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paigeoliver:
Hmmm, maybe I will just bite the bullet and scratchbuild a larger "Deluxe" type cabinet with 2 8-ways, trackball, and spinner (and rotating monitor). I could sell my (largely redundant) Space Firebird mini, one of the Defender cabinets, and perhaps the Turbo or Sprint 2 to help finance it.

From there perhaps I could slap the original panel back on the Amazing Maze and downgrade the computer and just have it run the original game. It doesn't have sound in Mame, but that is OK, because (get this) sound was "optional" on the original cabinets anyway (mine was a no sound cab, no speaker, no audio wiring, and an obviously factory speaker hole block off plate where the speaker normally goes).

I think I will go ahead and drop a computer in the Battlezone. The missing vector monitor and boardset would cost as much as a working Battlezone would anyway.

On the Solitaire I am thinking rotate the monitor to vertical, and move the trackball to a more sane location.

As far as the Sprint 2, Turbo, and Defender goes. I am going to try to learn patience, and just wait until I can afford to restore them (in the case of the Defender, since parts are always available), or until the parts I need pop up on ebay.

For the Magical Spot cocktail, I am still up in the air about it. I could PROBABLY trade my two dead 13" monitors for a working one from a guy I know, but the boardsets for that game are largely unavailable. Which basically leaves me with 3 options; Mame running original game (which has sound issues), run a different but similar game, or sell it to someone who might do something worse.

Making an all-in-one cabinet will go a long way towards making it easier to downsize my collection when the time comes to do so. I figure I will have to lose two to eight games when I get married. How many of course will depend on the girl, and where we are gonna live.

Thanks for all who have been the voice of reason in this post.

Now here are a few responses specific to Wade's post.

All of my current complete Mame cabinets (besides the Gorf, which I didn't build myself and haven't even been picked up yet), are in nice yet fairly rare cabinets that have unavailable boardsets and still wouldn't be worth much if they did work (Space Firebirds have a common issue of missing shot animations that no one knows how to fix, mine had that, Solitaires aren't worth jack, and most are dead from battery problems now, Amazing Maze has available boardsets because it uses the Space Invaders boardset, but unavailable input board, and working it would be worth maybe $100, Artic cabinets were all bootleg to begin with, it is a much better game for being Mamed).

I actually have a rather largish apartment. I do have a dedicated gameroom, but right now all of my working games are in the living room (except the pin), and the dead ones are in the gameroom (where I am working on them). It is not overly cramped or game-overloaded. The girls who have been over haven't acted like there was anything weird about it. I do have a bit more in the living room than I want at the moment, but that is because I wanted the gameroom really sparse so I have room to pull those games out from the wall and work on them.

I am going to have to make one space concession though. I don't really have the room to have three separate cocktails set up all the time. I am probably going to put one or two of them in the basement and rotate which one/s get set up.

If I can bust ass and get that Battlezone up and running this weekend, then I can drag the Sprint 2 down to the basement to sit until parts for it show up. Then (after the following weekend's trade pickup), I will be at 100 percent working for games actually in the apartment (would be 12 total), and I can go ahead and move several of the living room games back into the game room. Selling the Firebird and building a new Mame would still keep that total at 12. (Although fixing the Turbo, Defender, Sprint 2, and Magical Spot would bring that total up to 16, which MIGHT be too many).
spidermonkey:
Paige just likes to verbally wallow in his slew of games and parts. ;D Thats what makes him who he is. He lives,sleeps and breathes arcade games.  Reminds me of Daffy Duck when he and Porky Pig find a genie's pyramid full of gold and treasure and Daffy is doing the back stroke through a pile of gold coins screaming "Its MINE MINE ALL MINE !! ;D. This place wouldn't be the same without you Paige. :) Thanks to your knowledge you've probably answered at least one question from just about everyone on this board at one time or another. I'm starting to learn a bit more about dedicated games since I've been lurking around the message boards over at the KLOV site.  Oh yeh by the way, I have two MAME uprights in my dining room and I can't decide if I should move the larger one against the opposite wall next to my box of joysticks or maybe I should make a wall display with the joysticks and move my barrel of pushbuttons back over by the smaller machine so I have a place to sit. Or better yet ect.... ;)  Just bustin your chops Paige. Nothin but luv here. 8)
paigeoliver:
My collection might be huge by the standards of the Mame community, but it is only about average compared to what most dedicated game collectors have.

There are collectors out there who literally have HUNDREDS of games. I wouldn't even want that many (ok, yes I would), the extra rent/home price required to support a collection that size, combined with the extra power work in the house you would need to even be able to power them all up, combined with keeping them all running would just be a nightmare.

Reading some of the RGVAC posts about people having to upgrade their home's elestrical systems because of games, makes me realize that my collection is tame by comparison.
Spaced Invader:
At least your not obsessed with cats!  ;D

Seriously...NICE collection!
Stingray:

--- Quote --- The girls who have been over haven't acted like there was anything weird about it.
--- End quote ---

Oh there's definitely something weird about it, but it's good weird.  ;)

Good luck on that Battlezone.

-S
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