What is the past history of your game(s)?

[SaminVA]

The story of most of my games are on my web site.
http://members.cox.net/severlander/index.html
http://members.cox.net/severlander/my_video_games.html
http://members.cox.net/samsarcade/my_video_game_projects.html
http://members.cox.net/severlander/my_pinball_game_s.html
http://members.cox.net/samsarcade/my_pinball_game_projects.html
The last couple of games I got I haven't added to my web site yet but here 's the info
I found my Pacman this past March for $110.00 delivered and it had an extra Pacman board in the bottom of the cabinet. Here's the link to the original post
http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=124712
It was in an Auto Parts store that had gone out of business which was right next to Anna's Italian restaurant. The restaurant owner was the game owner and it was in the pizza restaurant sense it was new. Anna's Italian restaurant is also in my hometown of Hampton Virginia.
The game I got before the Pacman was my Star Trek Voyager cockpit which was last year, September 2009.
I already had a NOS Star Trek Voyager kit I bought back in 2004 still new in the box. The plain was to find a cabinet with at least a 25" med Res monitor and convert it with the kit. I did find a game to convert at the arcade game auction in Richmond Virginia back in October 2007 but the game was a dedicated Virtua Cop 2 and it was in too good condition to convert so when I found the Star Trek Voyager cockpit on Ebay that was non working I figured I could put my kit in it and get it running as long as the monitor was good or repairable. So I won the auction and found someone to deliver it to me. Turns out the game arrived on my Birthday September 22 2009. The game had a bad power supply, was missing one gun and needed a cap kit but the game is up and running and I did not have to use my kit. The guy I got the game from told me it came from a local Pizza joint. Here is what he wrote me about the game.

The game system came from Mr. Gatti's pizza in Wise, Virginia. I used to play it when I was younger myself. Was up there eating one day and watched them roll it outside. I asked the manager if they were throwing it away and asked if they mind holding it while I come back to pick it up.. Got it home and looked at it and hooked it up but only noticed an orange glow in the tv tubes in the back.. So I was thinking it was proble the power supply with the computer system. But thats all the history I have on this system.. Hope you have good luck getting it back to working condition. Enjoy..

That's all for now.

 

[Les Manley]

I also know a little history on my former Journey upright. A guy that managed a store I did business with knew I liked arcade games. He tells me I could have the one in his basement if I come pick it up. They were remodeling and he wanted it gone. I didn't even ask what it was, I just went there and got it. Turns out it was a Journey upright in great shape. The guy said it came with the house when he bought it years ago and that the house belonged to a big car dealership owner before. Could have formerly been Denny Hecker's Journey. He always had the nicest stuff, which is evident now with all the foreclosure auctions going on for his off the wall stuff, like a Cadillac Escalade golf cart and vehicles with 10 miles on them.

 

[scottz29]

Pole Position II - HUO game, apparently came from a gentleman's house who lived in Palm Springs, CA (supposedly next door to Bob Hope). Game was added by interior decorator as part of a house remodeling project in the 80's. Later given to his gay lawyer nephew, who sold it to me for $100. Mint condition, no monitor burn, RF board still attached.

Rowe BC-20 change machine - Came from Total Sports, a local bar/sports complex in town. Was sold to me non-working, locked, with no key for $75. A locksmith buddy picked the lock, a burned out bulb fixed the machine, and let's just say the contents of the bill hopper paid for the machine several times over! Machine has had more than a quarter-million bills run through it, so chances are I may have used that machine when I was younger!

 

[cwales]

MY Galaga and Donkey Kong are the very machines I grew up playing almost every day after school for a good 6 or so years.

I was visiting my parents in the small town I grew up in, went for a walk and the bowling alley had them out at the curb. I've had them in storage for years and just recently fixed them. Like 8 years ago when I first got them, there was really no info online about how to repair them and I was clueless. Galaga played blind and I got it running at the cost of $0 with some help from people at coinopspace.com, the Donkey Kong needed a power supply and cap kit and it works perfect. Both are in great shape and happily get lots of play from people in my store.

 

[louisurfer]

Story of my Star Wars from Disneyland.

http://lousarcade.com/STARWARSDL.html

I only wish I had the Indiana Jones pinball from there and maybe one of 50 original Trons they had back in the early 80's.