Area 51 portable - 20 years later, still working...

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I can't believe it... I thought this was left behind or lost long ago. I put this together about 25 yrs ago, but then lost track of it during house moves. Apparently my bride of 30+ yrs kept packing it up and moving it along with us. She's a good one....

So it's an Area 51 game I put into an old Dell PC case. Completely self-contained, only needs an AC outlet and a CRT monitor/TV with a composite input, thanks to the old JROK RGB/composite adapter. I guess back then, I thought it would be fun to take a real Area 51 to someone else's house to play with no hassle of moving the whole cabinet. Didn't see the end of CRT's coming, then...

I just brought it in the house and cleaned it up. Plugged it into this little portable TV that I use for testing boards. Fired right up.
 

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Okay, this is great. You need to do one thing. Put that while thing in a box. Label that box, "Top Secret" "Classified" with like a shipping stencil that sends "Rosewell, NM."

Super cool.

Also, love your handle. Debating on when I can start my kiddos on some MST3k. My favorite is 'Space Mutiny." I wish American Laser Games had made Space Pirates with the costumes, cast, and licensing of Space Mutiny. Think of all the bonus points you could get for railing kills!
 
I can't believe it... I thought this was left behind or lost long ago. I put this together about 25 yrs ago, but then lost track of it during house moves. Apparently my bride of 30+ yrs kept packing it up and moving it along with us. She's a good one....

So it's an Area 51 game I put into an old Dell PC case. Completely self-contained, only needs an AC outlet and a CRT monitor/TV with a composite input, thanks to the old JROK RGB/composite adapter. I guess back then, I thought it would be fun to take a real Area 51 to someone else's house to play with no hassle of moving the whole cabinet. Didn't see the end of CRT's coming, then...

I just brought it in the house and cleaned it up. Plugged it into this little portable TV that I use for testing boards. Fired right up.
congrats, great project.
I'm looking to buy CoJag/Area 51 motherboard and also put it in the PC case.
Any tips?
 
That is pretty cool, also a big MSTk fan.View attachment 815602

My brother is big time into MST3k. His bots are the real deal puppets. Not homebrew, he bought them from the same bot builder that made them for the Netflix revival series with Jonah Ray. Exactly the same as the ones used on the show.

They could use a little dusting, btw... :)
 

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My brother is big time into MST3k. His bots are the real deal puppets. Not homebrew, he bought them from the same bot builder that made them for the Netflix revival series with Jonah Ray. Exactly the same as the ones used on the show.

They could use a little dusting, btw... :)
That is awesome. Tell him to clean those guys up..lol. At one point I had all the parts to build my own full sized ones. But lost all of it in a house fire and didn't have the energy to track down the some of those hard to find parts again.
 
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