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 ..
Manufactured by Atari (c)1983 Condition When Purchased: C- Current Condition: A It had been a good 2 to 3 years since I sold my Star Wars cockpit (for good money I might add). Since that time I had been on the lookout for another Star Wars upright to replace the cockpit that I felt I ..
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 ..
Manufactured by Arachnid (c)1987 Condition When Purchased: C Current Condition: B- I knew I wanted a dart board in the garagecade. I had debated whether I wanted just a traditional steel-tipped dart board or an actual coin-op plastic tipped dart board. After a weekend of drinking and trying to keep track of scores I quickly ..
Cabinet Originally Manufactured by Konami © 1989 Condition When Purchased: C Current Condition: A- I’ve had many types of arcade games throughout the years. Single player joystick, wheel (1000 Mile Rally), trackball (my MAME cabinet, GT, etc..), even a yoke game or two with the various star wars games I’ve had. I’ve had plenty of ..
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, ..
(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 ..
Multigame Manufactured by Jrok Manufactured by Williams Electronics, Inc. (c)1981, 1982, 1983 Condition When Purchased: D Current Condition: A+ I was in the market for a Williams cabinet as I wanted to build a Williams Multigame cabinet. Jrok had just released his Williams Multigame PCB and I was on the list of those to receive ..
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 ..
Manufactured by Bally/Midway (c)1981 Condition When Purchased: C Current Condition: UPDATED 8/2/18 UPDATED 7/9/17 B Every once in a while a game will, more or less, fall in to your lap. This was the case for the Warlords machine that I picked up back in December. This is also the case for the Wizard of ..