The Glob NOS Conversion Kit Found!

Posted November 3, 2008

A member of the arcade collecting community turned up a real gem this weekend at an old operator’s warehouse, a complete NOS (New Old Stock) conversion kit. I have ties to this game now since I have vectorized most of the Glob artwork and someday will finish designing custom kickplate artwork for the game as well. If you haven’t ever played Glob before, it is a really fun game. The artwork is ok, here’s a photo of the pieces of the NOS kit.

I’ve never seen a Glob overlay

I had a hard enough time drumming up a high resolution image of both the bezel and the marquee, I didn’t even know that a control panel overlay for a Glob conversion existed.

I worked with Preston on the Gunsmoke control panel artwork reproductions, hopefully I can get some scans of the artwork from him. I would love to have all the pieces to help me accurately get ideas to design the kickplate artwork.

I would guess that this kit is worth at least $200 to the right individual, and I know at least 2 other interested people, not including the interest that has been indicated on the forums already. But Preston has said he’ll hang onto it, and he should. A complete NOS Glob conversion kit doesn’t come up very often, with two pieces of sideart, a bezel, a marquee, a control panel overlay and other pieces this is a unique find that I wouldn’t be able to put a price on myself. If this Glob kit was mine, I would never sell it the money just isn’t worth it.

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Comments

NoCashValue
November 3, 2008

Hehehe. I feel famous. Great work on the vector stuff for the Glob you have already done. I had no idea you had worked on that stuff.

Yeah, you’re right about the money not being enough. I mean, if it sold for $200, that’d be great and all, but I can get another $200 sometime. I doubt I’d ever find another unused Glob kit!

I’d be happy to do whatever I can to help you finish your project.

Jeff Rothe
November 12, 2008

Famous, funny indeed

Thanks for the scans so far of the control panel overlay. If and when you get your arcade warehouse bulk buy at a place where things settle down and you can scan the other portion, great. If not, that’s fine too, I understand.

Funny that this kit came up so recently, and then a mention of a ‘Super Glob conversion kit‘ by Shawn at Klov. I didn’t understand from his thread if he meant the cab with the artwork itself, or a whole separate kit.

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