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Apr
12

I’ve loved arcade games ever since i was little even if i was a little young to have enjoyed the golden era. Some of my personal favorites from around my hometown include a Gyruss cocktail cabinet at a local sub shop and Captain America and the Avengers at the movie theatre.

Due to this strange love of arcades i’ve always wanted my own multicade cabinet (because i just don’t have the room or the desire to be that guy who has a full arcade in his house). I’ve had an X-Arcade stick for a while and it’s fun for playing “reproductions” on the PC but it’s just not the same if you’re not standing in front of a massive wooden cabinet flailing away at a joystick.

This weekend was a big arcade auction down in NC and a few friends were taking a truck down in hopes of bringing back some pinball games. On a whim i asked them to be on the lookout for a nice cabinet in good condition with a working monitor and enough buttons to play something a little more modern than Ms. Pac-Man (not that i have anything against Ms. Pac-Man, which is a game i have many fond memories over). Luck would have it that they ended up bringing back a Tekken Tag cabinet for me! But sadly no pinball machines.

Tekken Tag Tournament Arcade Cabinet

Inspecting the cabinet it seems to work fine though Ethan (757 Labs‘s local arcade repair wizard) suggests a re-capping of the monitor just to clear things up a bit as he’s has luck with that approach in the past. After Matt D. and Ethan played a quick game of Tekken (Matt coming out the victor) we got to taking things apart and figuring out what we had to work with.

The board is a Namco System 12 which was the same board used in Soul Calibur and Mr. Driller both awesome games i hope to find as swap-ins for this cabinet. Since the System 12 is a JAMMA board i’ve already ordered a J-PAC and I-PAC2 to hook a PC up to the cabinet. The next step will, hopefully, be the hardest part: waiting for parts to arrive.

Jul
02

Mechanical Turk

Was just chuckling at the idea of using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to play online board games; after all this is where Amazon got the name. Would be fun to set up a service to allow users to play games this way. I’m sure the quality of opponent wouldn’t be amazing – especially in games like chess where moves are required to be setup in many cases.

May
23
in Meta

I’m still working on a theme for this site. Out of boredom here’s a snapshot of how it looks so far. Still need to get the sidebar and comments incorporated.

On a related topic Lauren has put up a blog now too, go check it out.

In completely unrelated news the Penny Arcade game rocks.