Buck Rogers Planet of Zoom - convert or restore?

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Ok folks, I've been dink'n around with a badly injured Buck Rogers - Planet of Zoom upright and I'm trying to make a final descision now: Should I try to restore it as the dedicated BR it is now, spending the dough involved and trying to somehow chase down the required parts? Or should I just say "screw it" and convert it to something else, most likely a multi-game?

While I don't have the animosity many KLOVers have for the game it's not the greatest either, also it needs a new CPO, side art that may be impossible to find, it's missing the original power supply and the main PCB is suffering some kind of undefined malfunctions.

But on the other hand I hate taking something rare and "violating" it.

I guess if I wanted to be unique I could convert the cab to a Space Paranoids, the fictitious game featured in the movie Tron and was made out of a BR, someone has done up a free set of artwork and even software for it.
 
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I guess if I paint it with the same color as the original, don't use other side art and don't hack the control panel I can always convert it back later, the control panel already has enough button holes for the 60 in 1 and I can make an adaptor plate to hold a normal joystick. But I'm tempted to put in the trackball too, and that would require serious modifications.

Make a good effort towards finding the NOS art, etc and it you can't then decide what to do with it.

I've been keeping an eye on Ebay but I haven't seen anything other than a marquee in almost a year, any suggestions?
 
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I guess if I paint it with the same color as the original, don't use other side art and don't hack the control panel I can always convert it back later, the control panel already has enough button holes for the 60 in 1 and I can make an adaptor plate to hold a normal joystick. But I'm tempted to put in the trackball too, and that would require serious modifications.



I've been keeping an eye on Ebay but I haven't seen anything other than a marquee in almost a year, any suggestions?


What paint it turd brown again? I have one and it was empty to begin with I Got a nice control panel that has a nice CPO on it that I'm having 2nd thoughts about messing up. As far as I have heard the game sucks so in a way I'm in the same boat as you are but I don't have a marquee game board and monitor bezel. Plus the original monitor doesn't work as of yet I have accesses to a bunch of computer monitors that I could use with a multi board. There is still that nice CP issue I have though is there any multi boards that have games that could use a Tron like Joystick?
 
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