High score boards in your game room and BITD

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Anyone have pictures of either? I bought a Pepsi menu board with letters and I would like some ideas for formatting, high score prize messages, etc. to make it look right.
 
ebay--it's big enough to fit 22 of my games with space for maybe 2 more on each side, plus the score and initials. I only paid $20 shipped for it, but I had to shell out more to get enough letters to fill it up without having to abbreviate. Antique stores tend to have old Coke and Pepsi menu boards too, so you might check around locally.
 
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Yes, I'm aware the scores are garbage and everyone on here would beat them all. It's not finished as I have to fire up the games to figure out my score on HotD2 and a few others. How's the format? Easy enough to read? The light blue letters are not original, but I knda like it. I got them from alphabetsigns.com or something like that. There's a seller in Ohio on ebay that has the darker blue, original 3/4" Pepsi letters, but I would've spent more to get fewer letters.

Oh, and my girlfriend is going to design a more stylish arcade-themed sign for the middle. I'll keep the Pepsi ad behind the custom work so it's still valuable years from now when that Pepsi design becomes vintage.
 
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Wow, that is a steal for $20 shipped!

I am looking at another now, hopefully I will win that auction, then I can do the same :)

The ones I got are smaller, but there's morre than 1, so I should be okay. I don't have that many games, LOL.

I like yours alot.

Member nutballchamp has a nice one as well, but those are too expensive new for me. You can see his here: http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=76786&highlight=letterboard

TOK has a nice one too, but I can't find a picture of it :(

Chris
 
That's really cool! I ended up with getting a black board with neon markers to put up people's high scores.
 
Wow, that is a steal for $20 shipped!

I am looking at another now, hopefully I will win that auction, then I can do the same :)

The ones I got are smaller, but there's morre than 1, so I should be okay. I don't have that many games, LOL.

I like yours alot.

Member nutballchamp has a nice one as well, but those are too expensive new for me. You can see his here: http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=76786&highlight=letterboard

TOK has a nice one too, but I can't find a picture of it :(

Chris

So YOU outbid me. Oh well.
 
Wow, that is a steal for $20 shipped!

TOK has a nice one too, but I can't find a picture of it :(

Chris

Thank you sir... Here is a pic of mine. This is old, before friends started putting some beatdowns on my feeble high scores.

The one score I was proud of got taken down (127,000 on Scramble) and replaced with Robotron since nobody else liked Scramble.
 

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Wow, that is a steal for $20 shipped!

I am looking at another now, hopefully I will win that auction, then I can do the same :)

The ones I got are smaller, but there's morre than 1, so I should be okay. I don't have that many games, LOL.

I like yours alot.

Member nutballchamp has a nice one as well, but those are too expensive new for me. You can see his here: http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=76786&highlight=letterboard

TOK has a nice one too, but I can't find a picture of it :(

Chris


Post #16 in that thread (the vintage picture) wow, that's tough to read the scores! I'm actually into the whole thing for about $75, but now I have more letters than I could ever use. I searched ebay for "pepsi menu sign board" or "coke menu sign board". There are usually quite a few listings.
 
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