5 Dec
2003
5 Dec
'03
5:20 a.m.
My brother-in-law's MAME cabinet features a 27" screen, dual
multicontrollers, coin box, car stereo with decent speakers and subwoofer,
plays MP3's and movies, SERVES MP3's and movies to the rest of the house
(controlled by his iPaq over WiFi :) and plays all the classics, and cost
less than $1000. Of couse, building it all and writing the custom software
took a while, but it's a sweet machine.
I wonder what's in those new boxes.. Think it's just an embedded micro
running an emulator? Fewer parts == cheaper to build.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Curt vendel" <curt(a)atarimuseum.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: Space Invaders returning to arcades...
Its ridiculous price gouging, the cost to put such a
unit together is
under
$400. Midway has been doing this same thing for a
while with its Ms Pac
Man/Galaga units, Atari has a Missile Command/Millipede/Centipede machine
out there and one thing that article doesn't mention is just like the
Midway
machine, the Taito unit is also a dual machine with
both Space Invaders
and
Qix together...
These are already available in the US, Frontgate has them for $3495 each,
you can also find them through Amazon.com and Walmart.com as well... all
way overpriced.
Curt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Pope" <bpope(a)wordstock.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 1:25 PM
Subject: Space Invaders returning to arcades...
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/fun.games/12/05/space.invaders.reut/index.html
Check this out:
10,000 Space Invaders units to be sold in the US for $2,772 apiece. But
because of inflation, the cost per game is now going to be 50 cents!
<rant>
Are these people on crack?! What development time went into this? What
costs are they recouping? Or do they just want to gouge the classic
gamers?
</rant>
Cheers,
Bryan Pope