Over a year and a half ago, I set my high score in Donkey Kong at 298,200. I was SO close to 300K, but didn’t hit it. I haven’t been able to get close to that score at all since then. I took some time off from playing it because

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This week I did a few minor repairs to my Frogger while I was on vacation. I had a few parts I recently purchased from Bob Roberts to install, so I took a few hours this week to get some stuff accomplished.

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Last summer I found out on the KLOV Arcade Forums that Hallmark was creating a Pac-Man ornament for their Keepsake Ornaments Collection that season. After waiting patiently I picked one up. This year I bought the second ornament in the series – Galaga. They are great …

I was flipping through some photos I took recently and thought I could spend a few minutes showing off a couple test devices that I use to help figure out problems with my games. I have two devices that I put together that are useful in testing both PCB …

Last week I picked up a decent Frogger upright from Craigslist. I purchased it not working. The screen did come up solid green when I first turned it on, but now …

Now that the busy summer is over, it’s time to try to finish up some of my Centipede work before Winter. I’d like to get this game down into the gameroom before it gets too cold to work on it in the garage.
The first thing I needed to do was …

Just received a message recently from my friend Jodey Jansen about his new Donkey Kong high score. Jodey is another arcade game collector in my area, and the two of us have been pushing each other to get better at playing Donkey Kong. We’ve been back and forth, …

I’ve been a bit too busy lately with spring activities to post this earlier, but I bought a couple classic Atari arcade games a few weeks ago. I picked up a Centipede and a Crystal Castles! Found these on Craigslist locally. I was really surprised that they …

This time it was for Donkey Kong Jr. DKJr is way harder than Donkey Kong, and I really stink at it. DKJr was another game that Billy Mitchell was a long time record holder for, until he was beat last August by a guy named Ike

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This past weekend I just received some exciting news from Jeff Rothe of Coinopspace.com. COSP is going to host a live chat with Steve Wiebe. Steve is the Donkey Kong player profiled in the movie King of Kong. It is …