I'm naming this picture because, as I mentioned before, my wife (we just recently married) is not a gamer, hailing as she does from the former German Democratic Republic, i.e. behind the iron curtain or safe from Capitalist pig infiltration, depending on your point of view, i.e. far away from anything resembling an 80's arcade or even computer technology.
Long story short, she hated the games as a waste of time, hated the box as a monstrosity, etc. etc. Some of you out there know exactly what I'm talking about. The rest of you have geek girlfriends/wives (more power to you btw

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So we had a showdown when I started building the spinner panel. She couldn't imagine why I would need yet another panel to further my senseless retrogaming goals. I prevailed, naturally, and one of our friends convinced her to try out the spinners for Puzz Loop in vs. mode.
She not only proceeded to kick his German ass, but she set the new record for Panic Mode. I have since bumped her off and the three of us have sort of jostled for first place and most wins in a row in vs. mode, but that doesn't matter.
What matters is that I hate the graphics I put on this module (not to mention that they adhered poorly) and yet I can't think of starting over, since it works and

... she actually likes to play one game on the machine.
So it probably didn't really save the marriage and the blunder is only skin deep, but hey there was some sort of magic there that two spinners enabled and I'm thankful.
Please notice the crappy, low-res marquees spilled over the front and the poorly spaced buttons. And I thought the SFII graphics on the other panel were a stretch ... Still, this is easily the most played of all the panels now. Everyone digs the funky reggae beat of Puzz Loop.
By the way, I wrote an article about the construction of this spinner. It's called the Hillbilly Spinner and it's still on the first page over at Retroblast.
http://retroblast.arcadecontrols.com/articles/hillbilly-04262006-01.php*Edited to fix broken link