Just got my first arcade game!

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Saw a Time Pilot on Craigslist for $200. Called the guy and offered him $150 and he said okay.

Dedicated Time Pilot in great shape, no water damage and very little rust. The marquee is in excellent condition. The side art, CPO and front art are a bit worn and faded, but not chipped or torn. I have reproduction art for the CPO and bezel, and plan on scanning the side and front art and doing my own repro job on them. It's got the original Monroe stick and it works just fine.

The monitor has all its color but needs to be focused a little, there is also a little bit of burn-in - which is to be expected on such an old dedicated machine like this. The screen image also curls up just a tad on the far right side, but it's barely noticeable. No key for the back so I haven't bothered to tweak any of the monitor controls yet.

Coining up works, but the coin-mechs he had in there are shot so for now you have to coin it up with your finger.

I popped the control panel out and its real nice and tidy on the inside. It's dark in the basement I just put it in, but it looks like someone has added a new power supply at some point.

A little elbow grease and I think I'll have a mighty fine machine. Time Pilot is one of my faves and I only had to drive about an hour to pick it up.

Woo!
 
Awesome! Post pictures!

+1.

What spacebaby said... You better start making room for more. You won't have 'just one' for much longer... Don't believe me? Check this thread in a year or two and have a good laugh. ;)

Welcome to the insanity, good sir. And pics! Pics! Pics!!!
 
Time Pilot is a great first game, and not a piece of junk that you'll have to get rid of as your collection expands. Hey, I wish I had one*! Welcome to the arcade ownership club. Nice price too. Anything around here sub $150 that works doesn't last 10 minutes.

*(if I had the room)
 
It's too dark down there right now to take a pic but I'll post some soon.
 
Very cool! Time Pilot is definitely a good game to start with - not too expensive, but very fun to play. Plus it's a Centuri game. And Centuri is awesome.

Post some pictures! :D
 
Very cool! Time Pilot is definitely a good game to start with - not too expensive, but very fun to play. Plus it's a Centuri game. And Centuri is awesome.

Post some pictures! :D

It is a Konami game distributed by Centuri. Centuri has great taste! :D
 
I bought my first two early this year. 150 apiece for Magic Sword and S.C.I. Magic sword kinda works, has graphical glitches. I cleaned the PCB and reseated the ROMS but it still does it, so I'm gonna order new ROMS for it.

S.C.I. hasn't got power. Prolly power supply, but I still gotta pick up a multimeter to test it out first.

Also might be picking up a TouchMaster 4000 next week as well, VERY good chance I'll get it. That will prolly be it for me for the year though, and I'll pick up another machine next year.
 
Congrats on your first game! As others have already said, good luck trying to stop once you get started. Picked up two already this year (the year is still early). Wife was like, "I thought you were getting rid of some if you got any more." My response: "Don't worry about it...I'll make it work." I'm moving things around to make room. And I will. *sigh* I need a bigger house.
 
Welcome to the addiction......... In eight years you will have sixty.......

What he said, I'm hitting my year anniversary for collecting games, and counting the 9 I have in the house(one of them sold), I've had 15 total pass through the doors. It's bad when it averages out to a game a month, it's worse than crack if the average is greater than that :D

Welcome to the club! Or group therapy if you will :)
 
Sorry, not the best pics right now.






The inside of this thing is immaculate! I've worked on a couple dozen arcade machines and never seen one in as good condition as this. I really lucked out. Someone really took care of this thing.

The instruction manual on the inside looks like it had never even been opened. I plugged it in and tinkered with the monitor settings a little tonight and got it looking better. Also, the aforementioned "curl" on the right side of the screen seems to go away after being powered on for a few minutes. Hmm.

Anyhow, thanks for all the kind words. Don't worry, I have no intention of stopping here. :)

That Time Pilot wasnt on the Greenville CL by chance?

Yes! Sorry if I snagged it from under ya.
 
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