I listened to the AO podcast and really enjoyed it. I have been a weekly listener now and have wondered over to the forum.
I have enjoyed arcades as a kid. It was always so exciting to insert your
and play a game in a dark room with all the lights and sounds coming from the many machines. If you were good at a game, you would have a crowd of other kids watching you giving you a taste of what it might be like to be a rock star.
Being much older now, I have started to collect games and fixing them up to like new.
My first game is a Gorf Cocktail, that I bought for $50 on craigslist. It had a scrambled screen when powered on and the cab was roughed up a bit. I pulled the board stack and cleaned and reseated each board and started working perfectly. Repaired the cab and now is a great looking machine.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B206gTxGy_6qM3VOajZmMmhKZnc/view?usp=sharingI also have a Ms. Pac Man Cabaret
A Sega Crackdown that was converted to a 1-slot Neo Geo, so I fixed it up to look like a Neo Geo
A Missile Command (not working)
A 1963 Williams Big Daddy pinball machine (also not working)
I would love to find a Dedicated Dragon's Lair game someday.
It will be great to chat with other people about games and their repair/restoration.
