The coin op game industry lost the biscuit

 When i was a teenager in college i spent 5 grand pounds on ghost and goblins and scramble down in NIHE Limerick in one year.


I drank like a lunatic got pissed 7 bulmers cider 2 smithwicks 2 vodka and cycled home on my raleigh with 501 tubine from limerick city centre to my house without putting my hands on the handlebars after 2am.


Then i cycled nihe limerick to mallow with rucksack on my back with stereo and no lights at night.


I'd say my beautiful bike was seen it was stolen the following week.


And then i failed college with a 1.17qca about 42% average convinced i did better than a D+ in digital electronics.

 

I repeated in RTC cork and came out with 54.1% average in electronics engineering.

Then i had a job in msd europe where the idea of sysadmin of a point of sales system was delete all files in castleblaney the job lasted 3 weeks.

Then to PCSL where i was a games programmer i did lingo a amastrad cpc464 version of wurdle but far more complex a 120k game in 64k ram. I used the video buffer to decompress stage one loading characters for the game with video off nobody noticed.


Then I wrote boozy the alcoholic horse a dos alcohol education game than unfortunately encourages one to drink and the main game character looks like he is on meth google eyes like me and i went into psychiatry where my life with psychiatry is like pac man the psychiatric nurses and doctors being the ghosts truth is stranger than fiction.

In my next job in apple computers working for colm murphy jim hodnett and jim kateley i came across mame the multiple arcade machine emulator and thought the code was amazing it respectably ran ghost and goblins on a 60 mhz power pc.

We did software download and had all the gold on our machines free gold yet we were too stupid to install this gold on the performa macs.

Coin op game addiction is ego poker you waste money you want to waste money to get better at the game.

Without money or paying a fortune for the games you have no respect for the talent it takes to make games like grand theft auto.

Something not paid handsomely for is not valued.

I even paid 650 euro for one extra lesson on the charisma on command youtube website it was worth it.

I don't mind paying.


The purpose of this website is to get people back playing coin ops.

Playstation isn't making much money anymore all the games on the mame emulator for raspberry pi  aren't addictive no interaction with others.

I hope to give some appreciation for the masters of games writers and whats involved in writing a game in this blog and hope that taito nintendo sony and others can make money out of mame as arcade coin ops again.










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