The fate of your first game

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What happened to the first game you bought?

My first game was Killer Instinct, in a converted NBA JAMs cabinet with a reworked control panel. The monitor is perfect, it plays awesome, but it's not even using regular killer instinct art. The control panel is using that generic sf2 era capcom pattern, which makes me think that this cab was previously a Street fighter cabinet after its first NBA JAM birth.

Games have come and gone in my collection, I've done work on my other cabs, repainted them, restored them, the whole work.. But I never ever touched my KI cab. I feel special about it. I don't want to modify it. I could easily convert it in a decent KI-ish cab with real art and etc, but.. I've been delaying the project for over two years now.

I just can't do it!

What about you guys?
 
well I'm still working on mine as I only got into this around december. It's a converted gauntlet and maybe one of these days I'll get around to stripping the paint off and wiring it into a gauntlet 2...then again the X-men now works fine and coins up...
 
I'm proud to say that mine, Joust, was given to a friend who got back from his second tour in the war (bomb unit...glad as heck he survived...some in his unit didn't).

He plays it weekly with friends and the grandkids.

(yes, I did put a 19-1 board in it and kept the williams boards for other projects because he wanted something that he could turn on and play with no hassles....)
 
First cab was a TMNT converted into a Sunset Riders. I restored it back to TMNT and traded it for House of the Dead. Then house of the Dead got traded for a Super PAC-Man cocktail.

I learned a lot from that first cab
 
My first game was Tron that I got with my first corporate paycheck in 1996. She still sits proudly in my home office, waiting for more friends. hahaha
 
My first cab was Lethal Enforcers cabinet turned into a generic JAMMA cab with SF2 in it. Turned out I couldn't get the cab up the stairs in my apartment at the time (that's a damned wide cabinet), so it ended up gutted, I made a box for the CP and mounted everything to a board. Played jamma games on my desk for about a year before I found another.
 
My first cab was a Mk2 in a heap of a conversion cab. everything about it was terrible, but I learned alot about the hobby from it. Eventually I gutted it now all I have left is the boards, coin box and mechs and the buttons and sticks. I ended up calling the guy I bought it from to come get the carcass and do what he wanted with it.
 
I still have it. Its Tekken 3, and cost me $100. I spent the most time cleaning, painting, polishing, using new parts if possible, that I cannot sell it. Everything looks new on it. The game plays OK.
 
Centipede, bought back in 2001. Just pulled it from the basement arcade and now in storage.
Will be put up for sale in the short future as I now have a Multipede.
 
Mine was a T2 barn find. Epic brought back from the dead restore. Still have it, doubt I could ever get rid of it due to the time and effort put into it.
 
My first cab, was a run down Dynamo Showcase cab (January 2012). Missing pieces, absolutely no wiring, and a hacked up pedistal stand with a Tekken 4 control panel.

Thought I'd go the (don't shoot me for it) mame route. After a lot of research and wasted money on wiring, parts and things I had no clue I didn't need... I ended up finding another guy in Indy with NFL Blitz 2K Gold, wiring and complete control panel (2 player) that came out of his showcase cab - which his was a complete mame when I arrived. After buying that, I spent a few weeks on here learning how to wire everything up, and tracking down replacement/missing parts.

Below is a video (or link) which shows off 3 of the 6 arcades I have including the showcase. After being semi restored into playable condition. As you can clearly see my space is very limited and I was lucky enough to get those in the basement. The monitors have since been repaired, traded, or the two i have saved are medium res (not what I need for big blue.)

http://youtu.be/RVY7aQTdAAM

The two that will always be in the arcade (as far as I can help it) are the Showcase and NARC.
 
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Rolling Thunder. 2007. That started me down the MAME road. Shortly after, I went on a buying spree, reorganized my basement layout, and, well you know the story.

See my avatar?

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My first was a Berzerk that I got from mcandrewsoun. I got in January this year. The speech wasn't working, so I played it with no speech for 6 weeks, loving every minute of it. Fixed a wiring problem which incidentally I caused and then had speech.

Since I have worked on the wiring harness, the joystick, coin door, speaker, and marque lighting. Also I changed out the ZPU-1000 EPROMs so this is now a slow bullets Berzerk instead of a fast bullets!

This is my favorite machine, it gets played at least 2 hours a day. The monitor has Berzerk burn in, but if I ever have to cap that G07 or work on it, I won't change the tube, it means too much to me. I have another Berzerk that I'm seriously considering doing a full restore on, but this one, I think I will leave it as is forever.

I love it! Big shout out to mcandrewsoun for the machine! Great guy!
 
Just bought mine in march it is a non working fabtech toki cab but I didn't get the board wi it so bought a bomberman instead.
 
My first "game" was an empty cab that I turned into a MAME rig. My first dedicated game was Karate Champ... and I still have it:

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My first was a weird-ass repro cabinet I had custom made... plays Ms. Pac Man, Galaga and Frogger and has half Ms. Pac art and half Galaga art. Still have it, and I'll be honest, I still love it, just for the bizarrity of it :D

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I still have my first game and the last game that I bought along with the 30 or so that I kept. The other approx 180 pins/videogames in the middle were sold/traded off.
 
I bought my first game way back in 1990... a Rastan in a converted Berzerk cab straight out of my local arcade for $300.00. I owned it for about 2 years, then traded it to my high school guidance counselor for a dedicated Gorf which I owned for 4 years or so, then sold to another collector.

Kyle :cool:
 
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