2-Player Computer Space Restored with 22k games.

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Vigo:

--- Quote from: isucamper on May 18, 2011, 05:24:39 pm ---
--- Quote from: Donkbaca on May 18, 2011, 01:32:27 pm ---You could have sold the thing and used another cabinet. That's pretty much the point. Someone would have restored it, there is a market for these cabs. I think that was more the general point.
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He has done nothing to prevent this from happening! It is as it was as he found it! It's even better than when he found it! If you're that anxious to restore the thing make him an offer!!!!

Seriously. No harm has been done here. I guess you could argue that this keeps someone from restoring a computer space who is dying to have an empty cabinet to restore, but you need to introduce me to this person before I cry foul over what this guy has done.

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I'm really on the fence about this whole cabinet, but I appreciate the cabinet hasn't been butchered....and, it is his personal property. It might just be destined to be a hyperspin cabinet for many years to come, and it sure isn't going to get any easier over the years to restore this machine.

I think what is upsetting is that it that a rare piece of arcade history has been used in a bit of a tawdry fashion. It's a big put off to anyone who appreciates the original cabinet for what it really is. It is sort like the beginning of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, where the Cross of Coronado was dug up by that gang. Indy knew the piece belonged in the museum, so he was pissed that the gang just dug it up for profit.

Well, you just hate to see something so cool go to this kind of use. :dunno

isucamper:
I can appreciate the Indiana Jones metaphor. You are very much talking my language.

However, I don't think it quite fits. If he had thrown a 48 and 1 in this and a cheap CP, and then was selling it for 2500 bucks on ebay, I'd agree with you. But there was a lot of love put into his build. If he's planning on keeping this and playing it for 20 years, he is as passionate as Indy was.

TopJimmyCooks:
This place is trying to become KLOV or worse. I would be interested to see if anyone is ready to step up with their original Computer Space boards, harnesses, power supply, monitor and original controls to mate with this cabinet and metal CP. If they did, I would encourage Arcadefan to accept a reasonable fair market offer and sell them the cab and CP. And I suspect with the cash he could transplant his mame rig to a smoking custom enclosure made by himself or the custom builder of his choice.

There is a big point that many here are missing. Arcade cabs are made of low grade sheet goods and obsolete monitors. They didn't include Dye sub printed sideart and bondo and JLF's in their original construction. For all the preservation talk, there's not a lot of walk the walk going on. All the original fabric of these cabs is going to continue to decay and will eventually be sawdust and rust. This is accelerated if they are not used. I say that this fiberglas cab could probably be rotting in a warehouse or basement, getting cracked, getting old, getting dissed by it's unknowing unappreciative owners, but instead it's in a conditioned space, cleaned up, liked, reversably renovated, fully left to be restored to correct configuration at some point, and oh, by the way, being used to play games. Better by far than the first option. The slight chance that Arcade fan would possibly somehow wear out this game is insignificant compared to the likelihood it would be destroyed by most other people who came across it.

In the auto business, most of the cab resto's i've seen here or on Klov, while cool "drivers", wouldn't get in the for sale corral at a Concours show. Wrong formula of paint, parts not remachined, re-chromed or re-made to factory perfect, wrong numbers, missing original factory crayon markings, on and on. Get over yourselves, you're making toys, not museum pieces. Yeah, I said it. The market will just not bear $3000 of work going into a $800 game, the market (us) is not willing to pay. You can buy a new repop of every correct original part on a '65 mustang and build a brand freaking new original one, but you can't buy a reproduction wico stick . . .

So until you are ready to serve up that minty CS board . . . please be a little nicer.

[puts on firesuit]

ChadTower:

Where is the blog link he yelled about? I can't even find it and I'm looking for it.

isucamper:
Ok. This is going to be my last comment on the subject as I don't want to drown the thread with a minority opinion and everyone deserves to be heard.

I would be willing to bet that at this point in time there are more computer space cabinets in existence than there are sets of hardware to put in them, let alone working sets of hardware. If you were to restore one, where do you draw the line? Do you get the exact model of black and white monitor that originally went in the thing or do you settle for a different model? If there didn't happen to be a working board set left in existence then what? Use a substitue of some kind?

Before you rag on this guy think about this:

Before he got a hold of it this cabinet it didn't play Computer Space. Now it does.

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