifetime, DigDig champ Ken House and I spoke of organizing this concept.
Aurcade founder David Hernley, John McAllister, and Ken were the pioneers of streaming cag WR attempts. IMHO.
Using the current technology and the tweaks these brainiacs developed we can organize a great cross country battle of the arcades without any of us leaving our local favorite hangout/basement arcade.

First we need to make a list of collectors with basement arcades (wanting to participate) large enough that we can play common titles. In addition to owning common titles one would need multiple webcams and enough bandwidth to upstream multiple feeds simultaneously.

The fun part is organizing your "team"
I boast that the great Steve Wagner is Team Richie Knucklez' team captain.

We envision passing around an engraved traveling Stanley Cup-esque trophy for the yearly victor.

Ideas?
 
Oregonarcade's place will most likely become the base camp for the west coast for competition against the east coast. He'll be in Salem, OR (mid-valley for the southern guys and Northern guys to meet half way). His cade plans to have around 75-80 vids and another 15-20 top tier pins. That's just on the floor, of course. He has another 100 or so he can bring in for specialized events.
 
Already I can see the West Coast Team:

1. Ken House
2. Bill Carlton
3. John McCallister

would be our team front runners for sure.
 
I'd be in...but I need some webcams and somehow who knows how to set up a stream!

Excellent! Post your game list and start building a roster. The emphasis will on fun vs. competition. This will make for some epic streams and new friendships.
 
Oregonarcade's place will most likely become the base camp for the west coast for competition against the east coast. He'll be in Salem, OR (mid-valley for the southern guys and Northern guys to meet half way). His cade plans to have around 75-80 vids and another 15-20 top tier pins. That's just on the floor, of course. He has another 100 or so he can bring in for specialized events.

Goz, talk to Ken, darryl, etc... Compile a game list so we can all start figuring out what games the participating parties share.
 
Game list? That's funny Richie. I am sure between us west coast guys there will not be a problem to match what ever. But Sean can get you a good list.
 
Game list? That's funny Richie. I am sure between us west coast guys there will not be a problem to match what ever. But Sean can get you a good list.

Its just that I am not familiar where the games are currently sitting?
There are so many of you west coast teamsters.
Are some at Kens, some at Seans, some at Chris's, Bills, johns, ? The list goes on
Wouldn't Expect you guys to trek dozens of titles around.
 
This seems like a great idea! I would definitely be interested in being a part of an east coast group if this happens!
 
...Wouldn't Expect you guys to trek dozens of titles around.

I don't have the big trailer but I am usually a helper... us Oregon guys are always taking something somewhere.

"Portland Arcade Collectors: Always trekking dozens of titles around somewhere.™"
 
If Someone with the time and web developing skills could volunteer to put together a quick site categorized by
Arcade/game room, Location, Game list, team captain,
That way interested people could starting signing up to be on said's team.

Our team is booked solid

Team Knucklez' Roster

Steve Wagner (team captain)
Myself
Ed the Killscreen
George Leutz
Mike (the bouncer) Vacca
Hank Chien
Ben Falls
 
Holy shit I got picked first for something?!? Hey ma!

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And.....back to my PF Chang's frozen meal.....

As per usual, just tell me where I have to be and what I'm supposed to play....

Kenny -- Tell Johnny I said hi and that my offer still stands of fusing our output together for donation to create the uber-baby, provided a mortal woman could carry it of course.
 
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Actually if you simply add your collections to Aurcade, you can share the URL for your profile. Plus the multi-stream setup on Aurcade was built just for the multi-site competitions that Ken had set up before.

Aurcade already supports mutli-site tournament scoring, and the credit for that goes to Ken as Richie had mentioned.

Here is my collection/profile:
http://www.aurcade.com/members/member.aspx?id=1
 
That's a fantastic idea. I definitely think the trophy should be Stanley Cup-esque. Imagine this:
stanley_cup.jpg


....but in the shape of an arcade cab. I'd make it similar to the dimensions of the actual Stanley cup itself. Height 35-1/4 inches,Diameter is 11-1/4 Circumference 35 inches. Now THAT would be a trophy worth winning!
 
Back in another lifetime, DigDig champ Ken House and I spoke of organizing this concept.
Aurcade founder David Hernley, John McAllister, and Ken were the pioneers of streaming cag WR attempts. IMHO.
Using the current technology and the tweaks these brainiacs developed we can organize a great cross country battle of the arcades without any of us leaving our local favorite hangout/basement arcade.

First we need to make a list of collectors with basement arcades (wanting to participate) large enough that we can play common titles. In addition to owning common titles one would need multiple webcams and enough bandwidth to upstream multiple feeds simultaneously.

The fun part is organizing your "team"
I boast that the great Steve Wagner is Team Richie Knucklez' team captain.

We envision passing around an engraved traveling Stanley Cup-esque trophy for the yearly victor.

Ideas?

Very cool idea...I wish I had enough classics in my collection to offer up to the Ohio crowd...Definitely can't wait to see this thing come to fruition though :001_shappy:
 
Maybe rather than passing a trophy, you can pass something like this around:

pacman-car-front-side.jpg


Though I think a 1982 Donkey Kong K-Car would be more fitting...
Imagine this thing all "Konged up":
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That's a fantastic idea. I definitely think the trophy should be Stanley Cup-esque. Imagine this:
stanley_cup.jpg


....but in the shape of an arcade cab. I'd make it similar to the dimensions of the actual Stanley cup itself. Height 35-1/4 inches,Diameter is 11-1/4 Circumference 35 inches. Now THAT would be a trophy worth winning!

I'd definitely pitch in a couple bucks in the pool to have it built. Would love to see it changing hands when one team defeats the other. I had a smaller scale version of this going on at my SF2 tourneys. The defending champ had the Title Belt (which was just a UFC belt from Walmart) and he had to defend his title. If he lost the tourney, it went to new hands.

Even before that, we held the old SF2 tourneys at my ghetto little apartment. I kept a poster mounted on the wall of the champions. I remember one month I had 21 or 22 people (not all playing, but most were) crammed into this little one-bedroom apartment just to play the single SF2 cab. $5 buy in. One guy took home the $80 dollarish prize.

Good times. Worked best while I "DJ'ed" the event. I got everyone hyped up, especially during the end match. It was tradition to play Conan the Barbarian Soundtrack during the match. LOL.
 
I'd definitely pitch in a couple bucks in the pool to have it built. Would love to see it changing hands when one team defeats the other.

Same here...I keep trying to think of how best you could accomplish something like that.
A 1/10 scale chromed Pac-Man cab with a Stanley Cupesque bowl on top?

...or perhaps a replica of the Stanley Cup itself with the center 3 tiers replaced by a chrome balltop joystick and the "cup" balanced on top?

Def going to require some thought, but like Goz, I'd be willing to chip in funds to see it made a reality :)
 
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