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 ..
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 ..
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 Midway Manufacturing Co., (c)1983 Condition When Purchased: B– Current Condition: B The first time I saw this particular Baby Pac Man was at a local friends place. He'd picked up a decent sized lot of games (barn finds) and was selling off the vids to make room. I ended up picking up 3 ..
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 ..
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 ..
Manufactured by Nihon Bussan Co. Ltd. (c)1980 Licensed by Taito Condition When Purchased: B- Current Condition: B- Crazy Climber… a game that has been on my "want" list since the day I started collecting. A game that so rarely comes up for sale locally that, well, I've only ever seen one in the 9 ..
It's something I have been hoping would come to pass for quite some time. For many many moons now I have been just about begging someone… anyone… to take on a high score save kit for Crazy Climber. Short of M. Spaeth bragging about how he's had one (of his own creation that he refused ..
When it comes to restoring an arcade game to it's former glory there are a few different avenues you can take to achieve your end goal. To do it properly you really want to try to mimic the way the artwork handled originally. Stenciled machines should be restored with stencils. Vinyl artwork should be (in ..
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 ..
Cabinet / Original PCB manufactured by Nintendo © 1981 Remix / Deranged Kit by John Kowalski © 2016 Condition When Purchased: C+ Current Condition: B- I recently sold the Multi Donkey Kong cabinet I've had for 9 years or so. It was one of my first cabinets and I actually JAMMAtized it (the horror!!). It was ..
As any owner of a Sega NAOMI/NAOMI 2 with GDROM (or Netbooting), Chihiro or (I believe) Tri-Force systems will tell you… one of the bigger pains in the ass is the battery system that was used to retain data while the system is off. I have personal experience with Chihiro and NAOMI systems so please ..
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 ..