Arcade cab at your place of employment.

[Halfabag]

Right guys,
I'm more than likely gonna have to part with my Electrocoin 4 slot MVS . I'm trying my upmost to keep hold of it but it's proving too difficult. My last hope before selling/trading it is to store it at my place of work or have it up and running on our trade counter for the customers to use. Now, this will only happen if my employer agrees. If he doesn't, well I'm pretty much fooked and away she goes.

My question is, do any of you guys have a cab up and running at your place of work, and is it used regularly?

 

[skate323k137]

There's a MAME cab at my office in the lunch room, it gets a fair amount of use, but we have a ton of employees.

I hope you don't have to part with your cab. The thought of leaving my cabs in public is a nightmare to me, but worst case, I'd try to leave mine with a local game store and split the coin income.

 

[whisper2053]

My question is, do any of you guys have a cab up and running at your place of work, and is it used regularly?

Calling Lemony Vengeance...

#CABZ4PYNKZ

 

[Halfabag]

My cab is certainly in "well used" gamer condition. I'd have no problem with it being used at work by the customers....... Erm I think. Apart from "sweaty mark" and "Mr sprout" to name but two.
If it has to go the other way, I would offer it back to the original seller as that's what he asked when I bought it. If not needed, trades offered then for sale.

 

[cdamm]

i may or may not have a few at my place of employ.

 

[Halfabag]

i may or may not have a few at my place of employ.

I bet you certainly have...... Or haven't

 

[loopyeddie]

I put 2 candy cabs in my restaurant. One was running good MVS games, the other good Naomi games. Both got played by the employees for about 2 weeks, then it really petered out. Neither were ever played much by any customers. We are not a huge place, but we usually have about 200 people per day come through. If anybody wanted to play games, they just played on their phone. I saw one person try to use it as if it had a touchscreen. Another time someone used both sticks as if it were a tank. I ended up getting rid of both of them.

 

[Karou]

"sweaty mark" and "Mr sprout" to name but two.

who's Mr sprout?

 

[Kid Panda]

I put 2 candy cabs in my restaurant. One was running good MVS games, the other good Naomi games. Both got played by the employees for about 2 weeks, then it really petered out. Neither were ever played much by any customers. We are not a huge place, but we usually have about 200 people per day come through. If anybody wanted to play games, they just played on their phone. I saw one person try to use it as if it had a touchscreen. Another time someone used both sticks as if it were a tank. I ended up getting rid of both of them.

Man that just makes me sad.

 

[bradtemple87]

Eddies story shows the totally different state of modern tech expectations

I bet if they knew it took quarters they would soil themselves

 

[StevenK]

who's Mr sprout?

Do you know Sweaty Mark?

 

[F4U57]

I saw one person try to use it as if it had a touchscreen. Another time someone used both sticks as if it were a tank. I ended up getting rid of both of them.

I'm assuming these were kids, otherwise that is very sad indeed.

 

[Karou]

Do you know Sweaty Mark?

that'd take some cleanup if you let him touch it... but Mr sprout,whats that about

 

[cdamm]

I put 2 candy cabs in my restaurant. One was running good MVS games, the other good Naomi games. Both got played by the employees for about 2 weeks, then it really petered out. Neither were ever played much by any customers. We are not a huge place, but we usually have about 200 people per day come through. If anybody wanted to play games, they just played on their phone. I saw one person try to use it as if it had a touchscreen. Another time someone used both sticks as if it were a tank. I ended up getting rid of both of them.

its 2015! It's happening!!!

 

[loopyeddie]

I'm assuming these were kids, otherwise that is very sad indeed.

The touchscreen person was a kid. Maybe 5 or 6. I don't remember the game, it was probably just in attract. The 2 joystick person was a girl who was 17 or 18. The game was puzzle bobble.

 

[SNKorSWM]

Sad to hear that they don't even know how a coin-op cab works.

 

[SNK416]

I put my 1 slot with a multi cart at my store for a bit. Gets a lot of attention from older crowd, nothing from younger kids. It's near the cash so it's easy to keep an eye on. Made me nervous at first too. When I can make some room I'll bring it home for my little one.

 

[Halfabag]

Do you know Sweaty Mark?

Ha ha ha, I pissed myself at this...lol.. I will let you know guys know later.

Ps. If he knows sweaty mark then Karou is obviously "gifted"

 

[Jibbajaba]

I think that "sweaty Mark" is self-explanatory, while "Mr. Sprout" is not. Karou wants to know why someone would be called that, as do I.

I'm envisioning someone who doesn't bathe AND is sweaty, causing alfalfa sprouts to grow in all of his moist areas. And the smell is horrendous.

 

[Reclaimer]

We had a New Astro City running a Futari 1.5 board for a while! It was excellent fun. Eventually the cab moved on to another home as people went back to their usual diet of Virtua Fighter 4 and Super Smash Brothers on the plasma.

I'm close to getting another work cab set up approved, and I'd like to just run a JAMMA extension to an MVS external to the cab with a big stack of games. Or possibly a net boot Naomi.

 

[Halfabag]

Right then.......... We call him sweaty mark because he is never clean, always coughing and spluttering and makes me feel like I need to itch myself whenever he's near. Picture this, 4ft nothing, dirty, fat, and I mean FAT. We wind him up a bit for a laugh and then he tells us some things....things I wish I'd never heard. His "girlfriend" was (she's dead) a fully blown smack head and he'd tell us he was going home, taking some liquid viagra and then splitting her in two!
He would pay us for his goods in cash, but to get to it he'd pull his oversized tracksuit bottoms away from his stomach and then put his hand down to his groin area and pull out some cash! If I ever served him, I would ALWAYS wear disposable gloves. My buddy at work would just take the £20 note off him and then go and chase the girls and wipe it on their face! We would play "you've got it" tick whenever somebody came in contact with him!
If he touched my cab, I'd have to antiseptic wet wipe it all over. My OCD couldn't take it!

 

[Halfabag]

After Karou PMing and gagging to know about Mr Sprout, I guess I'll tell ya.

He's our DHL/courier collector. He comes in every night around 5 ish to collect packages to send out for us all over the country. He looks like an old dirty wolverine, thick beard, thick hair and glasses. There are two things that stand out with him..... His smell, which is a mixture of boiled sprouts and cabbage and this constantly surrounds him. I took a parcel out to him whilst he was in his cab and it fucking wreaked. He seriously has some body odour issues .
The next thing is his hands, well nails to be specific. They're fucking humongously huge like wolverine........only dirty. Maybe he shreds cabbage with them in his spare time.
Any of the two of them touching the cab would be my worst nightmare.
So now you know Karou buddy, I'd be there with my wet wipes cleaning the "sweaty marks" of them

 

[cr8zykuban0]

thats why arcades arent as popular anymore. the younger generation are stuck on their ipads and 3ds systems. they look at arcade cabs like "what the heck is this?" unless theyre introduced to arcade cabs at a veryryoung age, they most likely wont care about cabs. thats why im hoping to get a cab or 2 this year and when I have kids, I would love to introduce them to neo geo and show them how awesome neo games are and retro gaming in general

 

[Karou]

After Karou PMing and gagging to know about Mr Sprout, I guess I'll tell ya.

I did no such thing(cs'ing). Maybe that means something different over there? heres what I actually sent.

Ps. If he knows sweaty mark then Karou is obviously "gifted"

what kind of logic is that?

how do know I've not been over the pondlike? and would need to has telepathy powers

anyhow I was thinking sweaty mark just meant a mark on the cab itself which is something I saw regularly on arcades.

my mr sprout theory had people rockin out with their caulks out, having no idea where you work makes this theory plausible?

everybody wants to learn '' Mr sprout's'' story .please
angry:angry:

ps:durn that coorpoon you can't even use no more than 8 smiley's now and so my pm loses a bit of its original meaning

ps:in review I get where he's getting the idea from, but that smiley is laughing not THAT.

 

[Halfabag]

You sir, seriously confuse the fuck out of me.

Can someone explain?