Dampfwalze
New member
... or Franken, to be exactly. 
Warning! Warning! A huge text is approching fast! ;-)
First I have to apologize in advance for my english. It's obviously not my native language and I am afraid there will be dozens of grammatical and literal errors in my texts.
My love with arcade games started with Space Invaders in a little inn here in Erlangen. I was about eight years old and hardly big enough to be able watching the screen. I still know that I begged my father for another coin to continue my fail as I lost my ships very fast. When christmas came and I saw a handheld version of Space Invaders in a mail-order catalog, I bothered my parents till I got it. (and still own it, but thats another story)
My arcade collecting story starded in the mid-nineties when I worked in a video game store and one of the customers tried to sell a MAK and some PCBs to us. There was one reason to buy his package: In The Hunt! And so I entered the world of arcade collecting.
The next step was even weirder: a local arcade had this Galaga 88 game inside a standard Jamma cab and I asked the owner to sell the game to me, since I loved this game so much. He said "Sure, but only if you buy the game with the cab together."
Well, since this was before ebay became big, I bought the whole cab and since I had a real cab now and ebay became big, one PCB after another joined my collection.
Today I have 2 cabs (the Nova Big Screen from the Galaga 88 deal, and a Astro City cab I recently buyed), a MAK and many PCBs.
The ones I am most proud of:
- In the Hunt
- Nebulas Ray
- Space Invaders 95 (US original F3 cart)
I wanted to join KLOV because I hope to find same-minded people and to be part of a community that tries to preserve an arcade culture that seems to be dead outside of Japan.
Thank you for reading my sermon and I hope you will accept me here.
Best regards,
Dampfwalze
Warning! Warning! A huge text is approching fast! ;-)
First I have to apologize in advance for my english. It's obviously not my native language and I am afraid there will be dozens of grammatical and literal errors in my texts.
My love with arcade games started with Space Invaders in a little inn here in Erlangen. I was about eight years old and hardly big enough to be able watching the screen. I still know that I begged my father for another coin to continue my fail as I lost my ships very fast. When christmas came and I saw a handheld version of Space Invaders in a mail-order catalog, I bothered my parents till I got it. (and still own it, but thats another story)
My arcade collecting story starded in the mid-nineties when I worked in a video game store and one of the customers tried to sell a MAK and some PCBs to us. There was one reason to buy his package: In The Hunt! And so I entered the world of arcade collecting.
The next step was even weirder: a local arcade had this Galaga 88 game inside a standard Jamma cab and I asked the owner to sell the game to me, since I loved this game so much. He said "Sure, but only if you buy the game with the cab together."
Well, since this was before ebay became big, I bought the whole cab and since I had a real cab now and ebay became big, one PCB after another joined my collection.
Today I have 2 cabs (the Nova Big Screen from the Galaga 88 deal, and a Astro City cab I recently buyed), a MAK and many PCBs.
The ones I am most proud of:
- In the Hunt
- Nebulas Ray
- Space Invaders 95 (US original F3 cart)
I wanted to join KLOV because I hope to find same-minded people and to be part of a community that tries to preserve an arcade culture that seems to be dead outside of Japan.
Thank you for reading my sermon and I hope you will accept me here.
Best regards,
Dampfwalze


