Now that is a home arcade

[Lazybones]

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Watch as this garage is transformed into an awesome retro arcade!

[Mr. Analog]

Man! That totally kicks ass. I want one

[Shayne]

Thousands of dollars and hours of time to play absolute junk!  Give me a modded Xbox and a big screen any day over this.

[Mr. Analog]

Yeah, it's like that Jay Leno guy, why would he bother with all those old cars when he could just have a modded Honda Civic.

[Shayne]

Honda Civic, no.  But I would surely take a new Lamborghini over the old, same can be said for Ferrari, Aston Martin, Bugatti, Lotus, etc.  Why play/drive the past when the stuff in the present is far better.

[Shayne]

Not to mention, you think Leno has like a 1985 Honda Civic in his collection?

[Lazybones]

Hard to replicate some of the sit down units he has, or the ones with custom controls..

Starwars has a unique joystick, outrun has feedback in the seat..

[Ustauk]

Starwars has a unique joystick, outrun has feedback in the seat..

The cockpit version of the Star Wars games, complete with flight yoke, was one of the main reasons I used to bug my folks into taking me to Bullwinkles when I was a kid.  Good times

From the Wikipedia entry

The game featured several digitized samples of voices from the movie, including Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi, James Earl Jones as Darth Vader, Harrison Ford as Han Solo, and the mechanized beeps of R2-D2.

The game is available as a standard upright or a sit-down cockpit version, both of which are elaborately decorated. The controls consist of a yoke control (similar to a steering wheel ? twisting left and right gives combined roll and yaw; pushing forwards and backwards with the side control gives pitch) with four buttons ? two trigger style and two in position to be pressed by the thumbs ? each of which fired a laser positioned on the four leading edges of the X-Wings.

[Lazybones]

Would be really cool to have the full simulator versions of AfterBurner, or one of the other simulators that Sega released. I remember one that I saw in vegas that actually rotated the cockpit upside down.

[Darren Dirt]

I've played both the XBox and the Gamecube version of Crazy Taxi. Doesn't come close to the sit-down vertical arcade machine... If I was rich enough to buy an elephant* I'd mos def find a CT box as well.

[Darren Dirt]

WOW, that guy knows how to set up the right "atmo" for a retro arcade!

Makes me think of film scenes ("Flynn's" in Tron, or a young John Connor in T2...)

and btw re. emulators etc:

PostPosted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 9:14 pm
" OK here's a little update... ...the new corner -- features Computer Media Center ( Divx, DvD, JukeBox, Emulators ), Amps, PS2 "