Considering displaying Tron for Legacy Theatre

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Someone proposed opping a Tron at the local theatre, however I have to decline this as it just took too much to bring her back from the last public exhibition.
I'm considering displaying Tron operational, however, behind ropes as a display for the Movie opening in the theatre. No popcorn greasy fingers, soda spills, etched Lora+Bretts and such wanted after it's been restored to it's present condition.
This is an antique, museum peice and collector quality cabinet. I just don't see the sense in opening it to public abuse. Ropes with Do not touch signage.
Am I on par or being a fussie old man?
 
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The game was built to be played. It is one of the coolest looking cabs Midway ever built. It was made this way to draw you in to drop your quarter. I would say, let the public play it or leave it at home. What would be the purpose of displaying it? After all, it is just a game.
 
Do what you wish.If you don't want to bring it...don't.No one is twisting your arm. I totally understand not wanting to open it up to public abuse consider the amount of time and money you spent restoring it.I wouldn't take it either if I were in your shoes.I would bring it up there if it was a little beat up though.
 
dude keep it at home. fuck the public they will only fuck up what you worked hard on.
 
.....or, figure out a way to protect it so it can still be played. Like some of that sticky sided clear plastic stuff. Then peel it off when it's back home.
 
Keep it at home.

If you're really considering placing an arcade game behind a velvet rope...yeah. Keep it at home.
 
Your just asking for an issue to come up with your game. The public has no respect at all for your classic game. Plus, taking it from a home environment where it may be on a few hours a week back to real arcade conditions. Even if it's roped off and just turned on. I'm surprised you'd even consider it. Just MHO!
 
Keep it at home. Some one will be pissed that they can't play it and then throw their soda or popcorn at it in disgust.
 
If you want it behind ropes, its obviously too valuable to you for public display. Keep it home.
 
who would want to just "look at a machine"? These things were made to be played and enjoyed. It may be a "museum piece", only problem is 99.9% of the world would never care to see one in a museum.

i hope at home you & you guest at least get to play it, life is short, and these things are hardly money makers, you never know, in 10 years these machines could be worth nothing.
 
I spelled fussy wrong!
Yea, this is kind of going the same direction as when i asked a friend of mine, and another big Tron nut if I should do this. He said absolutely not. Then I came up with the velvet rope thing. But yea, your probably right, on all points. I've never run it every day all day and all night. That hadn't occured to me how it would react to that. And the throwing of soda or pop corn deliberately.
 
Someone proposed opping a Tron at the local theatre, however I have to decline this as it just took too much to bring her back from the last public exhibition.
I'm considering displaying Tron operational, however, behind ropes as a display for the Movie opening in the theatre. No popcorn greasy fingers, soda spills, etched Lora+Bretts and such wanted after it's been restored to it's present condition.
This is an antique, museum peice and collector quality cabinet. I just don't see the sense in opening it to public abuse. Ropes with Do not touch signage.
Am I on par or being a fussie old man?


You're being a fussie old woman.

The game was made to be played. If you've restored it to the point that it can't be played anymore, then you've destroyed it as bad as throwing it in a landfill.
 
You're being a fussie old woman.

The game was made to be played. If you've restored it to the point that it can't be played anymore, then you've destroyed it as bad as throwing it in a landfill.

Isn't that a touch over the top ? :) There's a world of difference between the current condition of a HUO game that lived in someone's house for 30 years and was played a lot by friends and family and one that lived in an arcade getting thousands of plays and sat in a warehouse for that time. Restored games people want them to stay looking nice and typical play in the home gameroom by friends and family aren't going to tear it back up as if it was in a public arcade again.

In this case, i'd just find a decent tron clean it up and let it fly in a theatre. No way i'd put a nice restored one out there just to come back to me tore up.
 
Im opping mine this fall at a theater.

Will be in the arcade with the rest of the games.... it was made to be played and it will get much love again
 
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