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Crappy conversions not limited to classic arcade cabinets...
« on: February 10, 2010, 09:28:31 am »
Look what this moron did to a vintage Keracolor television set...

Long ebay link

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Re: Crappy conversions not limited to classic arcade cabinets...
« Reply #1 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.
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Re: Crappy conversions not limited to classic arcade cabinets...
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2010, 09:59:34 am »
Wonder if that was genesim?   >:D
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Re: Crappy conversions not limited to classic arcade cabinets...
« Reply #3 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.

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Re: Crappy conversions not limited to classic arcade cabinets...
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2010, 10:23:11 am »
That's freaking hilarious!

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Re: Crappy conversions not limited to classic arcade cabinets...
« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2010, 10:25:24 am »
ROFL...
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Re: Crappy conversions not limited to classic arcade cabinets...
« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2010, 10:27:29 am »
Newspaper clipping generator I just found
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Re: Crappy conversions not limited to classic arcade cabinets...
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2010, 10:42:53 am »
Well thats opened a can of worms.    :)

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Re: Crappy conversions not limited to classic arcade cabinets...
« Reply #8 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...
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Re: Crappy conversions not limited to classic arcade cabinets...
« Reply #9 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.
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Re: Crappy conversions not limited to classic arcade cabinets...
« Reply #10 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.
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Re: Crappy conversions not limited to classic arcade cabinets...
« Reply #11 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.
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