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20 May 2013

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What's Killing Donkey Kong?

VentureBeat | By VentureBeat Posted: 25/07/2012 11:47 Updated: 25/07/2012 11:52

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IndyGuy

Et tu, Brute?

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08:02 PM on 07/26/2012

As someone who was in high school in the 80's I have many fond memories of going to Space Port in Champaign, IL at the U of I, playing video games with my friends while waiting for movies at the CoED and eating pizza from Garcias. It will be sad when these machines are no longer functional (just like Space Port). To me they are artwork and should be preserved. However there is a solution: http://mamedev.org/

It may not be perfect but I have a lot of the old games, including sound and cabinet artwork. The code is still out there and I"m sure someone will find a way to keep those beautiful machines going! In fact my neighbors have an old Space Invaders cabinet machine we were able to get up running.

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-swift

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02:57 PM on 07/29/2012

It will be a while before the CRTs are completely gone. On a game like Donkey Kong, it's actually not as big a problem. The vector games don't look as good on LCD, though.

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IndyGuy

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03:59 PM on 07/29/2012

I've run in on MAME on my PC and it looks ok.

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