2011 brag thread.

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The year is almost over. Did you...

Score a grail ? Raid an ops warehouse ? Flip a game for $ome $erious ca$h ? Find some NOS vector parts ? Learn how to do some kind of repair that you thought was beyond your skill set ? Get a game free or dirt cheap ? Rebuild a G08 ? Bring a basket case back from the dead ?

Big or small let's see it all. ( I need to upload some pics so stay tuned for mine).
 
well, i traded my tron for an awesome but needing love tempest.
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then i traded my DK for a wizard of wor that badly needed a resto

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Got a Star Wars cockpit , than sold it like a dumbass..lol
 

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Wrote a book about games. Finished my 3d model collection to 500. Attended my first NW pinball show. Got to hang out with a lot of my favorite local collectors. Good times.
 
Finally scored a Zeke's Peak after many years of half-assed looking.

Downside - It was only at my place for ~24 hours
Upside - It then got lots of play at the NW show
Downside - then it went into storage, and it's been stuck there ever since
Upside - It should have a permanent home, back home, in January
 
I scored an edot, a chopdot, then ended up dumping them both, and scored a kozmik krooz'r.

I am on the lookout for another DOT, but I have my KK, most important thing I did this year.
 
Moved to a new house and added a handful of games to the collection. :)

3-16-2011 SF Rush #1
3-16-2011 Pooyan
3-19-2011 Sinistar
5-17-2011 Armor Attack
5-26-2011 S.T.U.N. Runner
7-2-2011 Neo Geo conversion
8-7-2011 Star Wars with amplifone.
8-7-2011 Galaga
8-17-2011 Mario Bros
8-15-2011 Berzerk
8-15-2011 Phoenix
8-15-2011 Double Dragon #2
9-1-2011 SF Rush #2
10-4-2011 Dig Dug
10-20-2011 Monaco GP
 
Scored and Restored my Grail: Wizard of Wor

Scored and Restored a beautiful Galaga



Not to mention had a beautiful baby daughter, got a 60" Quattron, Bought a 2003 KX250, and updated most of the components in my home theater...


It was an awesome year to be....ME!
 

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Moved to a new house and added a handful of games to the collection. :)

3-16-2011 SF Rush #1
3-16-2011 Pooyan
3-19-2011 Sinistar
5-17-2011 Armor Attack
5-26-2011 S.T.U.N. Runner
7-2-2011 Neo Geo conversion
8-7-2011 Star Wars with amplifone.
8-7-2011 Galaga
8-17-2011 Mario Bros
8-15-2011 Berzerk
8-15-2011 Phoenix
8-15-2011 Double Dragon #2
9-1-2011 SF Rush #2
10-4-2011 Dig Dug
10-20-2011 Monaco GP

Damn! you've been busy !
 
Also, learned enough about electronics to debug my broken Galaxian and Warlords boards. I'm hooked now. :)

Moved to a new house and added a handful of games to the collection. :)

3-16-2011 SF Rush #1
3-16-2011 Pooyan
3-19-2011 Sinistar
5-17-2011 Armor Attack
5-26-2011 S.T.U.N. Runner
7-2-2011 Neo Geo conversion
8-7-2011 Star Wars with amplifone.
8-7-2011 Galaga
8-17-2011 Mario Bros
8-15-2011 Berzerk
8-15-2011 Phoenix
8-15-2011 Double Dragon #2
9-1-2011 SF Rush #2
10-4-2011 Dig Dug
10-20-2011 Monaco GP
 
Damn! you've been busy !

No kidding!! Things are slowing down since I've been finishing out basement for my folks to live in. On top of that, I'm a few games away from being out of space in the three-car garage-cade. Starting to plan a future arcade barn, but that'll be a while.

I hope that I can add Donkey Kong, Robotron, and Joust to my list in 2012. I'm hoping enough people get on the Warlords metal parts kit list so that they get made and I'll have a Warlords too! Already have a board, monitor, coin assemly, glass, cp overlays, etc for it. Need to fix up my second Double Dragon well enough to get it to work so we have a machine to swap boards in in the kitchen!
 
I broke 500,000 on Donkey Kong
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I got 14 million points on Funhouse at the National Pinball Museum (probably not all that impressive, but I hadn't played this one since the 90s)
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I also got my first project game up and running and did my first monitor repair.
 
in january i threw out 30 + games. Now i have room to make new cabinets.
 
Let see..
I made the 2300 mile round trip the last week in December for my Bowl-A-Rama...my search started in 1997. As luck would have it I stumbled across only the 3rd one I've seen for sale since...and had some extra cash from the house I just sold...and now the room for it in the new house.

Since the new house has a huge 2100 SQ basement I was busy filling it this spring =).

2011 pickups ~
Bowl-a-Rama (12.2010)
Star Wars cockpit (OP pickup)
Super Punchout! (local flipper)
SID (CL)
Millipede (bulk buy)
DK3 (bulk buy)
Star Trek SOS (bulk buy)
60-1 (Bulk Buy..from a gutted Pac Cab)
BattleZone (Jeff F)
ZooKeeper (Toronto CL)
SeaWolf (CL trade for a working Robotron PCB and ROM board)
Track & Field (CL)
Defender (loaned it out 10 years ago...got it back)
Funhouse (RGP..at work)
World Poker Tour (RGP)
Taito Classics (CL bartop...at work)

I think that's all of'em.
Posting a shitty pic of the BAR...for those not familiar with the BAR note the pins are actually sitting on the deck. No place for that pesky ball to go under them
 

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I had a busy 2011. I think I accomplished everything on my list and then some.


Score a Mad Planets: Check.

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Score a Sea Wolf: Check.

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Install black light carpet: Check.

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Build a bookcase that doubles as the secret doorway to my game room: Check.





Score a Space Ace: Check (it also has a Dragon's Lair laserdisc, marquee, and CP for quick swapping between games).

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Build a bookcase that doubles as the secret doorway to my game room

Such a badass project!

My gets:

Food Fight cocktail
Zoo Keeper
Bubbles cabaret

...and a Ms. Pac / Galaga Class of `81 coin-op cabaret (took some looking to find) that's getting an Arcadeshop board for Christmas. Woo hoo!
 
The year is almost over. Did you...


Score a grail ?
Yep, Karate Champ.

Raid an ops warehouse ?
2 mini-raids, 10 cabs each.

Flip a game for $ome $erious ca$h ?
Yep. *whistles*

Find some NOS vector parts ?
Sheah, right.

Learn how to do some kind of repair that you thought was beyond your skill set ?
Yep, board level repair on a Missile Command for my Dad. Replaced a LM324. First component with more than 2 legs through the board.

Get a game free or dirt cheap ?
Several, including a pin ;)

Rebuild a G08 ?
I'm not a masochist.

Bring a basket case back from the dead ?
Not yet, but the year's not over....
 
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