redid the apartment

[paigeoliver]

I was getting annoyed with a couple of things in my apartment.

First off I was getting annoyed with people walking up to the DEAD Sprint 2 in my living room and wanting to play. Secondly I was tired of looking at the Badlands. It works just fine, and should clean up nicely with some work, (sideart is nearly 100 percent), but it is far from living room quality (all the rest of my stuff other than the Crystal Castles IS living room quality).

So, I had Dave and Jen come over (always good to have a girl around when you are arranging furniture), and we rearranged all my furniture, set up my TV, and redid the games so that all my best looking 100 percent working games were in the living room, while the pins, lesser quality games, and non-working games went off into the gameroom.

Somehow we managed to rearrange a 3 game setup into a 6 game setup while ending up with more floorspace than we started with? Not sure how that happened!!

So now I have the Kangaroo, Out Run and my 4 Mame cabinets in the living room, and everything else in the gameroom.

Once I get ALL my nice looking games working I plan on rotating them between the rooms on a semi regular basis. The way I arranged things will allow me to rotate the pins into the living room later. I can also easily squeeze in another game once I get another living room quality game up and running. Right now they are in 2 rows, with the three minis in one row (Space Firebird, Solitaire, and Galaga, all Mame), the Kangaroo and Maze Mame in another row, and the Out Run off by itself.

The Space Firebird is so small that I can easily squeeze it into the other row, or somewhere by itself once I get another nice game going. (The mini row has another foot of wallspace available, so I could fit a standard upright there if I pulled the Firebird out).

As far as other games go. I just got the monitor mounted in the Battlezone (FINALLY). Although I am not really happy about it. There was not enough room in the cabinet to mount a properly size monitor facing upwards. Not unless I wanted to decase it (that part would be no problem, as I ended up decasing the one I DID install anyway), AND I extended all the wiring to mount the monitor boards remotely, instead of right below the tube where they normally go.

I DID NOT want to do it that way, from what I read it isn't really safe to extend the length of the wires that go between the neckboard and the main monitor PCB, and the Battlezone ONLY has room for the tube in the proper location.

So I ended up having to install a 15" VGA monitor (facing upwards in the original location, and using the mirror).

Oh well, at least it will be playable soon.

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[SNAAAKE]

Basically you live in an arcade !

[Harakiri]

Man, i have no words to describe what i've just seen...

Have you ever tried to decorate your appartment with arcade themes, it would be great...  

[Dave_K.]

I hope you are already married.

[RacerX]

I hope you are already married.

He's not.  You must have missed the whole "Sarah" conversation awhile back.  

How's that goin', Paige?

[Zeitgeist]

...think you'd want to throw that Outrun cab in the back of my pickup next time I go up to St Louie?
Just thought I'd ask

[HaRuMaN]

Umm... do you need a roomate?  

[paigeoliver]

The worst thing is that is just ONE room. There is also a cocktail in the kitchen that you can't really see in the pictures.

The OTHER room has two pins, a Sprint 2, a Badlands, a Crystal Castles and a Battlezone, while the basement holds a Turbo, a pair of Defenders and a Sprint One. I also have a Stunt Cycle that will eventually be brought to me, and my carpenter friend is going to build me a NEW Midway cocktail from those new plans.

[Sephroth57]

wow... umm can i come over? =)

and what kind of apartment has a basement    more pics of the other room!

[Luxury]

very uncanny having that many machines with WHITE walls.  doesn't seem natural.

[RacerX]

The worst thing is that is just ONE room. There is also a cocktail in the kitchen that you can't really see in the pictures.

The OTHER room has two pins, a Sprint 2, a Badlands, a Crystal Castles and a Battlezone, while the basement holds a Turbo, a pair of Defenders and a Sprint One. I also have a Stunt Cycle that will eventually be brought to me, and my carpenter friend is going to build me a NEW Midway cocktail from those new plans.

You have a Stunt Cycle??  *Now* I'm jealous.  I'm going to track one down someday.

[paigeoliver]

The worst thing is that is just ONE room. There is also a cocktail in the kitchen that you can't really see in the pictures.

The OTHER room has two pins, a Sprint 2, a Badlands, a Crystal Castles and a Battlezone, while the basement holds a Turbo, a pair of Defenders and a Sprint One. I also have a Stunt Cycle that will eventually be brought to me, and my carpenter friend is going to build me a NEW Midway cocktail from those new plans.

You have a Stunt Cycle??  *Now* I'm jealous.  I'm going to track one down someday.

I don't HAVE it yet. An out of state friend did a bulk buy recently and there were a couple of black and white games in the deal. He knew that one of my local buddies was looking for one of them (Gunfight), and that I was looking for black and whites in general. So he saved those two for us, and is gonna bring them whenever he makes it to the area.

Not sure exactly what I will have to give for it, probably some trade stuff, or a few bucks. Pretty sure it is non-working. Price/trade hasn't even been discussed, which means it won't be much. Often in cases like this you usually just pay the guy whatever he paid for it in the first place, or give them a nice boardset or something, or just owe them a favor in the future, etc.

My basement isn't private, it is shared by the other 3 people in the building as well, but I stash my project games and spare monitors down there. Not really worried about anyone messing with them, as there are no children in my building.

[gprime]

I sure hope you don't keep those on all day -- imagine the electricity bill  

[paigeoliver]

I sure hope you don't keep those on all day -- imagine the electricity bill  

No I don't. Most days see exactly ZERO machines even turned on. I mostly only turn on what I want to play, unless I am having guests, then I usually power everything up.

[MinerAl]

Arcade machines?  

All I can see is that beautiful couch