A real Doom arcade

[Job]

I have a good friend whose dad works as an arcade machine distributor. One day, I was talking about the movie Grosse Point Blank and how cool the Doom 2 arcade machine was in there. My friend told me that his dad has a couple spare arcade machines I could tinker with if I wanted to make an actual Doom arcade. It sounds like fun, but I'm really not sure where to begin or if it's even a possibility.

[Linguica]

Seems like there are a lot of better games to put in an arcade machine

[Goat]

like space invaders

[0-Mephisto-0]

Actually I have seen a real doom arcade machine, it was about seven years ago. You could play final doom there, but i'm not sure which one. It was fun to play though, I used up a lot of money on that.

[Grimm]

Heh, arcade machines are fun. There was a dude I knew who found an arcade machine just sitting a dump (don't ask me what he was doing there), and he fixed it up so you didn't need quarters to play. I think it was Double Dragon or something. Just left it outside his house. Quite neat. :)

But hey, you know what would be really neat? Doom Arcade in an arcade machine! :P Just not so frickin' impossible this time around . . .

[SyntherAugustus]

There was a Doom II arcade machine that was featured in an old movie.

[deathbringer]

I think there was one in "Congo"

or it may have been on someone's PC, i know the game was in there somewhere

[Torn]

Job said:

One day, I was talking about the movie Grosse Point Blank and how cool the Doom 2 arcade machine was in there.

BlackFish said:

There was a Doom II arcade machine that was featured in an old movie.

Learn how to read?

[Job]

Heh, well if there are other ideas for an interesting game to put into the arcade machine, I'm open to suggestions. Mechanically though, I'm not sure how I could do it.

[High Flyin' Ryan]

Pacman is the all time best Arcade Game :-P

[SyntherAugustus]

Torn said:

Learn how to read?

There's another movie with it.

[Job]

High Flyin' Ryan said:

Pacman is the all time best Arcade Game :-P

That'd be a big waste.

BlackFish said:

There's another movie with it.

I recall there being a Kurt Russel movie with a kid playing PSX Doom in the background.

[Epyo]

High Flyin' Ryan said:

Pacman is the all time best Arcade Game :-P

YESSSS

[High Flyin' Ryan]

Everyone loves to play Pacman, how would that be a waste? ;)

[Remilia Scarlet]

Doom Doom Revolution.

Hey, I think I have a new programming project...

And actually, I never got into Pac-Man much, nor Ms. Pac-Man. I think it was the fact that all I ever had was the 2600 port of it. I was always more of a fighting game fan.

Near DU, they have an arcade which has Unreal Tournament in it. Inside the cabnet there's a joystick and some buttons (like wsad) to controll it. My friend tried it, but the controlls were horrible, and it actually ran a bit slower than it does on my laptop. Translating an fps to an arcade cabnet's hard. Maybe if you go the way of a fighting game or side-scroller.

[IMJack]

Just take the old electronics out of the case and put a PC with MAME and the Doom games in there. You'd need a proper control setup, but that's simple enough.

[Job]

IMJack said:

Just take the old electronics out of the case and put a PC with MAME and the Doom games in there. You'd need a proper control setup, but that's simple enough.

Heh, awesome. I'll consider making something that combines Doom with Parappa the Rapper and DDR. That should make for an interesting/dumb arcade.

NOTE: Making it a PacMan arcade would be a waste because there are already PacMan arcades in existence. If I have the chance to make something different/better, then I should.

[Ubik]

IMJack said:

Just take the old electronics out of the case and put a PC with MAME and the Doom games in there. You'd need a proper control setup, but that's simple enough.

I think the biggest problem would be weapon-switching. Either you'd need a scroll-wheel of sorts to go between them all, or a whole array of buttons on the side to select them individually.

As for me, though: GUARDIAN LEGEND ARCADE GAME.

[Job]

I wonder what kind of limitations there are to the advanced-ness of the game I could plunk in there. Because it'd open a lot of other options if I could. The whole point of this, though, was to make an arcade based off of one of id's 3d shooters. Because around where I live, I don't see any 3d shooter arcades. : /

[High Flyin' Ryan]

You are right about Pacman, but instead of making the same boring Pacman, someone should make a Pacman Doom. :P

[Epyo]

YESSS

Zpacman Doom 1
Zpacman Doom 2 (way cooler man)

[High Flyin' Ryan]

Holy Mick Foley, someone actually made a Pacman Doom :-O

[Sharessa]

I have Cacoman, made by Kaiser. It was made with some arcade game maker though, but it's still cool.

[Grazza]

High Flyin' Ryan said:

Holy Mick Foley, someone actually made a Pacman Doom :-O

Pacdoom (1994) was one of the best-known early graphic replacements for Doom. Look here.

[High Flyin' Ryan]

Thanks, never knew it even existed. That is awesome.

[Ubik]

Actually, I always thought a Doom rail-shooter would be kind of cool. Something like Time Crisis 3 with Barons and Cybers.

[gatewatcher]

deathbringer said:

I think there was one in "Congo"

or it may have been on someone's PC, i know the game was in there somewhere

It was on the PC, during the scene where you're first introduced to the gorilla.

[Bucket]

I think a number of people carved themselves an arcade stand with a normal PC configured specifically to run MAME. Sounds like a fun idea...

Also, has anyone played Sin while it was making the arcade rounds? I worked at the arcade at the time, and found that it booted straight from Windows. Can you say "waste of resources"?