Jolt Country

Not enough that Oblivion is coming out this month ($59.99) and Logo for the Vectrex now exists ($???) but a frigging genius decided to make these things:

http://search.ebay.com//search/search.d ... collection

Those appear to be the "Paper Arcade" models with a few mods attached. (Googe search.) I had the Pac-Man one on my monitor at the last Dukematch. It would be easy for someone to make a few more based on the idea by following the ideas used by Paper Arcade to create the plans.

$40? The guy's insane. Kind of dick-y, too.

No, no -- these are made out of wood. They even have t-molding!

How many have you surreptitiously bought already?

If wood, why is paper the first thing listed? And why so fragile?

The guy's insane. $40? What a joke.

Even if it is wood, he's just downloading cabinet photos from an online repository, printing them out, gluing them to a piece of skinny wood, and cutting and gluing them. It's not particularly difficult.

He's also cutting the wood, painting the wood, steaming over the decals and making up little joysticks and spinners and such. I'd pay $100 for a Xenophobe one.

Oh! Reminds me... there was a Pac-Man cab in Fort Collins. It ended today. It went for...

Looks like bids went up to $500 and it did not meet his reserve. Had a buy it now price of $735. God, I'd love that thing, but I just think I'd really be better served getting a Robotron or a Q*bert and a fricken house to put them in.

Painting wood? Steaming decals? C'mon.

It's matte paper (which the guy can't even spell correctly.)

It's either completely paper with a wood bottom, or a wood shell with paper glued to it. No need to paint the wood. Clear monitor cover? Just transparency paper.

You could easily make one yourself.

Pac-Man is gonna be a relatively big-buck item. Why not just build a MAME machine? Of if you want something more portable, one of those half-machines where you stick a 13" monitor into a box, stick a small PC inside, and put some arcade controls on the front?

If you want to stay full-size and avoid construction, I got both my MAME cabinets for free, and you can probably get similar or pretty cheap cabs around there if you look around. It's a great starter and you have the authenticity of a real, lived-in-the-wild cabinet.

I'm going to post pictures from the local game show over on Groucho in the next couple days. There were 160 games, all on freeplay, most for sale. There was a Crystal Castle stand-up but I didn't see it plugged in (there were still some setups and more games being delivered when I left midday Saturday.)

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Not enough that Oblivion is coming out this month ($59.99)

You really need that Gold Septim, huh?

Worm wrote:

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Not enough that Oblivion is coming out this month ($59.99)

You really need that Gold Septim, huh?

Haha... what, now?

You're buying it for the X-Box 360? Sorry man, I just thought you actually knew what the game cost, rather you were making a mistake.

Normal version is 49.99 and the Collectors with a few feelies is 59.99.

A lesser man would admit that he knew the price of the collector's edition all along, I did not. I thought all games were going up to 59.99 in 2006. Is that just all EA games? Is that just all next generation console games? Is that no games at all? It appears to be no games at all.

Except, as you mentioned, the one with the gold septum.

This is my septum.


This is a septim.

Sorry. Anyway, when picking up the preorder for this (You better do it. We got in Ghost Recon 5 yesterday, and we were cleared out in an hour) and LCS the poor counter girl said "You know you can just download the firmware" when I was trying to ascertain if she knew whether they published LCS discs I can't crack my firmware with.

"We"????!

Are you working at a video game store???

"Pre-order"????

Did you just tell me to fucking pre-order something at your video game store???

hahhaaaaa.... supposedly EB *still* hasn't filled all of their preorders for 360's.

What a complete bunch of cockups.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:"We"????!

Are you working at a video game store???

"Pre-order"????

Did you just tell me to fucking pre-order something at your video game store???

I could have put it in quotes, however I wanted to invoke a feeling that it was the memory of what the man from the store said interupting and explaining my decision rather than a verbatim quote of that conversation.