Anyone here collect Arcade Machines or Pinball?

[twistedsymphony]

Some of you may have heard me mention that I used to work in an arcade repairing machines. Ever since I was old enough to know what an arcade was I've loved them and a lot of my all-time favorite games are arcade games...

Anyway I managed to acquire a few machines that were retired from the arcade I worked at...
I have an original Double Dragon cabinet that I converted to Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (completely reversible). I've also got an original "Ring King" machine that I accidentally broken the monitor on, that's just been sitting in storage.

I used to have an original Contra cabinet too but I gave that to a friend and sadly he gave it to a frat house when he decided it took up too much space (I wish I had got it back from him).

I just picked up an old Original Killer Instinct 2 cabinet, it's got a monitor but no other internals because this poor thing was converted to a "turkey hunter cabinet. I plan on fully restoring it.




I'm curious if anyone else has any machines of their own...

[MortalMonday]

Sweet. Lets see pics of the cabinet when she's out in the open!
I would love to own an arcade, but I have no space for that sadly.

[imironmann]

Yes must see some pictures of that!

I'd like to get my hands on a working Double Dragon. I remember when I was a little kid my mom would take me with her to the Kroger. I hated grocery shopping. Then one day our Kroger got one of these. I think I was about 10 at the time. While she shopped I would play and play and play it. I use to ask mom every day if she needed to go shopping. If we were going I had to run around the house collecting every quarter I could find. I'm sure I've paid for at least one of these one quarter at a time.

I've always been a fan of pinball. Two machines I'd like to have the most are Theatre of Magic and Medieval Madness. Anyone got a spare $20,000 to help me out?

[twistedsymphony]

Theater of Magic is AWESOME! That was one of my favorite machines to play when I worked at the arcade.

I decided to do a quick unboxing video of the machine:


^it's still uploading, it should be done in a half hour or so.

[imironmann]

Its really sad. You almost never see pinball anywhere anymore.

Maybe at a random bar or some mom n pop store.

I guess arcades are pretty much gone except for Dave and Busters or tourist traps.

[Gazereths]

I really like the Killer Instinct box, you'll have to keep us updated with the restoration, having that KI music blasting from it will be sweet! Do you have a room full of these old skool machines Twisted? Got any pics?

I'd really love one of these Star Wars pinball machines, I remember playing it constantly when I was on holiday in France as a kid....God only knows how many Francs I pumped into it. Sadly I don't have a few grand to spare or the room to house it.......A man can dream though




Next on the dream list would be a Metal Gear Arcade machine, not sure if these were ever even released though, if they were it was only in Japan:

[vhal_x]

I want to collect arcade cabinets, but unfortunately our current house is tiny and severely lacking in space as it is, without adding those to the collection.

We hope to buy a house within the next 5-10 years (although highly doubt it'll happen ) so we'd probably start then as we plan on getting a 3-4 bedroom house: one room for us, one room for AJ - we're don't want any more kids, one room for the collection and one room for spare, or if the collection room is too crowded, the arcade stuff would go in the spare room.

Until then, CEs will have to do xx

[comaamen86]

ah thats what the guvnor of the site looks like

nice, if i dont have the space nor money to own an arcade machine
if i won the lotto i would build me own arcade just for me, like when cartman got a theme park

if i had to pick one machine though it would be this



loved that game so much on dreamcast was even better in arcade, such an awesome rig could just sit in it drinking beer, smoking and driving virtual trucks all day

[kittychloe]

I would love to get some, not that rich im afraid, i do intend to irriversably mod my skill tester (not that it would be hard to reverse).. Gonna make it match the mario pinball machine..

I would like to get a final fight and 4 player ninja turtles machine, and possibly a donkey kong might limited it at those 3 and the mario pinball

Anything you can teach about fixing them over the internet? Or maybe some how to restoration videos?

[kittychloe]

Also any idea what to do to fix these twisted?




I think they are missing the monitor sections though