My biggest arcade project so far: The building of gameroom "Level 42"

[Luigi]

Great video André


Just saw the empty marquee space on the Joust.....I will go and get the marquee out of our cab this noon and run a scan tomorrow evening 


Is it you playing the base guitar on one of the videos? Great slapping

[Level42]

A-ha, no if only that would be me ! (

Guess you mean this one:


Now _that_ is Level 42, I mean the band, and so the bass is played by Mark King, the best slapper in the world 

He sings too.

Great song, "Tell me why you are leaving".

If you like slap bass:

[Ginsu Victim]

Wow, thanks for introducing me to a bassist I'd never heard before. That guy is badass.

[Ummon]

Interesting bass. Not only headless, but led-lit. Didn't expect the band's music to sound all groovy and soul-like.

I notice on the galaxian that his convergence seems off. Anything purple has a blue mirror above and to the right of it. My multisync is that way, actually, but I haven't gotten round to fixing it.

[Level42]

Yes, jazz-funk it was called in the beginning, and what they play on the video is a really early instrumental called "Mr.Pink"  from around 1980. When they broke through with "Love Games" over here in 1981, I remembered being _SO_ surprised to see a couple of those young, pale English guys playing this great funky music....I thought it would be a black band for sure. (In a way, this prevented a breakthrough in the US).

Later the band evolved towards a more commercial sound, but still maintaing great songs.
It's a fabulous live band.

They never got on really in the US. Biggest hit they had over there was Something About You. They were the openers on a Madonna US tour around 1987 or something.

Mark's basses are specially built form him and gets them endorsed (like his amps). He has made Trace Elliott  a big name in the bass amp business as he used to use them in the 80's but now is using Ashdown.

Indeed, that Galaxian video was shot to show the convergence problems. I can't believe how my look at things have changed because now I would try to have a go at converging it, and at LEAST would have kept the chassis as it looks like that was working fine 

[Santoro]

Just found this thread.  AMAZING work, I am wildly envious.

[Level42]

Thanks !!

[shilmover]

Where is the project at?

[Kevin Mullins]

Holland 

[shilmover]

Holland 

LOL

[Level42]

Where is the project at?

Funny you'd ask right now. Actually the past week been doing "circumstantial" work for the Gameroom. It kinda looked like this:

I had actually already removed the worst mess and a number of the tiles in that picture, so it was worse before that....

Had to remove a good part of earth to get the sand in there on which the tiles are laid. No "green" parts anymore, it's full terrace now. We'lll add some pots with plants etc. It was a good thing I had rented the little machine again.
We had to dig two deep slots, one for the rain pipes (had to run from the gameroom to my house because that's connected on the sewer) and one to put the pipes for the heating in. To prevent that one from frost it had to be 60 cm. deep. It was a breeze with the machine....


It rendered much more ground and plant waste than we expected, but in all honesty this also contains the earth on the front yard as we want that to be completely tiled as well. Truck driver that picked it up feared it would be too have to get it on the truck, but he could lift it, much to me relief....


Tiling in progress...




I suggested to leave a quarter out of the circle to create a big Pac Man, but the plan didn't gain much enthusiasm with the wife.....

And done. Just have to remove the small extra's. Note that all the original (old) tiles were used, we simply turned  them upside down since mother nature really nicely cleans tiles on the bottom side. Regretfully that couldn't be done with the circles because they have a "good" side and a "bad" side. Will clean them later....


Still have to get rid of this mess....:


Naturally, no work was done on the games or the room in this time......I was completely exhausted after the last weekend....but it's now nice and tidy to have a real opening party (Even bought a new Weber BBQ ).....

[shilmover]

Cool.

Am I invited to the opening party?  (wonder if I can talk the wife into that trip...  )

[Spyridon]

I suggested to leave a quarter out of the circle to create a big Pac Man, but the plan didn't gain much enthusiasm with the wife.....

You should have pushed harder for approval on that one.  It would have looked really cool!

[Level42]

Shil, if anyone deserves to be invited it has to be you ! Can't count the times you helped me out with paying stuff in the US which I'm still very grateful for ! It would be totally cool and of course your family is more than welcome here.

I'm not sure about a date yet. I'd like to have some of the cabs a bit more up and running like the Puckman  and the Meteor.

Spyri: sometimes you have to know when to put some water in the wine...... 

[Ummon]

Spyri: sometimes you have to know when to put some water in the wine...... 

Well, in any case, what would you've put in that space? You could perhaps still ape the effect by staining either area.

[Level42]

Spyri: sometimes you have to know when to put some water in the wine...... 

Well, in any case, what would you've put in that space? You could perhaps still ape the effect by staining either area.

Simply more of the tiles/bricks...

[ckong]

Here's a quick & dirty 3d and 2d idea (couldn't find any more game 3D models, that explains all the DK's and Galaga's)

http://3darcade.mameworld.info/

Models, models and more models, even of SW cockpit

[patrickl]

Here's a quick & dirty 3d and 2d idea (couldn't find any more game 3D models, that explains all the DK's and Galaga's)

http://3darcade.mameworld.info/

Models, models and more models, even of SW cockpit

I wouldn't count on those being very accurate.

[ckong]

Could be, but still great to use in a Mame frontend.

[MonoTekETeA]

Hardcore and congrats. Turned out really nice.

-Jeremy

[Level42]

Some people thought the construction of the flat roof wouldn't be up to a load of snow.

Well, the last days we've had more snow than I've ever seen in my life in this country.

I think it's about 40 cm. lying there on top now.

And of course, not the slightest problem

It's freaking cold in there though....still have to heat it !!!

[Kevin Mullins]

We've been watching the reports of the snow out your way..... amazing.
Glad things are holding up well. 

[Level42]

Hey Kev,

Yeah, it's pretty rare here...

However, it's still not like the 1 meter snow that is hitting MA area ....