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Arcade restoration contest at CoinOpSpace
« on: April 18, 2009, 11:32:55 am »
Dig out your summer restorations and try to nab $150.00 prize for best restoration.

http://www.coinopspace.com/profiles/blogs/restoration-contest-at

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Re: Arcade restoration contest at CoinOpSpace
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2009, 03:56:13 pm »
How the hell does MAME count as a restoration? (Unless it's for that particular cab and you can't find the boards)

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Re: Arcade restoration contest at CoinOpSpace
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2009, 08:38:58 pm »
The Contest keeps getting sweeter.
A Special thanks to VideoGameParts.com for contributing to the contest
bringing that winning Value to $200
and a special thanks to Gameroom Magazine as the winner will also be feature in
along with a years subscription!

So pick your projects and join the fun!
at www.CoinOpSpace.com

Saving the Planet one Game at a time.


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Re: Arcade restoration contest at CoinOpSpace
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2009, 08:42:28 pm »
How the hell does MAME count as a restoration? (Unless it's for that particular cab and you can't find the boards)

And my Ms. Pacman is not eligible..hey, i may be new to the restoration scene, but Ms. PacMan is still cool..I don't care if there are 100 other ms. pac restorations going on. ;)

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Re: Arcade restoration contest at CoinOpSpace
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2009, 09:05:34 pm »
DK doesn't count!  Why?  I guess I'm out.

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Re: Arcade restoration contest at CoinOpSpace
« Reply #5 on: April 29, 2009, 03:51:08 pm »
I'm not as excited... this contest is more about pushing CoinOpSpace's Google rankings than anything else:

"This is not about putting links in a thread to other websites, you need to generate original content exclusively at Coinopspace.com."

Currently BYOAC gets #3 spot in Googling for "Arcade Restoration", while COS is on page 3.

That's one reason to exclude the popular games. Those keywords are already saturated with too many sites when Googling.

One example of unpopular game search ranking: Google for "Juno First restoration" and the top 3 spots are my own BYOAC threads and my own web page. ;-)


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Re: Arcade restoration contest at CoinOpSpace
« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2009, 04:05:55 pm »
RayB you missed this part at the bottom as well.

Extra credit. If you want to earn extra points, send us links to all of the threads you have started on different arcade forums where you have linked to your Coinopspace.com restoration. Each link is worth 1 point.

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Re: Arcade restoration contest at CoinOpSpace
« Reply #7 on: April 29, 2009, 04:06:18 pm »
I'm not as excited... this contest is more about pushing CoinOpSpace's Google rankings than anything else:

"This is not about putting links in a thread to other websites, you need to generate original content exclusively at Coinopspace.com."

Currently BYOAC gets #3 spot in Googling for "Arcade Restoration", while COS is on page 3.

That's one reason to exclude the popular games. Those keywords are already saturated with too many sites when Googling.

One example of unpopular game search ranking: Google for "Juno First restoration" and the top 3 spots are my own BYOAC threads and my own web page. ;-)




And you would hold this against the site why?

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Re: Arcade restoration contest at CoinOpSpace
« Reply #8 on: April 29, 2009, 06:07:32 pm »
I'm just a little bummed that they came up with this contest AFTER I busted out my Williams Multigame... and after I restored a Star Wars cockpit... and after I restored my Paperboy...

... oh well.  Hell,  the announcement came after I started working on Secret Service pinball...and I am not even sure if they'd accept a pinball restoration submission anyway.

I look forward to see what stuff gets submitted though.

All I have left to restore is...well... nothing much actually.  I only have little projects on the table (and the SS pin of course).
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Re: Arcade restoration contest at CoinOpSpace
« Reply #9 on: April 29, 2009, 07:22:28 pm »
Evidently pins aren't accepted for this compo...
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Re: Arcade restoration contest at CoinOpSpace
« Reply #10 on: April 29, 2009, 09:03:43 pm »
Frizz, that just means that you need to go out and purchase some more projects!

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Re: Arcade restoration contest at CoinOpSpace
« Reply #11 on: April 29, 2009, 09:09:17 pm »
Shame there isn't a restoration wiki out there that true restorers could log the specific cabinet resto needs on as they encounter them. I'm not a restorer myself but about 50% of visitors here probably are and it would go more towards the 'preservation of video game history' than even MAME does.

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Re: Arcade restoration contest at CoinOpSpace
« Reply #12 on: April 29, 2009, 09:39:07 pm »
Shame there isn't a restoration wiki out there that true restorers could log the specific cabinet resto needs on as they encounter them. I'm not a restorer myself but about 50% of visitors here probably are and it would go more towards the 'preservation of video game history' than even MAME does.
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« Last Edit: April 29, 2009, 09:43:01 pm by polaris »
got COLOR codes from projects, post them here

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Re: Arcade restoration contest at CoinOpSpace
« Reply #13 on: April 29, 2009, 10:14:56 pm »
Yes I know there is a resto forum on here but I'm talking about a simple 'go to' click wiki then a set of q+a threads that fall by the way over time.

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Re: Arcade restoration contest at CoinOpSpace
« Reply #14 on: April 29, 2009, 10:54:11 pm »
got COLOR codes from projects, post them here

add stuff to the uk wiki section