But if a developer is a making a game anyway, it probably won't take a lot of work to change it a bit to be arcade controls friendly, so the time and effort put into should be worth it, hopefully.
Oh, I see. It would be pretty easy to do a version of an existing game that works with your system. I thought you were after games exclusively for your system, that couldn't be sold elsewhere. That's why I was a bit worried about how big the market was. :) What I am thinking about is designing a sort of webportal where users can either purchase games on CD and install them on their arcade boxes/cabinets. Or if their box is online they can download the games directly. The back end of the website will have an area for each developer where they can upload their games, set pricing and manage the tech support aspect. Whether a small amount of the purchase ammount will go to the site for bandwidth and maintenance will be determined by the one doing the site. I have a few friends in mind that are extremely good at doing web stuff, so we'll see.
I like the idea of having a portal to seamlessly download and play the games. That could be quite a good revenue stream, I guess. That would depend on how many of your systems are out there, though. Can you give us a rough idea of units sold?P.S. I'm currently thinking about continuing development on a 'snake' type game. There's a very early WIP available here:
http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=56206
I'm planning on updating it to proper 3D, in order to get better graphics than the 2D version.
Is this the type of game that would interest you? I think it would play very nicely, using the spinner. ;)