The Joystiq Weekend: February 9 - 10, 2008
by Ross Miller 
{ Feb 10th 2008 at 11:59PM }
Mario Bros. arcade cabinet perfectly to scale (with some minor MAME modifications)," he told us. You can also view some of the progress at this blog. Check out the highlights for this weekend:
Joystiquery
Japanese hardware sales, Jan. 28 - Feb. 3: The unremarkable return
Joystiq Podcast 037 - Lions on meth edition
PS Fanboy Week in Review: 2/4 - 2/10
Weekly Webcomic Wrapup wins an award*
News
Director of next Mortal Kombat movie talks 're-envisioning'
EA's Facebreaker trailer makes its debut, lacks gameplay
Splash Damage growing, confirms new multi-platform project
Heed Totilo's warning -- keep a late Mass Effect save to play new DLC
Gently weep over your DS with Bandai Namco's 99 Tears
New Monster Hunter on PSP includes installlation option
The Club nods at Gears of War's "Seriously" achievement
Turok devs blame delay on PS3 version
Student hospitalized after suffering leg burns from pocketed PSP
Professor Layton sequel already 'confirmed' for U.S.
Ex-Marine goes missing supposedly after Call of Duty triggered flashbacks
Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 gameplay video looks familiar
TMBG, Natasha Bedingfield headline Sims 2 FreeTime soundtrack
Culture & Community
The surreal Nintendo artwork of Jimi Benedict
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
colin @ Feb 11th 2008 12:08AM
i am thinking about building a mame cabinet. any suggestions? everybody has different opinions on the mame webs. my main concern is the computer part. PIII 1 Ghz is the current plan, anyone know from experience how it will hold up?
BPM VII: Crisis Core @ Feb 11th 2008 1:31AM
I don't know why, but I really liked the sky blue style of Nintendo arcades of yore...
Negativecool @ Feb 11th 2008 2:39AM
Now that I look at the machine that started it all...I can't understand why "Mario" isn't the brothers' last name.
Think about it--- "Mario Brothers."
I'm thinking like Jimmy and Bimmy Mario. Not Mario and Luigi.
*sigh*
It's a crazy post 9/11 world we live in I tell ya.
BPM VII: Crisis Core @ Feb 11th 2008 2:51AM
Mario Mario and Luigi Mario.
There's three Marios. What's not to get?
TheOverlord#2 @ Feb 11th 2008 6:58AM
If you look @ the side, Mario on the pipe has an arrow like
Negativecool @ Feb 11th 2008 7:48PM
BPM VII: Crisis Core-
I seriously hope that was sarcasm...otherwise, you sir, are an idiot.
BPM VII: Crisis Core @ Feb 11th 2008 10:24PM
Have you not seen the SMB movie?
Chris @ Feb 11th 2008 8:48AM
One of our local arcades just closed after about seventeen years, because some contractor bought the property with the adjoining stores to tear them down and build new buildings.
Anyway, after the guy was moved out, some friends of mine and I got a chance to go over to the old arcade and look around to see if he left any cool stuff. We found a gutted Mario Bros. Cabinet, like the one pictured above, that the arcade owner just left in there to be torn down. It's kind of sad. Of course, we also found a ton of magazines from 1982, so that's cool. There's even a video magazine that's frontpage headline reads: "Sony KO'd in Round Two: Beta Maker Vows to Fight Back." We got a chuckle out of it.
Anyway, good things did come out of the closing. The owner ended up selling me a pretty sweet Capcom CPS-2 machine, complete with the boards for Super Street Fighter 2: Turbo, Marvel Super Heroes, X-Men: Children of the Atom, Giga Wing, Alien Vs. Predator and Dungeons and Dragons: Tower of Doom.
He also gave me a Stun Runner and a Nintendo Vs. dualsystem that he said didn't work. After reseating some of the cables, I found that both of the machines work fine, they just need to be cleaned up.
Quite an awesome haul, if you ask me.
NeverSage @ Feb 11th 2008 4:57PM
Nice!
It'd be cool to own one of these. But they take up too much room. I'd probably go for the Ms. Pac Man/Gallaga route anyway
Bill @ Feb 12th 2008 3:46PM
When I was around 9 or 10 I was at my great grandmothers wake. I was wandering around aimlessly and opened a random door downstairs, and this arcade machine was in a tiny little room maybe twice the size of the machine itself. Totally random, but a true story.
Co @ Feb 11th 2008 1:49PM
I....don't even know what to say?
Oh wait...did you play it?