Hawaii Saga...

armi0024

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Ok, quick summary,
1) Make a deal with a guy for three machines
2) After not calling for two weeks, he tells me that he sold one out from under me, but I can still have the two "non-working" cocktails.
3) While I was picking up the cocktails, he tells me that after seeing the repairs I did to another one of his machines, "I can do what you did, I don't need to work with you."
4) He still honors the trade of the two non-working cocktails for a 60 in 1 board installed into his Ms. Pac/Galaga reunion cab.
5)I load the cabs up and bring them home, The monitor intensity is so low in one, it works fine once adjusted and I have a Ms. Pac. The power switch is off in the other, fix that, I now have a Junior pack.
6) The machine has a wonderful underlay seen in the first pic below, but flip it over, and this is what my "non-working" cheap bootleg cocktail now looks like...Karma is a great thing.

Obviously I couldn't pull anything by him....
 

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Well, I suppose he could do those kinds of repairs....














If he wasn't such an ignorant jackass...:)

ken
 
Send the guy an email with pics thanking him for a wonderful experience. It's a polite way to rub the shit out of him. Congrats by the way that's awesome.
 
I can't do that...He's got two more "dead" cocktails, one of them "with some trackball or something"..... I have a possible warehouse source, if it opens up, I'll dump this guy. These games are like crack, I can't drop my supplier until I get a new one!!!!

What's killing me is I was dead set on doing multi's and now I can't bring myself to do that. I'll probably consolidate the best components in one cab, and multi the other. Then hold out for another cab to use all the crap I already ordered.
 
See...my crack dealer just called, he has two "non-working" space invaders. If I fix one, I can have the other...I am so addicted, going tomorrow, told him to grab his other two cocktails out of storage...
 
Sorry to revive an old thread, but I started working on the second Ms. Pac cocktail I got from this guy.... Well the coin vault top had always been on. I pulled it off to put it in he machine that I am restoring. Normally I would be thrilled with 5 bucks, maybe 10....

40 dollars in the coin box, WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Wow...just wow. Guess you had at least one thing to be thankful for on thanksgiving! :)
 
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