…maybe I’ll find one at a garage sale this morning…  hmm…

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As anyone who reads my website updates knows, I am a huge Donkey Kong fan. I’m also a fan of the recent movie “The King of Kong: a Fistful of Quarters”. The movie, presented as a documentary but not truly “accurate”, made a fun rivalry between Billy Mitchell and Steve Wiebe. The movie quickly became [...]

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I had some really nice progress on my Centipede this week. I picked up a Centipede cabinet a couple years ago. It was fully working, but not in great shape. The cabinet had some damage along the front marquee area on the sides and there was some minor swelling around the t-molding. That wasn’t even [...]

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Joust is one of the first arcade games in my collection, and still one of my favorites. I’ve been playing Joust since the day it hit the arcades back in 1982. Back in the 80′s arcade games could be found everywhere. I actually played it regularly in my hometown Radio Shack store. They had four [...]

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This week I just decided that I will be attending the International Video Game Hall of Fame “Big Bang” event next month. The IVGHOF is a new organization based in Ottumwa, Iowa. The goal of the IVGHOF is to house a museum of every arcade game ever made, and a Hall of Fame of gamers [...]

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To follow up my post on finishing up my Crystal Castles, I wanted to show how to clean up a really nasty, dirty cabinet. When I got the Crystal Castles, it was sitting in a barn and was filthy. Dirt was caked on from over 20 years of use. The control panel was especially dirty [...]

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Just wanted to drop in a quick post to announce that there is a fully-working Crystal Castles now in the gameroom. I had the board repaired after several attempts to do so myself. I also spent a ton of time cleaning up the cabinet so it can be placed in the arcade. I plan to [...]

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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 I was burning out. Well, [...]

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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. First, I needed to install a cap kit. The monitor picture was fuzzy [...]

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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 ornaments, with marquees that light up and authentic game [...]

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