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JOUST !!!!

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Level42:
The Ostrich and the Stork have just landed. Bit funny, it's the last cab I bought, but the first one to get into the gameroom (although far from finished....).

I had a great trip to Luigi, he was as kind as I expected he would be from the previous PMs and e-mails we exchanged, great guy and he has the best classic arcade video game collection in Western Europe I think. All original hardware and some fine cabs !!!!

Luigi, thanks for a great morning spent in your arcade, thanks for a great cab, it is safe and sound in it's new home :)

I hope I will see you when my gameroom is finished, as mentioned you and Dirk are invited :)

The Joust is definitly a Euro version. I bought a marquee from e-bay but I fear it won't fit.

The cab is pretty compact compared to some others. It was much easier to fit in my car than the Centipede and the Meteor.

Pics will follow tomorrow....

Level42:
As promissed, some pics...

Friday night: drive to Luigi ! 4 hours driving to do from my work's office at Nijmegen:

I love German highways. I really do.
Not my cruising speed, but it's sure fun to be able to do this legaly (WHEN IT'S SAFE TO DO !):



Saturday morning,picture of the street where the Hotel that Luigi recommended was. I like "fachwerkhause":



My car. Dirty and "tired". It has served me well. I've driven over 175000 km's with it in the past three years. Almost 60000/year. It will be replaced on jan. 12th so this was it's last "haul" :D



Some coin-op machines that are extinct in The Netherlands:


NO WAY that "outside" cigarette machines are still legal here. I could even buy a beer at the BK I ate AND they sold beer at the gas-stations that I stopped. All not allowed here. Stupid government here wants to decide EVERYTHING for us !

At 9.00 Luigi came to pick me up. We had never met before and it was a friendly meeting indeed !
Directly drove up to Luigi's gameroom. I could only dream off the amount of space he has.

All the busy talking about games and of course playing them made me forget to take pictures, but Luigi has pics and videos here:

http://www.thludwig.de/arcade/event_2008-03-22.htm

The collection is simply amazing, I'm pretty sure this is the biggest collection of classics in western Europe. However, a Star Wars cockpit is still missing and Luigi jokingly offered to trade a couple of his cabs for mine.......sorry my friend, no dice  :laugh:

Time flies when you're having fun and way too soon it was time to load up the Joust. Luigi was a bit worried if the cab would fit in my car, but I was confident. The euro-Joust is pretty compact. It's definitely smaller than the Centipede and Meteor that I've transported in my car without any problems. So this was an easy fit:




I did take a picture of Luigi's Joust cab (which was great to play together !) because the marquee is missing on mine and I bought one from e-bay but it's a US one so it won't fit.....






Back on the road again, goodbye hills, back to my flat-flat country :) But we'll meet again for sure !


Fastest Joust ever ?:


But remember, ONLY drive that fast when it's SAFE !:

At least some spare parts sold for the American automobile industry ;)

After 4,5 hours travel, safe back home, and put the Ostrich in it's "cage" :D

Spyridon:
Nice pick up! 

Level42:
Today Jrok's multi-Williams board arrived, and since my Joust cab is Jamma anyway, I figured I'd give it a test run:






The monitor fires up reaaaaaaaaaal slow. I could hear crackling sounds under the HV cup and I smelled the nice air of ionization around the back of the cab. Later the crackling silenced and there was a reasonable picture. I'm pretty sure a cap-kit and some good cleaning will fix this monitor.

Anyway, it was fun to play my first games of Joust and Robotron !!! What a great product that board is !  :cheers: :applaud:

Mauzy:
That monitor firing reaaal slow may be the symptom of a weak tube which a cap kit won't fix. I had a G07 tube that took about a minute to fully come up. It was a good candidate for a tube swap.  You might get some good results out of a rejuvenation, I haven't gotten a chance to try that yet.

Of course I could be totally wrong. Monitors can be strange, but what you've getting tube wise sounds like what I've experienced with a weak tube. At any rate, nice to see that you're getting some use out of that cab. Seeing these new "multi williams" boards makes me want a Williams machine even more!

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