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Arcade Collecting => Restorations & repair => Topic started by: acidrs on September 15, 2019, 02:26:50 pm

Title: Restore or RePurpose? Help from the community
Post by: acidrs on September 15, 2019, 02:26:50 pm

Hello,
So i recently found a broken arcade cabinet on a surplus auction site and had plans to fix it up and either put it back in operation somewhere or sell it.
(https://scontent.fatl1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/70878213_10157147358455073_5073726630057213952_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&_nc_oc=AQmtVQh2A77ytkne6SWyli62hGMTVQ5aud8yB8hS3YSF4zWcZr9awLm41bfq7sohslFpI6ONMW6GdVf8jMLRHa7g&_nc_ht=scontent.fatl1-2.fna&oh=fe0aed3993e572a0e8ba04dbd1709eaa&oe=5DF90412)
However things have taken a little turn when we started to sand down the back paint, which revealed the original graphics of this cabinet.

(https://scontent.fatl1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/70721733_10156877732623661_2311602315544494080_o.jpg?_nc_cat=101&_nc_oc=AQmy-iw9lhvj5vuH8UBq4ETDwlHWXco79ooxow1ZOoVSy-jjkaG0mRRLKTYGZDqd-pkZeScjoOZeZx0q3La4JiE5&_nc_ht=scontent.fatl1-2.fna&oh=de1d4e87a77f4e5bf6cae07f87cc64e2&oe=5DF1F0FE)

It feels wrong to repaint over this and wanted to find out from the community, should we restore this machine back to its original state or not?

Title: Re: Restore or RePurpose? Help from the community
Post by: Ken Layton on September 16, 2019, 12:58:01 am

Yes, make it back to original.

Title: Re: Restore or RePurpose? Help from the community
Post by: piscian18 on September 23, 2019, 10:14:44 am

I think everyone on here will always tell you to restore it. One thing I'd point out based on my own poor choices is that it's very expensive and difficult restore a cabinet once you start make major altercations to anything on the exterior like the Joystick panel. If you do any altercations I'd leave it at multitapping in a Pi so you can play other games of that era and leaving the original system intact. Based on the gorgeous side art alone I don't think I could bring myself to change it. Does the board and monitor/chassis work or is this thing a coaster in its current state?

Title: Re: Restore or RePurpose? Help from the community
Post by: bobbyb13 on October 24, 2019, 04:24:01 am

I've never actually played a real one of those.

Are the board(s), monitor, power supply, etc. still there?

You have to wonder what has been done to it given that it only has a "Super Speed" button on one side presently.

Save it if you can!

Title: Re: Restore or RePurpose? Help from the community
Post by: behrmr on October 24, 2019, 01:22:09 pm

You've got quite the mutt there.   It looks like a Super Pac-Man converted to Ms Pac-Man converted to a Multi-game.

Super Pac-man cabinet
Ms. Pac-man Marquee
Galaxian Bezel
Ms. Pac-Man control panel with wrong joystick and a hole punched in it (probably for a multigame)

Honestly this would be costly to convert back.  Wiring harness, game PCB, Marquee, Bezel, Fully populated Control Panel, side art, etc.  It would be less expensive to find a working Super Pac-Man.

As much as I'm into preservation and de-conversion I'd pass on this one.  If It's already a multi-game, I'd roll it with black paint and keep it or sell it as-is.