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Xbox Coming to Arcades
Stanl writes "The San Jose Mercury News reports that Microsoft will be taking Xbox technology into arcades, including a statement that, 'arcade titles influence the kind of console games that fans buy.' That is an interesting unattributed observation."
Do I get to "play" till the machine dies?
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Do we get to put mod-chips in these arcades and run linux on them too?
...an 80" BSOD!
Send lawyers, guns, and money!
Imagine the size of those arcades!
They still make those?
There is no reasonable defense against an idiot with an agenda
:wq
I think I remember hearing that the home console had killed the video arcade.
No, it's worse than that. They're putting X-Boxes in the arcade - instead of the machines being dead, they're just going to "die" on the player at unexpected intervals.
"Alright, seventy-hit combo! A new high-scor---"
"The application TEKKEN~1.EXE has performed an illegal function and will be shut down. Press LOW PUNCH, LOW KICK and COIN RETURN to continue."
"Goddamnit."
...you must agree to the game's EULA-- after you put the quarter in!
~Philly
In other news, Michael Robertson announces $200,000 in prize money to whomever can boot Linux on a Microsoft arcade console. $100,000 to whomever first boots Linux, and another $100,000 to whomever can do it without a quarter.
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Cheese it! It's the FEDS!
Microsoft announced today that XBox technology would be a federal requirement for all licensed preschools. FCC Chairman Michael Powell explained that this was a good decision, a consensus decision and had no political component to it whatsoever. After everyone stopped laughing, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer explained that exposing preschoolers to the technology now ensured a steady revenue stream for Microsoft. Ballmer then announced that the first game available will be "Dancing Monkeyboy". Players will jump around trying to collect developers. If they sweat too much, have a coronary or get hit with the dreaded "Monopolist" tag, they lose.
Well, I disagree with what you say, however I can't respond right now because I am about to get off work and go play Mechassault on Xbox live...
hella fun game
From what I've seen in MAME, the best way to make money in Japan is build a fairly basic Mahjong simulator that has lots of naked women in it. This is just an observation.
Maybe Microsoft should take that into consideration!
No, and remember the way to destroy that evil Microsoft corperation is to buy the arcade cabinets and then don't buy any games for it, that'll teach 'em and their evil ways.
Oooh, and when you have bought one of their cabinets, don't put any money into the slot, that'll really throw them into the evil pit of despair that is bankruptcy.