Earlier this year my youngest son, who is 12 years old, asked about getting a Q*bert for the arcade. I've been trying to promote this hobby to both my boys for years now, and if they say they'd like a game, that's all I need to hear. So I started the hunt, and contacted @IndianaBrooks, who uses the same shipper I do. That makes getting games back and forth between NC and PA pretty cheap and easy. He had a really, really nice Q*Bbert well out of my price range, and cheap one running a Game Elf that he didn't know much about. I was into picking up a minor project, and the game is not one of my favorites and a kid request, so I was OK with it not being 100% original, so I went with the cheap one.
Everything worked out, and the game was delivered in April. It looked good enough, so I put it right in the arcade and my son started having some fun with it. Although, he did give me some grief at first about it running a Game Elf. I think his exact words were "What is this menu BS? Puckman? Galaga? This isn't right. This needs to be fixed, Dad. This isn't even FPGA like the JROK." Yes, he's only 12. What a proud dad moment... He played the hell out of Q*Bert on it, though.
It looked to have been restored (poorly), and was running the original Gotleib power supply, the original Wells Gardner K4900 monitor, and a hacked AC harness with a switching power supply. It was JAMMA wired into a Game Elf which was running a handful of games on it. If this was a Q*bert, it was missing a bunch of stuff.
Day One Pics
I know, this is a Krull restoration thread, and we've only talked about a Q*bert. Here are a few day one pics.

Everything worked out, and the game was delivered in April. It looked good enough, so I put it right in the arcade and my son started having some fun with it. Although, he did give me some grief at first about it running a Game Elf. I think his exact words were "What is this menu BS? Puckman? Galaga? This isn't right. This needs to be fixed, Dad. This isn't even FPGA like the JROK." Yes, he's only 12. What a proud dad moment... He played the hell out of Q*Bert on it, though.
It looked to have been restored (poorly), and was running the original Gotleib power supply, the original Wells Gardner K4900 monitor, and a hacked AC harness with a switching power supply. It was JAMMA wired into a Game Elf which was running a handful of games on it. If this was a Q*bert, it was missing a bunch of stuff.
Day One Pics
I know, this is a Krull restoration thread, and we've only talked about a Q*bert. Here are a few day one pics.



















































