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They are moving me to a new office on the third floor, and it’s much bigger than my current office, so I am trying to decide which arcade1up machines I am going to put in there 
(I’d put a more sturdy multicade in there except the logistics of getting it in there without bothering the office services people are not good).
I have 2 arcade1ups at home, 1 of which is modded with a raspberry pi (I did it back before it was easy to buy mod kits), so maybe I’ll mod one and put it in the office. Not sure.
I’m leaning toward at least the Joust machine, for nostalgia. At Exponential Technology, I was the youngest employee, and I bonded with our architect by playing the joust machine we had in the little break room. He was fantastic and I sucked. Eventually we hired a guy, Alan, who was a few years younger than me. He was on our CAD team. He learned the Joust pattern and taught me. Many a night, at 11 or midnight, he’d appear at my cubicle entrance and make a hand gesture indicating we were either going to play foosball or Joust.
He ended up going to AMD when I went to Sun. I later joined him at AMD and eventually became his boss. He moved to Michigan around the time I left AMD. Last year he came to town, and stopped by my house. Was great to see him, and we played a game of foosball on my tornado table. We played for about 10 minutes as wives and children gathered to watch. In that span, we cracked two foosball player’s heads, and had to finally stop when a third player’s head broke off
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the story of why Michigan is too far away from California.
(I’d put a more sturdy multicade in there except the logistics of getting it in there without bothering the office services people are not good).
I have 2 arcade1ups at home, 1 of which is modded with a raspberry pi (I did it back before it was easy to buy mod kits), so maybe I’ll mod one and put it in the office. Not sure.
I’m leaning toward at least the Joust machine, for nostalgia. At Exponential Technology, I was the youngest employee, and I bonded with our architect by playing the joust machine we had in the little break room. He was fantastic and I sucked. Eventually we hired a guy, Alan, who was a few years younger than me. He was on our CAD team. He learned the Joust pattern and taught me. Many a night, at 11 or midnight, he’d appear at my cubicle entrance and make a hand gesture indicating we were either going to play foosball or Joust.
He ended up going to AMD when I went to Sun. I later joined him at AMD and eventually became his boss. He moved to Michigan around the time I left AMD. Last year he came to town, and stopped by my house. Was great to see him, and we played a game of foosball on my tornado table. We played for about 10 minutes as wives and children gathered to watch. In that span, we cracked two foosball player’s heads, and had to finally stop when a third player’s head broke off
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the story of why Michigan is too far away from California.
