This is why I am a collector:

Iggy

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While I got Lunar Lander and Paddle Battle back in '84.... the "collector" bug didn't really bite me until about 6 years ago. Until then, I believed that these monsters were way out of my price range to acquire. I've since learned different.

Today, an old friend of mine, whom I legitimately love as a brother, came by with his wife and kids. I won't get into the politics of "raising children", but his two(boy and girl) were apparently raised "old school", and were very polite. That said, they also enjoyed the shit out of my relatively small "home arcade". While their scores weren't the best, they kept playing, and had an absolute blast. It made me think back to how much I had enjoyed the games in an arcade, when they actually cost money to play. I only had 3 of the 4 running, but they kept bouncing around, playing one, then another, as kids will do.

Even his wife played a few, despite having very little experience playing them. They really seemed to enjoy the three I had running, and it really gave me incentive to rig Lunar Lander to play Asteroids. I have a control panel, as well as a PCB, but don't have a wiring harness. I do, however, have the pin-outs for both games, and think I can "engineer" what I have on hand to be able to play it.

A good time was had by all, and it really made me proud to be a collector. Here are a few pics from today's fun:

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This is what it is about, if you can enjoy your games or have others enjoy them then there nothing but gigantic dust collectors.
 
hells to the yes.

i like my arcade games, but there's something even more enjoyable seeing a bunch of folks go nuts and get bit by the arcade bug when they see a great array of old school arcade games.

we had a massive 4th of July party (60+ people) that we had to move indoors due to weather and everyone went nuts when we stood all the games up.

nicely done and +1

grrrrr tried to rep ...

"you gotta spread the rep blah blah blah" c'mon mods! cut us some slack!
 
I held a bachelor party for a friend and at the time I just had a few vids and my baby pac-man running... that and my huge collection of toys and other stuff had several of the guys saying "man you're a GOD". They were in absolute aw of my collection of stuff... "you're living the dream" Haha... it was flattering. I sort of forget how much stuff I have.

Plus my daughter plays the arcade games like every day so that's great. :)
 
This is what it's all about. Sharing the hobby with people that appreciate the games. Refreshing to see :)
 
We had a friend of ours over on Saturday, he brought his new girlfriend. She walked in the garage, looked around for a minute and whispered "goals". It was awesome.
 
Asteroids harnesses are cheap, like 10-20 dollars cheap. Its about a 15 minute reversible swap.
 
http://i.imgur.com/e6QgpjY.jpg

I've since cleaned and rearranged, it's probably still not up to your standards though. I may not have the amount of games nor as rare or cool as everyone else does but I'm proud of my meager Arcade and the direction it's going.

Don't let people throw you shit man..Everyone has to start somewhere, keep on keeping on.

I've got all my games/projects shoved in a storage space until I get their permanent home finished. Construction scheduled early next month. :p
 
http://i.imgur.com/e6QgpjY.jpg



I've since cleaned and rearranged, it's probably still not up to your standards though. I may not have the amount of games nor as rare or cool as everyone else does but I'm proud of my meager Arcade and the direction it's going.



Your collection looks great. Enjoy it and grow it if you want, leave it if you don't.
 
http://i.imgur.com/e6QgpjY.jpg

I've since cleaned and rearranged, it's probably still not up to your standards though. I may not have the amount of games nor as rare or cool as everyone else does but I'm proud of my meager Arcade and the direction it's going.

I was just busting your balls over the mess. Looks much better in that pic. I'm just lucky cause my wife has a slight case of OCD so our arcade and my mancave are always clean and arranged. Hell, our "junk drawer" is organized.
 
I was just busting your balls over the mess. Looks much better in that pic. I'm just lucky cause my wife has a slight case of OCD so our arcade and my mancave are always clean and arranged. Hell, our "junk drawer" is organized.

Sacrilege!! One does NOT organize a junk drawer!
 
OP, this is exactly what I love to see happen. I own plenty of old school consoles. I just recently got bit by the arcade bug. Don't get me wrong I love to play them myself but I really get a lot of joy out of watching others have fun with em.
 
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