Space Invaders returning to arcades...

["Dwight K. Elvey" <dwight.elvey(a)amd.com>om>, writing about a $2,772 price for a new Space Invaders arcade box] Good point. Also true - and don't forget that while you can maybe put together a MAME box running the game for $500, you need not only that but all the original human-interface devices (joystick etc), _and_ they need to be able to stand up under years of arcade-level punishment, including exasperated gorillas getting fed up with the game and shoving the joystick hard enough to shake the whole box. I have a spinner connected up to one of my parallel ports. The human-interface part of it is a $75 optical shaft encoder. It works fine for me, but it couldn't handle people getting rough with it; even at quantity-1e4 prices, I wouldn't want to put anything less than $100 into the spinner. (Space Invaders may not use a spinner, but the principle applies.) The cabinet is another $100, perhaps more after you include all the artwork...by the time you add it all up and add a couple of layers' markup, $2772 doesn't sound unreasonable. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse(a)rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B