It's been a while since I have updated this blog. Things tend to slow down during the winter months… plus I've not had a whole lot to report. Today's update includes two new blog posts, one about my adventures with a monster of a cabinet called Police 911… the other about my current project, ..
Game Manufactured by Incredible Technologies (c)2004 Cabinet Manufactured by Dynamo Condition When Purchased: B Current Condition: B+ One day a few weeks back I was poking around the local Craigslist when I came across a post for a Golden Tee Fore 2005 arcade game. The listing said the machine worked, but that he was getting ..
Game Produced by Incredible Technologies (c)2007, 2018, 2014, 2019 Condition When Purchased: A- Current Condition: A- I picked up a home use only Golden Tee Fore 2005 a few years back for a very decent price. It’s not the crappy little “clubhouse edition” that was sold via retail channels (that one had a 13″ monitor ..
Manufactured by Atari (c)1982 Condition When Purchased: C+ Current Condition: A– Black Widow wasn't a game on my radar when it came up for sale locally. All I really knew about the game was the typical "its a vector knock off of Robotron" description of the gameplay. What attracted me to the game however ..
Manufactured by Konami (c)1983 Licensed by Centuri Condition When Purchased: C- Current Condition: B- Gyruss is one of those games that I really have been wanting for the gameroom since almost the moment I started collecting… but I’d not had the opportunity to buy for any kind of reasonable cost up until recently (Feb. 2015). ..
Over the last year or so that I have been tinkering with the ARpiCADE, one thing has become increasingly clear. One of the biggest hurdles to people creating their own custom lists of games or those wanting to change emulators for a particular ROM is the ‘ROMLIST’. Some folks don’t have any idea what they ..
PLEASE NOTE – YOU WILL BE USING PROGRAMS THAT CAN POTENTIALLY OVERWRITE DATA YOU WANT/NEED IF YOU USE THE PROGRAM IMPROPERLY. I WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE/LOSS AS THE RESULT OF FOLLOWING MY INSTRUCTIONS (CORRECTLY OR INCORRECTLY). IF YOU DON'T AGREE TO THIS DON'T FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS AND ALWAYS WORK WITH BACKUPS ..
The over-head layout image-map of the garagecade located on the main page of this site has been updated to reflect the current layout of the actual garagecade. The Front Line and Multipede Mini arcade machines, which have been sold, have had their blog posts moved over to the Games Sold/Traded area and removed from the ..
Manufactured by Data East (c)1992 Condition When Purchased: B+ Current Condition: A- Lethal Weapon 3 is a DMD pinball machine by Data East. It has a "cops and robbers" type of theme and would work as such for the most part even if it didn't have the Lethal Weapon license. While many consider it a ..
1st M.A.M.E. Cabinet: Data East “Bad Dudes” Cabinet 2nd M.A.M.E. Cabinet: 3-Koam JAMMA Cabinet M.A.M.E… it’s a word that is very decisive in the arcade collector community. It stands for Multi Arcade Machine Emulator. Basically, it’s a project that emulates the hardware that arcade game code runs on. There are two very polarized opinions on ..
Originally posted on the Arcade Crusade Website 03/03/10: This Atari System I cabinet started life as an Indiana Jones… and was still an Indy when I took possession. Over the course of about 6 months I acquired a Marble Madness kit and Road Blasters kit for it. Then in January 2011 I traded the Indiana ..
Game Produced by Capcom (c)2000 NAOMI System Manufactured by Sega (c)1998 Condition When Purchased: C Current Condition: B- I picked up the Sega NAOMI internals for this machine, including Marvel vs Capcom 2 which was originally in a Dynamo showcase cabinet. Unfortunately the showcase cabinet had no monitor. It sat on the local cragislist for ..
Manufactured by Nintendo (c)1981, 1982, 1983 Condition When Purchased: B- Current Condition: A This multi-kong cabinet has been with me since the beginning…almost. It was the 4th cabinet I bought and only the 2nd since I got hooked on original arcade machines. I will warn you though, as pretty as she is on the outside ..
Manufactured by Midway Manufacturing Co. (c)1980 Condition When Purchased: B- Current Condition: B+ The Multi-Pac machine I have came to me as a Pac-Man Plus machine in the lot I picked up off ebay back in 2009. I do believe it is the sole survivor of that pickup that remains in the ..
Showcase Cabinet Manufactured by Atari / Dynamo Condition When Purchased: B- Current Condition: B- When I picked this showcase cabinet up, it had Police Trainer in it. I quickly grew bored with that game and looked to see what else I could easily drop in. The first game to go in was Area 51 / ..