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Reged: 09/21/03
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Re: What's wrong with You Sir?
04/08/18 07:04 AM
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Haze, Mr. Do, and Shoegazer already gave the replies so no need to rehash that stuff.
Read Asure 's post again.
He is also a gamer like you, but that likes earlier generation of scrolling fighter games and was pissed of what became of the cabs at places that he visited and is now using his time, money, knowledge etc. to emulating a system even though he has good reason(s) to detest it, but begrudgingly respects of why it was a popular system at the time. It isn't Taito stuff, but if it gets emulated and is eventually fully working later, great.
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I should explain a bit about my love-hate relationship with these machines. Back in the day, around'98 and '99 the arcades in my country were becoming less and less popular. They only had lots of gambling games and maybe two pins in the end. Arcade games were no longer profitable with the rise in better home gaming hardware. The last few Streetfighter ' II machines in my local cafeteria and pub were replaced with Photoplay terminals. I was pissed. It was Photoplay's fault they removed my sf2!!! 20 Years later, i came to exact my revenge and dump all of them.
During my research i became fascinated with these games, and they earned my respect. Many of the harddisks i dumped showed a story of entertainment and love.
. No not really. They showed a money hungry operator can mame thousands with these little pc based magic machines. Bookkeeping is intact in many of them, and you can see they brought in at least a thousand per month on good locations. I have one machine with a hardware coin cointer sitting around 67.000 coins in. That $30.000. At least now i know why they replaced the Street Fighter machines.
And as anyone with a love for modern electronic antiques: These have (at least) a pretty 486DX4/100 inside.. who can resist that?
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