Zoma
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When I was just a wee lad, my father would take me off into some of the roughest toughest bars in San Antonio, TX to play through The Simpsons arcade game. I have fond memories of the first time we got past the graveyard stage, the first time we got to the kabuki warrior boss and ended up running out of quarters, the time we finally ended up beating the game... and now, I finally own this beast!
My personal moving crew posing with the two cabs we scored. $100 for the both of em, both had been sitting in storage for years and the owner's wife was fed up with his dreams of building a MAME machine. I was convinced that neither would work, but we were surprised to find...
After popping in the Simpsons board I bought (first purchase from a KLOV member!) the cab popped right on! Wow! I can't even begin to express how excited we were. Our first step was getting artwork for the control panel and the marquee. After striking out at multiple places due to "copyright infringement" we found a local printing place that would print artwork for us.
These are my quality testers. They approved this one, naturally.
From the joysticks/buttons I'm suspicious that this thing was a TMNT cab in a previous life before being changed to the Skins Golf Game that it was when we picked it up. Of course, someone could've just swapped those sticks in so I can't say for sure. We weren't too happy with how the marquee's backlighting was working out. The owner had just put in a single lightbulb instead of a florescent light, so we went out of our way to find cheap florescent fixtures. Of course, pictures do it no justice, but it looks far far better now.
My personal moving crew posing with the two cabs we scored. $100 for the both of em, both had been sitting in storage for years and the owner's wife was fed up with his dreams of building a MAME machine. I was convinced that neither would work, but we were surprised to find...
After popping in the Simpsons board I bought (first purchase from a KLOV member!) the cab popped right on! Wow! I can't even begin to express how excited we were. Our first step was getting artwork for the control panel and the marquee. After striking out at multiple places due to "copyright infringement" we found a local printing place that would print artwork for us.
These are my quality testers. They approved this one, naturally.
From the joysticks/buttons I'm suspicious that this thing was a TMNT cab in a previous life before being changed to the Skins Golf Game that it was when we picked it up. Of course, someone could've just swapped those sticks in so I can't say for sure. We weren't too happy with how the marquee's backlighting was working out. The owner had just put in a single lightbulb instead of a florescent light, so we went out of our way to find cheap florescent fixtures. Of course, pictures do it no justice, but it looks far far better now.



