Response to I finally got the opportunity to hang out with Joust God!!!

Like Steve said, it would be great to meet some of you other superstars in the flesh! There's nothing like watching these great players live and in color. They were just as awesome as advertised. I was wondering what the heck I was doing in the same room as them! ;)

As mentioned (and I know this doesn't exactly have much to do with MARP), Billy Mitchell was putting on an incredible display with PacMan, DK and Burgertime. Now here's the interesting slant that crossed my mind after having witnessed these guys playing. Billy was playing Burgertime in one of those Arcade 2000 cabinets. The Burgertime game was actually being played through MAME DOS 35 via Arcade@Home front end. However, the arcade cabinet and controls were for all intents and purposes not that different than the "real thing". Does this kind of blur the line between MAME TG records and arcade TG records? Playing Burgertime in this fashion is awfully close to being the same as playing it in a conversion cabinet of some sort. Hmmmm.

Anyway, it would be an honor to meet some of ya next time around!

JoustGod

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