BIGMAC76
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So I going to start this story and make it as short as possible. Hopefully. So I bought this Bottom of the Ninth (harrisburg auction 3/25) in hopes of rotating the monitor (or use multi williams board before I saw their going for $225 now!) and turning it to 60 in one since it was Jamma(originally?) or so I thought.
So tonight, like literally an hour ago, I bought a Robotron marquee off another guy with Stargate for $30 shipped. Really good deal so I hopped on it, figured it would be cool up on my wall or in random possible cabinet or purchase in the future. And I swear the gods must have been saying hey dummy why dont you research it a little more. So i look up Robotron here on the KLOV to and start looking down the list of sellers. I come across a guy who just got one in his business that he's selling - Earl Estell and click on his link to http://arcadeunbelievable.com/.
I start to look at that machine and go wow that bottom double coin door looks odd.... Don't see many weird ones like that. Light bulb goes off and I'm like weird that Bottom of the Ninth, which I had a feeling early on was definitely a conversion based on the paperwork the operator included with inside. New stickers, instructions, extra left over stickers.
So curiosity killed the cat and I started to peel back the fake wood laminate and started to see the beginning of this bad boy.
Felt like Xmas morning unwrapping my "new" present. Very cool experience.
Now my question, which I'm sure is a stupid one, "Do I attempt to fully restore this sucker back?" I already have the marquee on the way but the bezel is weird, just plain black outline/paint but seems to be very similiar to the originial (glass right?) Seems to have the original power supply and some of the originial wiring haugepauged into Jamma harness/adapter. I will try to include more inside pics later. I can tell it has older wires and newer wires for the new power supply - not sure what their called switching? or something I think. looks kind of like a modem or hard drive.
Included pics of my unwrapping. Also the sideart is pristine since it's been protected by that laminate stuff for couple decades now. only issues is that operator numbskull used brown paint on the tops where he either ran out of fake laminate or where it peeled back
So tonight, like literally an hour ago, I bought a Robotron marquee off another guy with Stargate for $30 shipped. Really good deal so I hopped on it, figured it would be cool up on my wall or in random possible cabinet or purchase in the future. And I swear the gods must have been saying hey dummy why dont you research it a little more. So i look up Robotron here on the KLOV to and start looking down the list of sellers. I come across a guy who just got one in his business that he's selling - Earl Estell and click on his link to http://arcadeunbelievable.com/.
I start to look at that machine and go wow that bottom double coin door looks odd.... Don't see many weird ones like that. Light bulb goes off and I'm like weird that Bottom of the Ninth, which I had a feeling early on was definitely a conversion based on the paperwork the operator included with inside. New stickers, instructions, extra left over stickers.
So curiosity killed the cat and I started to peel back the fake wood laminate and started to see the beginning of this bad boy.
Felt like Xmas morning unwrapping my "new" present. Very cool experience.
Now my question, which I'm sure is a stupid one, "Do I attempt to fully restore this sucker back?" I already have the marquee on the way but the bezel is weird, just plain black outline/paint but seems to be very similiar to the originial (glass right?) Seems to have the original power supply and some of the originial wiring haugepauged into Jamma harness/adapter. I will try to include more inside pics later. I can tell it has older wires and newer wires for the new power supply - not sure what their called switching? or something I think. looks kind of like a modem or hard drive.
Included pics of my unwrapping. Also the sideart is pristine since it's been protected by that laminate stuff for couple decades now. only issues is that operator numbskull used brown paint on the tops where he either ran out of fake laminate or where it peeled back
