Picked up a good one today!

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I wouldn't go so far as to call it a grail (LOL) but I had the good fortune to pick up one of my all time favorites this morning.

Ghosts N Goblins !!!

The good:

It was free (well, I have to strip and paint a cabinet for a fellow collector so I guess it was more of a barter than free).
It works 100%.
The cabinet is 100% solid. The base is water damaged, but that took the brunt of the water's effects and is easily replaceable.
Monitor appears to be in good shape and relatively burn-free.

The bad:

She is pretty ugly.
Crappy conversion overlay (lucky for me, I have a NOS CPO for GNG)
Marquee is scratched.
Has JK bezel instead of GNG bezel.
Cabinet needs to be stripped and stenciled.

Anyway, pics or it didn't happen ...

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I have a feeling I am going to be up very late tonight playing this one!

Not sure what I am going to do with this one - fix this Jungle King cabinet up and leave Ghosts N Goblins running in it ... or ... stick it in storage until I find a suitable donor cabinet. I doubt I'll find a dedicated GNG cabinet, though that would certainly be nice!

Steve
MM
 
Great game, but check the restoration forum for the cab it *should* be in. You have the conversion/alternate marquee as well.
 
Man I used to play the shit out of that game on the home console. That game rocks. Good luck with your new project.
 
Great game, but check the restoration forum for the cab it *should* be in.

I've been following that thread for a while now. That project came out great!

Now I just need someone to bring one of those cabinets out of the woodwork and sell it to me ...

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Steve
MM
 
you should bring it back to the Jungle Hunt it once was

I have a better idea ... find me a GNG Dedicated cabinet in Florida and this Jungle Hunt cabinet (and bezel) is yours. Hell ... I'll even throw in a Jungle Hunt marquee.

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Sorry Scucci ... Ghosts N Goblins > Jungle Hunt ... I'm keeping the boardset.

Steve
MM
 
Nice, I wouldn't mind finding the PCB myself. Would love to have a dedicated one, but don't have the room for another cab right now.
 
Sorry Scucci ... Ghosts N Goblins > Jungle Hunt ... I'm keeping the boardset.

Steve
MM

... FINE! You're off my Christmas card list then! Take that! That's right... no 4"x4" 30lb fruitcake for you this year!

Great score though. Just convert it to an Elevator Action (like every other Jungle Hunt cabinet I've seen) and call it done. lol
 
Sorry to re-hash this old thread, but it looks like I have stopped collecting video games and started collecting Ghosts N Goblins machines.

Big thanks to nocashvalue for selling me this one at a very reasonable price!

After tinkering around with this yesterday afternoon, I thinks it needs/deserves a ground-up restoration. Looking for sideart, bezel, cpo, and marquee if you have spares ...

If you have ANY artwork for this, please shoot me a PM!

@scucci -- looks like I have an extra boardset now if you still want/need one. Hit me up.

Thanks,
Steve

Hijacking Preston's photostream for pics ...

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