There was a pretty nice display for the movie set up at the Arclight theatre in El Segundo over the weekend. 4 Machines: 2 donkey kong cabinets - one converted DK set up to run wreck it ralph, a DK JR running the original donkey kong, a pacman and a VS mario bros cabinet in a generic dynamo looking thing. There was a little whiteboard in the middle where they kept track of your high score and the best score at the end of the week was supposed to get a $50 gift certificate of some kind.
Comic book guy rant time. The Fix it Felix and DK games were set up with 8 way bat joysticks and the DK was practically unplayable as a result. I think the actuator was set up funky too so jumpman kept running around like his feet were made of butter whenever you moved him - I opted to skip trying to get a good score on this one. The FiF had an actual CRT monitor inside, not sure if Sanyo, and the fuse box and power cord inputs on the bottom had been boarded up and another hole drilled above it for power. Looking in the vent there appeared to be a standard tower PC running the game.
Oh and to add insult to injury, the donkey kong had been given an LCD monitor... I wish i could have been a consultant to some degree
Overall, an A for effort though, seeing a crowd like this play and enjoy some old games was a nice sight to behold.
Comic book guy rant time. The Fix it Felix and DK games were set up with 8 way bat joysticks and the DK was practically unplayable as a result. I think the actuator was set up funky too so jumpman kept running around like his feet were made of butter whenever you moved him - I opted to skip trying to get a good score on this one. The FiF had an actual CRT monitor inside, not sure if Sanyo, and the fuse box and power cord inputs on the bottom had been boarded up and another hole drilled above it for power. Looking in the vent there appeared to be a standard tower PC running the game.
Oh and to add insult to injury, the donkey kong had been given an LCD monitor... I wish i could have been a consultant to some degree
