I went to my local Target store today, and to my surprise, I saw an arcade unit! From far away, I looked at the price tag, and appeared to read 49.99 h:, until a gentleman stepped out of the way revealing a price of $449.99 :banghead:. I picked up the flyer for purchasing these units, and I ask you arcade savvy people, is this machine worth a price like this? http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/sr=2-2/qid=1132531782/ref=sr_2_2/602-9763523-9124667?%5Fencoding=UTF8&asin=B000AQHKR0 $50 more than the one @ my local Target...
No way is it worth it. There are more then just the midway one btw.. I bought my full size arcade cabinet for 150 bucks, which included MK2. Those arent even real arcade cabinets, rather just emulation machines. You can get a really nice cabinet for 450 that works with just about any Jamma game, so yea, not worth it
Indeed. Mame cabinets and this one crack me up. Their bezel is always huge because they half ass it and use a crappy monitor. Give a hoot, give a REAL cabinet a good home.
I saw that in the store too. Not exactly a high quality item...the thing just feels cheap and flimsy, particularly the joystick and buttons. BTW, from what I can tell these aren't the real arcade roms being used. Rampage has NES-quality sounds and the graphics are just short of arcade quality...I can't quite figure out what platform they were using?
They're probably using something like those little hand held joystick thingys you plug into your tv that are made by Jakks. From checking out this thing, all I can say is that it's a big waste of money. You can pick up a used cabinet and a couple boards for a lot less than this and have a real arcade cabinet. 2 years ago I picked up a 25" 4-slot Neo Geo machine with a monitor that needed a recapping but the cab was in almost new condition, all for $100. I put $10 of parts and a new set of joysticks and buttons and my machine looks gorgeous now. Only complaint now is that my board started fritzing on me about a month ago (anybody got a spare one they want to sell me?). Nice thing is its Jamma compatable so I can just hook other boards in there if I want.
The 4 slot is mostly Jamma compatible, though techincally is a slightly different wiring scheme (MVS wiring ). Check out hardmvs for the slight differences if you havent
Yeah, its not quite Jama compatable but darn close. I've got a full Jamma adapter about half wired up but I've been so swamped with school work that I haven't gotten a chance to finish it. Much easier to convert to Jamma than a lot of older cabs though.
