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the KLOV CONFESSIONAL - post your arcade sins here.
- Thread starter vintagegamer
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That's me in the back left.
THOU HAST ANGERED THE VIDEO GAME GODS AND YOU SHALL BE SMITED FOR YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS!!!
I think my wife would be very surprised to discover she once had a pud.
...and so would I.
I was given a non-working but cosmetically very nice Centipede about 13 years ago, and not knowing that repairing it was within the realm of possibility, I mamed it. However, it was done tastefully (leaving the artwork fully in tact) and all the guts are still in place and cp in storage. I plan to de-mame it whenever I get around to picking up a decent generic cab to transplant the mame guts.
Artisan2084
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That control panel... My eyes... MYYY EEYYYYEEESSS!!!
Mindl3ss
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My only sin, offering to part out two machines I owned. One I bought as an empty shell with only a CP and hacked up wiring harness in it (not even a power supply or working monitor) and the other was complete, just not functioning.
In resolution to these, I sold both items complete (or at least as complete as I had them). In the case of the empty shell, I acquired parts for it over time, and it left me with a working motherboard, repaired one of the wires and a monitor waiting to be rebuilt. The other was sold complete and mostly working with the new owner within a week
I have seen the error of my ways, and will no longer offer to part a complete machine.
In resolution to these, I sold both items complete (or at least as complete as I had them). In the case of the empty shell, I acquired parts for it over time, and it left me with a working motherboard, repaired one of the wires and a monitor waiting to be rebuilt. The other was sold complete and mostly working with the new owner within a week
I have seen the error of my ways, and will no longer offer to part a complete machine.
Pinball Wizard
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What hasn't been converted to an Arkanoid?
Tighe
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Where is the spinner???
SystemJinx
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I once purchased an arcade machine in great condition with the full intention of keeping it. I sold it for a bit more money 6 months later. I try not to flip machines, but I needed room for my Red Tent.
gwarble
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i have three, from my early days of collecting... only one of which i really consider blasphemy but i do regret the other 2:
#3: mame'd a rally x cabaret (which was converted to ms pac converted to something else converted back to ms pac) made it ms pac only mame, vga monitor and all! barf
#2: my very first game was a ghosts n goblins in a venture cabinet... i later got the marquee and bezel (and a bunch of other stuff) from the same operator, and i should have restored the venture, instead i painted the cab, bought ghosts n goblins sideart and eventually sold or traded it away as gng
#1: [THE WORST] i cut out the panels on a galaxian cocktail for joystick clearance! this was one of the only destructive things i've done in this hobby, even the above i didnt hurt anything existing... but i hacked out the cabinet, terribly too... granted it was converted (or actually completely empty) when i got it but still...
i still have the galaxian, its been a tetris for the last 11 years, but i'm actually restoring it now and it will feel good to redeem this sin
- gwarble
#3: mame'd a rally x cabaret (which was converted to ms pac converted to something else converted back to ms pac) made it ms pac only mame, vga monitor and all! barf
#2: my very first game was a ghosts n goblins in a venture cabinet... i later got the marquee and bezel (and a bunch of other stuff) from the same operator, and i should have restored the venture, instead i painted the cab, bought ghosts n goblins sideart and eventually sold or traded it away as gng
#1: [THE WORST] i cut out the panels on a galaxian cocktail for joystick clearance! this was one of the only destructive things i've done in this hobby, even the above i didnt hurt anything existing... but i hacked out the cabinet, terribly too... granted it was converted (or actually completely empty) when i got it but still...
i still have the galaxian, its been a tetris for the last 11 years, but i'm actually restoring it now and it will feel good to redeem this sin
- gwarble
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Forgive me because I have sinned.... When we had our shop back in the late 90s/early 00s, I scrapped out several games to add art to our warehouse walls. This was just the beginning of the collage.....We actually ran out of wall space after awhile. whoops.
well, its no big deal but i do feel a little guilty and i have a couple minutes to kill here anyways...
my first arcade game was a centipede cocktail. it was complete and traded to me as working when he stored it in a barn, several years later it was reasonably clean and complete but the trackballs needed a rebuild and i think there was an issue with the board, it almost worked right but there were some garbage characters on the screen. my plan was to restore it and sell or trade for a cabinet to MAME.
well, i lost my job and times got tight, and i realized either i would have a nonworking centipede and no MAME cab, or i could try to trade the centipede to someone for a decent looking upright. i had zero money to invest, and posted it on craigslist.
noone wanted to trade me anything, the only interest was in buying it! tempting because i didnt have any money, but i needed the cab for MAME or i knew that would never happen, so i refused to sell it, and said i would only trade.
within a couple hours there was somebody at my door with a jammatized early 80s atari cab, and i bid farewell to the centipede cocktail. i asked the guy what he was gonna do with it and he admitted he was gonna make a 48-in-1.
now i know centipede cocktails are not the rarest of gems, but still, it was a cosmetically decent cabinet in nearly working condition with all original hardware, and it makes me feel guilty i sent it away to be gutted. the inside was immaculate, and with a little TLC and some new CPOs it could have been fairly easily restored.
i mean, i guess at least now someone is maybe using it rather than sitting broken in my garage or someones barn slowly disintegrating, but i know thats bullshit, what i did was wrong in my own eyes. all i did was pass the dirty work onto someone else.
I COULD HAVE SAVED IT!!! (sob...)
also, i "cleaned" the word atari off the glass under the logo on one side...
my first arcade game was a centipede cocktail. it was complete and traded to me as working when he stored it in a barn, several years later it was reasonably clean and complete but the trackballs needed a rebuild and i think there was an issue with the board, it almost worked right but there were some garbage characters on the screen. my plan was to restore it and sell or trade for a cabinet to MAME.
well, i lost my job and times got tight, and i realized either i would have a nonworking centipede and no MAME cab, or i could try to trade the centipede to someone for a decent looking upright. i had zero money to invest, and posted it on craigslist.
noone wanted to trade me anything, the only interest was in buying it! tempting because i didnt have any money, but i needed the cab for MAME or i knew that would never happen, so i refused to sell it, and said i would only trade.
within a couple hours there was somebody at my door with a jammatized early 80s atari cab, and i bid farewell to the centipede cocktail. i asked the guy what he was gonna do with it and he admitted he was gonna make a 48-in-1.
now i know centipede cocktails are not the rarest of gems, but still, it was a cosmetically decent cabinet in nearly working condition with all original hardware, and it makes me feel guilty i sent it away to be gutted. the inside was immaculate, and with a little TLC and some new CPOs it could have been fairly easily restored.
i mean, i guess at least now someone is maybe using it rather than sitting broken in my garage or someones barn slowly disintegrating, but i know thats bullshit, what i did was wrong in my own eyes. all i did was pass the dirty work onto someone else.
I COULD HAVE SAVED IT!!! (sob...)
also, i "cleaned" the word atari off the glass under the logo on one side...
well, here's my sin.
my second game was a sea wolf. the boards were fried and i sent them off to be fixed at a relatively local place that ended up shutting down and keeping my shit. so i got a real cheap 486 @ a yardsale, put a compute monitor in it, and made it a dedicated mame sea wolf.
my second game was a sea wolf. the boards were fried and i sent them off to be fixed at a relatively local place that ended up shutting down and keeping my shit. so i got a real cheap 486 @ a yardsale, put a compute monitor in it, and made it a dedicated mame sea wolf.
This showed up as a Similar threads suggestion and some of these sinners are even more shocking 11 years later!
Necro bump so history doesn't repeat itself...
Necro bump so history doesn't repeat itself...
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I think I'm gonna be sick..Forgive me because I have sinned.... When we had our shop back in the late 90s/early 00s, I scrapped out several games to add art to our warehouse walls. This was just the beginning of the collage.....We actually ran out of wall space after awhile. whoops.
Onyx Jaguar
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*sees a discs of tron destroyed to make some weird hanging thing"
JESUS
JESUS
Onyx Jaguar
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I can now see why necros are so loathed
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I see Tighe and cleverlyj's names in this thread, wow, what a trip back.
(not to mention I created this thread 12 YEARS AGO, lol)
(not to mention I created this thread 12 YEARS AGO, lol)
j0novision
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Forgive me arcade gods for I have sinned. I once passed on a mint Amidar and The Glob for $300 each.
