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Title: Wuddup from Denver
Post by: VWbus on December 30, 2015, 11:27:45 am
I'm excited to be a member of the John's Arcade Forum! Love seeing John's YouTube videos each week. I always find something valuable in them.

I've built 3 mini arcades:

1/2 size Qbert (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,146091.0.html)

Micro Coleco Table Top Arcade Conversion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiqWL7u8EH0)

3/4 Scale Donkey Kong (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaCKmYb_ICs)


Those builds were fun but now I'm more into the real thing so I'm currently restoring an original DK I found on Craigslist. It's my first real arcade and I just finished soldering on new capisitors from Ian Kellogg. In the next day or so I hope to fire it up and have the monitor and sound work for the first time. (His cap kits are freakin' awesome by the way)

I have a restore thread going on BYOAC but perhaps I should start one here? Then again, it's not like anyone hasn't seen a thousand DK restores.  :)

Anyway, happy to be here and lean more about arcades!


Title: Re: Wuddup from Denver
Post by: Terry68Firebird on January 23, 2016, 12:51:39 pm
sup denver :)

I think it'd be cool to post your DK restore.  pics, etc or vids. 


Title: Re: Wuddup from Denver
Post by: VWbus on January 24, 2016, 11:00:12 am
sup denver :)

I think it'd be cool to post your DK restore.  pics, etc or vids. 

Thanks Terry68firebird!

I'll get a restore thread going here.