Game Produced by Konami (c)2000 Condition When Purchased: B Current Condition: B+ Huge. That is the first word that comes to mind when I think of one of my latest acquisitions. I think it's an appropriate description of the cabinet in question. While it's not MASSIVE like a Galaxian 3 (which is room-sized and takes up ..
Originally posted on the Arcade Crusade Website 01/23/10: "BODY BLOW! BODY BLOW! UPPER CUT! UPPER CUT! KNOCK HIM OUT!" screamed from the center of the Family Fun Center in Montclair CA one day back in 1984 or so. Of course this beckoned me like a moth to a flame when I stepped foot in to ..
Manufactured by Atari Games / Midway Games West (c)2003 Condition When Purchased: B Current Condition: B Rush 2049 Special Edition is an updated version of Rush 2049 which was produced by Atari in 1999. Evidently the company Betson had some hand in developing the upgrade and the game came out with Atari Game’s name and ..
Manufactured by Namco (c)2002 & Sega (c) 1995 Condition When Purchased: C+ Current Condition: B- I picked up a Soul Calibur II cabinet around the end of 2014 for a very good price. The cabinet is a Mortal Kombat II conversion and in decent shape for the most part. I wish it had a Tri-Res ..
Originally posted on the Arcade Crusade Website 01/23/10: I first owned a Spy Hunter Pinball machine. After spending a while looking for a Spy Hunter video game to put next to it I sold the pin only to find the friggin' video game some 6 months later. When I got the game it was pretty ..
Originally posted on the Arcade Crusade Website 03/13/11: The first few photos below is how Star Castle looked when I brought her home. She works but needs some cosmetic help.As you can see… the left sideart is pretty bad. Not only is a large piece missing, there are a number of scratches throughout. Unfortunately there ..
Originally posted on the Arcade Crusade Website 01/09/09: I picked up a Star Wars cockpit locally for dirt cheap. A local collector picked it up, along with a number of other cabs, in a bulk deal. He decided he wasn't going to restore it so he did me a solid and called me up and ..
Originally posted on the Arcade Crusade Website 02/18/10: I won an auction for a Super Punch Out PCB last year with the intentions of swapping my Punch Out and Super Punch Out boardsets in to the same cabinet. The very day that I won the SPO boardset a semi-working Punch Out came up for sale ..
Originally posted on the Arcade Crusade Website 03/21/08: This is how the Tempest arrived…cosmetically in decent shape. The game boards worked and the monitor worked too, but it was flakey…there was a cold solder joint somewhere and the it seemed to have a pretty nasty "wave" to it. I knew I was going to need ..
Manufactured by Sega © 1997 Condition When Purchased: B Current Condition: A- It was probably, oh, a good 8 to 10 months ago when fellow KLOVian (and AHA member) Hucklebuck contacted me asking if I was interested in a Sega Jurassic Park: The Lost World cabinet. After confirming we were talking about the standard upright version, ..
Manufactured by Bally Midway (c)1982 Condition When Purchased: D- Current Condition: A Tron is a game that I really didn't plan on ever owning. While it's a game that I did grow up with, so there IS the nostalgia association, and I actually DO like the game itself (and being that it seems about half ..
(c) 2003 MIDWAY GAMES CONDITION WHEN PURCHASED: C+CURRENT CONIDTION: B A couple weeks ago I noticed a local operator I know had posted on craigslist that he had a few projects he wanted to part with. Among the projects listed was an Arctic Thunder… it was listed, like the rest of the games available, as ..
Cabinet Originally Manufactured by Atari © 1988 Condition When Purchased: D Current Condition: B Somehow, over the last 10 years and 100 games or so (75 plus having been sold)… I had yet to have a single one of them come back to me. Whether this speaks good or bad of the quality of the machine ..
Game manufactured by Atari © 1980 Condition When Purchased: B Current Condition: A While browsing the local Craigslist a few days before Christmas of 2016 I came across a listing for what appeared to be a very nice looking upright Warlords for sale less than 5 miles from my home. I really wasn’t looking for ..
Originally posted on the Arcade Crusade Website 10/17/09: Wizard of Wor … one of the earliest games to include a "voice" and it was this "voice" that is the draw, along with the kickass 2-player action and the ominous artwork of the Wizard. "Please Insert Coin" greets you during attract and "Hahahaha!" taunts you when ..