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Hey guys, my name is Mark, I'm 16 and I'm a paper boy :D My interests are comic books, horror films and sega consoles from my childhood. I recently got into arcade gaming back in August when I got my Sega Astro City, though only have 1 game(Marvel Super heroes), as well, I'm broke :D Hoping to get into Cave games, funds pending :cry:

Hope I didn't bore anyone :mrgreen:
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word up mark, did you manage to get GGPO on your cab yet? :)
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Munchies wrote:I'm broke :D Hoping to get into Cave games, funds pending :cry:
'Broke' and Cave games don't sit too well together, but you've got taste, I'll give you that. :wink:

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Welcome to the shmups community. Around here we dodge bullets and blow shit up.
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MUNCHIES

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Ruldra wrote:Welcome to the shmups community. Around here we dodge bullets and blow shit up.
All I do is run into bullets.
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captpain wrote:
Ruldra wrote:Welcome to the shmups community. Around here we dodge bullets and blow shit up.
All I do is run into bullets.
Better than running out of bullets or shooting blanks though isn't it?
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I guess I'm not one of the youngest people here anymore. :P Welcome!
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Man that's a lot of papers to deliver. I bought a computer with my first job, in hindsight a cab might've been a better way to spend $1000, but oh well.
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Thanks all for your kind words :D Didn't realise there was a lot of people from arcade otaku over here. Nah Chris not yet :cry: It has just been sitting there need to get funds for a tri sync chassis. Cabinets are money pits :cry:
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Ed Oscuro wrote:or shooting blanks though isn't it?
Is a positive :D
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Munchies wrote::D Didn't realise there was a lot of people from arcade otaku over here.
Were like an STD. we get around :mrgreen:
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Nice to see a young guy with appreciation for the classics!

Like Sega consoles? Then collect Saturn and Megadrive shmups with me! Forget that Cave junk!
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The only consoles I had that were Sega was the megadrive and the dreamcast, had the playstation instead of a saturn :D The saturn interests me but my dad isn't prepared to order me one because he thinks the games are ****.
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Welcome! You'll have to work on your dad w/ the Saturn thing, because it's a fantastic console :)
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Munchies wrote:The only consoles I had that were Sega was the megadrive and the dreamcast, had the playstation instead of a saturn :D The saturn interests me but my dad isn't prepared to order me one because he thinks the games are ****.
Fact of the matter is there are a whole heap of sega Saturn games which are fantastic. Did you know Resident evil first came out in the EU on the sega saturn and apparently runs faster too.
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Munchies wrote:The only consoles I had that were Sega was the megadrive and the dreamcast, had the playstation instead of a saturn :D The saturn interests me but my dad isn't prepared to order me one because he thinks the games are ****.
I made the same mistake when I was a kid. Nights disappointed me so much i had my mom turn in my saturn (and all my games including Guardian Heroes!) to get me a Playstation. I loved my Playstation and i do not regret my choice,. I do regret missing out on Burning Rangers and panzer Dragoon Saga, though. Playstation and Saturn are great systems in their own right but I think I still like the PS1 better. Even though the JP library on Saturn is godly. Pick up a cheap JP Saturn and join in the fun!
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I would love to pick up some Saturn stuff, the language barrier is my main concern :(
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Greetings, young humanoid....welcome to shmup.org!
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Hi there and welcome, Munchies.

It's never too late to get your feet wet with the Japanese candy cab hobby (or arcade PCB hobby for that matter). Hint-hint: the cheapest Cave shmup PCB to get/own is an Ibara PCB. Or better yet, why not aim for an Ibara PCB full kit instead?

When I was your age, I was into the cool R/C cars made by Kyosho -- another expensive hobby right there. Japanese candy cabs were not a big deal in the USA back in the early to the late 1980s (unless you consider the Japanese cocktail-styled cabs that were imported to the USA back in 1982-1983). I would see plenty of them Japanese cocktail-table cabs at my local Chuckie E. Cheese's back in the early 1980s. Even the rare Funai/ESP's 1983 deluxe sit-down cab of Interstellar Laserdisc arcade shmup made an appearance over at that same CEC location for a few years (later converted into an Data East's Cobra Command laserdisc game conversion).

If you could take a time machine back to the Golden Age of the arcades era...the early 1980s was the place to be. ^_~

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Welcome to the site :D
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Today for the second time from the other side of the future, young person! I forgot that your back section area, before a person plays with the electric game, verify that it becomes clean always and expresses itself!

Once more welcome to the place where the shmup.org is being sweet, it does!
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I didn't know you had an Engrish vocalization module, Robotron. Or maybe you need a reboot?
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