Oh yeah, one more thing -- I got a couple more machines set up today. They're a Donkey Kong 3 and, in a New Astro City candy cab, Armed Police Batrider.

About VOOT, I don't have one myself but I do know who got the one from Illusionz. I believe they have it running at a place in Olympia or somewhere way out there. I could certainly inquire about it! I'll see what I can find out. Also I don't remember the specifics but I do remember that specific machine being some really rare and coveted revision.

wtf is up with seattle area having a shit load of popn music and oregon has absolutely nothing.  :C:C:C:C:C:C:C:C:

I may have to take back what I said about 4th+. People are coming out of the woodworks now saying they'd actually love to play it! I honestly didn't think it was that popular since back in the last days of IZ nobody touched the solo 4th+, but I'd be VERY HAPPY to be wrong.

We found a 5th mix around town tonight (Sky High Sports in Bellevue) and had a blast with it so that's always a good option too.

Edit: When are you going on Monday, Scott? I may stop by - I have the day off.

VO:OT > Crazy Taxi and DDR.

Seems pretty sweet so far.  It'd be cool if someone had a IIDX cabinet eventually to put into this place, but I'm sure it would be better to invest that kind of money into upgrades to say the Pop'n cabinet down the line.

If you do put your Extreme cab in, I'd like to second having 4th Plus or 5th Mix.  I'm pretty tired of EXTREME, its good and all, but most of the stuff in it... sans the licenses is playable in SN2.  If Suko could get his ITG2 cab in there too, that would be really cool.

I'm happy about Mr. Driller G, always loved Mr. Driller.  If you have Puzzle Fighter, that would always be fun to have in there too, especially if someone were to throw a Puzzle Fighter tournament or something.

I really doubt that anybody in WA state is ever going to get a IIDX cabinet, and I would caution them against it if they wanted to. Most Bemani cabinets are a few grand on e-bay if you get a good deal; IIDX cabs, AFAIK, still cost AT LEAST 10 grand, and that's not factoring for upgrades and whatnot. Further, even though everybody apparently loves them, Bill's attempt at having one was an abysmal failure in terms of people paying enough money to maintain it. It's just not really financially feasible.

I'll certainly buy a IIDX if I ever find a deal on one, but that's a pretty big "if"! Stranger things have happened, though. You never know.

Holy hell man. If they have one for sale and you opt to not buy it, please let me know about it, because I just might be interested in it.

I'll probably be there around 11 or so on Monday. Not positive, but that's what I'm shooting for.

Okay, I went and got them myself, so now I believe it.

Oh, and a video too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCoNBdtlXNE

A couple little updates: Mr Driller G and Armed Police Batrider have been added (in New Astro City candy cabinets, all new sticks/buttons), as well as classics Marble Madness and Donkey Kong 3. Baby Pac-Man and Gorf are out. We're rapidly transitioning things from the old op's games to mine, so expect the classics lineup to get a shakeup (if anyone cares .

Last night it was pretty lively in there, which was really exciting to me. Best of all the people didn't even seem to be "scene" types so much as random UW students, so word must be spreading. More to come soon! I need to get as many cabs up and running as possible in the next couple of days so we can shuffle the old op's games out, but I'll be tackling the DDR arrow sliding issue ASAP.

When I was there with Kevin, James, and Laura on Saturday there were a bunch of non-community people there. It was cool too, as the machines just got there!

Bobby, is there a Facebook / Twitter for PG Seattle or the arcade?

PS: Please don't get rid of Crazy Taxi and Ms. Pac Man

http://twitter.com/pinkgorillallc

The place in Olympia that has a lot of Illisionz stuff is Lazer Fun Zone.
http://laserfunzoneolympia.com/

They have ITG2 and DDR EXTREME from Illusions.

It seems like they could get a decent fighting game crowd going if they hooked up a 360/ps3 with SF4, Tekken, Blazblue etc...  probably be better then getting actual arcade hardware as long as it were in a cabinet setup.

I also know they have a crap load of PG plushies, if anyone comes across a cheap claw machine/ufo catcher, it would be another cool thing to throw in there.  Unless it takes up too much space.

We're going to set up a dedicated Facebook/Twitter for the arcade stuff. The only question, really, is whether it should be an account for just the Pink Gorilla Arcade or for myself as an "op," since technically I might eventually have games in other locations. Anyway, we'll figure out what we're doing and get something set up within the next couple of days.

Crazy Taxi is mine and I bought it specifically for PG, so it's not going anywhere. Ms Pac on the other hand belongs to the other op, so it's getting yanked, but it will be replaced by.. My even nicer Ms Pac! I'm not sure if the transition will be seamless -- it all depends on when the op comes to get his games -- but at any rate, there will definitely be a Ms Pac in the arcade.

And yeah Gosha, we've really been wanting to do the "UFO catcher full of plushies" thing, but we only want to do it if we can find an authentic Japanese style UFO catcher as opposed to the lame US crane games. It's definitely on the list of ideas we're pursuing, though.

So I went and played SN2 at PG today. It was awesome. I didn't do nearly as well on SN2 as I thought I would, I think I was paying too much attention to the Mav timing and not enough attention to my stomps, but oh well.

The arrows are a bit loose, but I hardly even noticed it. This machine worked just fine for me and it's better than the majority of machines I've found outside of ACME.

I think that 4th Mix & 5th mix are like the NES and SNES today. They're retro and old, but many people still like to play them because they were so damn good. The newer stuff definitely looks better, but looks aren't everything. I think that if newbies want to play, they'll probably gravitate towards SN2, but most of us veteran players are always looking for a good old-school mix to play on.

I don't think you could charge the same price for 4th Mix as you do for SN2, and I would bet it won't get as much consistent play as SN2, but if you have it there for .75 for 4 songs and perhaps with Double Premium, I'm likely to play that as much as SN2. Then again, I was the same dude who played Max 2 more than any of the other machines when I went down to ACME, so perhaps I'm just overly nostalgic.

5th mix isn't actually good, haha
Maybe more like SNES and dreamcast.  it has a couple of redeeming qualities ;P

I probably wouldn't pay $1 to play something older than max2 or so but I'd definitely go out of my way to play it.  If you briefly stuck a max machine in there I'd love you forever

YES to DDRMAX. The days when I first played that game at Illusionz were some of the best memories I have.

Max would be awesome... for about a week. Then everyone would bitch about the relatively small size of the songlist and want something else.

You betcha for that week though I'd play the shit out of it least until I AAA everything max exclusive, and then I'd continue to play it anyway

It's at Laser Fun Zone

I'll just be honest and say that there's probably not much chance that I'll make the second cab into a MAX 1 or 2, just for personal reasons -- I never liked those mixes at all and they remind me of what I consider the "rapid decline" era of Illusionz. Sorry to anyone who considered those years the glory days! If there's overwhelming demand I'll reconsider, of course!

My personal preference would be 4th+, then Extreme, then 5th. Seems like Extremes are around quite a bit though, so I'd probably be more likely to run 5th than Extreme. I only wish you all loved Disney's Rave like I do -- I have a legit PCB for that with side pops and everything and would love to put it in a cab. Somehow I'm guessing it's not on anyone's wish list.

There's a Disney's Rave across from where I work. I've only played there a handful of times and I already feel like I've owned the game in every way. Unfortunately, unlike the PSX version, very few of the songs have charts that rate above a 5 on the 1-10 scale and one of the songs (I can't remember which) literally only had left and right arrows for the entire stepchart.

The mix is a lot of fun and a novelty, but like Max1, it quickly loses it's luster and would probably get ignored.

+1 Vote for 4th Mix+. I can't wait to play Operator, Dub-I-Dub, and Dancing All Alone.

I only wish for Max1 for like, a week, haha

Of the mixes you like, I vote for 4th+, personally.

My vote is for 4th +, too. There are enough places (albeit shitty ones) to play 5th that Extreme would be my second choice.