Archive for August, 2007
I wish weekend sleeping-in really was more over-rated
The dog is getting us prepped for having children. Granted, it’s not the middle of the night and not too early, but Nokes was up and needing to go out about 5:30 this morning. Fortunately he went back to sleep and allowed us to do so until the wicked crazy late hour of 7:00 am. Didn’t matter, we were getting up anyway.
It was cool outside, so Sarah went out and chopped down all of our fun little trees growing out of the base of the fence. I went for a run.
I am going over to Rater’s house this morning to borrow their vehicle and trailer and going up to Fort Wayne with it. I am trading one arcade machine that should only need a new motherboard for four almost empty cabinets.
When I got to their house, I was a little early, and I needed it. I have borrowed their vehicle two other times over the last year, and I don’t think I have ever put in the hitch. Well, it is rusted out on the vehicle, and it doesn’t help apparently when you put it in with the wrong ball up. But, from after some humorous antics from an onlookers standpoint I am sure, we got things squared away and I was ready to roll.
I came home and got my Frenzy game and Sarah was great to help me take it apart some and rope it down. The original plan was to get up early enough to get on the road and get to Fort Wayne by 11:00. Well, it was about 10:10 and I knew that wouldn’t happen. I did make decent time I guess, with a trailer on back of me, and arrived just after noon.
First Tim and I switched cabinets in the trailer, and then we went inside Pizza Hut and had some lunch. I brought my laptop with me, with my scanner, and was planning on scanner in some arcade pieces that Tim had brought at my request. Another collector had asked me to get some images for him, and I thought it would be a nice favor.
We had some lunch, and it was taking me a really long time. I would have had to make Tim wait another hour plus after we were done, so I decided to just take as many flat photos as I could of the bezels and marquees that he had.
The trip back home wasn’t nearly as gripping as the trip last year from Nashville. I think it is a good idea to just leave the tarp out, all it can give you is textbook heart failure. I did hit a brief sprinkle, but nothing to be worried about for the wood.
I got home just after 4, and got to see a piece of the Tigers game. That was the original idea, get home to see the Tigers play the Yankees on Fox, but it barely happened.
Both Sarah and I returned the trailer, and then we stopped at Jeff and Sarah’s to let out their dog.
When we got home, we had some dinner and chilled for the rest of the night. Sarah read her book, I think she is on Prince Caspian. She had a busy day too, before I forget. She cleaned the whole house, gave Nokes a bath, and went up to school for alter guild setup.
I finished off the night working on the laptop, adding images to Rotheblog of what I got today, emailing out the scans I took, posting one of the cabinets for sale, and responding to emails etc. etc. We got to bed around 11:30.
More Tetris Photos
In trying to figure out what or how I am going to mount a 19″ monitor in the dynamo Tetris cabinet, here are some more photos of the front and the back directly on.
Sega’s Pengo Artwork
I can remember playing Pengo in the mid 80’s on an early IBM computer. This computer was a huge part of my childhood, friend’s of my parents owned it and their son was a burgeoning computer nerd. He always had different games loaded on it, including some popular, to be, arcade classic’s like Sega’s Pengo. I could play Pengo for hours, so until I got it in late summer of 2006, I had never actually played Pengo as an upright machine.
I would like to build up my library of exclusively owned vector artwork of games I like, artwork I like, and rarity. I felt like the Pengo sideart fell into all of those categories, and there is some demand out there for Pengo reproduction artwork in case I want to go through the process of printing.
Dynamo Tetris Cabinet takes a 25″ monitor?
That would change things for me a little bit. I had no idea until I got to looking at it yesterday and thought, there is no way I can just put a 19″ raster arcade monitor into this Tetris. I did some measuring and asked Tim, and sure enough, I would need to do some woodworking or something else to mount the monitor I have in this cabinet.
So, I have to ask myself, is the work worth it? It is a Jamma cabinet, I looked at that yesterday, so that is cool for a multi-use kind of situation, but do I want to do all the work on this game to get a monitor to mount? Mind you, I feel like there would need to be some engineering because of the weight of the monitor in the cabinet, mounted to only wood in this case (currently), and then what? I sell the game? I don’t want to keep space just for a Tetris, I would rather have a Playchoice 10 for that.
I have to think about it really good. Maybe I can sell that one two, but it is a lot more unlikely.
Professor Pac-man Control Panel Reproductions Finished!
My first reproduction work that has physically been made! The Professor Pac-man control panel overlays came in, and Rick sent me some photos. They are at an extreme angle, but that is good for obvious reasons for the two of us and it shows anyway how cool they look. Check out one of them below.
Circus Charlie Artwork Update
Well, Brian Koening has been pushing on the forums to see if the party who had the Circus Charlie sideart reproduction was serious or not. But as of right now, things have come to a halt. I haven’t followed up just yet on photos, I may try to do that this week and see what I get.
If you want to read some of the forum threads, here is the follow up thread on KLOV and the original thread on KLOV about the Circus Charlie Sideart.
More Xevious Artwork Revealed
I had the rest of the can of Goof Off, and a bunch of curiosity, so I worked more on scraping off the black paint on the Xevious today.
The can is gone now, so without a real rush I will probably hold off on buying another can until I get through some of the other fixes I have to do.
But it looks good. I just have a feeling that getting the black off the white artwork on this Xevious is going to be harder than the Dig Dug.
