My rant...multi-bootlegs

[cadillacman]

I don't usually make posts just to complain about something but I will make an exception for this.

I love arcade games. To me, there is nothing better than playing any dedicated, all original arcade game. It doesn't matter the game. I'll play anything once..even sports games (something I cannot say about my console games). If I had the means, I would buy all of my favorite classic games for my game room and then have a storage facility made so I can buy every copy of those games so people cannot get to them and ruin them.

I am talking about those damn 60-in-1 games. If you pull out the working, original wiring, pcb, and monitor from an original Ms. Pac-Man, Galaga, Frogger, Space Invaders, etc. and replace it with a jammatized, bootleg, LCD wearing, modern piece of crap I want to come over to your house and slap the nostalgia back into you.

I understand that people want as many games in as little space as possible but I think people lose track of the fun and are too focused on the money.

I don't think that if you have a fully restored and repainted dedicated cab that you can justify the blasphemies you are committing to the arcade community. The cab that BurgerTime came in wasn't meant to be painstakingly restored just to be all fake on the inside.

If you have to make a multi-boot, use something that won't be missed. There are so many generic, cookie-cutter cabs out there that can be used and you can put whatever graphics on it that you want.

Sorry if anyone here is offended by my statements as there are a lot of multi-boots for sale here. This is just my opinion.

i have multi'd:

a unrepairable dynamo solitare challenge
a GUTTED emptY JAMMATIZED and formerly converted converted( thats twice) galaxian cocktail. Looked like ms pac when done
a gutted swelled chinese GENERIC bootleg upright game

in all three cases the multi was the only real way to save these JUNK cabinets. They would have been in the landfill otherwise.


Multis are awesome for that.

there are several instances where doing a multi thing is not only more cost effective but the only way to save an otherwise JUNk game.

However killing an original complete classic like donkey kong ms pac etc is just sacrelige imhonot see a problem running a multi in an original cab IF its been adapted properly( used adapter versus changing over the harness)