Ok.....Hobby time.....Today I get to work on my arcade games and am very excited as I haven't had time to do so in awhile. Time of the year where you have to do a lot of yard cleanup from all the leaves constantly falling from the trees. First on my agenda is to fix my monitors on the games that I use for test beds. In other words, I use them to view the pictures from games I am working on. I have two, and for some reason, both have fried. Can't fix games if I don't have a picture.... The pic to the left is my workbench. Lots o' parts!
I used to buy up complete games (cabinet, monitor, game board) but found I don't have the space in my home for too many. So, I now just tend to buy the game pcb (board that runs the game) and will just repair those. Once repaired, I will put them up for auction on Ebay. Fun hobby and I get a little extra cash out of the deal. My true love of games is Pinball! I love working on them and love playing them. If only I had more room in the house!
My current projects are:
- A Seawolf video game. Repairing that for a friend. Click here for a pic
- A United shuffle bowling game.
- An assortment of boards to fix...Pacman, Galaxian, and Donkey Kong to name a few.
- A Take Five cocktail pinball game (rare). Click here for a pic
As I do repairs, I will try to take pictures and document what I had to do to repair the item. May not be totally exciting for most, but will be to those that love the arcade games and do repairs as I do.
Far left pic is the back of the Seawolf game I am repairing.
The next pic is a bunch of Pacman / Ms. Pacman boards that I have yet to repair. A few months ago I repaired 13 Ms Pacman boards in a week for a local arcade company here in town. Boy...was I burnt out after that. Rush job....
This is my "Candy Cab" that I use as a test bed. Came from someplace in Japan. Can you tell by the sign over the monitor? Hope to get this baby working today so I can continue on with my game board repairs.
Ok....enough for today! Time to hit the games!!
