I actually finished this machine several years ago, but reviewing my site I noticed I never talked about this on my site. I’m now listing this machine for sale on Craigslist and thought that it would be good to show some nice detail for any potential buyers. Also I didn’t want to lose my thoughts [...]

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Until now this website has been a blog about my classic arcade game collection. I’ve blogged quite a few stories of my arcade game restorations. One thing I haven’t talked about until now is my classic console collection. I actually started my video game collecting years ago before I owned a house big enough to [...]

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I completed a lot of restoration work on my Asteroids cocktail during my Christmas vacation. I had to order some parts because my cocktail needed quite a few items “rebuilt” to make sure they were working properly and ensure it would keep working for years to come. I also ordered some new buttons because the [...]

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I’ve had a busy summer this year. I was able to wrap up three projects before the weather turned cold. I already reported on the Time Pilot restoration, and shopping my Earthshaker pinball. The last game I finished up this summer was my Centipede that I’ve had in the garage for a few years. I [...]

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When I last updated this project, I had just started cleaning all of the parts that were removed from the playfield. I also just finished cleaning off the playfield itself. Now I just needed to reassemble everything and give it a try. There are a ton of pieces to this game, including a bunch of [...]

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As the weather was starting to cool off I wanted to finish up the final assembly of a couple games in the garage. I want to get the car in before the heavy frost so I don’t have to scrape windows every morning. The first game to finish up was Time Pilot. It was in [...]

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I’m not used to get a fully working game as a project. It’s nice to start with restoration tasks instead of repair tasks. Since the control panel was in the worst shape of anything on this game, it made a good starting point. Get the tough stuff out of the way so the rest of [...]

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It’s been a while since I posted progress on this restoration. I’ve actually finished up the restore by “shopping” the playfield. “Shopping” a pinball machine from what I understand is the process of cleaning, repairing, and waxing the playfield and its parts. Basically it is restoring the playfield. I hear the term quite a bit [...]

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I picked up a working Time Pilot on Craigslist last week. It was actually on CL for over a week before I could go get it. Anyone has tried to buy an arcade game on CL for a really good price knows that they usually don’t stay available that long. I was really lucky! I [...]

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It’s my luck that the first pinball machine I purchased needs to be torn down to clean and restore the playfield. It would have been nice to have a nice, complete machine to drop into the gameroom, but I suppose it’s a great way to learn about pinball machines. My machine had years worth of [...]

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