The Gyruss Thread

pinbacker · Post by **pinbacker** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 10:11 pm

I will fucking kill you all.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 10:48 pm

It's on difficulty level "6," for what it's worth. 6/10, if I remember right.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:46 am

Someone figured out how to get Gyruss and Time Pilot working with a spinner in MAME. I'll inline the video here:

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Pretty cool. The thread that has this demonstration has people talking about MAME, and I have to snicker at the stuff like, "I am compiling it with hiscore support" and such. The pieces of shit running MAME these days finally got what they wanted: they are so amazingly incompetent at running the project, that people are recompiling the thing to add score saving. I am not a violent man, but I would never, ever get tired of punching the fucking losers in charge of MAME these days.
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Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:27 pm

You know what, Gyruss never acts up. The only thing even remotely "wrong" with it is that the back door has a rough texture. Since a small sliver of it can be seen if you are watching TV on my couch and then turn your neck 175 degrees, I will sand down and paint the back of the Gyruss cabinet this weekend.

This weekend, that is what I shall do.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:27 pm

Oh. I will try to take photos. That, as well.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 9:49 pm

Goodbye, my dear friend.

To finance the Funhouse and cut down on the number of games around here, I have the Gyruss sold to a pal I've bought a number of games from.

It had a modern monitor in it, but I had to take it out because a new 19" monitor is like gold these days (they stopped making arcade CRTs).

I'll never forget what we had together, Gyruss, and I wish I could have kept you.

(Pinback ends up having the second-best high score of any of us. The guy who added the high score save set a high score in order to test it that I never ever came close to beating.)

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 6:31 am

Did you sell it without a monitor, or did you swap an older one in?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 7:28 am

I took the monitor out last night.

I have that empty Zoo Keeper cab at the house, and exidy is the guy 1) buying the Gyruss and 2) the guy who sold me that cab. I am going to basically tell him, "Look, I fucked up. You can have the empty ZK cab as well." If he agrees to that, I am going to put the new monitor in my current Zoo Keeper, which leaves me with one spare 19" monitor with some ZK burn on it.

However.... though my ZK cab will be a converted Qix, it'll have a new monitor and it will have the decals applied. I think it will look pretty nice!

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 9:50 pm

That's one thing I always resented, doing work on games to sell them. Doing work on one to make it more fun to play was one thing. Putting labor into a machine just so someone else could enjoy it always made me mad.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Jun 23, 2012 8:40 am

It's gone.... it's gone, Flack.

exidy picked it up over lunch yesterday. I miss it terribly.

Someday if I get to the point where I am ramping UP the number of games instead of down, I may just see Gyruss again.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Sat Jun 23, 2012 9:52 am

Three warps to Uranus! For some reason I always chuckled at that...

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