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bobbyb13:
Love how campy this one is.
Termite eaten and sunburned of course, so I'm building a new box and got stencils.
Wheeee!

TacoTownCharlie:
We’re not here for your articles, send pictures!
TTC


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bobbyb13:
I"ve tried Tony!
My pictures won't pass the test, even after some manipulation.
I'll try again harder after dinner.
There are more photos because this project also has snowballed to silly proportions- as expected.

And nice to see a post from you fine sir!


--- Quote from: TacoTownCharlie on September 17, 2024, 10:22:25 pm ---We’re not here for your articles, send pictures!
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bobbyb13:
Maybe THIS will work?

So this machine has a story already.

Chapter 1
Over a year ago this beast was listed on craigslist- so of course I had to go look.
A really odd haole (not from here white guy) who lived on the 4th floor of an old block apartment building in town (with his wife- who was a slightly younger than him Japanese woman who looked really pissed off about the whole situation) had this thing in the living room of what felt like a 400 sq ft studio.

It looked like a fun project but it needed a LOT.
Obvious termite damage (maybe still unmitigated even?!) a beat up playfield, broken plastics and rubbers, burned out bulbs, sound messed up, delaming backglass, etc.
The guy wanted far too much for it.
He also refused a polite (and generous!) offer given the thing's condition when I listed the $2k in stuff it would need to be the $3k machine he thought it was.

I left bummed because I knew he would just be destroying it to try to get more $$ out of it since he had NO clue wtf he was doing with anything apparently.

bobbyb13:
The image thing is just maddening...

So-

Chapter 2

I had written this thing off of course, until a few weeks ago when it popped up on facebook marketplace (which I grudingly check SPECIFICALLY for pins and arcade machines.)
HAD to be the same machine- except now it is on the OTHER (sparsely populated) side of the island.

The guy had only listed it that day and I was apparently the first person to send him a message- and actually had time to go look the next day- a Saturday.

Sure enough- same machine- except this guy (whose name is Guy! and he is a great guy actually) had bought a bunch of parts for it and cleaned the thing up quite a bit.  Way better than I had seen it.

So I asked him, "Where'd you get this?"  His reply?

I had to meet this really odd guy at a storage unit to see it- and he was a mess- really dirty, and stunk like he was homeless.  Said his wife had kicked him out and he was trying to get some $$ out of this thing.

Holy ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.

He wanted what he had paid for it (less than the first clown wanted!) and was chalking what he spent on it up to getting to play it for a while, and knew it still needed more time and $$ and was ready to pass it on.

I gave him what he was asking for it and loaded it in the Element and brought it home!

Nikki loves it.  Laughs every time she sees it.
Today was "Look! They even gave the girl in the green suit some camel toe!"

Classic.

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