Recent content by fcjim

Presumably Star Trek was a big license so the game got special treatment in their lineup, with a dedicated upright and a very cool cockpit. But Sega also offered their "Convert-a-Game" line at the time, which was sold as a product that allowed ops to easily (and relatively cheaply) switch the...

The only games I'd bet on going up in price are those attached to some other big intellectual property: Star Wars, Star Trek, TMNT, and so on. And as others have mentioned, Nintendo is pretty much the only arcade/video game company that's its own big IP at this point, but Pac Man might be in...

This is a neat find, but I just can't imagine anybody paying $3,500 for it. The only really interesting thing about it is that it was never installed, and I figure that's adding like $1000 to the cost here... but what do you do with it? If you buy it and install it in a game, it immediately...

Stick a flathead screwdriver under the suction cup and push the anode clip til it comes out. It's held in by springy tension, pushing it towards the center releases it. Make sure monitor is unplugged and discharged first, although if it hasn't run in a while you may not need to worry about...

A look at the date it was posted sorts it out, actually.

I think I have a marquee, I will look and PM if I find it. But even if not, I just want to give props for anybody deconverting a Space Duel.

I have one hung up at the moment. The tracking is ridiculous... it told me Thursday afternoon that my package would arrive by the end of that day, despite the last tracking location being in Pennsylvania, clear across the country from me. I doubt they could have got it back to the sender in PA...

It happens with buyers too, and it's really frustrating when you're trying to help someone out and they disappear on you. I've had people who've posted they're looking for something, I've written them saying I have one. They ask for pics, so I go dig it out and take some pics. They say what do...

Battlezone is not particularly hard to move--not for an Atari cabinet anyway, which always seem to be extra heavy--but I usually forget how much taller it is than other cabinets. I have banged it into a soffit in my basement more times than I care to admit. Most difficult one I've ever moved is...

I can disagree but not argue with a lot of your comments, other than this one. Spock was constantly the butt of jokes in TOS, and his character was frequently mined for humor. I'd take a wild guess that half the original episodes end with a little scene of Spock saying something dry and logical...

"Enterprise" wasn't terrible but it was a low point IMO, and ST went into a well-deserved hibernation. But now they're cranking them out. Discovery is uneven but has its moments. Picard is good, but I don't know how well it would hold up without the TNG nostalgia. I love Below Decks, and I...

The word "restore" means to bring back to an original or previous state. Doesn't matter how much work or money you put into it... if it isn't the way it used to be, it isn't restored. Shouldn't be described as such, and shouldn't be priced as such. There's a lot of gray area there--can I use...

I don't think it would work. First of all, it would take months if not years of running it like that to burn the entire screen in. And running an all-white screen would burn all the phosphors, including the areas already burned in, meaning that the areas that were already burned in would become...

There are not many cocktail games where the artwork is a selling point, but this is one of them. GLWTS

No, it's not the only difference, they are completely different cabinets.