Longest without playing your games?

You only joined a month ago. The games will come. 1 at a time, then multiples, then you're buying by the truckload. Oh wait, that's how I started. 🤔😁
Lol can't wait for those days to come
 
Only have a few games now but restoring 2 more, a Double Dragon and MC. Every 3 weeks I fire them up. Asteroids once a week though as that is my Jam, only up to 100k otherwise I would be there all day. No saucer hunting and constant flying dodging rocks. Makes it more challenging.
 
I have multiple hobbies including console gaming collecting, board gaming, Sonic the Hedgehog collecting, and bodybuilding but even then, one or more of my games gets played regularly. Many games are on different breakers so three breakers are always off unless I turn them on. However, one of the breakers is always on because other things in the house near them are on it. So some games that have, say, a coin door interlock switch, I'll just close the coin door and they'll turn on like Missile Command or Centipede. Others have switches on the top left back like all my Williams row. Something gets played regularly. All my games get turned on in the full spectacle as often as I can.
 
Every other day my I am testing the next firmware on some sort of vector multi PCB . But if it was not for that it could be a month without actually playing something. A few times a year I will get stuck on a random game and play it everyday day for a week.
 
those of you that are going months even years without playing your games- what're you doing lol

I am having fun with my arcade collection. Even when it a pile of parts. I am one of those crazy people who will take an empty cab and build an arcade machine around it. I am currently rebuilding an arcade machine from just a marquee. Current project is a space wars. I see a projects and get motivated to create an arcade out of the ashes I have found.

I have run across too many people that view my collection as a way to make money. So I find selling my games extremely difficult.

So I lend out arcade machines to friends and family. They get the enjoyment of playing, I get the joy of restoration. I have lent my arcade machine to a buddy in my early years. Recently his child got married and is on baby number 2. My friend is moving and I thought I was going to get my arcade machines back. He ask if it was ok to lend them to his kid so that his grand kids will get the joy of being raised with arcade machines.. I said only if his daughter in-law want them in thier house.

So it looks like these machines are going to be joy to another family.

This is my solution of making sure these old arcade machines get the attention they and play time they need.

So even tho it been a decade or two that I have not played on my arcade machine. I know it being well taken care l of.
 
I am having fun with my arcade collection. Even when it a pile of parts. I am one of those crazy people who will take an empty cab and build an arcade machine around it. I am currently rebuilding an arcade machine from just a marquee. Current project is a space wars. I see a projects and get motivated to create an arcade out of the ashes I have found.

I have run across too many people that view my collection as a way to make money. So I find selling my games extremely difficult.
Same here haha
My Sega Pulsar was built out of a control panel and hopes and dreams.

I'm sure I have a lot of games worth decent money in my collection, but I won't sell them ever. I will never get them back if I do.
Part of the fun is definitely restoring though.
 
I don't really play them a whole lot unless I have friends over. To me they're just more fun to play with other people than to play by myself. Most of my friends live out of town though so they do tend to sit a little while between visits unless I just decided I want to play a game of pinball or something. The pinball machines and the jukebox probably get the most play out of them all
 
I've gone full circle and I'm back to playing Bubble Bobble on the PS2. Except this time I'm not dreaming of what it would be like to own an arcade machine.
 
Maybe a couple of weeks, but that's only because i end up play testing Spy Hunter pcbs in my cab on the regular, other than that, less than a year, i always fire up 720° on 7-20. Recently i've been playing Race Drivin almost every day.
 
There's at least one game i can't afford to not turn on and play at least once every few weeks and that's Daytona USA. Leave it for too long and the next time you turn it on somethings not bloody working..sound, drive board, game board. I can leave games like Super Sprint turned off for ages and they are fine but the ole' Daytona HATES it :(
 
There's at least one game i can't afford to not turn on and play at least once every few weeks and that's Daytona USA. Leave it for too long and the next time you turn it on somethings not bloody working..sound, drive board, game board. I can leave games like Super Sprint turned off for ages and they are fine but the ole' Daytona HATES it :(
I do the same with my Virtua Racing, but I view it more as a way to know about and possibly fix issues in advance if possible, rather than finding out about it when there's some other reason to have the gameroom fired up!
 
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