Mario Bros Widebody Restoration: Finally!!

Phetishboy

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I picked this game up over 3 years ago and finally got around to restoring it. One of my favs, I remember first playing it with my brother at Griff's Pizza in Long Prairie in about '86. I picked this one up from a kid's basement back in '06. I bought it from him in a mini bulk deal. Got a working Asteroids, working Cosmic Avenger and this working widebody, all for $400 cash money. This one was in the worst shape of the 3. It smelled of mildew, had flaking paint and shredded plywood, monitor needed a cap kit in a bad way, T-molding was yellow and brittle, most of it was broken, hardware was rusty, CPO was tore and someone had tried to spray paint the missing ares blue. The base was in rough, rotting shape, this game had obviously sat in water/wetness for a very long time. I stripped it, cleaned it, sanded, primed, painted and installed Rich's Orange Vinyl kit. Buffed the bezel and marquee, installed new CPO from QA, bought the side art from Brentradio. I am still looking for my before pics, but here are some after shots:

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Here's a cropped and crappy before pic. You can make out the poorly spray painted front and the f'ed up CPO:
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and now:
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I miss the restorations you used to do when you cared about the final product...I guess those days have long passed....Just Joshin' looks fabulous now dig out those before pictures, and don't give us this cell phone before picture garbage.
 
I miss the restorations you used to do when you cared about the final product...I guess those days have long passed....Just Joshin' looks fabulous now dig out those before pictures, and don't give us this cell phone before picture garbage.

You know Paul-skin, I looked for before pics for over an hour last night on my wife's computer. I am convinced she saw fit to trash all arcade-related pics. Sucks, as I had some good ones.
 
Looks flawless. Great job! You say you had it for 3 years but, how long did the actual restoration take?

I moved that machine into the shop in Early August? So 2 and a half months or so. The more kids I accumulate, the slower I get.
 
Freakin fantabulous! Ha, great work as usual. I have some ground strap pics but I can't access klov at work anymore. If I get a chance today I'll email you some pics if you still need them.
Greg
 
Nice! I have such a machine to restore soon. I (and others for sure), would appreciate it so much if you can share:

1) Color paint codes and what type of paint, where, etc? Srayed or rollered on?
2) How did you prepare the panel and stick the overlay (reproduction from where?)? Painted (what type) or primer first? Did you use extra spray glue?

Thank you.
 
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