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telengard:


--- Quote from: severdhed on July 24, 2007, 06:42:06 pm ---I just got back from Chuck E. Cheese, i stopped by to look at the cabinets they had for some inspiration...

they dont have many arcade games anymore, but there were a few...

NBA JAM
TMNT
Zaxxon
Asteroids
Tetris
Pacman.

most of the cabinets were pretty good, i believe original cabinets..however, the tetris machine was a horrible conversion.  there was duct tape along the front edge of the control panel where the TMolding should be.  and the overlay was lacking.  all of the button labels were hand drawn in pencil on little squares of white paper and just lying there under the plexiglass...it was horrible.

but then there was PACMAN.  it was an original pacman cabinet and was in decent shape, with the bezel, control overlay and marquee all looking good...however it was actually running Ms Pacman.  not that big of a deal..but here is the kicker...it had a 8way, black, bat top joystick.  it was horrible.  the stick was very sloppy feeling and was completely unplayable.

i dont mind cabinet conversions, but pacman with an 8 way stick is just wrong....should be illegal even.



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Wow, I'm pretty impressed they have a Zaxxon there.

~telengard

grantspain:

well my arcade down here in the south of spain is still going strong-keep the faith :D

vintagegamer:


--- Quote from: shardian on August 01, 2007, 08:34:45 am ---
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--- Quote from: shardian on July 31, 2007, 04:35:12 pm ---If I ever see an old skeeball machine locally, it is soooo totally going in the garage at my house - pre-approval from the wife already in hand. ;D

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Sharidan, you and me are WAYYYYYYYY too much alike..  The only thing holding me back is that the dam thing's 10ft long!

VG

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Ahh, but I can solder! ;) ;D

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Showoff..    :D

Barry Barcrest:


--- Quote from: langdoguk on July 31, 2007, 06:24:52 pm ---Mate I was there 3 weeks ago  :cheers:, it was open after about 6pm on a wednesday night (if it's the one outside the pleasure beach along from Ripley's) ,   10 pence a game , also had a Hyper Sports + Paperboy , one of the Space Invaders is broke  but looks in okay condition (make him an offer ;D) , I saw it during the day and thought it had been shut for years then just by luck passed later on , I was on holiday so not sure of usual times? :dunno
10p a game , great fun mate , keep checking if your local  :cheers:

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Yeah that's the one i was on about, you found it open... Damn i might go and check it out the bank holiday weekend. It's not to big is it? I want to know what happened to all the Sit Down Star Wars Cabs and Dragons Lair Cabs the Pleasure beach had. They were running into the 90's even the Dragons Lair's (Was probably converted to Dragons Lair II then). All of a sudden around the mid 90's they all went. It was around the time of Daytona and the Dance games that the bulk of the classics seemed to dissappear. Then after that it was just more and more fruit machines. Comes to something when a game on Crazy Taxi is as retro as you can find. I did find a bar in preston with a 4 game cocktail cab in it. They were all re-makes though and although graphically correct the pac-man was un playable due to the 8-way 4-way scenario  ::)

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