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Here's a weird arcade cabinet for ya...
#268213 - 11/08/11 09:38 PM
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Saw a weird arcade cabinet a few weeks ago - but it wasn't really an arcade game.
Stopped at a local haunted attraction with some friends prior to Halloween.
As I walked through the main gate, I saw what appeared to be a cluster of arcade games outside the haunted houses.
I got a closer look (naturally), and it turned out to be some sort of "Insert 25 cents to scare someone!" attraction.
Instead of a video game on the monitor (IIRC it was a CRT), they had a live video feed from inside the haunted house.
Inserting a coin gave you control over a big red button that inside activated an actuator/solenoid setup that made something move inside one of the haunted houses and scare a guest. This was all stuffed inside an arcade cabinet.
So you could watch someone walk up inside the haunted house, and then press the button at the opportune time.
I took a cellphone picture but it's really crappy.
Emulate that! 
- Stiletto
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Re: Here's a weird arcade cabinet for ya...
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#268224 - 11/08/11 11:31 PM
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What city/place was this? Post the crappy pic?
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Sounds illegal.... (nt)
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#268245 - 11/09/11 05:26 AM
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Consider it high comedy....sincere tragedy....whatever...don't take it personally.
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> What city/place was this? Post the crappy pic?
Mountville, PA. "Field of Screams"
Again, it's not really an arcade game. It's an arcade cabinet-shaped housing for a closed-circuit TV and a big button.
They say on their website:
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Scare Booths
The Scare Booths are two arcade style games that allow you to view and control a scare located nearby in the Entertainment Area. As patrons pass by the scare, you activate it and send your victim screaming away - all while you stand there and watch! Back again this year is the ever popular Explode Commode
- Stiletto
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Edited by Stiletto (11/10/11 04:21 AM)
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Re: Here's a weird arcade cabinet for ya...
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#268319 - 11/10/11 05:26 AM
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> > What city/place was this? Post the crappy pic?
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> Mountville, PA. "Field of Screams"
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> Again, it's not really an arcade game. It's an arcade cabinet-shaped housing for a
> closed-circuit TV and a big button.
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> They say on their website:
> Scare Booths
> The Scare Booths are two arcade style games that allow you to view and control a
> scare located nearby in the Entertainment Area. As patrons pass by the scare, you
> activate it and send your victim screaming away - all while you stand there and
> watch! Back again this year is the ever popular Explode Commode
It really is ingenious, in an evil sort of way. 
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Re: Here's a weird arcade cabinet for ya...
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#268341 - 11/10/11 05:29 PM
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> So you could watch someone walk up inside the haunted house, and then press the
> button at the opportune time.
That's great, sort of a do-it-yourself version of the "scare zones" at the big parks' Halloween setups where actors pop out (and up and down and anywhere they can fit them) to scare people.
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Re: Here's a weird arcade cabinet for ya...
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#268801 - 11/17/11 08:42 AM
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The MAME dev team should add this game to MAME!!! Nah, that would be silly...(kinda like adding the hundreds of mechanical games)... JUST JOKING... here comes the heat!
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