Thats a good question, it would be nice to know what inside those puppies...
Curt
Jason McBrien wrote:
>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.
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>I wonder what's in those new boxes.. Think it's just an embedded micro
>running an emulator? Fewer parts == cheaper to build.
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Curt vendel" <curt_at_atarimuseum.com>
>To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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>Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 1:52 PM
>Subject: Re: Space Invaders returning to arcades...
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>>Its ridiculous price gouging, the cost to put such a unit together is
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>>$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
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>Midway
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>>machine, the Taito unit is also a dual machine with both Space Invaders
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>>Qix together...
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>>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.
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>>Curt
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>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Bryan Pope" <bpope_at_wordstock.com>
>>To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
>>Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 1:25 PM
>>Subject: Space Invaders returning to arcades...
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>>>Check this out:
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>http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/fun.games/12/05/space.invaders.reut/index.html
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>>>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!
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>>><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>
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>>>Cheers,
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>>>Bryan Pope
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Received on Fri Dec 05 2003 - 14:41:59 GMT