Arcade is complete!

skramarck

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After over a decade of slow progress, our arcade is pretty much complete....

Stumbled onto what I think will eventually be a great deal earlier this week and today I picked up my last game (for now). Sinistar joined our family for $200. He looks very healthy, just some easily touched up scratches. Solid monitor, great marquee, B+ control panel. Has some game play issues that are addressed by wiggling the ribbon cable (see repair thread), and is playable, although Sinistar has a slightly mangled vocabulary right now. Just hoping that the ribbon cable cures all. Kids are digging Sinistar even though he says 'Beware I <scream> live' and 'Run, Live' instead of Run Coward.

So, here is the final breakdown of the Kramarcade.....it is dwarfed by most of the other home arcades on here, but we are proud of it!

*Super Chexx (custom painted players)...joined us in about 1993
*Punch Out came next
*Then a loaner Tempest that will probably never leave
*Then Pinbot joined about 3 years ago
*next was a (gasp) Mame cabinet recycled from a butchered Pacman game
*in September, the problem child (aka Gorf) arrived. He is now fully functional (knocks wood)
and today Sinistar filled that last slot in the basement.

along the way, we also added a kegerator with multiple styles of homebrew, a vintage table top popcorn maker, and wall designs (Pac man, Centipede and Asteroids) from Blik and other locales.

There are still 2 more grails (Dragon's Lair and Bud Tapper) out there for me, but price and basement space will keep them off the immediate radar.

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Looks fantastic! I really wish i had room to do something like this. :)
Awesome deal on the Sinistar! Wish i could find a deal like that, thats one of my Must get someday games. :)
Thanks for sharing!
 
Congrats on the Sinistar. One of my all time favorites. You may need to recrimp the speech card connector to get the speech straightened out.

ken
 
Looks fantastic -- your arcade has a great vibe.

How did you create your arcade walls? I'd be tempted to follow your "recipe"!
 
It was really simple to do the walls.....just painted them all black to look like a monitor background. The pacman and centipede decals are from Blik and the Asteroids are from a separate company that I am blanking on for the name right now. I located them by doing a Blik search on this forum.

Thanks for all of the kind words!
 
Man Nice job there.... I wish I had a room to put all my stuff in and do the walls and funky carpet,..... I have a log house and no way to do that on log walls without an banner wall or overlay if some type....
 
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