Always thought it would be cool to have an arcade at home when I was a kid.. now that I am grown up and have some disposable income, I can build one myself! Just started collecting recently and started out by purchasing a 2 player WWF WrestleFest that happened to be in a Joust Cabinet. I have decided to restore the cabinet to a Joust machine, and so far I've started stripping the paint and ordered reproduction Bezel and Marquee. Planning a full paint and stencil job on it for the spring. Hardest part seems to be finding the Joust boards, but the JRok multi Williams looks interesting if I can pull that off. collected a few other PCBs in the meantime, nothing interesting. Got myself a PGA Tour cabinet for 25 bucks that had a perfectly working monitor in it that I've added some joysticks to for my kids to play games on through Mame. I'm slowly warming my wife up to the idea that I could have a few more cabinets in the basement.... so far shes let me stick the massive PGA cabinet in the main level of the house, so that's a good start... I think!
Met lots of interesting people selling arcade related stuff in my own town through classifieds (we use Kijiji here in Canada-land)... just bought a board and some old leaf switch joysticks and buttons/switches from a guy who purchased over 150+ machines from an operator and flipped it all, and he still had a boatload of miscellaneous parts. Seem to be a lot of guys restoring stuff here, so its hard to find a decent cab worthy of a restore for a reasonable amount of money... but I check the classifieds a few times a day hoping to score that killer
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I would be interested in meeting up with other arcade enthusiasts in the area to do trade or share tips and resources.
