I was recently was asked for collection pics. One of these days, I'll pull the games out and take detailed cab pix, but for now here they are, jam packed in the garage. I have 3 candy cabs and 28 dedicated classics for a total of 31. The 4 in my sig are undergoing restoration and not pictured. My games are a mixture of fully restored games, nice originals and HUO. I'm close to the end as far as buying goes, but would like to add a nice mad planets to round things out. If my wife and I buy a house with a 3 car garage, there are a few other titles I'd consider adding. Other than the Fonz, I don't have anything I consider to be particularly rare, just games I like. In the interest of space, I've avoided buying joystick games that I can play on the candy cabs, as they are my workhorses. The exceptions to my rule are Berzerk, Burgertime and Wizard of Wor. I've got over 100 jamma and classic pcbs w/jamma adapters.
I haven't posted pics previously, because my games in a crappy garage and not a nice finished gameroom with artwork, carpet and blacklights like they deserve to be housed in.
We've been lifelong renters but plan on buying a house within the next couple years. When that happens, I will go all out and convert to a full fledged gameroom.
I'm in awe of the restoration skill and technical knowledge many of you guys have. Its been a heck of a ride, my favorite hobby by far. After pretty much 5 or 6 years of just collecting, stockpiling parts, storing games with issues and not playing and enjoying my games due to a myriad of things to fix... at the urging of my friend Francis, I made a resolution of getting all my games to a point where I'm happy with them, cosmetically and functionally before my son's 7th birthday in July. To accomplish this, I've been going all out since the beginning of the year and within the last month or so, I've reached my goal of being able to just my games on, play and enjoy. Everything is pretty much fixed now. My games are on casters, are keyed alike, have all the available hss kit upgrades and have burn free monitors.
I'd like to thank everyone here for helping me out as well as special thanks to my good friend Francis for sharing invaluable information and being a big influence, Xray2 and Stuffmonger for helping me with various projects, Rich at thisoldgame, Darren at Phoenixarcade, Anthony at Quarterarcade, Stephen at videogameparts.com, Gene at vintagearcadesuperstore, Steven at Arcadeshop, the real Bob Roberts and MikesArcade for parts and artwork, Matt Osborn, Souzilla, Braze and all the HSSkit modders, all the Klov'ers that have sold me parts and games over the years and of course Mclemore for having this cool site.
Anyways, here are some quick pix of my current set up. Thanks for looking
Tom
the workhorses of my collection...Sega Astro2 and (2) Egret2's. I can play all things Jamma as well as classics like Donkey Kong, Moon Patrol, Joust, etc via Jamma adapters. I only play the original pcbs and have a collection of over 100. These are designed to have the player sit down at them on special japanese stools, of which I have around 12. Of all my games, these would be the last to ever go due to their versatility.
I haven't posted pics previously, because my games in a crappy garage and not a nice finished gameroom with artwork, carpet and blacklights like they deserve to be housed in.
I'm in awe of the restoration skill and technical knowledge many of you guys have. Its been a heck of a ride, my favorite hobby by far. After pretty much 5 or 6 years of just collecting, stockpiling parts, storing games with issues and not playing and enjoying my games due to a myriad of things to fix... at the urging of my friend Francis, I made a resolution of getting all my games to a point where I'm happy with them, cosmetically and functionally before my son's 7th birthday in July. To accomplish this, I've been going all out since the beginning of the year and within the last month or so, I've reached my goal of being able to just my games on, play and enjoy. Everything is pretty much fixed now. My games are on casters, are keyed alike, have all the available hss kit upgrades and have burn free monitors.
I'd like to thank everyone here for helping me out as well as special thanks to my good friend Francis for sharing invaluable information and being a big influence, Xray2 and Stuffmonger for helping me with various projects, Rich at thisoldgame, Darren at Phoenixarcade, Anthony at Quarterarcade, Stephen at videogameparts.com, Gene at vintagearcadesuperstore, Steven at Arcadeshop, the real Bob Roberts and MikesArcade for parts and artwork, Matt Osborn, Souzilla, Braze and all the HSSkit modders, all the Klov'ers that have sold me parts and games over the years and of course Mclemore for having this cool site.
Anyways, here are some quick pix of my current set up. Thanks for looking
Tom
the workhorses of my collection...Sega Astro2 and (2) Egret2's. I can play all things Jamma as well as classics like Donkey Kong, Moon Patrol, Joust, etc via Jamma adapters. I only play the original pcbs and have a collection of over 100. These are designed to have the player sit down at them on special japanese stools, of which I have around 12. Of all my games, these would be the last to ever go due to their versatility.
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