"@wetworker: Those guys are playing on a console...
And that 'tournament' looks decidedly crappy, given the setup most Japanese tournaments have actual JAMMA systems hooked into enormous screens, and the players are sitting at a real control deck, not slumped on the floor like 3 year olds playing with Fisher Price toys.
/Full machines are the only way to play."
"I've tried buying this via direct2drive three times, twice from the US site, and once from the UK site, BUT, as Australia is apparently a restricted country, they won't be seeing a cent of my money for Spore.
Too bad too, I was really looking forward to playing it."
"Coinopexpress.com are selling the pcb kits in pairs for $13000 US, so you have enough to fit 4 cabinets.
I can't get a secure enough location together with a location that will guarantee enough interest, so I had to pass.
I'll just go play it at Crown in Melbourne on their Tekken 6 cabinets."
"@MisterMcThursday: Actually it's just the one Attorney General that's the problem.
I'm still going to import a copy, then take a video of myself drinking a coffee, smoking a cigarette, applying a patch, taking a painkiller and injecting some insulin or saline and send it to the douchebag.
Apparently he has no problem with those sorts of drugs..."
"I spoke to the Fury guys at Melbourne's games expo last year and asked them why I couldn't rebind the mouse buttons to whatever I wanted.
They told me that I should play any other MMO and see if they let me do that.
Great, thanks for that.
/Uninstall.
//Forget."
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