Orlando, Florida 80s arcade options

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Heya all - so I've just taken a position at a company in Orlando, Florida and will be moving there in January, 2026. I'm going to to bring my Tempest, Asteroids Deluxe and Solar Fox with (my "backup" Solar Fox I'm looking to sell if anyone in SoCal is interested). Anyway, being a California person I don't know the area too well and can only assume all three of my cabs will arrive in some form of broken-ness. After a quick search, the only repair place online I've found is this one: https://www.arcadedoctor.com/ Is there any sort of a collector/repair/working retro arcade community out there?
 
@ToddK may be able to offer some suggestions. And may buy your backup Solar Fox.
 
welcome to the area …feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions I would be glad to help you or point you in the right direction
 
Disclaimer: I personally can't stand Orlando and avoid it whenever possible... but it's rich territory for arcade games. Tons of stuff left over from the Golden Age, and lots of people around who still appreciate and know how to work with them.
 
Thanks so much everyone! (And to be clear - the backup Solar Fox is going to stay in SoCal - trying not to add to the weight of my move!)
 
Random question but does anyone happen to know someone local who repairs CRTs?
 
Talk to arcadeaction (posted in this thread about monitors maybe). Lots of people here, check out freeplayflorida.com and join the community at Free Play this year.
 
Heya all - so I've just taken a position at a company in Orlando, Florida and will be moving there in January, 2026. I'm going to to bring my Tempest, Asteroids Deluxe and Solar Fox with (my "backup" Solar Fox I'm looking to sell if anyone in SoCal is interested). Anyway, being a California person I don't know the area too well and can only assume all three of my cabs will arrive in some form of broken-ness. After a quick search, the only repair place online I've found is this one: https://www.arcadedoctor.com/ Is there any sort of a collector/repair/working retro arcade community out there?


If Todd can't point you in the right direction I'm in Orlando if I'm not traveling for work. Also do monitor repair when I have free time.
 
Hi everyone - well my pre-packing is starting to get handled - and I wanted to get some advice from the group on my two Solar Fox machines. I have two of them - the first I bought back in 2021 from a seller in Florida, who found an empty cabinet on the side of the road that was in good condition, and over time he put in a (not original to the game) CRT, glass bezel, marquee and a board and put the whole thing together. Of course it is missing the interior artwork which is UV reactive - still it played. My second Solar Fox I picked up in Washington about three years ago, keeping my original with the idea that I would frankenstein the best parts of each into the more complete one and sell the older one. About 6 months ago I was going to work on this, turned them both on and both are having issues. Well, I am leaving soon (in a few months) and I likely do not have the free time to trouble shoot both of them, and in any case I'm going to assume bouncing around in a truck coast to coast some things will get knocked loose anyway, so I am going to wait until I've moved to work on these again. My question to the group is, should I keep the PCB from my first machine as a backup incase I get chip failures on my nicer one, or can you generally find replacements for chips today that fail? I haven't done any PCB troubleshooting really, so wondering if some of those would be custom Bally Midway ones that are basically non-existent now. Thoughts? I don't need two Solar Fox machines...
 
Welcome to Florida, please respect the wildlife. Prepare to be called Florida man by members here! We may not have as many crack pipes as California down here yet but you'll get by! Villagebbs just found a new member.
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Hi everyone - well my pre-packing is starting to get handled - and I wanted to get some advice from the group on my two Solar Fox machines. I have two of them - the first I bought back in 2021 from a seller in Florida, who found an empty cabinet on the side of the road that was in good condition, and over time he put in a (not original to the game) CRT, glass bezel, marquee and a board and put the whole thing together. Of course it is missing the interior artwork which is UV reactive - still it played. My second Solar Fox I picked up in Washington about three years ago, keeping my original with the idea that I would frankenstein the best parts of each into the more complete one and sell the older one. About 6 months ago I was going to work on this, turned them both on and both are having issues. Well, I am leaving soon (in a few months) and I likely do not have the free time to trouble shoot both of them, and in any case I'm going to assume bouncing around in a truck coast to coast some things will get knocked loose anyway, so I am going to wait until I've moved to work on these again. My question to the group is, should I keep the PCB from my first machine as a backup incase I get chip failures on my nicer one, or can you generally find replacements for chips today that fail? I haven't done any PCB troubleshooting really, so wondering if some of those would be custom Bally Midway ones that are basically non-existent now. Thoughts? I don't need two Solar Fox machines...
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