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I've been putting this list together for a while now. The only one I couldn't remember for sure was some Konami soccer game. Was a cocktail table that resembled Track and Field was dedicated and much newer. It was JAMMA with trackballs and was Medium Resolution. Pretty sure I got the rest. About 40 games over the last 9 years. I know that some of you have probably had more and some less. This is the lowdown.



Final Fight - Phoenix cabinet reconverted and sold.

Fighter's History - Red Robotron cabinet, painted black and sold as Fighter's History.

Stargate - Bought from fireman, played for a while, sold to some guy in Alaska for big bucks.

Boardwalk Casino - reconverted to Pac-man, unsatisfied with result, scrapped out, kept parts.

Ms. Pac-Man - Bought as empty cabinet, repopulated and still own today.

Pac-man - Bought complete w/ board problem, had repaired, still own today.

Galaxian - Bought working, gave to my Mom for her birthday, she still has it today (8 years later).

Depthcharge - bad condition couldn't get PCB to work, scrapped out, sold parts.

Vs. Excitebike - bought working, converted to Donkey Kong, traded for Galaxian w/ dead 25" monitor and working Gorf.

Block Out - Missile Command cabinet w/art. Converted back, traded for something.

Karate Champ - bought from cousin, worked for a while, broke then got scrapped.

Circus - fell apart while picking up from cousin, sold parts to some guy in Japan.

Touchdown Fever - bought from cousin working, played for a while, traded as in progress Q*bert reconversion.

Vs. RBI Baseball - Bought from cousin not working, converted to Donkey Kong Jr. and sold.

Final Fight - Pac-man cabinet parted out eventually and left in a warehouse.

BreakThru - Gorf cabinet, tried to restore, never finished. Sat in storage for years, converted to Sky Soldiers and sold cheap.

Major Havoc - Space Duel cabinet. Enjoyed for a while and sold when money was tight.

Space Duel - Bought with no monitor, robbed for parts and converted to Final Fight and sold.

Poker Ladies - DK cabinet, gutted and traded for something.

Cyclone - First pinball, should have kept it.

Black Knight 2000 - Condition was not great but a very fun pin. Should have kept it.

The Who's Tommy - Tons of fun to play. Got greedy and sold it. Should have kept that too.

Dig Dug - Had for several years but eventually got tired of it and sold. Great game, though.

Raiden - Great shooter. Lot of fun. Still have it.

Tank II - Cool B/W game. Traded off in bulk lot.

Empty Gremlin cabinet - Don't remember circumstances of aquisition. Traded off in a bulk lot.

DepthCharge - Fun B/W. Developed sound problems and later had only scrambled garbage. Traded off in bulk lot.

Rampage - Got from a former employer. Played for a while and eventually sold.

Tron - Got from a former employer. Cabinet was in bad shape. Transfered parts to better cabinet.

Ninja Gaiden - Bought for dirt cheap, but was junk. Eventually got scrapped out.

Two Tigers - Bought as donor cabinet for Tron parts, later sold as working Tron.

Columns cocktail - Traded working Pac-man board and empty Tron cabinet for it. Played for a while and sold.

Sound Stage pinball - Got for free, couldn't get it to work. Gave away for free.

Arlington Horse Racing, Relief Pitcher, F1 Super Battle, Top Speed - Got in bulk, sold all but Arlington Horse Racing, which got robbed for
the monitor and then junked.

Donkey Kong - Traded Tron for it. Just sold it.

Time Soldiers - Got free from cousin and fixed monitor and put good PCB in it. Sold working later on.

Space Invaders - Traded for some work, never got it running, sold it.

Super Pac-Man - Got for Christmas from my parents who paid $50 for it.

Tetris - Bought for $100. Works, in Jungle Hunt cabinet.



That's everything I can remember. What have you owned?
 
I realize that at this point, I just can't remember where some of the stuff came from, or what trade led to what trade..
 
I know that not everyone has a website. I have a webpage with a list of currently owned and owned but sold games on it. Its great so I have a history of trials and adventures with past machines. Clicking on each game gives a story, road trip or repairs on that game.

My link is at http://www.thebasementarcade.com/mygames.htm

Currently owned 34 games (haven't added 2 more to the list yet).

Sold or traded games, 24.
 
I wish I'd have kept a journal over the years, a while back I was looking at old pictures and came across one showing a Robotron in my garage. I was like WTF? When did I have a Robotron?

I've had a BUNCH of games over the years, sigh........
 
The first 5 I bought, around 2000, all uprights in really nice shape, were Pac Man, Zaxxon, Vanguard, Venture, and Gorf.

The Pac I still own and due to the awesome original condition, I'll likely never get rid of it.

The Venture I couldn't get working and got rid of 1st I think. I want to say a guy in FL bought it, but the guy sent a moving truck and some guys to pick it up in Florence, AL. It had a little bit of swelling on the bottom edge of one side, but looking back, it would have cleaned up pretty nice.

The Vanguard and Zaxxon I owned for a while. I think I sold them both to the same guy. Vanguard was fun for about 10 minutes, and Zaxxon I got tired of. The sideart on Zaxxon was near perfect, should have kept it...

Gorf was purchased by Richard/someotherguy out of ATL area. It was different than the usual, as it was an early production/sample? model, with stenciled white "Midway GORF" on the sides, instead of decals. I know some others exist like that. The game was damn near mint and I should have kept it.

The next "find" was a decent condition Asteroids upright. It was in a bar, but was put out at the dumpster for a couple of days before I went by there. The security guy told me to take it, as he'd just have to take it to the dump. It had minor edge swelling, wasted control panel, and was filthy, but cleaned up ok. Problem ended up being bad solder joints on deflection PCB. Cap kit, overlay, clean up, and I kept it for a couple of years.

Flash forward dozens of games later..
 
My list is pretty small... and easily compiled

Vs. Super Mario Bros.
Street Figter II
Playchoice 10 (dual monitor)
Neo Geo MVS, 2 single slots (not deditated)

Those are the ones I've sold...

now, I own:

Dual Monitor PC10 (different)
Nintendo Vs. "Red Tent"
Neo Geo MVS, Dedicated 6 slot
 
Unfortunately I do remember every game I have ever owned...because I still own them....can't bring myself to sell anything. I am running out of space so it is time for some stuff to go.
 
Since I never seem to have time to actually get a website up, I just keep a list in a blog over at coinopspace. It is nice to read through it once in a while and see how my collection has changed over time.
 
I've written down every game I've ever owned. The list is too long to post here... there's only one I've owned that I don't know the name of. I bought it, then sold it the next day after playing it a little bit, it was a really quick turnaround and I can't for the life of me think of the name of it. One of these days, I'm going to see another one, and then I'll know.

It was a Jamma game, and you were a Ninja or something like that who did magic... it kind of had a Shinobi vibe, but of course wasn't Shinobi. It was more of a 'b' title, it's probably not really rare but I haven't seen another one yet. It was one of those games like "Dragon Spirit" or something, one that you don't see that often. If anybody's got any ideas, throw them my way :)
 
I keep a running spreadsheet of EVERY single machine that has set foot in my garage.

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Here's my complete registry that I posted in my local arcade collector site:

At home:

Eagle proto
Rush 'N Attack
MKII
Tempest cabaret
Double DK
World Series: The Season
60-in-1 in Centipede cabaret cab
Centipede cabaret
Spy Hunter sit-down
OutRun cabaret
Turbo mini
Pole Position cockpit

In storage. garage in Danvers:

Phoenix
Time Pilot
Elevator Action
Mat Mania
Mouse Trap
Defender
Asteroids Deluxe
Satan's Hollow cabaret
Star Invaders (at work)

Dearly departed, sold or traded:

Scramble
Kung-Fu Master
Ms. Pac-Man
BurgerTime
Zaxxon
Moon Patrol
Popeye
Centipede cocktail
Championship Sprint
Super Sprint
Mr. Do!
AfterBurner
 
I still own every single one I purchased. I'm not the kind of guy that sells stuff.
 
Cue Julio & Willie:

To all the games I've loved before
Who travelled in and out my door
I'm glad they came along
I dedicate this song
To all the games I've loved before
 
I'll see if I can do this in order:

Demolition Derby - First one. Bought from local operator, extremely clean UR. Sold locally in MA.

Super Basketball - Old Make Trax cocktail. Eventually put a Time Pilot board in it, but sound was bad and controls weren't great. Sold locally in MA.

Bomb Jack - Old Scramble cocktail. Sound was bad, monitor had a pretty good crack in the glass.

Defender - Cocktail. Great little machine. Think I sold it to Mark Spaeth...

Space Invaders - Cocktail. Clean with the color overlay in perfect shape, but dead as a doornail. Never got it working. Sold locally in MA.

Elevator Action - UR, in Jungle King cab. Worked great and I played the hell out of it. Sold locally in MA.

Xevious - UR, bought from Maine collector (great guy, forget his name). Cabinet was damn near flawless, but the game...meh. Sold locally in MA.

Relief Pitcher - My first cabaret. Not sure what it was converted from. Relief Pitcher seemed like a good baseball game, but the image was upside down and I could never figure out how to fix it. Sold locally in MA.

Mappy - UR. First machine bought after moving to California. Loved this game! In good shape. Came home one night to find that someone in the apt above me had tried to flush paper towels in their toilet, and my apartment was flooded with an inch of water. Bottom of the game = swollen. Still pissed. Sold.

Asteroids - UR. Bought from a guy who had this in his living room. Original through and through; amazing that it was running. Chopped off a padlock inside and found $15 in quarters. Sold.

Frogger - UR. Fantastic original shape, including sideart. Sold.

Pac-Man 25th Anniversary Bartop - Put a 60-in-1 PCB in this. Didn't end up liking the flat screen; the purchase I regret the most to this day. Sold/traded.

Donkey Kong - UR. Restored by Vintage Arcade (the outfit up near Hollywood). Tasteful restoration where everything on the outside was new, but all of the electronics / hardware, including the CP, was original. "Felt" just right when playing. Sold.

Galaga - Cabaret. First game I ever had shipped. Worked fine, but a little ratty conditionwise. Sold.

Missile Command - Cabaret. Shipped. Great shape, contemplated selling it a couple of times. Would go back to play it again and then change my mind. I could see moving into a small apartment and keeping it, so I did. Still have this.

Punch-Out!! - UR. Restored by Vintage Arcade. Ended up getting a Super Punch-Out!! PCB and restored control panel to go with it. Played the livin' hell out of this one. Sold; wish I still had it.

Galaga - Cabaret. Another one I found locally for a good price. Flipped it.

Championship Sprint - UR. In so-so shape, but got lots of play. Always liked this game. Sold.

Warlords - CT. I like to call this one "Pong's final stand". Great old-school stuff. Still have this.

Bull Fight - UR. Shipped from Ohio. Total impulse buy, but also thought a bullfighting game would resell easily in SoCal if I needed to. Plus, this thing was rare, and I felt it needed to be in CA. Bad connection at an electrical outlet fried it, and I sold it to mrbill2084. Just made its debut at CAX.

Pac-Man - Cabaret. Finally, Pac-Man! 16-in-1 kit, installed on the PCB which matches numbers with the cab. Still have this, but it's in a garage...

Donkey Kong - Cabaret. Got this to replace my UR. Gameplay on the cabaret is, IMHO, 100% equal to the UR. Still have this.

Robotron 2084 - Cabaret. I'm not sure how well the gameplay on this one compares to the UR. My guess is that it suffers a bit. Still, it's got to be the coolest-looking cabaret there is. Still have this.

Omega Race - Cabaret. Excellent shape. Very challenging. Still have this.

Tron - Cabaret. My new project. Working all the way...for now. ;)
 
I keep a running spreadsheet of EVERY single machine that has set foot in my garage.
I have a similar spreadsheet; contains where I got them, who I sold it to/what games I traded for it, date range of posession, what happened to it, etc. Unfortunately lost some of the money data before 1999. List is at about 90 games so far.
 
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