MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Bored public gives up Pac-Man for poker

nice clip, quality is decent too

but yeah, it shows how these things did displace the classics, and we know they continued to do so even well after this.

over here it was more the fruit machines, so the video feels very 'american' compared to what I might expect of a similar thing filmed over here.

and of course it was the same in Italy, hence why we find so many Italian ones, and then hacks of Italian ones that claim to be following some new legislation etc. I think maybe it just mainly started happening a bit later there, so it was more the 90s games that were replaced? There definitely seem to be more of this kind of thing from the 90s if we look at the Italian market at least. Would be interesting to know for sure if there are similar reports from there tho.

from what I gather a lot of Eastern Europe was the same, hence why we have sets from Hungary and the like. I think a lot of the ones from that region were ultimately destroyed tho as it doesn't seem like interest in old machines or gaming caught on to the same level as elsewhere in order to build the scenes of people collecting them / preserving them as a personal hobby.

China looks like an interesting market too, seems like they ended up with things like
https://sc01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1.jvGFXXXXXXBcpXXq6xXFXXXG/220305937/HTB1.jvGFXXXXXXBcpXXq6xXFXXXG.jpg
everywhere instead (afaik we don't actually emulate any of them yet, we have maybe 1 or 2 dumped but they don't work) Those often end up being called 'Mario' games for some reason, I think maybe because a lot of the themeing was bootleg Mario stuff but I'm not sure. There was a guy here asking for various very specific bits of help in emulating them a year or two back, and apparently there was some commercial Chinese thing along the lines of the PGM2 hack being sold a year later, which I suspect is connected, but not useful to us. Not sure anybody bothered to crack / distribute it tho (the guy I talked to wasn't interested in paying their prices)