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Coffee table?

Marcel

Marcel

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Has anybody got any thoughts on this? I'd like a coffee table but haven't a clue on the usability of this this?

Should I be asking the seller anything in particular?

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Marcel said:
Has anybody got any thoughts on this? I'd like a coffee table but haven't a clue on the usability of this this?

Should I be asking the seller anything in particular?

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Depends on what you are after from it. This is likely to be run from Pi set up, with a multi-game set up, so the games quality could be mixed.

However, it will be LCD and I wouldn’t be too confident on the build quality.

If you are after a multi-game cocktail, then Arcade 1 Up are bringing one out with 12 games this winter. Although not as well built as a retro dedicated cocktail, this would be better value / built than that eBay one.

Not trying to put you off, but this one doesn’t look that great value!
 
Find out the screen aspect (I.e. is this 4:3 or 16:9).

Also find out how the games are being run, what system?

Good luck.
 
Does it have a glass top? Acrylic wouldn't last long, at least not in my house!
60 in 1 is a board that is about £35 to buy.
 
Thanks guys,

I dont really know what I'm after, I run a small family owned snooker hall next to a university and just think some games might be interesting and attract the students.

Snooker and pool seem to be out of fashion to a degree and I just consider something extra a little interesting. At least it would be to myself.

I also thought about air hockey (which are really expensive) and table tennis. However an retro arcade table could just fit nice in our bar area.

I'll ask if its glass top thanks and the operating system.

Dont worry about putting me off, I love constructive comments.

ps, I really wanted this too but it looks a bit of a home made job despite the original chair. Sold now and I'm already missing it, it was my childhood favourite.

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I wouldnt bother with the Arcade1UP system. It is half size and utter rubbish in construction.

Just get a Pi on ebay for about £100 - all preloaded with every game you can name. Buy a cheap cab, put in a USB to keyboard PCB and for £200-300 you can do your own.
 
Its a good idea for a student location. I drink in a pub opposite London Met University and they have a few arcade machines and a cocktail table that I have spent a few hours on with work mates. The students dont seem so keen though and I think its to do with the pricing.

My mates and I find a game that at least one of us remembers how to play from when younger, at home or in the chip shop, and we talk it through before starting. That way £1 gets some fun. Many of the students don't have a clue or the history, dump £1 on a game that looks cute, lose 3 lives in seconds and walk away. I feel that if it was 50p, maybe even 25p they would stick at it and get the bug and invest more. Games like Street Fighter II are always popular.

The most popular thing by far in the area is table football, everyone knows how to play that. You can get glass topped ones with side ball launch that prevents people pinching the ball.
 
Moonbus said:
Its a good idea for a student location. I drink in a pub opposite London Met University and they have a few arcade machines and a cocktail table that I have spent a few hours on with work mates. The students dont seem so keen though and I think its to do with the pricing.

My mates and I find a game that at least one of us remembers how to play from when younger, at home or in the chip shop, and we talk it through before starting. That way £1 gets some fun. Many of the students don't have a clue or the history, dump £1 on a game that looks cute, lose 3 lives in seconds and walk away. I feel that if it was 50p, maybe even 25p they would stick at it and get the bug and invest more. Games like Street Fighter II are always popular.

The most popular thing by far in the area is table football, everyone knows how to play that. You can get glass topped ones with side ball launch that prevents people pinching the ball.
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That's a great call, I hadn't thought of table football.

Also, yes you could well be right on pricing. When on topic of putting my pins in the venue, someone said £1 a game was too expensive.

I thought it unfair to charge less based on the potential repairs and game value plus depreciation after careless use.

But an arcade which I guess is less mechanical and hopefully more reliable could well be more reasonably priced.

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Virtual pin? Presume it’s the noise that precludes the real thing, & turn the sound down.
 
Pick Holder said:
I wouldnt bother with the Arcade1UP system. It is half size and utter rubbish in construction.

Just get a Pi on ebay for about £100 - all preloaded with every game you can name. Buy a cheap cab, put in a USB to keyboard PCB and for £200-300 you can do your own.
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Thanks Pick Holder,

I'm not really technical enough and this sounds a little too home made for the environment.
I'd prefer something that is old school arcade rather than what we'd accept in our mates lounge.
I don't mean to disrespect the idea but the machine will be left alone with staff who don't really take the care you and I would and customers that may abuse.

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Marcel said:
I just dont agree with virtual pins. The authentic rattle of the real thing cannot be replicated.

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Couldn’t agree more. But if there’s a better site for a VP I can’t think of one.
Done both for decades.
 
I have a couple of pi based retro deelys. One is the stick/buttons with a pi inside that plugs into the TV.
The other is a bartop thing I wont recently in a raffle. I kinda fancied building a bartop thing anyway so I thought winning this was outstanding.. But now I realise I didnt actually want to just play on it. I wanted to build it too. (Well ok not so much the building part - no good at woodworking stuff - assemble the wood part and setup the rest really).
The PI stuff does what it says on the tin.. but I find it a bit of a pain to adjust anything to tailor to it requirement. I think the version on MAME on pi is pretty old too - which probably doesnt help.

You can buy flatpacked verisons of the various cabs - im sure you can get the cocktail one too - but probably made from MDF which again, does what it says on the tin. But deffo aint ideal.

On a related note, theres a ton of these kind of things on EB - im amazed there hasnt been more of a fuss kicked up - because surely selling em with the s/w installed is against the rules ?
 
I will be selling this soon, proper CRT monitor, jamma wired, has a 60 in 1 fitted, in great condition, glass top, but I'm in scotland

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I'm interested in doing one of these as a project, - need somewhere to put my beer when using my XBOX ;)
o if anyone has a dead one suitable for a mame conversion then let me know - I just need a solid cabinet, don't need any of the guts.
Sorry for the hi-jack!
 
Alan Syson said:
Couldn’t agree more. But if there’s a better site for a VP I can’t think of one.
Done both for decades.
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I can keep the noise in the bar area as the bar is a different zone. We've had pins before without problems noise wise, just had to sell them to release funds.

This time things are slightly different and I'm trying to find an interest generator for the uni students. Uni is next door but we dont get enough of them.


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