Where I got it – The R-Type

I picked up a R-Type arcade machine in the dead row at the Indianapolis USAmusements auction in October of 2006. There was a note on the cabinet that said “works, needs monitor”. That is pretty risky to just believe, but I waited just in case. I couldn’t look inside of the cabinet, but when the R-Type came up for bid it didn’t matter. The arcade machine went for a whopping $25, and I figured at the very least I could make that money back if it didn’t work.

Justin was down …

Cars (2006)

Who’s Voice is in it

Owen Wilson, Paul Newman, Bonnie Hunt, Larry the Cable Guy

What was good

As you can tell from the rating everything. But what really struck me was how realistic things were. The reflections on the surfaces and the backdrops, it is all just so breaktaking. They take the best pieces of the characters and animate them in such a way to give them more depth, and giving just enough human qualities to non human

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Elizabethtown (2005)

Who’s in it

Kirsten Dunst, Orlando Bloom, Alec Baldwin, Susan Sarandon, Jessica Biel

What was good

The first half hour to forty five minutes of the movie. It was intriguing, quirky, and seemed to be engaging. Bloom created this terrible shoe that bombed and lost his company an astounding 972 million dollars. Then, on the same day, his dad died. There were even funny parts in his interactions with his boss (Baldwin).

What sucked

Pretty much everything else. He

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Found one Jr. Pac-man owner with Sideart

I did find one collector online on a prominent collecting site who lives out east named Richard Ford, and who had posted one photo of his Jr. Pac-man machine. I knew he had the original with sideart in tact, but at this time I wasn’t sure that I was going to pursue getting a copy of the sideart.