I have been trying like HELL to get my multi-shooter PCB's all to play nicely with each other and I have failed miserably thus far and it's getting to me. I've probably spent a good 20 hours trying every which way to get all 6 game (now 5, more on that later) to work right ..
Games Produced by Atari (c)1979, 1980 Multigame Produced by Braze Technologies Condition When Purchased: C Current Condition: B+ In early 2007, toward the start of when I joined in on this hobby, I happed to acquire the first of many Asteroids arcade games. Overall it was in decent shape with some side art help needed and ..
Manufactured by Exidy (c)1985 Condition When Purchased: B- Current Condition: B- It was mid-July 2013 when an ad posted on a neighboring craigslist caught my eye. I'd been collecting for nearly 7 years by now and had yet to come across an Exidy shooter… ANY Exidy shooter… so I was quite interested when I saw ..
Game System Produced by Capcom (c)1993 Multigame Produced by Darksoft in 2015 Condition When Purchased: B Current Condition: B+ A few months back I picked up Darksoft's CPS-2 All-in-One kit. It's a very nifty piece of hardware that enables you to play just about every Capcom CPS-2 title using actual CPS-2 hardware. Essentially it swaps out ROM data ..
If you've not, I invite you to read my blog post about the Exidy Combat cabinet that I bought a few years back knowing one day I would add the kick ass multi-kit from Mike Doyle & Friend, the Exidy Collex'n. Basically it's an add on kit with 2 PCB's that takes pretty much any ..
Garagecade – February 2010 By February 2010 I had not just one, but TWO Punch Out cabinets. One was fully restored and was kept a Punch Out. The 2nd was mostly restored and converted to a Super Punch Out. I sold Punch Out and had Super Punch Out for a while but preferred the original ..
Garagecade – January 2011 By the first of the year 2011 I'd acquired a Star Castle. Having grown up playing Star Castle (not very well I might add) it was exciting to add one to the garagecade. Garagecade – June 2011 Not a ton happened in the first 6 months of 2011 in the garagecade. ..
Garagecade – March 2012 I ended up picking up a Space Duel … which looked great next to the Black Widow cabinet Garagecade – September 2012 It was toward the end of Summer 2012 when I made a roat trip to Salt Lake City, UT to pick up a Cruis`n Exotica and Cart Fury from ..
Garagecade – May 2013 I took a bit of a break from taking photos of the gameroom for a while. As you can see though, there have been many changes from the 2012 photos to these… I picked up a showcase cabinet which became a dedicated multi gun cabinet. I also picked up Rush 2049 ..
Garagecade – April 2014 Here is a video walk-thru of the garagecade as of April 18th, 2014. Garagecade – July 2014 Things have slowed down considerably compared to the early years of collecting. A lack of space + the the fact that I am less apt to tackle full restorations + the fact that my ..
Garagecade – February 2015 Here are the first shots of the garagecade from 2015. These were taken a couple days before I picked up Gyruss from a fellow collector in the Salt Lake City area. I'm sure you'll see it in the next series of photos I take. Garagecade – September 2015 While there hasn't ..
Garagecade – February 2016 These shots are of the 2-car side of the garagecade. There have been some significant changes since the last photo set. Tron is gone. Gravitar/Black Widow is gone. Soul Calibur 2… yup, gone. Police 911 is a new addition… as is Capcom Anthology. I've been trying to clear out ..
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 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 ..
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 ..