I distinctly remember walking into the Castles N' Coasters arcade in Phoenix, AZ, back in 1991 (So I would have been 10 or 11 at the time), and watching a line of kids playing a game I had never seen before. It was called Time Traveler. I walked up to it, saw the images, and my brain melted.
When I started collecting arcade games, I always kept that game in the back of my mind. Fast forward to last week, when Stuffmonger listed a Holosseum in the "for sale" section for fifty bucks. After several hours of debate, I decided to pull the trigger. My plan is to ultimately convert it to a Time Traveler.
Here's a pic of the game from Stuffmonger's thread:
With the help of Stuffmonger and KingOfTron (who came along for the ride), we loaded it up in the truck. The formica was loose in several places, so I shrink-wrapped the cabinet to keep it from flying apart on the freeway:
I got it home and gave it a good cleaning with a Magic Eraser. As you can see here, the formica on the front panel was almost completely gone:
It was also partially missing on the top of the cab, but luckily the artwork was still intact:
Continued in next post...
When I started collecting arcade games, I always kept that game in the back of my mind. Fast forward to last week, when Stuffmonger listed a Holosseum in the "for sale" section for fifty bucks. After several hours of debate, I decided to pull the trigger. My plan is to ultimately convert it to a Time Traveler.
Here's a pic of the game from Stuffmonger's thread:
With the help of Stuffmonger and KingOfTron (who came along for the ride), we loaded it up in the truck. The formica was loose in several places, so I shrink-wrapped the cabinet to keep it from flying apart on the freeway:
I got it home and gave it a good cleaning with a Magic Eraser. As you can see here, the formica on the front panel was almost completely gone:
It was also partially missing on the top of the cab, but luckily the artwork was still intact:
Continued in next post...



