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Peter Hirschberg's Private Arcade |
BobaFett
Joined: Jan 06, 2004
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From: Kamino (wish it would be Lund)
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"If I ever start to obsessively collect things, I'll make a conscious effort to choose something small like vacuum tubes or flash memory cards. I definitely won't choose arcade machines, because it would take only a year or two to completely fill my basement.
Peter Hirschberg and family recently faced this very problem (you might remember his brilliant LEDhead handheld game emulator and Vertibird simulator from past posts). While he could have restricted himself to a collection of vintage Mattel handhelds, Hirschberg started buying and restoring classic arcade machines from the 1980s.
His collection eventually overran the basement and his kids' former playroom. In a desperate quest to reclaim the house and avoid cocktail game cabinets in the dining room, Peter and his wife Julie did what any average Generation-X couple would do -- they built a separate 2-story 2400 square foot building and dubbed it Luna City Arcade. Heck, it even had its own blog to document the construction process."
http://www.retrothing.com/2008/02/peter-hirschber.html
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Cycovision
Joined: Nov 30, 2003
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From: England
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He's never heard of MAME, then? 
Nah, this is uber-cool in a very geeky sort of way. My business sidekick and I have been collecting old computers for years, we're planning to make a little computer museum one day.
But it won't be as smart or expensive as that!
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Posted: 2008-02-08 15:56
