The best arcades you have ever been to?

[The best arcades you have ever been to?]

Back in the 80's, the Wildwood, NJ boardwalk. There was at least one arcade in every block. Saw a lot of games for the first (and sometimes last) time there.

 

My family used to go there for the summer. I remember the huge Hollywood Casino, had a lot of older games like Allied Leisure's F-114 in working order too:

 

http://www.funchase.com/Images/Theatres/Casino.htm

[A closer look at: Super Demon Attack]

I had this game. Not many TI games had such good graphics, like the multicolor sprites. The only part I didn't care for was the 1st part of the boss battle, all you really did was sit near the middle and hit fire as fast as you could.

[What do you consider to be the best frontends for Mame & Mess?]

I use QMC2 under Linux, mostly because I couldn't get GMAMEUI display options to work right. I think I complied QMC2 from source since the install files kept complaining about some version error that I couldn't make sense of. Once you point it at the right locations for the mame executable and ROMs, the rest is pretty easy. But I just looked around the QMC2 settings and I cant find where the rom path is set. I think I just edited the ini file to set this when I first installed it, but that option is not in the GUI as far as I can tell, unless it's so easy to find that I can't find it.

 

And why is there a mp3 player built into it?

 

I gave up on MESS, I tried using it so I could run TI 99/4A stuff without switching over to Virtualbox to run Windows XP to run Classic99, but I could never figure out how to load and games. I got to the point where I could run TI Basic, very slowly.