ScumBum
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Who Plays games on a Super Gun ? Is it any fun playing arcade games on a TV sitting on the couch in your living room or bedroom ? Or is it kinda pointless if you already have a Jamma cab to swap boards in .
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If you have a cab, I would think it's pointless, depending on your setup. Though I thing SGs are a good alternative for those with little room for cabs. I was considering building one several years ago, but never got around to doing it. In the end it seems a bit too expensive to build when I already had a good JAMMA cab with enough buttons for just about everthing.
I did a Supergun once, just to do it. Though it was really more of an arcade machine crammed into a TV shell. I mounted an Electrohome G07 inside an old 19" TV case, had a power supply on the outside and a JAMMA harness with a hacked NES controller hooked up to it. It was totally ghetto but I could play JAMMA boards while sitting on my couch.
I Feel the same way , seems too expensive to build when you can buy a complete cab for the same price . And thats what keeps me from doing it .
Who Plays games on a Super Gun ? Is it any fun playing arcade games on a TV sitting on the couch in your living room or bedroom ? Or is it kinda pointless if you already have a Jamma cab to swap boards in .
Was it fun playing arcade games like that ? How good was the nes controller with 4-way games ?
I actually have a couple Sony Trinitron monitors that have RGB connection .
Yeah that's pretty much how I got into the hobby as well (hence my user nameSupergun is how this hobby all started out for me.
I built a supergun when I realized you could buy arcade pcbs. Bought my first PCB TMNT off ebay and the rest is history. It's a good place to start and learn from. Of course it turned into now buying, restoring, and collecting arcade machines.
I don't know if it makes much sense for people with a basement arcade, but it might be a good idea for guys who don't have games inside the house. It was pretty fun when that's all I had.
Superguns were really hot when the fighting game scene was still running tournaments on arcade hardware. Back then it was a lot more practical to just buy the PCB and practice off of a television set than to utilize the space for a full cabinet in someone's 1-bedroom apartment.
Now days...enh. I think they are useful, but just not in the same way. If I was down to a 1-bedroom apartment again today, I'd just get a candy cab, wire in a bunch of kick/aux harnesses and run my JAMMA boards off of that. What 1-bedroom apartment doesn't have at least one corner available for a candy cab?






