NW Pinball and Game Room Show - Roll Call

SanTe said:
Dan, is your wife still kicking ass on Empire Strikes Back? My upright's gonna be there this year ya know... ;)
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Chris, We were just talking about that the other night. She asked me if Empire Strikes back was going to be there. I told her I thought it would be. She has not been playing alot. She has some free time now, and started playing again. She is somewhere in the 700k range about half way to the record. We will have to see how it looks in a few weeks. She could take 2nd, but im not sure if she wants 2nd. :)
 
I'll be there

I'm looking forward to the show again. I missed last year but came the 1st year and had a blast. I'm also excited to be able to donate some games. I just sent in the form and am waiting to hear back. I have a Tapper, Cheyenne, Crackshot, Time Soldiers and a 48 in 1. I offered to volunteer on Thursday and I will probably be at the show Friday night and Saturday. I'm hoping to be able to help Sunday night too but I have to work somethings out (i.e. the wife.)

I basically decided after the 1st show to get one game and that turned into 5. I don't have much experience fixing up games but I managed to get the sound working on my 48 in 1. I think the Crackshot needs a cap kit (the color is off and it takes forever to get bright) and I also have an exidy multi that I want to put in the Cheyenne, I looked up the instructions online and was a little overwhelmed. I was wondering if anyone could help me get started or give me some hands on training so I can learn a thing or two and get these games 100% for the show.

I'm looking forward to meeting some KLOVers and kicking butt at Rampart, if someone brings one! I just missed one for sale in Portland a couple of days ago.
 
PM SanTe, the next repair party leading up to the show is at his place this Saturday. If you bring your Time Soldier I'll definitely put some games in on that. I sold mine ~5 years ago, and have recently been wanting to play it again.

I have a Rampart PCB, although it's the 2P joystick version, but I'm not sure yet if it'll make it to the show.
 
Roadbloticus said:
I'm looking forward to the show again. I missed last year but came the 1st year and had a blast. I'm also excited to be able to donate some games. I just sent in the form and am waiting to hear back. I have a Tapper, Cheyenne, Crackshot, Time Soldiers and a 48 in 1. I offered to volunteer on Thursday and I will probably be at the show Friday night and Saturday. I'm hoping to be able to help Sunday night too but I have to work somethings out (i.e. the wife.)

I basically decided after the 1st show to get one game and that turned into 5. I don't have much experience fixing up games but I managed to get the sound working on my 48 in 1. I think the Crackshot needs a cap kit (the color is off and it takes forever to get bright) and I also have an exidy multi that I want to put in the Cheyenne, I looked up the instructions online and was a little overwhelmed. I was wondering if anyone could help me get started or give me some hands on training so I can learn a thing or two and get these games 100% for the show.
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Have you joined Seattle Metro Arcade Collectors (SMAC) yet?

http://www.seattlearcade.org

It's a private Google group that currently has 121 members. Membership generally is limited to those who live in the greater Seattle area, but we do have members as far north as Mount Vernon and as far south as Tumwater and Chehalis. We have a few members out east (Tri-Cities and Spokane), and we even have some Portland-area collectors in the group as well. (The Portland guys also have their own group, Portland Arcade Collectors a.k.a. PAC.)

SMAC is heavily involved with helping to put on the NW Pinball and GameRoom Show. (In fact, we basically are the video half of the show.) We even have a bunch of "repair parties" at various members' homes starting around early March and running every other weekend through mid-May. The purpose, both of the repair parties and of the SMAC group in general, is to help each other with troubleshooting and repairs while sharing knowledge and tools, and for networking within our hobby to buy/sell/trade and track down games and/or parts for each other.

As fate would have it, I'm hosting the next repair party this Saturday at my home in West Seattle. You're welcome to come if you like. Use that link above to submit a request to join SMAC. In the meantime I've PM'd you with the details about this Saturday's repair party.

Based on your description of your Crackshot's monitor, it sounds more like the tube is getting tired. Certainly do a cap kit on it, but it may need rejuvenation or even a new tube. Do you know what model of monitor it has? A couple of SMAC members that will be at the repair party this Saturday have rejuvenators and practically every adapter that is needed to connect to all of the most common monitors used on these old games. If you're able to transport your cabs bring Crackshot and Cheyenne to the repair party and odds are high you'll get the help you need. We have some talented arcade techs in our little group. And we've never had any Exidy shooters at the show before, which is a crime that is due to be corrected. :)
 
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I'll go if I win the trip :)

I'll also go if my daughter wins the trip :)

But otherwise I won't be going as I will have just returned from a marathon trip back east, and it will be time to begin living in the real world and looking for a j-o-b... (boo!)
 
that'd be awesome of someone else would bring an Exidy shooter as i'm not sure how close my Cheyenne is to working. if i knew there was another one coming or at least something similar i could concentrate on some other titles that i know are not coming.
 
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