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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 15:33:13 GMT -5
You're being facetious, right... There's nothing wrong with spending $700 or more on a classic arcade game, considering that you treat it like an investment. I mean, by the time you're done with it, the thing is easily worth hundreds more than the amount you paid.
It's probably a good idea to keep a record of everything you've done to it. Like ppl do with vehicles, to increase the value, if/when they sell it.
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Post by Emig5m on Mar 19, 2017 21:01:12 GMT -5
You're being facetious, right... Of course, it's me we're talking about, lol.... |
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Post by Coolverine on Mar 21, 2017 16:43:31 GMT -5
A friend of mine has an arcade cabinet with a PC in it, has tons of games.
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Post by Emig5m on Mar 21, 2017 18:02:29 GMT -5
A friend of mine has an arcade cabinet with a PC in it, has tons of games. Yea I have an empty cab I could do that with but most of us hardcore arcade guys actually frown upon emulation. My personal reasons are... - I have a nostalgic connection with playing the exact original hardware just as I did as a kid. - I feel like if you're going to waste the space with a arcade cabinet might as well just use all the original arcade hardware otherwise why even waste the space of a cab and just play on your desktop PC? - Emulation never seems 100% correct. Sometimes the color pallet is a little off, sometimes there's input lag which really effects R-Type in MAME compared to playing on the real arcade PCB. - The coolness factor of having the original hardware and that it's a challenge to find and knowing when you obtain one that there's real history behind it (i.e. thousands of people have played it it at various locations over the years.) - Original hardware kinda forces you to learn electronics repair and upkeep - I've learned so much about circuitry repair since I started collecting arcade games. - A lot of people are trying to save original cabs keeping them all original for their historical value. - Each individual machine has it's own unique design and artwork - you can say that each game is its own piece of art. Actually I could keep on going but to each an their own. There's TONS of those multi game cabs on Craigslist. I got my last replacement monitor from a guy who finds old arcade games on the cheap and then strips out all of the original hardware including the CRT monitors and then sells the parts for a premium individually and then puts cheap PCs and LCDs in them that he either gets for pennies or free and then resells the the cabinet as a multi game cabinet and makes a pretty good buck doing it. LCD + retro games = bleh!~ These old games look horrid on LCD but that's another story..... |
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Post by Coolverine on Mar 21, 2017 19:01:13 GMT -5
Yeah I agree that having the genuine game is always gonna be the best experience.
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Post by Emig5m on May 22, 2017 21:53:29 GMT -5
So the Electrohome G07 monitor in my Centipede has been loosing horizontal sync for a while now. It got so bad that just tapping the control panel would make it lose sync.  I've known what the problem potentially was, I was just so busy with Missile Command and Asteroids Deluxe that I just didn't feel like pulling the monitor out of the Centipede and working on it but I had a rain day off work today and felt like getting this monkey off my back. Something I didn't do when I rebuilt this monitor is reflow all the header pins. Here was the problem as you can see where the arrows are pointing is a cracked, aka, cold solder joint on a header pin for a connector causing a bad connection:  So I sucked off (that's what she said, lol) all the old solder with my solder sucker and reapplied fresh solder to all the header pins on the main monitor's circuit board and neck board just to be safe and now the game is rock solid. Todd Tuckey from TNT Amusements talks about bad solder joints on header pins in the video here: But this is what it is. If you want to get these games for cheaper and fix them yourselves rather than pay full retail for a game that's already been refurbished by a retail company like TNT, this is stuff you have to learn to do....lol.  |
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Post by Cop on May 23, 2017 11:17:11 GMT -5
I kept reading soldier sucker...
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Post by akira on Jun 18, 2017 12:04:42 GMT -5
Fuckin' A, man, good job! I never played centipede as a kid, didn't have many places round here with cabinets at all tbh, but that looks like loads of fun and a goldmine to boot.
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Post by Emig5m on Jun 18, 2017 21:42:09 GMT -5
Fuckin' A, man, good job! I never played centipede as a kid, didn't have many places round here with cabinets at all tbh, but that looks like loads of fun and a goldmine to boot. Arcade games where everywhere around here when I was a kid, heh. Every single mall had a arcade and every little food joint and grocery store had arcade games so no matter where I went with my parents, there was plenty of games to play, lol. |
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Post by Cop on Jun 19, 2017 9:38:08 GMT -5
Akira isn't in the US, neither am I. There were some arcades in the cities but not being near a city, as a kid I had to wait for fairs to be able to play arcade games. Some pubs had one or two, or a pinball machine, but that was about it.
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Post by Emig5m on Jun 19, 2017 12:17:45 GMT -5
Akira isn't in the US, neither am I. There were some arcades in the cities but not being near a city, as a kid I had to wait for fairs to be able to play arcade games. Some pubs had one or two, or a pinball machine, but that was about it. Ahhhh yea...they where like everywhere here. In fact, the same local ice creme joint a minute down the road where I used to play Spy Hunter and Pole Position when I was a kid back in the 80's has a pinball game sitting there now and a little further down the road the truck stop has about five games including a more modern cabinet with Galaga and Ms. Pacman in the same cabinet and the other way from where I live the Chinese restaurant has a Cruisin' USA although the malls no longer have any arcades. There's still some games here and there around but people really don't play them anymore. In fact, the Cruisin' USA has been unplugged the last few time I've been down there. Last time I seen it running it looked like the monitor needed rebuilding and/or adjusting.... The arcade restorer in me just wanted to take it apart and get to work.....lol. A little further down the road at a pizza shop there's a Mortal Kombat cab... But why would a kid these days who has a PS4 or Xbox want to stuff quarters in a 20 to 37 year old game, lol. Back then, the arcades had the best games and now it's the other way around. For me though, I actually enjoy playing the games that I own more so than my consoles or PC. That's why I try to select only games I like the gameplay of. I wouldn't own a game like Double Dragon although I played it as a kid and have a nostalgic connection to it, I just don't think the gameplay is timeless like Centipede... Here's what's left of a local arcade at a mall that opened in 1989 where I got to play Hard Drivin' brand new:  Actually, malls have been dying out around here. People just go to Walmart these days.... This mall lost its arcade and entire foot court and they wonder why people don't go here anymore. The food courts at other malls always seem to be the busiest spot in the malls! |
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