chris25810
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"Factory restored" leaves alot to be desired
I see this term thrown around once in a while so i'm gonna throw up my own arguement as to why i don't consider the factory look to be the best look when it comes to restoring these old relics.
Several of you are aware that i've been looking for a nice Asteroids cabinet to replace my rotten Lunar Lander. The game will have all new artwork so you're never gonna know it was an Asteroids and all my LL stuff is numbers matching right down to the serial tag that will be transfered. I now have a nice Asteroids cabinet to do the swap with and this was a very early cabinet based off the owl eye coin door, low serial number and the half ass way this thing was put together.
The black melamine that was used on Asteroids had a totally different texture than the typical smooth stuff we usually see. This Asteroids does one better by combining 3 different types of finished surface which pretty much says " let's use all the shit we have laying over there to cover this thing and let the Asteroids production begin."
The outside sides of the cab are the black textured stuff which is correct, the inside and bezel area are mostly the textured stuff but wait, lets use this dark woodgrain piece left over from 1977. Here's a nice back door with the same woodgrain on the inside and a black smooth on the outside, 'looks good to me." The two back pieces above and below the door are the correct textured black and the two pieces that make up the top of the cabinet are smooth black.
Am i going to restore the game back to this hodge podge? Once again, these things were built to make money, they weren't built to be a showpiece.
I see this term thrown around once in a while so i'm gonna throw up my own arguement as to why i don't consider the factory look to be the best look when it comes to restoring these old relics.
Several of you are aware that i've been looking for a nice Asteroids cabinet to replace my rotten Lunar Lander. The game will have all new artwork so you're never gonna know it was an Asteroids and all my LL stuff is numbers matching right down to the serial tag that will be transfered. I now have a nice Asteroids cabinet to do the swap with and this was a very early cabinet based off the owl eye coin door, low serial number and the half ass way this thing was put together.
The black melamine that was used on Asteroids had a totally different texture than the typical smooth stuff we usually see. This Asteroids does one better by combining 3 different types of finished surface which pretty much says " let's use all the shit we have laying over there to cover this thing and let the Asteroids production begin."
The outside sides of the cab are the black textured stuff which is correct, the inside and bezel area are mostly the textured stuff but wait, lets use this dark woodgrain piece left over from 1977. Here's a nice back door with the same woodgrain on the inside and a black smooth on the outside, 'looks good to me." The two back pieces above and below the door are the correct textured black and the two pieces that make up the top of the cabinet are smooth black.
Am i going to restore the game back to this hodge podge? Once again, these things were built to make money, they weren't built to be a showpiece.
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