My R-Type buttons stopped working.

The controls for the release of the protector for the R-Type ship had mysteriously stopped working. One day a couple of weeks back I turned the machine on and they weren’t working.

Justin took a look at them, it was weird, both black buttons just stopped making connections and closing the circuit. He was up late, so after he figured out what the problem was he just adjusted them and they were fine. I had a similar problem with the fire right after I got the game, I was surprised to …

Stripping the Pac-man cabinet

Even though it was very sad, tonight we stripped the old Pac-man cabinet I had sitting in the garage. Justin was down and he brought with him all of the guts from the Mr. Do I had bought last November.

Now, this Mr. Do was the most hideous thing you had ever seen. It was in an old Space Duel cabinet with chewed up sides, the joystick was sunken in, the monitor didn’t even have a frame so the chassis was attached directly to the wood, etc. etc. I ended up …

Working on Mr. Do! clown on bezel

Yesterday I worked a good deal on the clown from the bezel as well as the crazy looking winged guy. Still thinking they won’t be finished until next weekend.

April 19, 2007

Today at lunch Nokes was pretty excited. At one point he jumped off the top step at the door onto the deck, and surprisingly landed just fine. He also got into a little bit of a fight with the Rose bush, but sniffing and licking made him realize that the bush would win every time. He dashed around the side and jumped onto the deck.

April 19th, 2007

Someone wants the cab, for $15 I should hope so, it is a deal. I am so happy, and it is a load off. I had Justin strip all of the parts yesterday in prep for brining them down. I finally decided to put the parts in either the Robotron cabinet I have, or the empty Pac-man. I would strip the paint and clean either one of them before I did so, but either was a better option in terms of looks than the one we had.

Some History on Atari’s Agent X

I have met one owner of an Agent X arcade game, although I didn’t know anything about it when I met him, nor did I even see the game during my visit. It wasn’t until successive conversions later that I found out about Agent X’s rarity.

This is what Joe had to say about Agent X, recalling as best he could the history of the game

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Finished first piece of artwork for Mr. Do!

Finally getting a chance to post an image of the Wind Up Mr. Do character that I got to trace last week.

Weird looking guy, but hey, I like the game and it is the only real sideart I know of. Other characters are cooler looking, I may get to them next week.