Deep6Arcade
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Very glad to be here.
I started my journey when I was 13 with a Bally Shadow pinball machine.
But, during the pandemic when all the arcades shut down. I purchased a $100 pinball machine (Williams Blue Chip) in non-working condition. (Still own it and will never sell it)
After 11.5 hours with no breaks, I had it working.
Realizing I was pretty good at troubleshooting and repair. I started looking for other people who needed their games repaired. I had two thoughts.
1) There must be a lot of games that are going to end up thrown away if no one is around to keep them running. These games took a fleet of people to produce, if we aren't careful, their hard work and creativity will all be lost into the history books.
2) If I fix other people's games, that will support the expense of me buying more games.
Since my background is in marketing, it didn't take long for me to spin up a website and find my first customer. It was a Gottlieb Cow Poke. The owner's parents had just passed away and he wanted to remember the fun he had with his father as a kid playing it.
We spent a few hours in the basement of his parents house while movers were taking out boxes upstairs. We managed to get the game running. I taught the owner how to read the game schematics & some tips on soldering. The joy I saw in his face when the game started working again made the whole experience worth while.
Fast forward two years. I had started a side business Deep 6 Arcade LLC, repaired over 30 pins and collected six for myself.
As word got around to my friends, one asked if he could get involved. He was worked in the railroad and noticed that the relay logic he worked on was very similar to those used in EM pinball machines.
I had another deal in the works that brought in 12 EM pins. I gave him three and said, "if you can get these three working, you will feel confident enough to do this." I trained him on those three and
after those, I started tossing in home repair jobs at him and he knocked them out with only a little bit of tech support from me.
Currently, I have eight technicians I trained working full or part time saving games. Doing machines from the 1950's all the way through to the late 1990's.
Video arcades were not part of our scope of work at the time mainly because we had no one that could repair the monitors. Five months ago a guy moved to the area from the west coast and reached out through the Deep 6 website. We met for a drink and he explained that he was a wood worker and had been also repairing medical equipment in California. He wanted to know if there was a way for him to get involved in arcade games.
As a test, I went to one of my local used game distributors and put together a test bench kit.
-JAMMA harness
-Wells GO7 monitors (Two dead ones and a spare dead chassis)
-Lose Frogger control pannel
-Power supply
I dropped this off at his house and said let me know what you need once you dig in. About a week later, he calls me up and says "One is back working!"
With this success, I went through my list of customers for someone who had a video arcade with a dead monitor. We picked up a Zaxxon cocktail table. Finding out later the monitor is incredibly hard to get parts for. (We now have an extra tube as a backup for the next one that comes in and a flyback on the way!). Very confident in our progress.
While that is still in the works, he has successfully repaired over 50 CRT monitors since he started with us.
We have shifted the business to do both video arcades and pinball machines now and successfully restored over 250 games since the pandemic.
We now have restored games in public for people to play again.
Maintain over 200 private game rooms
Buy, sell and trade games every week.
Joining this website has increased our access to knowledge and we are using it to help save more games from the junk yard.
Thank you to everyone on here and looking forward to many more years of restoring games for everyone to enjoy!
Additionally, My lead generation is so exceptional we have accounts all over the world. While we currently do in home repair in the east coast of the USA, we offer phone consultation repair anywhere in the world and mail order CRT repair.
With that said, I'm looking to expand everywhere and want more technicians I can send leads to outside of our in person footprint to. Anyone looking for repair leads please reach out. We can keep these games running better when we team up.
I started my journey when I was 13 with a Bally Shadow pinball machine.
But, during the pandemic when all the arcades shut down. I purchased a $100 pinball machine (Williams Blue Chip) in non-working condition. (Still own it and will never sell it)
After 11.5 hours with no breaks, I had it working.
Realizing I was pretty good at troubleshooting and repair. I started looking for other people who needed their games repaired. I had two thoughts.
1) There must be a lot of games that are going to end up thrown away if no one is around to keep them running. These games took a fleet of people to produce, if we aren't careful, their hard work and creativity will all be lost into the history books.
2) If I fix other people's games, that will support the expense of me buying more games.
Since my background is in marketing, it didn't take long for me to spin up a website and find my first customer. It was a Gottlieb Cow Poke. The owner's parents had just passed away and he wanted to remember the fun he had with his father as a kid playing it.
We spent a few hours in the basement of his parents house while movers were taking out boxes upstairs. We managed to get the game running. I taught the owner how to read the game schematics & some tips on soldering. The joy I saw in his face when the game started working again made the whole experience worth while.
Fast forward two years. I had started a side business Deep 6 Arcade LLC, repaired over 30 pins and collected six for myself.
As word got around to my friends, one asked if he could get involved. He was worked in the railroad and noticed that the relay logic he worked on was very similar to those used in EM pinball machines.
I had another deal in the works that brought in 12 EM pins. I gave him three and said, "if you can get these three working, you will feel confident enough to do this." I trained him on those three and
after those, I started tossing in home repair jobs at him and he knocked them out with only a little bit of tech support from me.
Currently, I have eight technicians I trained working full or part time saving games. Doing machines from the 1950's all the way through to the late 1990's.
Video arcades were not part of our scope of work at the time mainly because we had no one that could repair the monitors. Five months ago a guy moved to the area from the west coast and reached out through the Deep 6 website. We met for a drink and he explained that he was a wood worker and had been also repairing medical equipment in California. He wanted to know if there was a way for him to get involved in arcade games.
As a test, I went to one of my local used game distributors and put together a test bench kit.
-JAMMA harness
-Wells GO7 monitors (Two dead ones and a spare dead chassis)
-Lose Frogger control pannel
-Power supply
I dropped this off at his house and said let me know what you need once you dig in. About a week later, he calls me up and says "One is back working!"
With this success, I went through my list of customers for someone who had a video arcade with a dead monitor. We picked up a Zaxxon cocktail table. Finding out later the monitor is incredibly hard to get parts for. (We now have an extra tube as a backup for the next one that comes in and a flyback on the way!). Very confident in our progress.
While that is still in the works, he has successfully repaired over 50 CRT monitors since he started with us.
We have shifted the business to do both video arcades and pinball machines now and successfully restored over 250 games since the pandemic.
We now have restored games in public for people to play again.
Maintain over 200 private game rooms
Buy, sell and trade games every week.
Joining this website has increased our access to knowledge and we are using it to help save more games from the junk yard.
Thank you to everyone on here and looking forward to many more years of restoring games for everyone to enjoy!
Additionally, My lead generation is so exceptional we have accounts all over the world. While we currently do in home repair in the east coast of the USA, we offer phone consultation repair anywhere in the world and mail order CRT repair.
With that said, I'm looking to expand everywhere and want more technicians I can send leads to outside of our in person footprint to. Anyone looking for repair leads please reach out. We can keep these games running better when we team up.

