I don't think I called you "squat" ...

The Nasty Pirates are kind of on hiatus. There are five of us. One moved out of state and one works weekends now so ... yeah, we're kind of on pause.

720 is such a bizarre game. People who have never played it usually only last a minute or two and typically can't even find all the parks. When I was at my peak, each game of mine was lasting 20 or so minutes. I just checked Youtube and people beating the game play for 25-26 minutes, so that seems about right.

At the old house, every time I wanted to move a game in to or out of the arcade, I had to strap it on to a dolly and roll it all the way across the front yard, through a narrow gate, across the back yard, and up two stairs into the arcade. "What could be more difficult than that?" he said.

(17 Stairs.)

[quote]First of all, why would I move any game upstairs? I would move a game upstairs for entertainment purposes. [/quote]

It's weird not having a re-worked article on the word "entertainment" sourced from Wikipedia posted shortly thereafter.

[quote]I would move a game upstairs for the kids, house guests, and myself to play. That is one of the main reasons 720 is not upstairs. Nobody else in the world really wants to play 720. [/quote]

Oh no! See, I think that people in Oklahoma would love to. But that's just in my mind, that's just in my head, man.

Do the Nasty Pirates ever drop by the new place? I... I want them to respect the 720.

[quote](Folks, before ICJ tells you he could single-handedly move this machine up a flight of stairs, remind him that he tripped, stumbled and almost killed himself coming down [i]these same stairs[/i] -- and that was [i]without[/i] 500 pounds of Atari awkwardness in his mitts.)[/quote]

You know, Stephen Hawking tripped on the stairs and fell down before realizing he had MS. And much like Hawking, I want you all to realize that I am a genius. The MAIN thing I was concerned with is that you didn't want help with 720 because you were "too nice." With your crack right there about how I am a squat, oafish, unco-ordinated baby man, that is no longer a thing I have to fear.


[quote]So really, I think, that's where I am. Before OVGE next year, I will have my MAME cabinet done, and I will make some popcorn and eat it while I watch you haul it up the stairs.[/quote]

Sounds good. I've been practicing by using a dolly without inflated tires. This is going to be a treat!

Why is 720 not upstairs.

WHY is 720 not upstairs.

That is a good question.

First of all, why would I move any game upstairs? I would move a game upstairs for entertainment purposes. I would move a game upstairs for the kids, house guests, and myself to play. That is one of the main reasons 720 is not upstairs. Nobody else in the world really wants to play 720. It's a novelty game to most people, one that more people have memories of seeing the cabinet than the do of playing the game. I have to think in the Venn diagram of life that the overlap between people that would come over to my house and people that would want to play 720 would have s pretty small overlap.

Second, of all the games you would want to try and move up a flight of stairs, 720 has got to be pretty low on the list. Physically it's a pain in the ass to move across flat ground, much less up a flight of stairs. It's got a concrete pedestal, a skinny cabinet, and a 25" medium-resolution monitor. The thing weighs 500 pounds, roughly the weight of two Nintendo cabinets. (Folks, before ICJ tells you he could single-handedly move this machine up a flight of stairs, remind him that he tripped, stumbled and almost killed himself coming down [i]these same stairs[/i] -- and that was [i]without[/i] 500 pounds of Atari awkwardness in his mitts.)

The third issue is, I've never owned a game I liked that didn't eventually break. Sure, some of the ones I hated refused to die, but pretty much every game I liked ended up dying. The thought of that thing dying the day after I moved it upstairs and lugging a monitor or tools up and down the stairs just to troubleshoot it gives me nightmares.

That being, said, what WOULD I move upstairs?

The intent was to move the Multi-Williams upstairs. I specifically traded a bunch of crappy-looking, barely-functioning games for a multicade cabinet that looked good. Unbeknownst to me, the emulation on the Multi-Williams is terrible. That, and it desperately needs some 8-way sticks.

I could go with the 48-in-1. It's got a lot of classics, but it's missing a lot of games I love. And it's not really upgradeable, as far as the library goes.

So really, if you're only going to move one machine up there, it's got to be a MAME machine. A MAME machine (at least the half-assembled one I have out in the garage) uses a computer monitor, so no arcade monitor issues. And it uses a PC, so no calling arcade techs over to come troubleshoot things.

So really, I think, that's where I am. Before OVGE next year, I will have my MAME cabinet done, and I will make some popcorn and eat it while I watch you haul it up the stairs.

I will be pulling hard for you to abandon your family and come to Colorado for Halloween if that one guy throws a Halloween arcade party, by the way.

I don't feel that we fully discussed why 720 isn't upstairs. I want you -- Flack. Flack!! Look, all friends have to go through that phase where we get into a shouty, screaming argument with each other. I feel now is that time.

It would have been PRINCESS-MAKER EASY for me to get the 720 upstairs. What's the real deal here? "I don't want it up there, you miserable fucking asshole" is a legitimate reply. Why don't some of you other posters try it out for size? Go ahead. "Flack doesn't want it there, dick shit" -- so easy! If Tdarcos was here, he would not be able to resist!

The first house Susan and I bought (the one I showed you and 'Vark out in El Reno, by the onion burger place) was divided up into five apartments. There were four living rooms, four kitchens, four bedrooms, four dining rooms. and four bathrooms. The fifth apartment was just one big studio apartment. None of the rooms were very big -- the entire place was somewhere around 2,500 square foot. The house was built in the 1880s and cost $37.5k.

I think maybe this is a human trait, maybe not for all people but for some people, but I've found that even in a big house, people tend to hunker down in one or two rooms. In the El Reno house, we didn't use two of the four apartments at all, ever. Well that's not true, my dog lived in one. We lived in one, and then we eventually used the rooms from another one for storage. We actually had a dirty clothes room for a while, like other people have hampers.

Even in our current house, which has a formal living room, a small living room, and an upstairs den, we spend 90% of our time in the small living room. Our new house is almost twice as big as that El Reno place, and we still sit in a small enough area where we can smell each other's feet and farts all night long.

I hope you do get your room set up the way you want. I would love to have a house to myself like that. I'd have a reading room, a gaming room, and probably another dirty clothes room.

This thread is worthless without pics, but makinn the thread will cause me to take some.

Two things:

1) Milker came over yesterday to grab a television from me for his haunt.
2) We played Funhouse for much of the evening.

I have one room that was just storing shit. I tried to put the cat litter in there as an experiment, and they just kicked it all over the carpet. That experiment was a failure. You know what I'd like that room to be? I'll tell you. Come closer. I'll tell you.

I'd like to have a table where I worked on or created computers, and then just a chair, TV and my Gamecube. And I'd like to finish Resident Evil 4.

FINALLY enough stuff is out of there that such a plan might happen.

I'll take pics or shoot a video of the arcade. I'm not really happy with the layout. But that just means I can change the layout later, which I enjoy.