Michael Roma
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NOT ME!!!
I am looking for an AD and stumbled across this guys blog about wanting to MAME (or maim if you will) it. I found a particular paragraph (see below) interesting with his take on the arcade collecting community...
That forum (coinopspace.org but could have easily been KLOV), it turns out, is one of those self-selecting, self-reinforcing zealotry hotbed communities, where their holy crusade is that original coin-op games are sacred and must be preserved in their original form. Many of these guys (and I'm fairly sure that is not a generic gender usage, I haven't seen any sign of any females there) have a dozen or more arcade games in their garages, and spend more time on repair, refurbishment, and restoration than playing them. They treat the idea of building a MAME system inside a real arcade game cabinet like I'm proposing painting poker-playing dogs at the Last Supper. It's hard to exaggerate their fervor for comic effect without them topping the exaggerated fervor with the real stuff. I wonder if one day there will be people scrounging parts to preserve original iPhones with their original software, and howling at people that use them as kitschy retro cases for their personal supercomputers.
The rest can be read here... http://hawthornthistleberry.blogspot.com/2009/11/asteroids-deluxe-repair.html
- Mike
I am looking for an AD and stumbled across this guys blog about wanting to MAME (or maim if you will) it. I found a particular paragraph (see below) interesting with his take on the arcade collecting community...
That forum (coinopspace.org but could have easily been KLOV), it turns out, is one of those self-selecting, self-reinforcing zealotry hotbed communities, where their holy crusade is that original coin-op games are sacred and must be preserved in their original form. Many of these guys (and I'm fairly sure that is not a generic gender usage, I haven't seen any sign of any females there) have a dozen or more arcade games in their garages, and spend more time on repair, refurbishment, and restoration than playing them. They treat the idea of building a MAME system inside a real arcade game cabinet like I'm proposing painting poker-playing dogs at the Last Supper. It's hard to exaggerate their fervor for comic effect without them topping the exaggerated fervor with the real stuff. I wonder if one day there will be people scrounging parts to preserve original iPhones with their original software, and howling at people that use them as kitschy retro cases for their personal supercomputers.
The rest can be read here... http://hawthornthistleberry.blogspot.com/2009/11/asteroids-deluxe-repair.html
- Mike

