Post Pics of Your First Conversion

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Ugly as fuck or sweet as hell, I don't care. Just post a pic of your first. We all had to start somewhere. This is the first game I converted back in 2006. Heavy Barrel in a Centuri cab:

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When I bought it, it had already been converted to Atomic Punk. It was ugly as hell, but you know, I had a ton of fun with it before I ultimately converted it to a 60 in 1 a year later and sold it:

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you just posted in the photobucket thread about them no longer supporting 3rd party hosting...and then you try to link your photobucket pics here lol. fail.
 
you just posted in the photobucket thread about them no longer supporting 3rd party hosting...and then try to link your photobucket pics here lol. fail.

Funny, this thread was actually a test to see if my PB pics still worked. They do for me, but obviously not for you. Time for a mass exodus.
 
Weird, I can't even right click and download them. I tried downloading them to my desktop and then uploading them from my desktop to Flickr and get a "not valid photo" error msg. Wow.
 
Please update those pics. I remember seeing them years ago, but I's like to see them again.

Here was the first conversion I picked up and restored. It was a Joust cab converted to a World Series. I "restored" it to a Multi Williams:

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Photobucket.....epic fail. That sucks that they switched things up on users.

All your house pics still work, but it looks like they are all on Flickr.
 
Picked up a pretty rough mk1 cab. Patched it up and made it my super dodgeball. It has been finished with new t-molding and the decals for the font and sides of the cp.
 

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This is my first and current conversion project still some things to do on it. It was converted to bottem of the ninth. Going back to dk jr
 

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This is my first and current conversion project still some things to do on it. It was converted to bottem of the ninth. Going back to dk jr

So it's your first de-conversion. I've done plenty of those. This thread is for the first game you CONVERTED to something else. No offense, just trying to keep the proper theme going.
 
I still have never bought a converted game and restored it back to original. Ain't nobody got time fo dat.

I need to get more serious with my collecting it seems.

EDIT - apparently I read the thread incorrectly.

I did this once -

 
My first conversion was back in about 2001 off eBay and was also my first ever arcade game purchase. I don't have any before pics and this is the best pic I had of it when I was storing it in my garage. I bought a Centipede that was already converted to Mortal Kombat for $75 and had it shipped to me. :( It was a hack job conversion and looked like it had been outside in a traveling carnival. Gray formica sides that were chipping and peeling, beat up bottom and tons of dirt and sand in the cab. I wanted a cabinet that I could use for Mortal Kombat and Killer Instinct at the time and didn't know any better to go after dedicated cabinets or even better local cabinets.

I stripped it and cleaned it all out and got it working. Then I had a trade show display company that I knew the owner of help me getting it up to snuff cosmetically. I would go down there after hours and we peeled off all the old formica, sanded and redid new black laminate on the sides. I picked up a black control panel overlay from a local operator and then stripped the panel and installed it. We cleaned up the bottom of the cab and put in a new kick plate. I got new buttons, joysticks, CPO plexi and t-molding. I also got the custom MK4 bezel and some conversion KI2 decals too. Cab looked really nice for a conversion as well it should, I put a ton of money into fixing it. It served it's purpose for years until I found dedicated cabinets.

I finally sold it off several years later to a guy that wanted a nicely refurbished two player 6-button cabinet for a crappy multiboard he had. I believe I got $350 just for the cabinet, which was nice, but way less than I had into it. Live and learn as it was my first arcade cabinet experience. I learned a lot about games from this experience and never made those same buying mistakes again thankfully.
 

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Mine was a ladybug cocktail back in 1996 but no pics,,

then this blitz cab to MKII again...
 
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