keithlee
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If done right... whatever it costs.
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Forget the jig, just put a lcd touch screen on the control panel that allows you to move the buttons to where you want them. this way every game you switch to can change the control panel digitally.
Yeh, the marquee could be programmed to:
- display standard marquee image for selected game
- display animated marquee image for selected game
- display either static or animated marquee name - MULTI-VECTOR (or whatever user wants) when no game is selected
- pay tribute to the BATTLEZONE MYSTERY HOLES and the marquee would act as a second display repeating the action on the main vector monitor
Lots of options ... LOL
That's ridiculous. There are so many passionate and talented guys out there (Believe me, I have been talking and working with them for several years) that Vector Games on actual Vector Monitors will be working just fine 30+ years from now, just as they have for the last 30 years.
There's always a work-around, and fix for any technical problem you can think of.
ArcadeJason has shown us how yokes can be wound and applied to CRT's (there are MILLIONS and MILLIONS of CRT's), there are guys who produce new X-Y kits (I just bought one myself last month).
Where there's a will there's always a way, especially when it comes to talented, motivate hobbyists. You should know that.
PS. EM Pinball machines are perfectly repairable today. And classic video games (like Vector Games) are SO MUCH more popular today, even with people who did not grow up in the day. Look at all the retro related themes in modern pop-culture that are video game related. EM Pinball never got to that status. I just watched Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and there's a hilarious scene were a character turns into a gigantic Pac-Man. You would never have seen a reference to an EM Pinball game... but you certainly see them all over the place with respect to Retro Video games. It's a totally unfair comparison to equate EM Pinball to Classic Arcade Video Games.
Many of the tech guys who are totally into classic video games are much younger than I am. They didn't even grow up in the Golden Age of video games, yet they still love the hobby. Why is that?
It's because Classic Video Games are permanently ingrained into American Culture, the way movies of the past (Like Wizard of Oz or Ghostbusters) are. Do you think families won't be watching Wizard of Oz 15 or 20 years from now? Of course they will. And that movie will be 100 years old in 20 years! Certain very special forms of pop-culture entertainment are timeless. Classic Video Games are like that. Every generation to follow us will love and enjoy classic video games to some extent (the way Monopoly is still played, and movies that will be 100 years old are watched).
EM Pinball Machines and Neon signs never achieved that kind of popularity or status in the culture. That's why it's a bad comparison, in my opinion.
WOW!I actually have a fully functioning Multi-Vector, using a 25" Amplifone Vector Monitor (all original HV/ Fly Back, Yoke, and Amplifone deflection board)
Ugh....housed inside a professional looking X-Arcade Cabinet.
....vector is such a small group, compared to raster classic games.
Yes they were mimicked like defender and stargate... It has a vector feel....
But vector guys are a small group... Like vectrex or whats it called.
I personally would not put my money towards games that parts are only skyrocketing.
Hell tempest may be the next big thing as most likely a ton are being parted to build all of these major havok reproductions
Which still are not worth what you guys are putting into them.
I mean come on... 4k no more no less...