Some true arcade history here!

MtZRcade

Active member

Donor 9 years: 2011-2019
Joined
Feb 18, 2008
Messages
1,343
Reaction score
7
Location
Illinois
I just started to go through round 2 of the paperwork and stuff that came about from me getting the original stuff from the bally/midway offices a couple years ago. Some of you may remember all the films that i listed 2 summers ago. Here is some quick shots of what i just vrought home to start to go through. Most of this will be for sale in the near future, but it takes alot of time to go through it. So ill probably go through one box at a time. This is one of a kind items. Original handdrawn sketches shoing things like how to build the cabinet, wiring harness, soome artwork, etc. Also, in the folders are blueprints, building spec sheets etc. Some members on here have bought some of this stuff from me already, so maybe they can chime in as to what there opinion was on it.

thanks
troy
dsc04167.jpg


dsc04169.jpg


dsc04170.jpg


dsc04171.jpg


dsc04172.jpg
 
What an amazing find you have there! Wow it would be fantastic to go through that stuff and see what all is in there. Its almost like a treasure hunt for us arcade nerds :D
 
Thank you for posting these pictures! One of them has settled what was somewhat (but not much) of a debate in this thread:

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=147843&highlight=galaxian

So, it's settled - the Galaxian Mini II was a factory variant of the Galaxian mini and not an operator-converted Gorf mini. It shows up on the list.

That's a great collection you have there. Any info about production numbers?
 
i remember drooling over the artwork films a couple of years ago when i wqas down there last.... .... you have my blood pumping again thats frickin cool!!!!!!!
 
Right on! It is fascinating to see how these arcade classics came to be. I always liked Bally/Midway did up their game manuals.

Did Cinematronics get bought out by Bally/Midway?
Are you going to be selling these items on FeeBay?
 
I purchased a lot of the Professor Pac stuff from Troy from the last batch of this stuff...I got what amounted to the drawer dedicated to Professor Pac...all the office notes...productions notes...some really cool reads for sure. They had product control stuff, changes made midstream to games, and every dam screw figured out down to the type and style...I also got a few items for Pacland which amounted to portions of the films for the control panel...and a ton of the actual cab drawings and stuff that ended up in the final manual. So hoping the missing films from those games is in some of these boxes so there will be some future repro's at least with the games I'm interested in....

I will pull out some of my stuff and try to post a picture just to give you an idea of how much paperwork was generated for just one game...and that is a game that commercially flopped..:D But is loved my me...so who cares if it didn't make money...:rolleyes:

There is truly a vast history in those boxes...and realistically its pretty hard for one person to sort through it all and simply expect to be able to bring everything out.(Unless your the super human Scott Evans and even he can attest to how much stuff there is too go through and how hard it is for one person)

I can personally say that Troy is a great person to deal with...he truly wants collectors that appreciate this kind of stuff to get their hands on it as opposed to it just sitting in boxes unappreciated....Although I'm sure some will disagree about splitting it up its not really realistic to have one person have all this stuff and expect to see the stuff gone through...but if multiple collectors who appreciate the stuff get involved a lot more ground will be covered in terms of the wealth of information that will be available from going through this stuff...

At the very least if will be fun to put rumors to rest and find out new stuff we never knew when going through those secret files...
 
I was at the sale too. Not much of a sale really, as everything was full price, at least all the pinball parts. I did get to see the molds and all the files from the williams factory. He had the stuff starting way back from the very first game in the 50's (or was it 30's?)...EM stuff of course. Did all that end up going to Australia with the parts? I think so. Cool that Troy saved the Bally stuff. Can't wait to see it hit eBay.
 
Way to go, Troy -- that's a fascinating bunch of stuff. I'm eager to see what else turns up in there, good luck with sorting it all out!
 
Really cool to see that this stuff survived and is in good condition. Thank you for helping to preserve some arcade history. Oh, and thank you for keeping it from going overseas. :D
 
Too bad it can't all be archived. Money always wins out over history I guess.
 
Too bad it can't all be archived. Money always wins out over history I guess.

I disagree. Yes it's true that Troy pretty much makes his living buying/selling, but there is no doubt he has a passion for the games and is a collector at heart. I really don't think the issue of archiving versus money with him. It's a case of time. Archiving is really tedius work and takes a lot of time to do a good job at it. I'm sure Troy would like it archived himself. But I'm guessing he doesn't have the equipment and time to do it. I think he's doing us a favor by even making it available. Why don't the people that buy it archive it?
 
Wow, what an impressive collection. Any schematics that are not currently available MUST be professionally scanned, I am sure plenty of people would be willing to contribute to the cost of having this done.
 
Back
Top Bottom