Need help with what to bring to the MGC show...

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We're going to the MGC and setting up for the first time ever. We've got a bunch (and I mean a bunch) of classic video game stuff. I've primarily been in the pinball business for 25 years, I'm not too familiar with the interests in video side. We've got engineer drawings (original velum pencil drawings, blue print copies, sepia drawings and prints, mylar drawings and prints, original schematic pencil drawings, ect) BOM (Bill of Material) prints, manuals and other original factory documentation for a vast majority of Midway games produced (and many not produced) from 1978 through the mid 1980's and Williams games made in the same era.

The Midway info ranges from Space Invaders, kit info, Sente games (a bunch of Sente info), conversion info, project number info, info on games never produced and other stuff.

The Williams info includes the Defender, Joust, Robotron and othe production games. It also includes engineer log books from the early 1980's. Also found info for games like Devastator, a vector game never produced, Mystic Marathon, Splat, Inferno and a few others.

All this stuff is straight from the factory files we picked up a couple years ago.

What we're trying to figure out and hope some of you can help, what of this stuff would be of interest to the usual attendee's of the show?

Thanks,
James
Pinball Inc.
 
If you were to take a bunch of pictures so we could see your items in question, I bet you would get quite a few sales from the members here. I'm really interested in seeing what you have. sounds like a lot of historical stuff.


arcredux
 
I went last year and had fun... except for one asshole vendor. If I wasn't 1/2 way across the country at the event he would've been eating his own teeth.

The audience there runs the gamut from console gamers to anime fans and arcade fans. You'll find plenty of both video arcade and pinball fans.

PCBs sold well, electronic kits (video mod kits for game consoles, etc...) sold well, and carts along with modified systems did too. I also sold a LOT of EPROMs and a nice rare computer - TI-99/4 (not the 4a) too.

RJ
 
I'll see if I can get some photo's posted in the next day or so. I've literally spent the last 4 weeks (including Saturdays and Sundays), 8 hours a day going through this stuff trying to get it organized. Separating the video, arcade and pinball...separating Midway, Bally, Bally/Midway, Williams and Capcom (pinball).
 
Heres some photo's of a few of the items. Most of these are somewhat large, over 2 1/2 ft. wide.

First one: Original pencil (not a copy, this is the actual drawing) vellum from a 1977 Checkmate game that I don't believe was ever made:

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Next is the original pencil vellum of a Williams 68000 Raid board schematic drawing. This was drawn in 1982:

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Williams original pencil vellum of a Vector board schematic drawn in 1982. This is a Williams X-Y project which was never produced:
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Next is another original pencil vellum drawing of a EM pinball stepper unit from 1965:

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The original pencil vellum of the Galaga Upright control panel:

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Original drawing of the Spy Hunter control grip:
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Sente Snake Pit cabinet art blue print copy:

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Sente Chicken Shift contol Panel sepia copy:

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Original Sarge cabinet art painting:

Sarge-1.jpg


Engineer drawing of the Pacman Maze:

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Original pencil vellum of the Ms Pac Man Control Panel:

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Original pencil vellum of the Ms Pac Man Cocktail Cabinet Top:

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If you happen to have any pencil artwork sketches for Galaga, PM me as I would love to see them and may be interested in purchasing. I'd love to have the original artwork that would have been used on the white galaga as seen here:
http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=424&image=1

But, I'd also like to have the penciled art for the the side of Japanese Galaga cabs as well. But any Galaga stuff would be cool.
 
Midway/Bally project number log book:

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Original pencil vellum of the Journey Upright Cabinet:

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These are just a small sampling of what we have. There are 3 rooms full of the pinball, video and arcade stuff.
 
To try and answer all at once:

Sorry, don't have any Atari stuff. This is all stuff that came from the engineering at Bally, Bally/Midway and then Williams. Some dates back to the 1930's. There is not much video game artwork, most of it is engineering documents/drawings.

I do have a folder about 2 inches thick for Tron UR, CT and Mini (project numbers 628, 727 and 728 respectively). It contains some copies of part drawings, BOM, part history and some other odds and ends. There is also a few cabinet drawings of the Tron UR front molded areas.
 
Here is a list of Midway/Bally video games which we have drawings and folders (the number is the Midway/Bally project model number). We are bringing all that we have on this list. I'll try and get the Williams info put together soon. This list does not include any of the pinball.

301 Blue Print
302 Blue Print CT
303 Domino Man
307 Spy Hunter
314 Domino Man Ct
316 Super Pac Man ct
318 Super Pac Man Mini
333 Burger Time
334 Burger Time CT
337 Wacko UR
349 Bump N Jump
350 Bump N Jump CT
353 Mappy CT
354 Pac Man (Chomp Chomp)
358 Journey
383 Disc of Tron
385 Zwackery
508 Galaga
510 Galaga CT
513 Kick Mini
514 Galaga Mini
515 Kick Ct.
530 Roto
544 Missile Launcher?
550 Bosconian CT.
555 Bosconian
557 Bosconian CT.
569 Twin Pirate Gun game
573 Professor Pac Man
574 Roto Mini
576 Roto CT
578 Solar Fox Mini
580 Solar Fox Ct
589 Ball Park II
594 Wheels II
595 Ms Pac Man UR
596 Sea Wolf
597 Gun Fight
599 Ms Pac man Ct
602 Ms Pac Man Mini
603 Top Gun
605 Tornado Baseball
610 280 ZZZap
610 Midnight Racer
612 Boot Hill
615 Check Mate
619 Double Play
620 Home Video game
621 Double Play CT
622 Laguna Racer
624 Trophy Race
626 M4 Tank
634 Clowns
636 Lazarian UR
639 Kosmic Kroozer
640 Space Walk
642 Extra Inning
643 1973 Shuffle Board
643 1978 Shuffle Board
644 Dog Patch
645 Tunnel
646 Lazarian CT
652 Phantom II
653 18 Wheeler
663 Rocky Ct.
696 Disc of Tron
699 1979 Bally Arcade
739 Space Invaders
742 Blue Shark
762 Super Speed Racer
852 Space Invaders Deluxe UR
866 Galaxian UR
869 Galaxian CT
870 Space Invaders Delux
873 Gorf UR
889 Extra Innings ct
894 Omega Race SD
902 Space Zap
905 Mini Tunnel
908 Space Zap Mini
917 Universal Tester
920 Space Zap Ct
921 Invisible Monsters Ct
926 Gorf Mini
927 Gorf Ct
929 Omega Race UR
930 Omega Race Ct
931 Omega Race Mini
932 Pac man
934 Pac Man Mini
935 Rally X UR
936 Rally X Ct
937 Rally X Mini
941 Satans Hollow UR
942 Satans Hollow Ct
943 Satans Hollow Mini
945 Power Supply
950 Coin Box
957 Monitor
961 Wizard of War UR
962 Wizard of War
963 Wizard of War Mini
968 Kick UR
971 Galaxian Mini
982 Solar Fox UR
987 Galaxian Mini II
0A11 Tapper (Marvin Glass)
0A12 Midnight Marauders
0A13 Sente
0A19 Sente
0A27 Spy Hunter
0A28 Ten Pin
0A29 Jr. Pac man
0A30 Astron Belt UR
0A34 NFL
0A36 Star Blazer
0A41 Big Bat
0A45 Root Beer
0A57 Crater Raider UR
0A59 Demolition Derby
0A64 Up N Down UR
0A74 Zaxxon to Up N Down
0A79 Two Tigers
0A87 Gaplus
0A87 Gaplus
0A93 Frogger to Mr. Viking Conv
0B07 Interstellar/ Up N Down Conv
0B11 Snake Pit
0B18 Sente
0B32 Interstellar/Up-Down conv.
0B37 Strikes & Spares
0B55 Water Match
0B60 Timber
0B64 Pacland UR
0B75 Spy Hunter II
0B75 Spy Hunter II
0B83 Future Spy
0B88 Sarge
0B90 Sente Snacks N Jaxson
0B91 Sente Off the Wall
0B92 Sente Goalie Ghost
0B93 Sente Chicken Shift
0B94 Sente Hat Trick
0B95 Sente Trivial Pursuit
0B96 Sente Night Stalker
0B97 Sente Snake Pit
0C06 Timber Conversion
0C13 Bullfight Conversion
0C24 Water Match Conversion
0C39 NFL/Future Spy
0C40 Bank Panic
0C47 Sente SAC 1A
0C48 Demolition Derby
0C52 Sente Ct.
0C59 Hat Trick Ct.
0C67 Two Tigers Conversion
0C75 RP Max
0C94 Pacland/Root Beer Conv.
0C97 Hat Trick 4 Player
0E01 Hat Trick 4 Player Kit
0E03 Gimme A Break
0E04 Mini Golf
0E13 Sente SAC II System
0E15 Shoot The Bull
0E18 Jump Shot
0E23 Sente/Ms Pac Conversion
0E36 Rampage
0E36 Rampage
0E38 Stomp N
0E39 Sarge/Demoltion Derby Conv.
0E48 Hyper Sport Conversion Kit
0E54 Name That Tune
0E56 Spiker
0E66 Sente CT
0E68 Power Drive UR
0E68 Power Drive
0E74 Night Stocker
0E75 Street Football
0E76 Behind Enemy Line
0E85 Xenophobe
0E85 Xenophobe
0E89 Star Guard UR
0E89 Star Guards
0E90 Sente Night Stocker Conv.

in alphabetical order:

18 Wheeler
1973 Shuffle Board
1978 Shuffle Board
1979 Bally Arcade
280 ZZZap
Astron Belt UR
Ball Park II
Bank Panic
Behind Enemy Line
Big Bat
Blue Print
Blue Print CT
Blue Shark
Boot Hill
Bosconian
Bosconian CT.
Bosconian CT.
Bullfight Conversion
Bump N Jump
Bump N Jump CT
Burger Time
Burger Time CT
Check Mate
Clowns
Coin Box
Crater Raider UR
Demolition Derby
Demolition Derby
Disc of Tron
Disc of Tron
Dog Patch
Domino Man
Domino Man Ct
Double Play
Double Play CT
Extra Inning
Extra Innings ct
Frogger to Mr. Viking Conv
Future Spy
Galaga
Galaga CT
Galaga Mini
Galaxian CT
Galaxian Mini
Galaxian Mini II
Galaxian UR
Gaplus
Gaplus
Gimme A Break
Gorf Ct
Gorf Mini
Gorf UR
Gun Fight
Hat Trick 4 Player
Hat Trick 4 Player Kit
Hat Trick Ct.
Home Video game
Hyper Sport Conversion Kit
Interstellar/ Up N Down Conv
Interstellar/Up-Down conv.
Invisible Monsters Ct
Journey
Jr. Pac man
Jump Shot
Kick Ct.
Kick Mini
Kick UR
Kosmic Kroozer
Laguna Racer
Lazarian CT
Lazarian UR
M4 Tank
Mappy CT
Midnight Marauders
Midnight Racer
Mini Golf
Mini Tunnel
Missile Launcher?
Monitor
Ms Pac man Ct
Ms Pac Man Mini
Ms Pac Man UR
Name That Tune
NFL
NFL/Future Spy
Night Stocker
Omega Race Ct
Omega Race Mini
Omega Race SD
Omega Race UR
Pac man
Pac Man (Chomp Chomp)
Pac Man Mini
Pacland UR
Pacland/Root Beer Conv.
Phantom II
Power Drive
Power Drive UR
Power Supply
Professor Pac Man
Rally X Ct
Rally X Mini
Rally X UR
Rampage
Rampage
Rocky Ct.
Root Beer
Roto
Roto CT
Roto Mini
RP Max
Sarge
Sarge/Demoltion Derby Conv.
Satans Hollow Ct
Satans Hollow Mini
Satans Hollow UR
Sea Wolf
Sente
Sente
Sente
Sente Chicken Shift
Sente CT
Sente Ct.
Sente Goalie Ghost
Sente Hat Trick
Sente Night Stalker
Sente Night Stocker Conv.
Sente Off the Wall
Sente SAC 1A
Sente SAC II System
Sente Snacks N Jaxson
Sente Snake Pit
Sente Trivial Pursuit
Sente/Ms Pac Conversion
Shoot The Bull
Snake Pit
Solar Fox Ct
Solar Fox Mini
Solar Fox UR
Space Invaders
Space Invaders Delux
Space Invaders Deluxe UR
Space Walk
Space Zap
Space Zap Ct
Space Zap Mini
Spiker
Spy Hunter
Spy Hunter
Spy Hunter II
Spy Hunter II
Star Blazer
Star Guard UR
Star Guards
Stomp N
Street Football
Strikes & Spares
Super Pac Man ct
Super Pac Man Mini
Super Speed Racer
Tapper (Marvin Glass)
Ten Pin
Timber
Timber Conversion
Top Gun
Tornado Baseball
Trophy Race
Tunnel
Twin Pirate Gun game
Two Tigers
Two Tigers Conversion
Universal Tester
Up N Down UR
Wacko UR
Water Match
Water Match Conversion
Wheels II
Wizard of War
Wizard of War Mini
Wizard of War UR
Xenophobe
Xenophobe
Zaxxon to Up N Down
Zwackery
 
Thats a whole lot of history right there.
 
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