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 ..
JULY 6, 2019: I’ve discovered another small bug in one of my layouts. This time it’s the Diamondplate layout and the bug had to do with the gameslist (logos or text) appearing through the marquee window when there is no art present (my test-bed has “NO ART” placeholders hence the reason I didn’t detect the ..
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 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 ..
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 ..