We all play our console game machines for free at home but did you know that there existed game machines for "industrial use" where one would pay something like 100 yen for 15 mins to play on the Famicom or Super Famicom? More game machines at Isesaki.
Interesting... Was that used for game (p)reviews?
why would a reviewer pay 100 yen for 15 minutes to review a game? anyways, i think this is more in the line of a cheap alternative to buying arcade machines. just provide your on big monitor, hook the machine up and then leave it in your laundromat or whatever place of business.
You're right, didn't see the special lock there. Mind's blurry, too much fooly cooly. ^^;
too much gainax will screw your mind my friend, be sure to take a break
I will. Thanks for the warning. *laughs*
there's an arcade in orlando that has a similar type deal. they have an arcade cabinet with MAME on it, and for just a quarter you can choose whatever game you want from a long list of arcade games (for example, they have every version of street fighter 2 on it) and play it.
Hmm, this is interesting. I would love to have one of those in my office, pay everytime I want to play Super Mario and use that money for good use(or atleast pay for gasoline).
I've seen a playstation one in Las Vegas, and I was looking at the parts to mount my xbox in my arcade cabinet, but I don't have the right monitor.
interesting. we have some console rental shops here but not like that where you insert coin to play... i wonder how they build that and modified it ^^
never knew that sort of "for industrial use" game consoles existed... when i was growing up, there used to be this shop near my house where the owner bought a few ps ans ps2, a few hundred game titles and charged us 3 bucks an hour for the ps and 5 bucks for the ps2... me made big bucks doing it for a few years...
i seen these this some time ago...in some of the arcade centers here...i dont see them anymore though
I remember at one point in time there was something called Play-Choice 10 that was an NES set into an arcade cabinet. You'd select between 10 games (hence the name), and putting more quarters in would give you more time. I always felt it was a rip-off, but then again I was a spoiled kid that already had a bunch of NES games, usually the ones I wanted to play in the PC-10, too.
I love that the Famicom (NES to those of us in the US) looks like a WWII era radio. Awesome mod!
Hmm, seems unique to me.. Maybe I could try that so that when people visit my house they have to pay 10cents to play my PS2 for 30mins.. :)
I bet it was in a hotel room. When I went to Japan they had a similar slot for 100 yen coins to watch the porn xD;
Interesting... I guess these machines are for those peopole who just can't stop coming to your home... Wanna play? Pay up!
I played before .... They make the ps2 in a box like the machine at the arcane....for 3kingdom musou~ when the times run out...you cant control..the game didnt end
The machine at the arcane? That sounded somewhat... cool! XD The arcane machine... Anyways, back in the dayze, game rental stores had something similar... only instead of making a machine to control time, they had a guy to time 30 minutes of videogame playing for similar prices. Here in Brazil, paying a crappy wage for someone to time the console rental is far cheaper than building an automated machine to do the same thing. Unfortunately no one does that anymore. I'd really like to have PS3, X-Box 360 and Wii renditions of those. I still don't think it's worth buying last gen consoles (apart from portables), but all three have games I'd like to try.
Uwaaa, this reminds me of childhood... xD Used to play famicom a lot... XD Poor famicom, I have no idea where you are now though... xD
that's good.... u can see ps2 rental almost everywhere in jakarta.... the system is that the receptionist will ask you how many hours do u want to play and he/she will set the timer on the TV.
I played in one of those rentals during my junior high school days, not in Jakarta though. ^^
Don't know about the SuFami, but I know one can pay a certain amount to play the PS or PS2 in certain stores. Don't know what the rate is though.
Ooh, oldschool. Paying to play a console isn't that rare, we got it here in Sweden too. But, I rather buy my console.
my god. those are like centuries old @_@
No, don't look down on my Golden Age! X|
My Childhood.
Danny, you love to see us smile. :)
...I never thought some people still pay for an old-school game....
You can get boards that allow you to use MegaDrive/Genesis carts and other consoles as arcade machines... I remember a dairy down from my old school had one about 10 years ago with Street Fighter 2... Oh, and there was also that "Playchoice" thing for SNES and NES.
Thanks 4 the info. My PS2 W/ 80 gb hardisc is my business because for only 1 peso coin can play 5 minutes.
I think I've seen that before somewhere, pretty interesting. From the looks of the first one, they were using an NES to play the games. Maybe it won't crap out over time through blowing in catridges.
They provide you with everything in some Xbox rental shop I saw somewhere in Singapore, but if you're going to visit it regularly it's a real hassle.
Wow, interesting! Never see it before. But that reminds me of those game on airplane. =P
Wow sugoi! Wouldn't mind one of them myself. ^^
