I was trolling craiglist for arcades (I know, shocker) and I saw a guy listing a Donkey Kong for sale like 40 mins from me. The attached pic is a little dark and hard to see detail on but it looks like a Pac Man cabaret, which I've been wanting bad lately.
The shape is Pac mini, but it's themed Donkey Kong so I know it's a project, but that's fine. I called the guy and he's really cool - he said the cab has like 40 or so games and it works fine except some times down on the stick isn't responsive. I figure it's a xx-in board and maybe the microswitch or wire is out on the joystick. He has a few pins and a 6 button fighter cab that's not working right. We end up talking hobby and he says if I can fix his fighter cab he'll give me the mini!
I get out there late-ish at night and his garage is kind of dark, he's got the Star Wars Ep 1 pin which is super cool and some other stuff and I see the mini in the corner and it's running but the paint looks like it was rolled on with dirt in it but I though maybe someone was covering the wood grain - who cares. His fighter is a mame and windows is all jacked up, the I-pac isn't grounded and all his buttons are mapped wrong. I spend a little over an hour fixing it up and he's stoked it's working perfect. It's late now and my wife is gonna be mad I'm at some stranger's man cave on a friday night at 10:30 so I grab the mini and throw it in my truck quick. When I touch it I feel the wood is like OSB and I was like - that's weird.
The shape is Pac mini, but it's themed Donkey Kong so I know it's a project, but that's fine. I called the guy and he's really cool - he said the cab has like 40 or so games and it works fine except some times down on the stick isn't responsive. I figure it's a xx-in board and maybe the microswitch or wire is out on the joystick. He has a few pins and a 6 button fighter cab that's not working right. We end up talking hobby and he says if I can fix his fighter cab he'll give me the mini!
I get out there late-ish at night and his garage is kind of dark, he's got the Star Wars Ep 1 pin which is super cool and some other stuff and I see the mini in the corner and it's running but the paint looks like it was rolled on with dirt in it but I though maybe someone was covering the wood grain - who cares. His fighter is a mame and windows is all jacked up, the I-pac isn't grounded and all his buttons are mapped wrong. I spend a little over an hour fixing it up and he's stoked it's working perfect. It's late now and my wife is gonna be mad I'm at some stranger's man cave on a friday night at 10:30 so I grab the mini and throw it in my truck quick. When I touch it I feel the wood is like OSB and I was like - that's weird.
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