Arrested for Selling MAME cabs

[32assassin]

hopefully this happens more often

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Prosecutors-6-charged-with-making-fake-Pac-Man-11749616.php

1.2 Mill in cash,  I wonder how much money BBB could make if he made HyperSpin a commercial Product.

[BATTLEDONKEY]

Title is a bit misleading, the article makes no mention of MAME or any emulator at all. From the brief synopsis of the article it sounds more like they were selling fake pac-man/ whichever classic game cabinets as originals. To me that sounds more like restoring a cabinet and converting it to whichever game a customer wants and selling it as if it's an original, but I could be wrong 

[Steelkilt]

The website is still active www.thecoinopstore.com

Looks like they are selling original (or counterfeit?) arcade boards, in addition to their own manufactured arcade cabinets, etc

[gigapig]

I did not know those Jamma boards were illegal, interesting. I guess there will be more arrests to come.

They don't appear to be selling any machines with hyperspin on and they must have put on that they were no longer selling machines with Jamma boards when they knew they were being investigated. 

[32assassin]

13 hours ago, BATTLEDONKEY said:

Title is a bit misleading, the article makes no mention of MAME or any emulator at all. From the brief synopsis of the article it sounds more like they were selling fake pac-man/ whichever classic game cabinets as originals. To me that sounds more like restoring a cabinet and converting it to whichever game a customer wants and selling it as if it's an original, but I could be wrong 

I hate click bait articles and misleading tittles,  this was not my intention.

but I find it hard to believe that most of the general population including the author of this article even know what MAME  or an Arcade Frontend is.

it would be easier to simply say that the company is selling fake Pac-man games then to say they are selling MAME cabinets.