Am I now a console gamer?

[MartyS]

Got one of these, am I now a console gamer?

 

It's an Arcade 1up console cabinet.

[Hinjima]

26 minutes ago, MartyS said:

Got one of these, am I now a console gamer?

 

It's an Arcade 1up console cabinet.

No.  You are now considered old, no matter your age.

[WeTuLo707]

54 minutes ago, MartyS said:

Got one of these, am I now a console gamer?

 

It's an Arcade 1up console cabinet.

*waves hand

 

These are not the consoles you are looking for...

[Mark Kaine]

Well, does it play pong?

[MartyS]

There are loads of videos out there about people doing crazy mods to these things so they can play arcade games as well as pinball, so pong would certainly be a possible mod.

 

Forgot to mention I used my LTT screwdriver to build it.

[MartyS]

On 11/4/2023 at 11:11 AM, Fennick_Fox said:

Lol is that from Costco? I think I've seen that recently.

I got it from Amazon. It's an Arcade1Up product, I think Costco does sell Arcade1Up stuff, I know some Best Buy stores sell them.  They make lots of arcade cabinet recreations.  They make 2 other pinball tables, one with a Marvel theme and one with a Star Wars theme.  I just hacked mine and loaded in the 20 games from those machines and I certainly made the right choice with the Williams recreation tables.  I've played about half of the tables I loaded in and they are not as much fun as the recreations of real tables.  Maybe for people that have never played a real pinball table they would like those, but having animated characters walking around the play field interacting with the ball is distracting and just feels wrong.   Once I've tried out all the tables I loaded in I have a feeling I'm not going to want to play them again so will probably undo the hack and reflash the roms back to orginal.

[MartyS]

I've done a few hacks to the table now, added 20 more tables with a firmware hack, mounted the solenoids upside down so they give a little more kick to the cabinet, and today moved the accelerometer board closer to the front of the cabinet.

 

The previous solenoid work was making the accelerometer react and tilt the table if the solenoids were firing a lot, mostly during multi-ball.  So I moved the board closer to the front of the cabinet, and moved the 2 bottom solenoids back a little.  Now I can turn the sensitivity for nudging back up to where bumping the cabinet moves the ball but the solenoids don't.

 

I meant to record some narration but got lazy and didn't, so it's mostly just a video of showing the work and some game play at the end.