A present for me cuz i'm worth it!

chris25810

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This showed up this morning and looks to be an excellent resto candidate. Honestly, it's probably a bit too nice to restore but i'm gonna do it anyway. It's all there/working and even has a brand new Vision Pro monitor that i'll be replacing with a new Wells that i've been saving for just the right machine. This will hopefully be the last machine that i restore and btw, the gameplay on this sucks complete ass.


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Since you don't like the gameplay, just sell it. Then you can go your separate ways...

(Can't believe I hopped on the bandwagon for that one!)
 
Congrats, Chris - looks pretty good. I know you've been hunting for that for a while now.

You are right about the gameplay - it's amazingly bad.

Not "ET on the 2600 Bad", but pretty bad.

One of the worst of it's vintage.

Branded Shovelware.

Neat art package, though.

RussM
 
It probably needs sideart :D

It does in fact need sideart and i just happen to have some. Wonder who i got it from?
After taking a real good look at how this cabinet was put together, it looks like this thing is mostly screwed and glued which means i'll be completely pulling it apart for a full inside/out resto. I've been playing it for a while now and the gameplay still blows but i can see the appeal to a Journey fan. My opinion on the vision pro monitor hasn't changed either, these things still suck.
 
Just curious why you would want to completely restore a game that you don't even like playing?

Just for bragging rights or something? Or maybe to sell it?
 
I would much rather have an unrestored original in good condition than a restored machine in perfect condition. I would only restore a machine that was in rough shape to begin with.

I definitely wouldn't mess with the structural integrity of the cabinet by doing a completely unnecessary disassembly of the cabinet's panels.

In general for anything collectible, "survivors" in good shape are worth more than items that have been restored.
 
I would much rather have an unrestored original in good condition than a restored machine in perfect condition. I would only restore a machine that was in rough shape to begin with.

I definitely wouldn't mess with the structural integrity of the cabinet by doing a completely unnecessary disassembly of the cabinet's panels.

In general for anything collectible, "survivors" in good shape are worth more than items that have been restored.

Restored and perfect works for me, anything other than that doesn't see my basement and falls into the category of just another filthy machine that needs restoration.

I do agree with you though that there are people that would pay more for an all original machine(this one is close but not quite) but that's not what i'm goin for here. It needs to work and be pretty at the same time. This is one of those games that i've wanted to restore and i'm gonna follow through with it even though i'm not a real fan of the game. I'd like to restore a Dragon's Lair too, the gameplay blows balls but i'd still like to do one. Same thing goes for 720, never played the game for more than 5 minutes but i'd still restore one. I'm currently restoring my 26th ms. pac machine, do i need to do another one? is the game fantastic? No, but it's here so might as well make it look good.
 
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