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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: ChanceKJ on January 15, 2015, 09:39:47 pm
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Just wait, it gets worse... >:D
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How much did it cost? It looks good from here!
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Don't worry, you'll stop when you run out of space, or the wife threatens to leave. Until then, knock yourself out :)
Good find, BTW.
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Mine did. I just do it under the radar.She says if I put as much time into our relationship as I put in arcades, our marriage would be perfect. Nah I say she would just think I was a Pu$$y, but that's me
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You're interrupting viewing the hockey game to post on BYOAC? What kind of Canadian are you?
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The best kind. Drunk.
Pucks about to drop.
Game on, bro! Game on! I was actually at the Arizona/Ottawa game last Saturday.
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I don't normally like that style of cocktail cabinet but I have to say I like the look of that one. All that black really pops. Nice haul. :cheers:
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Agreed that cocktail looks very nice. ;D
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Nice get. I would totally have a cocktail cabinet myself if I didn't live in a tiny apartment :)
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Not saying you don't have a problem but that does remind me of Moon Patrol.
Here's the real problem. I saw this and was like: "Oh, Moon Patrol"
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8564/16103178918_38e47f7df5_c.jpg)
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Congrats on the new cocktail! I can't wait to see what you do with it. :cheers:
I think this is a very addicting hobby. As I work on my mame machine I have been thinking more and more about a couple dedicated cabs. I have even caught myself searching craigslist and kijiji and even ebay for dedicated Galaga machines even though I have zero budget for it right now.
I wonder how many hard core dedicated collectors started by building a multi game machine first. ???
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Congrats on the new cocktail! I can't wait to see what you do with it. :cheers:
I think this is a very addicting hobby. As I work on my mame machine I have been thinking more and more about a couple dedicated cabs. I have even caught myself searching craigslist and kijiji and even ebay for dedicated Galaga machines even though I have zero budget for it right now.
I wonder how many hard core dedicated collectors started by building a multi game machine first. ???
Many of the ones I've met in person and online started that way, myself included. In a lot of ways, you learn to gain a better appreciation of the dedicated games.
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You have..."The Sickness"!! Congrats! Hope you have lots of space!
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Sly Spy is a fun game, I believe I had the board at some point and I still have a NOS adhesive marquee for it.
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Here's the real problem. I saw this and was like: "Oh, Moon Patrol"
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8564/16103178918_38e47f7df5_c.jpg)
Because of this, I suggest you turn the cocktail into a Moon Patrol build >:D
(the popcorn bag really does have a Moon Patrol feel to it)
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Oh, great... Now you have me thinking... Damnit.
In fact you could carve the popcorn pattern over and over into the sides and fill it in with a ball point pen ;D
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I'm wondering what it originally was. It looks like an Atari cocktail to me, but some stuff on it doesn't match up with the Atari's I've seen. The mechs are different, as is that "vent band". Interesting.
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I've been thinking that same thing. I don't know enough about this yet to be able to determine what's what simply by the pictures. So I'm kinda excited about what I'll find. I've been givin assurances it's working quite well, and a little history of the machine itself by the owner. But he knew nothing about arcades, it's just been sitting in his shop for a few years and wanted to get rid of it now that he's turning his shop into a Paint shop he doesn't want it damaged. I told him I'd give it a good home.
I think those are Asahi Seiko mechs arnt they?
That's what they look like. The control panels are Atari-style, the mechs Nintendo. If the monitor layout is original, then it was a horizontal game. Should be fun.
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That is a nice cocktail. I definitely want to find one of these for myself and turn it into a vertical display for a dedicated Hat Trick (one of the greatest vs. hockey games in the arcade). We used to have little tournaments with that game, and developed a few cool techniques/moves like rebound goals, spin-o-rama's, and dump-and-chase plays. It gets really competitive against people that know what they're doing to get around the defending player, as well as "lock them up" from forcing the play to switch them from paying attention to the skater to the goalie.
But I love the aesthetic of this cabinet because of the more slim-form of the midway/bally style woodgrain cocktails.
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Got it for $50 below his asking price.
Just wondering. I don't usually ask, but I passed on a DK cocktail that was priced at $250 or so. It wasn't nearly in that shape though.
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Based on that reply on KLOV and a quick search of Google, looks like it may have been a Sega indeed.
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**Jennifer does an intervention**, You know we all love you right?, But this game collecting has just spiraled out of control.... (Giggle)
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Yeah i was thinking that, but i spent the last half hour looking at pictures of the SEGA's, but this thing is either A. Heavily modified. or B. not a SEGA.
No no no, it's not a SEGA, it's a modified Taito cocktail.
(http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/flyers_video/taito/28002003.jpg)
Looks very similar to this Missile Command one: http://www.classicarcadegaming.com/forums/index.php?topic=4154.0 (http://www.classicarcadegaming.com/forums/index.php?topic=4154.0)
(http://i726.photobucket.com/albums/ww263/lexmark_018/mcommand007.jpg)
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Yeah, that looks nothing like the Atari Missile Command that have.
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Kinda looks like this Zaxxon Cocktail:
(http://www.arcade-museum.com/images/118/1181242188184.jpg)
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Well, it's been converted already and it's not easily identifiable, so I say make it a kick-ass custom (but don't do any weird ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- to it!). :cheers:
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Much worse or better?
from your pic, yours looks better.
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I wonder how many of the features that were done on it were after t he fact. It's got some stuff done on it that I've never seen.
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After I'm done the DK Ultimate I'll gut this and use the parts for something like a dedicated Mario Bros. Cabaret.
When life hands you a cocktail, you don't make a cabaret... Enjoy the cocktail! :cheers:
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After I'm done the DK Ultimate I'll gut this and use the parts for something like a dedicated Mario Bros. Cabaret.
When life hands you a cocktail, you don't make a cabaret... Enjoy the cocktail! :cheers:
Uh-oh... Don't tell Chance what he can't do..... >:D
It's actually in nice shape. Throw some custom artwork under the glass and on the CPs and call it day.
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Interesting. The door isn't like Atari doors, either. They're usually the full side.
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I'm afraid it won't be able to live in the living room, den, or man cave here just due to the faint smell of petrol. I'm sure that will dissipate in time, but for now it will have to stay in with my tools in my shop room, (it's a big house).
I've had similar problems (especially with smoke scented items). I've found that cold air seems to suck the stink out of them. If you have a garage/shed/etc you might want to try leaving it out there for a few weeks while it is still cold. I discovered this by accident actually and I've repeated it a few times over the years.
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Good call. I'm gonna try that if the open cans of coffee grinds don't help. Haha. Strangly I get a buzz going down into the room. Not sure if it's the gas, or the coffee...
I thought about suggesting you change the title of your thread, then you posted this and suddenly the original thread title makes more sense....
:dizzy:
Drugs are bad mmmmkay?
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Good call. I'm gonna try that if the open cans of coffee grinds don't help. Haha. Strangly I get a buzz going down into the room. Not sure if it's the gas, or the coffee...
I've had good luck wiping the cabinet down with Fabuloso. The cabinet will stink like Fabuloso for a bit but after a while all smells go away.
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Good call. I'm gonna try that if the open cans of coffee grinds don't help. Haha. Strangly I get a buzz going down into the room. Not sure if it's the gas, or the coffee...
I've had good luck wiping the cabinet down with Fabuloso. The cabinet will stink like Fabuloso for a bit but after a while all smells go away.
Yeah? I'm struggling to see the "Win" in that. ;)
It won't smell like gas.
I wish you lived here, bro. I'd love to help you refurb that. :cheers:
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Mmmm, yes. Like I said before. The fate of this thing is up in the air for at least until the DKU is built.
And this is why I can't sleep at night.
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Mmmm, yes. Like I said before. The fate of this thing is up in the air for at least until the DKU is built.
You could do a clean, classy touchup of that on the side in no time.
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Good call. I'm gonna try that if the open cans of coffee grinds don't help. Haha. Strangly I get a buzz going down into the room. Not sure if it's the gas, or the coffee...
I've had good luck wiping the cabinet down with Fabuloso. The cabinet will stink like Fabuloso for a bit but after a while all smells go away.
Yeah? I'm struggling to see the "Win" in that. ;)
It won't smell like gas.
:cheers:
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cool little find. It would be interesting to nail down what it was and possibly restore it, but it looks like it's been hacked up more than a young college girl in an 80s horror movie. Regardless of the route you take to "recovery" of this, i'm always interested in the projects you undertake. I'll be following this one.
I'm getting the bug as well. I haven't even finished plans for my MAME cab, and i'm already trying to find other cabs to restore and a dedicated Taito cab to make a dedicated Rastan cab.
*cough* YOTS *cough*
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Potential repair party this Saturday... a good day to network...
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Convert it to Space Invaders or something, At least something you like. There is no shame in wanting to enjoy it even though you can bring yourself to part with it.
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Potential repair party this Saturday... a good day to network...
PM me details mate.
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Neat little cab. Might be useful as a trade if you found the right collector (vector guys are interesting folks and you might find one with a Space Duel).
Star Castle was BW with a coulored overlay. Original of which would be harder to find than a colour vector, but might be fairly simple to repro (if you want to find/repair a 13" BW vector). EDIT: I see now that the colour vector was for Space Duel ... must have been comprehensionally-impaired when I posted.