By that logic; there are zero spare 6100s since they all came within existing cabinets. I sure hope you never neck a tube; you'd never be able to replace it and have to sit on a perfectly acceptable cab with no monitor forever.

Sorry dude... that is a logical fallacy.

Yes this thread is now becoming some terrible circular logic.

Agreed.

ArcRevival is the true KLOV Puppet Master.

Non sequitur.

Sorry can't help myself. :)
 
By that logic; there are zero spare 6100s since they all came within existing cabinets. I sure hope you never neck a tube; you'd never be able to replace it and have to sit on a perfectly acceptable cab with no monitor forever.

Exactly. Some games die so that others may live. It's just reality.

Not restoring a game because you can't find 100% original parts is just silly.

Again, we are talking about trashed cabinets here.
 
... one less Space Duel or Gravitar cabinet that's now lost forever and won't be restored, so what???...

I personally prefer SD over MH any day. I think MH is overrated AF and SD is more fun to play.

So, THATS what.
 
Again, we are talking about trashed cabinets here.

No, that is a distractional argument AND it is false on its face.

The assertion is that there is somehow a 1:1 match between cabinets that are beyond repair and new repro cabinets, and that this match does not negatively impact the rate at which original cabinets are made whole. This assertion is not based in reality.
 
So do you want to sell me that 6100 from your repro cab so I can bring an original Tempest back to life? Probably not right? Arc Revival's point is made.



That's not an available 6100. That's a 6100 in a perfectly acceptable cab.

Put together a new monitor from Fred's kit.

Or build a new Amplifone from Dezbaz repro boards. Jason Kopp rewinds yokes.
 
Be a hero, not a zero.

FWIW, my repro cabinets have repro metal; even repro wiring harnesses, and repro PCBs, and repro artwork, and ... the only item not repro is likely the monitor (K6100s).

You shall henceforth be known as ReproVC.
So take off eh.
 
I like when guys make Reproduction Vector Cabinets, and pull 6100's out of old, beat up cabinets that no longer have any harness or PCB in them.
!

I always find old beat up vectors with everything but the monitor missing..

Said no one ever.


I really wanna believe you are trolling but deep down I think you are serious. A harness yanked out before a vector monitor....the harness is gone and the monitor is still there .... in a vector...color vector no less...

There are no words.
 
What's a LOT more common to find is color vectors (like Star Wars) with 6100s in them that OPs yanked out of Tempests and Space Duels when the original Amplifone (with a dead red) died and was trashed. Then the donor Tempest got turned into an Arkanoid, and the Space Duel sat in the warehouse without a monitor.

So yeah, by the time people started collecting vectors, there was already a shortage of *monitors*, not cabinets.

But I'll tell you one thing—there's absolutely no shortage of hipster arcade dudes with OCD who want to buy 'perfect' reproduction vector cabs.
 
Exactly. Some games die so that others may live. It's just reality.

Not restoring a game because you can't find 100% original parts is just silly.

Again, we are talking about trashed cabinets here.

Actually, it's more like classics die so a repro can live.

Making a new game from scratch isn't restoring anything, it's making a new game from scratch.

In this case we aren't talking about trashed cabinets, we are talking about perfectly good cabinets that need monitors , monitors that are instead going into games being built from scratch.

Tempests will be the new Space Duels.
 
braggarts hate confronting their own duplicity

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You can pretty much rest 100% assured that more than one vintage original vector game will go without a monitor because the monitor that would have ended up in it, ended up in a repro instead.

Therefore, repro vector cabs WILL be making original vector cabs sad, to one extent or another. I don't think there is any arguing this point. And therefore I stand with Arc.

I will argue this point as I disagree totally.

Like someone mentioned, most of these cabs are long gone and only the monitors, boards, and other misc parts are still here.

I don't see a reason to not use them in a repro cab.

There are more Quantum cabs on this earth now that 5 years ago. How can that be a bad thing for arcade collectors?

Think of all the original parts that are NOT being used because there are no cabs to put them in.
 
I will argue this point as I disagree totally.

Like someone mentioned, most of these cabs are long gone and only the monitors, boards, and other misc parts are still here.

I don't see a reason to not use them in a repro cab.

There are more Quantum cabs on this earth now that 5 years ago. How can that be a bad thing for arcade collectors?

Think of all the original parts that are NOT being used because there are no cabs to put them in.

Quantum is so over hyped. Not every collector cares about Quantum, even less care about fake ones. Very few people can remember actually playing Quantum in the arcades.

It was hard enough to find vectors for the cabinets that needed them before the repros came. This isn't about where the monitors came from, it's about the original classics that still need them.
 
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