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Not for the weak of heart....
« on: August 04, 2008, 06:57:59 am »
Stolen from a thread at the KLOV forum:

(http://forums.webmagic.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=843851&an=0&page=0#Post843851)


 :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Poor Star Wars:



Poor Trons:



A Final Blow indeed !

« Last Edit: August 04, 2008, 07:01:07 am by Level42 »

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Re: Not for the weak of heart....
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2008, 10:09:09 am »

Jeebus are those all in the same guy's basement?

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Re: Not for the weak of heart....
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2008, 11:28:26 am »
It's from an arcade in Grand Beach, Manitoba .  I think it is the official Hellcade.

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Re: Not for the weak of heart....
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2008, 11:33:51 am »
More...



This one really hurts...


Let's just hope they don't hellcade this non working one...
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Re: Not for the weak of heart....
« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2008, 01:20:16 pm »
Holy Hell! Whoever converted those cabinets is just looking for ways to ensure short playtime. I can't even begin to imagine how long anyone can play the Double Dragon/Star Wars cab with those joysticks that close together and at that angle. :dizzy:

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Re: Not for the weak of heart....
« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2008, 01:36:24 pm »

Hey I have some of that same wood panel in part of my basement.  It's in a pile under my stairs from the previous owners.

Are you saying that's a commercial arcade?

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Re: Not for the weak of heart....
« Reply #6 on: August 04, 2008, 01:43:10 pm »
JeeEEeeeEezzz! Some of those are real mind bogglers. Star Wars to Hang On?  Star Trek to Space Invaders? What a weird backward conversion that is.

Anyone notice that Super Qix has "teh R@R3" Lock n Chase bezel and control panel?
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Re: Not for the weak of heart....
« Reply #7 on: August 04, 2008, 02:08:09 pm »
I think it is the official Hellcade.

Exactly what I was going to say.

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Re: Not for the weak of heart....
« Reply #8 on: August 04, 2008, 02:51:17 pm »
I don't see these games listed on the KLOV site:

Star Dragon
Arkatron
Final Tron
Robofender
Crime Kick
Wonder Gorf
Bottom of the Pede
Tetris Slayer
Star Invaders
Mortal Quantum
Track n Roids
Hang Wars
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Re: Not for the weak of heart....
« Reply #9 on: August 04, 2008, 04:34:56 pm »
It appears the Space Invaders has Galaga on it, though. I think the worst one is that Final Blow/Tron mutation.
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Re: Not for the weak of heart....
« Reply #10 on: August 04, 2008, 05:16:39 pm »
I don't see these games listed on the KLOV site:

Star Dragon
Arkatron
Final Tron
Robofender
Crime Kick
Wonder Gorf
Bottom of the Pede
Tetris Slayer
Star Invaders
Mortal Quantum
Track n Roids
Hang Wars


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Re: Not for the weak of heart....
« Reply #11 on: August 04, 2008, 09:26:35 pm »
The poor TRON's! 

You dirty Mother :angry:

How could you !

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Re: Not for the weak of heart....
« Reply #12 on: August 04, 2008, 11:14:58 pm »

Wonder Gorf


make that a wonder gorf with a dash of tron for good measure (can YOU find the abomination)

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Re: Not for the weak of heart....
« Reply #13 on: August 06, 2008, 11:32:14 pm »
I live an hour away from Grand Beach.  I may have to go up there to beat the owner.   :angry:  And take a Tron home or something.   8)

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Re: Not for the weak of heart....
« Reply #14 on: August 06, 2008, 11:44:22 pm »
At least a lot of them look easily restoreable. Looked like Centipede and a few others had art intact. Although someone who would go through the trouble of converting all these same several times over will probably keep doing so, possibly destroying something in the process.
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Re: Not for the weak of heart....
« Reply #15 on: August 08, 2008, 08:45:54 pm »

 A lot  of these are more than likely Fakes.  (Photoshop)

 More than likely made to T' off people just for the fun of it.
 

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Re: Not for the weak of heart....
« Reply #16 on: August 09, 2008, 12:28:39 am »

 A lot  of these are more than likely Fakes.  (Photoshop)

 More than likely made to T' off people just for the fun of it.
 

We can only hope youre right...
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Re: Not for the weak of heart....
« Reply #17 on: August 09, 2008, 12:39:45 am »
The amount of seperate art on those cabinets is just plain confusing.  The centipede cabinet  with dodgeball monitor bezel and bottom of the ninth marquee and control panel is my favorite.

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Re: Not for the weak of heart....
« Reply #18 on: August 13, 2008, 01:39:21 pm »
From my personal collection: ($10 apiece when nobody wanted the things at an auction)
The early days, pre restoration.(still in progress)

Asteroid Fighter Deluxe:

Some sort of weird plastic panelling glued to the original sides  :cry:

Galaxia Whiz:

It was a galaxian.. still has the original burn in. At least it is restorable.
(yes, it is going back to something original, Galaxian fans.. )

I took great pleasure in removing the z80s from that thing for use in me Galaga.

They are much better now, but still a bit ugly. The AD is black now.

..and Centipede Fighter 2:


No, that's not permanent.. I was just having fun when I realized the panels would swap out.
(Centipede had a wood-grain CPO.. and the sides were painted black.. but it was free.
it's going back together as a proper one, having collected all the parts short of the art and start buttons,
and I found a  (artless)bezel for it since the picture was taken.)

2 out of the 3 will be going back to something resembling the original.

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If you order a pizza, put 1 quarter in their Galaga and the pizza's done before you are, you might be a video game junkie.. if you offer to tweak the crt , definitely.

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Re: Not for the weak of heart....
« Reply #19 on: August 27, 2008, 07:57:28 am »
Not to scare you people, but my personal history in Northern Ontario Canada, had a lot of the same sort of hellish mods....   but the "nice" looking ones, were when they took the wood panel looking wallpaper and covered up the side art.

People who live out in the sticks, don't usually get a nice Tron cab until it's been through a heckuva lot of auctions....
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Re: Not for the weak of heart....
« Reply #20 on: September 06, 2008, 01:35:20 am »
Quantum converted to Mortal Kombat? Isn't Quantum worth a lot of money, like two or three thousand dollars?

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Re: Not for the weak of heart....
« Reply #21 on: September 11, 2008, 01:23:43 pm »

Not that much in this economy but yeah it's a pricey vector all right.

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Re: Not for the weak of heart....
« Reply #22 on: September 11, 2008, 02:44:03 pm »
You gotta hand it to those operators, converting and ruining cabs for the sake of making money since arcade machine were invented.
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