Originally posted on the Arcade Crusade Website 03/03/10: This is my 2nd Asteroids Deluxe. I sold the first one and have regretted it since. I was on the lookout for a nice AD and one popped up on the local Craigslist. The first two pix were taken as the machine looked when I brought it ..
Originally posted on the Arcade Crusade Website 10/16/08: I picked up Paperboy for a decent price, though i was told the monitor worked. Of course, it didn't. The PCB's, however, did work somewhat (was told they didn't!)…video and controls were fine, but I only got a "click…click…" loop in the sound with an occasional "bong" ..
Manufactured by Atari (c)1980 Condition When Purchased: C+ Current Condition: B+ Battlezone… my nemesis. The is the single biggest pain in the ass cabinet I’ve owned. I have had this games PCB out on the bench more times than I can count trying to track down an issue that caused the monitor to go crazy ..
Originally posted on the Arcade Crusade Website 11/14/12: I picked this up along with Cruis'N Exoica from an OP in the Salt Lake City area of Utah. I was connected to the OP via a friend on the AHA/KLOV forums. The machines were sold to me as non-working… To get this machine up and running I ..
Games Produced by Williams (c)1981 Condition When Purchased: C Current Condition: UNKNOWN This Defender cocktail cabinet pretty much popped right in to my lap this morning. I woke up around 7AM and after a little bit ended up checking out the local craigslist where I spied a Defender Cocktail cabinet having been listed 6 hours prior ..
Manufactured by Taito (c)1982 Condition When Purchased: B- Current Condition: B Front Line is a game I remember playing almost every time I visited the Family Fun Center in Upland, CA. That was the only place I ever remember seeing the game in the wild and I rarely pumped more than a couple quarters in ..
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 ..
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). ..
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 ..
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+ I had been collecting for a good eight years and had not come across a single cabaret (mini) cabinet for sale locally, so it was pretty much a no-brainer on my part to pick this Centipede cabaret when it came up locally. ..
Originally posted on the Arcade Crusade Website 01/12/12: I'd sold my last 4-slot NEO-GEO system 5-6 months ago because I was given an offer that I couldn't refuse and could use the dough at the time. When I saw this 4-slotter pop up on craigslist, however, I didn't immediately respond because (1) I was pretty ..
Manufactured by Midway Manufacturing Co. (c)1981 Condition When Purchased: B Current Condition: B+ Omega Race is a game I remember playing quite a bit at only one location. That location was a Chinese restaurant in it's own building that was situated between Charlie's Liquor and the Alpha Beta center on 4th Street in Ontario, CA. ..
