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Title: Crappy conversions not limited to classic arcade cabinets...
Post by: HaRuMaN on February 10, 2010, 09:28:31 am

Look what this moron did to a vintage Keracolor television set...

Long ebay link (http://cgi.ebay.com/KERACOLOR-UK-SPHERICAL-B777-c-1970-PHILIPS-HDTV_W0QQitemZ110476708419QQcmdZViewItemQQptZVintage_Electronics_R2?hash=item19b8ecca43)

 :banghead:

Title: Re: Crappy conversions not limited to classic arcade cabinets...
Post by: Ginsu Victim on February 10, 2010, 09:33:31 am

At least they didn't paint it yellow and shove a Pac-man tv game in it.

Title: Re: Crappy conversions not limited to classic arcade cabinets...
Post by: Hoopz on February 10, 2010, 09:59:34 am

Wonder if that was genesim?   >:D

Title: Re: Crappy conversions not limited to classic arcade cabinets...
Post by: Ginsu Victim on February 10, 2010, 10:22:05 am

Quote from: Hoopz on February 10, 2010, 09:59:34 am

Wonder if that was genesim?   >:D

Me too.

(http://r9.fodey.com/2092/3ad4c2264e444880b5a4e873464afa53.0.jpg)

Title: Re: Crappy conversions not limited to classic arcade cabinets...
Post by: Hoopz on February 10, 2010, 10:23:11 am

That's freaking hilarious!

 :applaud: :applaud: :applaud:

Title: Re: Crappy conversions not limited to classic arcade cabinets...
Post by: HaRuMaN on February 10, 2010, 10:25:24 am

ROFL...

Title: Re: Crappy conversions not limited to classic arcade cabinets...
Post by: Ginsu Victim on February 10, 2010, 10:27:29 am

Newspaper clipping generator I just found
http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp (http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp)

Title: Re: Crappy conversions not limited to classic arcade cabinets...
Post by: Hoopz on February 10, 2010, 10:42:53 am

Well thats opened a can of worms.    :)

Bookmarked! 

Title: Re: Crappy conversions not limited to classic arcade cabinets...
Post by: danny_galaga on February 12, 2010, 01:57:15 am

Most common non-arcade conversion abortions i see are perfectly sound sedans turned into convertibles. They are almost always crap, especially the VW's...

Title: Re: Crappy conversions not limited to classic arcade cabinets...
Post by: crashwg on February 12, 2010, 10:23:52 pm

I don't know if you can really say "crappy" about that conversion...  It looks like a professional job to me.

Title: Re: Crappy conversions not limited to classic arcade cabinets...
Post by: SavannahLion on February 13, 2010, 01:41:31 am

That's weird. At first I thought that was a reproduction er... sphere. The photos of that TV show a CRT that takes up the entire space within the sphere. That widescreen crap looks like it's sporting a bezel.

I wonder if he just worked a bezel in there, then feathered it in with the rest of the sphere with a little putty and suitable fiberglass paint.

Title: Re: Crappy conversions not limited to classic arcade cabinets...
Post by: Howard_Casto on March 05, 2010, 01:26:21 am

Yeah this doesn't look bad at all to me.  The bezel needs painted white at least, but it's done really well. 

We generally call something a "crappy conversion" around here because of how poorly it's done, not because someone "dared" to convert something.