Quake – Arcade Tournament Edition (arcade machine?)

Anyone ever see/play on this machine?

I remember playing Quake 2 on a trackball setup on a school trip to a tech museum/centre of some kind (honestly can't remember where) when I was 17 or so, there were ~4 players networked on the custom rig which, as you might imagine, played pretty poorly thanks to the trackball.

I never gave much thought to it, but I wonder what the underlying hardware was. Apparently there's a MAME CHD of Quake so presumably it made it out there. It's listed on KLOV:
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9188

 

I ve seen a Quake 3 arcade machine..but you mean Quake 1?

 

Yeah, apparently so. Check the link.

I know the Doom arcade machine in Grosse Pointe Blank was made for the movie, but this sounds like the real deal.

Where did you see the Quake III arcade machine? What controls did it use?

 

For Arcade the Quake 1 http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9188

I'd seen it on the web the Quake 3 machine. I m not sure it actually hit production but there were a few test ones made from what I recall. Sorry, can't remember the input method but I m assuming it would be a trackball, mice don't last long in arcades.

 

Yeah, that's the link in my first post.

Any idea where? I can't find a mention.

 

I played this in some podunk Texas mall in 2008. As you said, the trackball controls were godawful. They were clearing out some of the older machines and it was on sale for $500. I decided to hold off on buying it for some stupid incomprehensible reason. When I finally did decide to come back for it, it had vanished.