Dumb ideas that seemed good at the time

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I'm sure I'm not the only one here that has made things more difficult for themselves by doing something which seemed like a good ideat at the time, which later turned out to be pretty dumb.

I'll go ahead and start things off.

I bought a bunch of games and picked up some extra K7000 chassis, as I was testing games I was pulling out the chassis from the ones that had monitor issues. I figured I would go through the non-working chassis one by one fixing them and putting them back into games. Fast forward 6 months later and I have about 7 working chassis, as I go to start putting them back in the games I can't find the remote boards for any of them. What I had done was pulled all of the remote boards in order to keep the pots from getting broken and only kept one remote on my test bench for testing purposes and now I can't find the box I stored them in.
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I've stored certain items only to put it in such a good storage place even I can't find it later..I have things that have been missing for years...one day I'll come across them I'm sure.:rolleyes:
 
I've stored certain items only to put it in such a good storage place even I can't find it later..I have things that have been missing for years...one day I'll come across them I'm sure.:rolleyes:

Definitely.
I'm constantly going "I know I have one of those" ... "but where?".
 
Converting my perfectly working clean Berzerk into a MAME with an X-Arcade stick drilled into it. This was years ago kids (Still have it though!) :p
 
Building my first MAME cab from a Data East 4P machine that was converted to run SF.

I gave the monitor to the Capcom arcade technician cause I thought that it had "gone bad" at the time. I gutted the machine and then put in a bowling alley monitor that I paid $300 shipped for. $400+ in and many hours of work.

I spent more time building it than playing any of the MAME games on there. I eventually sold it for $500...

Know I know it just probably needed caps and maybe a rejuv... which I routinely do these days... K7000... arg...

At least it wasn't a classic.
 
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Dumb Idea #1
Got my girlfriend of two months pregnant (believed her when she said she was on the pill).

Dumb Idea #2
Married said girlfriend 1 year later

Dumb Idea #3
Combined bank accounts.....

Dumb Idea #4-10
Reference Dumb Idea #3
 
Dumb Idea #1
Got my girlfriend of two months pregnant (believed her when she said she was on the pill).

Dumb Idea #2
Married said girlfriend 1 year later

Dumb Idea #3
Combined bank accounts.....

Dumb Idea #4-10
Reference Dumb Idea #3

Was she the one you had sex with in the wiener mobile? :)
 
Long before I got into arcade machines, I gave away a nice Asteroids cocktail that played blind because I couldn't figure out how to fix it. Interestingly, it was given to me for the same reason, and the recipient gave it away for the same reason. I'd love to know where that machine ended up...
 
My dumb idea was getting into this hobby. I've poured tons of cash chasing cabs, parts, artwork, monitors and shipping...enough for a sizeable down payment on a house for sure...and I still can't get enough :( Also having games with issues feeds my OCD tendencies. I found myself kinda bummed out when I thought I had everything fixed with nothing major left todo. Fortunately a couple more issues have arisen ;)

Tom
 
I bought games just to have games. Now that the newness of just having any type of arcade game in the house has worn off, I'm am at the point where I want to start selling/trading off the lineup to focus on specific games.
 
Adjusting the horizontal on my Defender to get rid of that line on the right edge. Now after two monitor repairs, I still don't have a working Defender and need a new monitor :(
 
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