A Wealthy Man Backs Your Game Convention...

[cicada88]

You meet a man who finds out you are into video games from all eras. Instantly, he hands you a credit card with no limit and says get whatever game related equipment to make it the best experience for the attendees.

What would you get? Any era, PC, Console, handheld etc. Focus is on multiplayer/rare experiences.

I'll start it off...

6 Player X-Men Cab

Triple Monitor Ninja Warriors

Triple Monitor Darius

4 Player Cadash

10 Player Saturn Bomberman Setup

10 Player XBox Steel Battalion Setup

[Xyga]

You meet a man
...
Instantly, he hands you a credit card with no limit
...
What would you get?
...
Focus is on multiplayer/rare experiences.

*cough*

I think I'd get all the greatest, crazyest multi/linked dedicated cabinets of any genre (too long to list).
And a super large cosy building in a nice city to create an unparalelled arcade.

[Strikers1945guy]

Like 8 candy cabs

Run all Yagawa games.

Watch people cry

Invite and fly down Mr. Yagawa himself so he can watch the glory while chain smoking and playing majong games on his DS.

Run 2 competitions with cash prizes to highest scores in:

Pink sweets score attack
Ibara Harder mode

Ultimate success

[cicada88]

Like 8 candy cabs

Run all Yagawa games.

Recca in a Candy Cab running off an RGB modded Famicom would be cool too

[Xyga]

Recca in a Candy Cab running off an RGB modded Famicom would be cool too

I've seen it <3 (the cart was an Everdrive though)

Back on topic I was thinking of the Initial D4 Arcade Stage with full-size model racing cars.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I-a5onDg7s

Linked please.

NEED

[iconoclast]

A full Steel Battalion: Line of Contact 5v5 system link setup.

[Bananamatic]

1 sdoj cab and a lot of cocaine

[cicada88]

1 sdoj cab and a lot of cocaine

quite the purist

[KAI]

A beatmania IIDX cab with all 23 games on it (9999999999999 times better than cocaine).

[bulbousbeard]

Some more necessities:

* Big Blue cabinet with Street Fighter 2: Champion Edition
* Candy cabinet with Street Fighter 3: Third Strike
* Candy cabinet with Puyo Puyo 2
* Neo Geo 6 slot with Puzzle Bobble, Samurai Shodown II, Magical Drop III, The Last Blade, Metal Slug 3, and one of the awesome Neo Geo sports games (Windjammers, Baseball Stars 2, Soccer Brawl, 2020 Super Baseball...can't go wrong with any of them).
* 4 player Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara
* 4 player Warlords cabinet
* Rampage cabinet
* NBA Jam: Tournament Edition cabinet with the Mortal Kombat characters
* 6 player tournament Guardian Heroes Saturn setup
* 3 player Big Blue cabinet with Alien vs. Predator
* SNES setup with Contra III
* Genesis setup with Gunstar Heroes
* 4 player multitap Genesis setup with Yu Yu Hakusho
* Joust cabinet
* 4 Player Sunset Riders cabinet

[chempop]

Like 8 candy cabs

Run all Yagawa games.

Watch people cry

Invite and fly down Mr. Yagawa himself so he can watch the glory while chain smoking and playing majong games on his DS.

Run 2 competitions with cash prizes to highest scores in:

Pink sweets score attack
Ibara Harder mode

Ultimate success

Don't forget it would have to be in a rented church. Cavehermit would have to make an appearance, dresss as a bishop, naturally.

[cicada88]

Some more necessities:

* Big Blue cabinet with Street Fighter 2: Champion Edition
* Candy cabinet with Street Fighter 3: Third Strike
* Candy cabinet with Puyo Puyo 2
* Neo Geo 6 slot with Puzzle Bobble, Samurai Shodown II, Magical Drop III, The Last Blade, Metal Slug 3, and one of the awesome Neo Geo sports games (Windjammers, Baseball Stars 2, Soccer Brawl, 2020 Super Baseball...can't go wrong with any of them).
* 4 player Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara
* 4 player Warlords cabinet
* Rampage cabinet
* NBA Jam: Tournament Edition cabinet with the Mortal Kombat characters
* 6 player tournament Guardian Heroes Saturn setup
* 3 player Big Blue cabinet with Alien vs. Predator
* SNES setup with Contra III
* Genesis setup with Gunstar Heroes
* 4 player multitap Genesis setup with Yu Yu Hakusho
* Joust cabinet
* 4 Player Sunset Riders cabinet

Lot of good ones for sure. Definitely would have linked versions of every fighting game with a player base and all the good 3+ Player beat em ups.

4 Player Warlords Cocktail is God Tier



Another one I thought of is 3 Player Turbo Force (never played this but I would like to)

[Obiwanshinobi]

Massive LAN party, for LAN gaming seems dead in the water anymore (except for Japanese trains perhaps). From Game Link Cable to linked consoles, cabs and - naturally, most prominent of all - computers, so nobody should feel singled out.
As easily most space- and other resources-demanding in its heyday, I can only hope LAN gaming will benefit from the recent mobile hegemony as well.

[cicada88]

Massive LAN party, for LAN gaming seems dead in the water anymore (except for Japanese trains perhaps). From Game Link Cable to linked consoles, cabs and - naturally, most prominent of all - computers, so nobody should feel singled out.
As easily most space- and other resources-demanding in its heyday, I can only hope LAN gaming will benefit from the recent mobile hegemony as well.

What older computer games would be considered legendary for LAN play?

[gameoverDude]

NesicaXLive cabinets with:
Crimzon Clover, Spica Adventure

Power Drift tilting sit-down cabinet
Galaxy Force SDX version
Super Sprint 3P cab
Road Blasters sit-down
720 Degrees
Quartet 4P cab
Big Blue cabinet with Super SFII
Big Blue with SFIII 3rd Strike
Ridge Racer Full Scale
Starblade
Nebulas Ray
Neo-Geo MVS with all carts, including Fast Striker, Razion, Gunlord

All Yagawa and Cave games

All 5 Time Crisis games (TC4 dual mode is a rare experience when the PS4 version doesn't do it justice thanks to no link play)
Crisis Zone
Gitadora (follow up to Drummania & Guitar Freaks franchises)

[Obiwanshinobi]

Wasn't Doom the first LAN gaming smash hit? Then I suppose Quake III Arena netplay is as evergreen as the original UT vs bots. Then much younger games already disabled online (such as OutRun 2006) remain virtually alive there thanks to LAN emulation...
People interested in the event would must vote for their most desired titles in advance I guess. This kind of democracy internet is good for.

Oh, Warcraft II or the original Myth - that sort of stuff too.