FS Game: Alien Arena (yes, that Alien Arena) 1 of 1, near Chicago

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Alien Arena (yes, that Alien Arena) 1 of 1, near Chicago

After a couple of house moves I'm finally going to stay put for a while, but there simply isn't as much room for "stuff" here, and I'm having to pare down the vast hoarding pile. One thing I've decided to finally let go is Alien Arena. This is the one and only complete cabinet I produced after writing the game, and it was run in the arcade I owned at the time (Professor Fether's, in Charlottesville, VA.)

Here's the KLOV entry: http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=6850

You can probably find some of the story behind this game if you dig far enough back in the rgvac archives. It's also in MAME.

It's been in storage for a while. Foolishly I left the batteries on the CPU board before putting it away (I didn't know then it would be away for so long!) but all the got ruined was the battery holder. I've pulled it off the board, but I don't have any more spares to solder on, so I'll leave that for you. The game works fine without it, of course. There are a couple of parts (like the marquee) which are still in boxes in storage but which I hope to locate before sending this away, or will send along later. Included is a complete spare set of boards that were my development hardware, modified to take (and including) a board full of RAM to replace the ROM while I was writing the game. More pictures or details on request. I'm asking $2000.

Some recent pictures:

http://backglass.org/misc/alien_arena_01.jpg

http://backglass.org/misc/alien_arena_02.jpg

http://backglass.org/misc/alien_arena_03.jpg

http://backglass.org/misc/alien_arena_04.jpg

http://backglass.org/misc/alien_arena_05.jpg

http://backglass.org/misc/alien_arena_06.jpg

http://backglass.org/misc/alien_arena_07.jpg

I also have a very large hoard of boards for this era Williams hardware, and I'll be posting those for sale as I unbox it all and can describe them in more detail.

Duncan
 
Well I haven't run across the marquee in storage yet but I did find my stash of spare control panels. Because I had planned to sell this as a complete ready-to-go conversion kit, I had a cabinet maker there in Charlottesville make me a few blank control panels. So 2 of them are still blank, one of them is the (now-stripped) one I used in my development cabinet for Alien Arena, one is set up so I could play Defender or Stargate in the cabinet years ago, plus I think there's one other one drilled like AA or maybe it's like Robotron.

Nobody has come rushing forward to buy it. Offers?

Duncan
 
Hope this isn't too odd of a question, but how much would an Alien Arena conversion kit be? If there were any left, or if they were made available?
 
Hope this isn't too odd of a question, but how much would an Alien Arena conversion kit be? If there were any left, or if they were made available?

I never got that far. The ROMs are in MAME, and everyone knows how to make control panels these days, so making your own wouldn't be all that hard. And it's not like the side art requires some complicated silkscreening :)

Duncan
 
Seriously, I need to get this out from underfoot. We've moved into a new house and are trying to find room to unpack everything and there's just no extra space. Do I hear $1000?

Duncan
 
If I had the $ and the room I'd probably snag it, I love rare and unique games and trying to convert a boardset to this game has been on my to-do list. I've read somewhere that you need to disable the board's watchdog to get it to work, is that true?

Also I've got a backdoor sheet I made up for it a while ago, if someone wants the file PM me with an email address as it's too big to attach to posts on KLOV.
 
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If I had the $ and the room I'd probably snag it, I love rare and unique games and trying to convert a boardset to this game has been on my to-do list. I've read somewhere that you need to disable the board's watchdog to get it to work, is that true?

Yep, you need to disable the watchdog but there's a split pad on the board just for that purpose (and of course that's already done on this one :) ) This one still has my hacked in controls for halting the game and firing off NMI, etc.

Duncan
 
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