Cinematronics, or Vectorbeam (Poll Test)

Cinematronics, or Vectorbeam?


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Cinematronics? or Vectorbeam?
 
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I prefer vectorbeam, because I love how the genius that came up with the cinematronics system basically just started his own company with the same system and made money off both ends. Plus they're more rare.

Of course there's room for both, but I think the vectorbeam stuff is more cool.
 
I prefer vectorbeam, because I love how the genius that came up with the cinematronics system basically just started his own company with the same system and made money off both ends. Plus they're more rare.

Of course there's room for both, but I think the vectorbeam stuff is more cool.

Cinematronics wins by 1st round knockout in comparison.

if you go by just the vectors, you sort of have to toss out space wars as they are both served that up. But I would give space wars to vectorbeam as its the better cab.

vectorbeam has barrier, warrior and speed freak. All 3 are at best broken games. Granted, barrier and especially warrior have great cabinet art.

cinematronics has ripoff, star castle, armor attack, solar quest, tail gunner, sundance, boxing bugs, star hawk, and war of the worlds. Most of which are good to great games.

but then you have to add raster to cinematronics side, dragons lair, space ace, world series and a few others.
 
Vectorbeam all the way.

I think it is actually the arcade snobbiest of all arcade manufacturers.

Every single game they made was a vector and none of them are easy to find. None of them (fun or not) are the kind of titles that anyone would be embarrassed to put in a high end game room.

Sure, Cinematronics had some better games, but the Cinematronics catalog is also weighed down heavily by the fact that half their catalog is terrible (basically all the raster games that aren't laserdisc).
 
Vectorbeam all the way.

I think it is actually the arcade snobbiest of all arcade manufacturers.

Every single game they made was a vector and none of them are easy to find. None of them (fun or not) are the kind of titles that anyone would be embarrassed to put in a high end game room.

Sure, Cinematronics had some better games, but the Cinematronics catalog is also weighed down heavily by the fact that half their catalog is terrible (basically all the raster games that aren't laserdisc).

Really? I would be embarrassed to have barrier working in my game room. It would be better to have it turned off or with a fish tank in it.. Possibly one of the worst games ever made.
 
Cinematronics wins by 1st round knockout in comparison.
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cinematronics has ripoff, star castle, armor attack, solar quest, tail gunner, sundance, boxing bugs, star hawk, and war of the worlds. Most of which are good to great games.

but then you have to add raster to cinematronics side, dragons lair, space ace, world series and a few others.


+1 CORRECT IN EVERY WAY, MR. Bill
 
Really? I would be embarrassed to have barrier working in my game room. It would be better to have it turned off or with a fish tank in it.. Possibly one of the worst games ever made.

Yet if you listed a Barrier for sale here it would be getting big money offers in no time at all. While Cinematronics has around 15 titles in their catalog that would take 6 months of constant listing just to get $200 for.
 
Yet if you listed a Barrier for sale here it would be getting big money offers in no time at all. While Cinematronics has around 15 titles in their catalog that would take 6 months of constant listing just to get $200 for.


I sold my barrier for $500 about 8 years ago and I was very happy to get that for it. I might even know where another one is, and its not worth the effort to go get it. Now if your saying barrier is a $1500+ game now, then I would make an effort to grab it. Other than its 23" monitor that's a good donor for sundance, and nice cabinet art, its a horrible game.

The only vectorbeam game worth money is warrior. It looks cool, but if you played one, you would realize how broken/bad of a game it is. Why people pay for it, is beyond me.

As for cinematronics, you tell me what game your having trouble getting $200 for? Star hawk is the worst of the bunch and its still better than all the vectorbeams. whats interesting to me, is that you have zero cinematronics/vectorbeam stuff..
 
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I used to have a Vectorbeam Space Wars.

The only 2 Cinematronics games I have owned was a Jack the Giant Killer cocktail and a Naughty Boy upright. There was no line to buy either one of them. Sold one for space a long time ago and traded the other one (which was MINT) for a beat up Ms. Pac.

Other Cinematronics titles that no one seems to care about are Zzyzzyzzyxx, Freeze, Brix, and all 9 games on the Cinemat System.

So while Cinematronics had more hits, it also has a bunch of filler on almost nobody's want list dragging it down.
 
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I used to have a Vectorbeam Space Wars.

The only 2 Cinematronics games I have owned was a Jack the Giant Killer cocktail and a Naughty Boy upright. There was no line to buy either one of them. Sold one for space a long time ago and traded the other one (which was MINT) for a beat up Ms. Pac.

Other Cinematronics titles that no one seems to care about are Zzyzzyzzyxx, Freeze, Brix, and all 9 games on the Cinemat System.

So while Cinematronics had more hits, it also has a bunch of filler on almost nobody's want list dragging it down.

ok, I see your piling in the trash cinematronics to justify your point. I was talking vectors only. That's fine. I would give you that those games are pretty worthless. why would you buy any of them? The only not vector worth owning is DL, SA and world series.

but even if add all those worthless games in, cinematronics is still batting 50%. now compare it to vectorbeam and its an 0 for 3. 1 for 4 if you count space wars, but as I said, both companies sold it so its a pass on that one.
 
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