The History Of MY... (Your Game Here) A THREAD

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Simple thread.

Tell KLOV about The History Of Your Game. (as you know it)

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The History Of MY Joust.

Back in the day when Clay Cowgil was (is?) the man, the Williams Multigame was all the rage.

Play SIX classic games on your ORIGINAL WILLAIMS BOARDSET in your ORIGINAL Williams cab. I had to have one.

Joust
Robotron
Defender
Stargate
Bubbles
Splat! (
nobody plays Splat!)

First things first, I sourced an original Clay Cowgil WILLIAMS MULTIGAME kit from the ORIGINAL MULTIGAME SITE multigame.com. (Thanks again Clay!) (NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH THE CURRENT MULTI WILLIAMS KITS)

Next, I found a Defender cab locally which would need some mods to it because Joust was the best cab to use for the Cowgil Williams Multigame.

Low and behold, when I got there, in the dingy little backroom storage unit of a small strip mall, next to the Defender was a Joust (among other cabs). I asked the seller if it was for sale and yes it was, for the same price as the Defender. So it was mine! Turns out, I would later discover it was none other than Mike Haaland of mikesarcade.com who sold it to me. (Thanks again Mike!)

Next I found phoenixarcade.com and Darin Jacobs and purchased the metal control panel and overlay for the original Cowgil Williams Multigame. (Thanks again Darin!)

Once I got the Cowgil kit and the phoenixarcade control panel and overlay, I took them to Mike and had him install the multikit properly.

So after all of this I finally had my Joust Williams Multigame (which I still have). Played great and looked great.

But there was one thing missing... The Joust Master.

I picked up the Joust Master, AKA Lonnie McDonald, from joustmaster.com, at the airport and drove him to my house to put the high score (9,999,999) on my Joust cab while I filmed the highlights. (Thanks again Lonnie!)

KLOV Honorable mentions: Several members of KLOV made the control panel harness and sourced the buttons and other parts to complete my Joust Williams Multigame cab. (Thanks again KLOV Members!) (of course it's been so long ago I remeber their names but I bet they do...) :p

So The History Of My Joust is:

Clay Cowgil
Mike Haaland
Darin Jabobs
Lonnie McDonald
KLOV Members

(Thanks again Everybody!)


Side note: I've had this game for over 25 years and it ain't going nowhere. I've discovered the BEST way to play Joust with a friend (enemy?) is with a beer and a Best Of 7 Games Kill Each Other Fastest Contest for $5. Points don't count, just kill the other player. Best of 7 games wins the money and the loser buys the next round of beer. :p:beerchug:

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My "Monaco GP" arcade videogame
The first picture here is from the one I purchased almost 10 years ago, and still own to this day. Yup, Im huggin it! Its one of the games that molded me.
I remember my first encounter with this game. It was during an annual county fair in Miami around 1981. There was this rather large, dusty tent full of arcade games, all sitting on dirt. With the few quarters my parents gave me that day, I just played the Monaco GP. I never forgot the simple, yet addicting gameplay- just pedal to the metal and avoid the passing cars. It had these amazing engine roar sounds that never left my mind.
I did not see one again until around 1994, in a local Miami bowling alley I used to frequent at the time. There was a perfectly playing one, in a sea of newer games from the era! I recall asking the manager there about it, and he said the owner of the bowling alley is also the owner of that one game. Since then I thought, if this person could own one, how can I?
In Orlando, at a retro-game exposition back in 2014 called "Southern Pinball Festival" (now "Freeplay Florida"), I had made arrangements to finally obtain my own Monaco GP. I had already started collecting games for several years, and since that bowling alley, I was really on the warpath trying to find my own Monaco. What an amazing feeling to finally get it! It had the wrong steering wheel and shift lever installed, but still its all mine. The second picture is after a few changes I did afterwards (correct wheel and lever found!).
 

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