Waka Waka Waka

As in the sound Ms. Pac-man makes as opposed to the Fozzy Bear image in your mind. Why Ms. Pac-man? Well because I had to work on these cheap kiosks at work and quite frankly I needed a break from their undocumented ways. I mean I can understand a certain level of quality is expected or perhaps overlooked when you order from cheapkiosks.com (not my recommendation by the way) but please, how about an instruction manual on how to wire the thermal printer? Must each person assembling it have a comfortable knowledge of computers and electrical wiring?

I wouldn’t mind so much if this was a project done on my free time or if I had to build a cabbage launching device with the A-Team, but please, not for work. They pay me to be professional, not run Junkyard Wars.

Speaking of being professional at work… everyone kept suggesting that the kiosks looked like video game cabinets. These comments became so prevalent that I just had to bring them to life in the form of one very expensive and slightly, um… misused piece of equipment. The 2.4 GHz Pentium IV powered MAME emulator!

It’s a good thing we had those extra 2.397 GHz too. The emulator is set to mimic a 3 Mhz CPU and the left over cycles could come in handy to keep the frame rate up during those daring getaways through the side tunnels on either side of the screen.

My job may be hard sometimes but the fun factor can’t be understated.

Batduck is very good at Street Fighter 2. He actually beat the CPU with one punch key before we figured out how to remap the keys!

By my estimates, the arcade machine emulator has killed at least 5 hours of other employee’s productivity! Teehee!