Bulls in the China-Cade?

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Have any of you guys experienced this? You know... visitors to your Cade that are unneccesarily brutal on the controls? Whether overly enthusiastic using the joysticks or insane button mashers.... what's a polite host to do? I feel kinda like a douche asking people to go easy on the games, but at the same time it kinda bothers me so I'm compelled to say something, heh. How do you guys handle this situation when it arises? Does this bother you also?

Tom
 
"I'm nice enough to treat you to my collection of games for free, so I expect you to treat them nicely as well."
 
I probably raise my voice a bit and say "hey, go easy on my games!" I have one friend who plays like a 5 year old with the strength of a grown may. One time I looked over to see my sinistar rocking side to side from how hard he was jerking the stick. Another time he played centipede so long and was so rough on the trackball that 3 or the 4 nuts that hold the trackball on had fallen off.
 
I took great care in restoring these machines so please be good to them, especially the artwork on them.
 
I've been known to slap down on a CP hard when i'm smacking a button but not in a bad way. Just kinda happens, I'm not trying to teach the machine a lesson.

I'd yell at people who were really getting brutal with a machine, there's no need to rock it or punch it or anything like that. (unless that's the nature of the game which there are few)

Tell them if they want to get rough with it they can buy it off you for an exuberant price.
 
have a mame cab or multicade and set them loose on that. joysticks are 8 bucks, buttons a buck or two. i spend more money than that on beer most nights when people come over. for the older games and pinball i tell people 'hey, this shit is old, treat it with some respect.'
 
Maybe A nice neon Sign.
Saying.

My Joysticks are not into BDSM

and a Riding crop hanging below the sign.

I sure most of the guys will get the message. If they don't a Little snap on the hand will remind them. Laughs.

Actually you don't have to have the sign. All you need to do is to joke with them and most will get the point.

Now If we can just get them to wash their hand before they play.
 
This thread has come up numerous times here. My original post is below, from 2008:

Not kids - but a few years ago I bought a brand new trackball (you know how much they cost) and placed it carefully in my wife's Centipede, then a mere 3 days later we had a get together at our house where a bunch of friends came by - and one of the other wives had a couple of drinks, played Centipede, got killed and started beating my new trackball with her fist. Not the CP - the TRACKBALL.

Some people would have handled it better than I did, I said "HEY!!!!" in a voice a lot louder than I knew I had - she jumped 3 feet straight up and looked around, and I said (A lot more quietly) "I just put a brand new track ball in that machine. Please be more careful."

Needless to say she apologized, claiming she "forgot that somebody owned the games.":004_smad:
 
At my daughter's birthday party a while back, I caught one of my friend's kids (he was 3 at the time) standing on the control panel of my Donkey Kong. I went back in the other room and said to my friend "You need to come in here." He swiftly dealt with the problem and it didn't happen again.

The same friend (they now have more kids) is coming over for my son's first birthday in a couple of weeks. You can be sure that I will be watching the games like a hawk as the offender from the last time is now 5 and much more adept at climbing on things.
 
A friend of a friend was over playing the Simpsons when I first got it, and I heard her beating on the buttons from upstairs. I about lost it, but fortunately someone else got to her before me.

Another time my buddy had his 2 year old over, and wasn't watching him. I was in the other part of my room, and all I heard was banging. I went over to see what was going on, and his kid was swinging the guns from my HOTD2 around by the cable, bashing them against each other and the cabinet. After that my left gun has intermittantly been failing.
 
A friend of mine seems to think it's necessary to throw darts at mach speed when playing on my Arachnid Super 6....yes I have 1000 replacement tips but damn.....relax.
 
This is an easy solution.

Don't have anyone over! Keep them in a museum like atmosphere so when they write your obituary, you can be known as the crazy old man with video games.

Or, just use a BB gun.

Either way.....
 
Have any of you guys experienced this? You know... visitors to your Cade that are unneccesarily brutal on the controls? Whether overly enthusiastic using the joysticks or insane button mashers.... what's a polite host to do? I feel kinda like a douche asking people to go easy on the games, but at the same time it kinda bothers me so I'm compelled to say something, heh. How do you guys handle this situation when it arises? Does this bother you also?

Tom


My gut says "REACH OUT AND SMACK THE LITTLE SH..." (as it's usually a kid). My head says "DUDE... THIS IS A COMMERCIAL MACHINE MADE TO WITHSTAND THE BRUTALITY OF "THE FIELD"... and I usually walk away only semi-satisfied having wanted to back-sla...er...

Naw man... the machines are made to be played. Short of absolute destructive behavior... I try to ignore the joystick/button brutality. Plus, say one breaks... what's a new stick cost? $10-$12? What's a new button cost? A buck or two?
 
heheh unfortunately some of the joysticks I stress over would be difficult to replace... at least the NOS unique controllers would be. I don't worry too much about wico's or buttons because they are still out there if I need another.. games like assault, bz, qbert and sinistar have unique controllers that for some reason draws brutality like flies, heheh. Its not a single individual. I cringe when a game is rocking back and forth, or see other games receiving similar rough treatment. I doubt it's intentional. I've made comments in the past like "hey go easy on those" and even explain the games don't need to be played hard to control your character, but it falls on deaf ears. heh. It almost makes want to unplug certain games and say theyre not workin lol.

Tom




Naw man... the machines are made to be played. Short of absolute destructive behavior... I try to ignore the joystick/button brutality. Plus, say one breaks... what's a new stick cost? $10-$12? What's a new button cost? A buck or two?
 
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Generally, people have been respectful to my games over the years.

Most of the time I catch someone setting sodas on top of the games, I sqash that idea real quick.

I did have a collector friend who would play Paperbay by slamming the handlebars forward and backward with all his body weight. he repairs and collects games, so I'm not sure why he was being so rough. I just told him to take it easy.

A few weeks ago with an adult birthday party someone's young kid kept raiding the candy machine and leaving chewed suckers on the steps and candy all over the place. i finally turned off the candy machine and told him it was staying off for the day. A few hours later, it was on and guess who was getting candy. I turned it off again and told him everyone was done for the day. An hour later it was on again, with this kid on it. I finally tilted out the machine, pulled the plug and pushed it back in so he couldn't get to it. I then had a good talking to with his mother. When I was cleaning up at the end of the day I found a fresh piece of chewed gum with little kid teeth marks in it stuck to the sides of one of my games. I'm taking a wild guess on which little turkey did that, but he already went home. Some peoples parenting skills are less than desired, if this kid was being watched in any way that day none of the above would have occurred.
 
I pretty much banned a buddy from playing 720 until the joystick was rebuilt (this was before the rebuild kits were readily available). I have also had a problem with him playing other games, but he got the idea when he was pretty much banned from 720.

Whenever friends bring their kids over, I usually encourage them to play the games with Wicos or other standard joysticks and hype up those games so they want to play them primarily. If it is going to be a kid fest, I may not even turn some sensitive games on like Tron or Wacko as they tend to want to pull the sticks in the most extreme positions possible...repeatedly. They are just kids and have no concept of potential issues (I have kids too), but if they are adults, they may get comments like (depending on the level of our friendship):

Gear down there big shifter
Slow down turbo
Be cool
What the f are you doing to that game
Are you f'ing kidding
Get the f out of here
You are now banned from playing that game
 
What's a new button cost? A buck or two?

Not an original orange DK button, and those guys are brittle. I have had to reprimand people for smacking it like a whack-a-mole. I guess they think if they hit it harder, they will jump higher.
 
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