My job wants me to bring in something arcade related for "hobby day"... suggestions?

My job wants me to bring in something arcade related for "hobby day"... suggestions?

I guess May 29th is like the only day that there isn't a holiday in the year, so my job decided to have a "Hobby/Tallent" holiday LOL. I was asked to bring in something arcade related to show everyone, and cant' decide what I'm going to do.

Option 1) Bring in my high rez astro city. I already got the OK to park it behind my desk for an extended period of time (not trying to bring it in, and back home in the same day). The major plus side to this is I'll get to beast on some naomi during lunch breaks. The major downside to this is I'll have to pull the monitor, and bring it up out of my basement for transporting it. Major PITA.

Option 2) Build my virtua golf control panel into a wooden frame, bring in the Naomi GDRom setup, and run it on a VGA monitor that we've got kickin around. It won't be nearly as cool as the entire cab, but it will be a heck of a lot easier than it will be lugging the astro up from my basement, 45 minutes across the state, and up another 3 floors (thank god for elevators). The Virtua Golf setup would only be in my office for that day.

So yeah I'm torn. These are the best two ways I can think of to show off my arcade hobby in an interactive setting. I don't want to just bring in pictures, thats lame.

If anyone has better suggestions, let me know. It crossed my mind wiring up a super gun real quick, I have all the parts on hand. I just don't feel like making custom sticks only for 1 day of "show and tell".

-Bill

Even though it may be a pain in the ass, I would go with what ever set up is going to impress the most.

playing the astro at work would be kick ass enough...playing it multiple days???

comon, who can say they have an astro behind their desk at work?

jonny419 said:

playing the astro at work would be kick ass enough...playing it multiple days???

comon, who can say they have an astro behind their desk at work?

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Good point. I have a bunch of the sports games on the GDRom like Virtua Tennis, Virtua Golf and Sports Jam that would appeal to a wide audience. Of course I have CVS2 and Zero3 Upper, but I'd need to jack the control panel off of my 3rd strike astro if I'm going to run those.

I'm leaning towards brining the cab in I got the OK to leave it however long I want up in the office.

-B

bring the cab in!

billd420 said:

I got the OK to leave it however long I want up in the office.

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set that bitch up to run on quarters.

Bring the cab.

Of course, we had a hobbies day several months ago and when they begged me to bring in a couple of pinball machines, I told them to screw

jonny419 said:

set that bitch up to run on quarters.

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Best suggestion, by far. You'll make a couple of extra dollars here and there! Be sure to swap out your good joysticks with old ones! There will be people who will button smash like crazy!

Piratero said:

Best suggestion, by far. You'll make a couple of extra dollars here and there! Be sure to swap out your good joysticks with old ones! There will be people who will button smash like crazy!

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Good call! I didn't even take that into consideration. Maybe I'll install my crap control panel that has happ sticks and buttons for the occasion...

-Bill

I'd avoid bringing a good cab if possible. Even if you're careful, things break

Jonny said it best. Bring your cab, bring a game or two that your co-workers would like and set it up for 25 cent games.

Hobby Day? Your "job" isn't being in the third grade is it?

Bring the cab, what type of job do you got bill?

RevQuixo said:

Hobby Day? Your "job" isn't being in the third grade is it?

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No my marketing agency likes to find any reason to have a party, its kick-ass.

I'm a web developer by the way.

bring the cab man, and put Street Fighter the Movie in there and hype it like the dopest game ever. That is assuming you havent already axe kicked that PCB into pieces.

I say leave it with a $00.25/game charge...

Then buy food withthe money...

Don't keep the money...

setharnott said:

bring the cab man, and put Street Fighter the Movie in there and hype it like the dopest game ever. That is assuming you havent already axe kicked that PCB into pieces.

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I agree with seth you defintiely need to take in SF the movie I mean come on......theres just no better 2d fighter out there

N80G80 said:

I agree with seth you defintiely need to take in SF the movie I mean come on......theres just no better 2d fighter out there

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ya feel me?

Bill, the most important thing to remember is to...




and...

I'm a web developer by the way.

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Nice job I do this in my spare time as my night job.

Neo Geo MVS said:

Nice job I do this in my spare time as my night job.

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Yah I do freelance as well as the full-time job.

Yah I do freelance as well as the full-time job.

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Tight

I did it I brought the astro into the office heh.

Its currently running virtua tennis (GDRom). Yesterday it was virtua golf. Its been a big hit so far. My company is actually considering purchasing a candy to have it in the office fulltime. Wooooo

-B

billd420 said:

I did it I brought the astro into the office heh.

Its currently running virtua tennis (GDRom). Yesterday it was virtua golf. Its been a big hit so far. My company is actually considering purchasing a candy to have it in the office fulltime. Wooooo

-B

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very nice thats what i'd like to see

just make sure if they do get one, all their order cheques go directly to Billd420 inc.