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Old News (1999) - November, 1999

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November 30, 1999
Wow! Where did November go? It seems like it just started yesterday, and now December is upon us, and in another 25 days, Christmas. So if you're thinking of sending me a Christmas present, now is the time to do it :-) Added a link for Empire Strikes Back.

Excellent work done on that so far! Check it out. I also added a lot of other links to game specific restorations. Several point to the same place, however, I wanted each game listed separately. I've had numerous requests on where to get Manuals and Instruction Cards so I have added two new categories on the left side for both of those.

If you know of other sites that are hosting these types of information, please let me know and I will add a link to them. I've also had a lot of questions concerning games in general, so I have added the "Arcade Primer" category. Under there you will find links to pages I have as well as other sites. If you have a good site that would fit this category please let me know. If you haven't visited "The Dot Eaters" site, you really should, this is an extremely well put together site that has tons of excellent information on it. The link to this site is on the left under "Arcade Primer" I've had a lot of questions on how to Identify PCBS, well now I have a link under "Arcade Primer" on how to identify boards.

It links to the BEST site for identifying PCB's. Its a link you should bookmark and keep around as long as your in the Arcade Collecting hobby. Among the other top questions I get are on how to fix games. This site isn't really about fixing games electronically speaking, however, it is an important part of restoring a game at times so I have created a section on Repairing Games. This will be mostly for links to other sites that can devote more space to that.

If you have links to sites for repairing games please let me know. I get a lot of email asking about MAME. I'm not against MAME, and I've used it before to see what games look like and its what rekindled the fire of video games in my past and got me into collecting. With that said, you will not find any links or information about MAME on this site. If you are looking for MAME stuff, use a search engine, there are only a couple million sites devoted to MAME, a lot of them good. As you can tell, I have added a TON of links.

If you have others please feel free to send me an email at bking@primenet.com and tell me what category you think they should go under. I try to make sure all my links are working, but I now have several hundred links to check, so if you find a broken one, please let me know so I can check it out and either fix it or remove it. Thanks!

November 28, 1999
Started work on my Metrocross Control Panel (See the link on the left under Photo Tutorials, called "Fixing Control Panels"). I also added more pictures to my "Anatomy of an Arcade Game" page.

November 21, 1999
Ok, I put up my Restoration page for Donkey Kong! Check out the pictures of what needs to be done. More as I get into this, first thing I am going to do is strip the game down parts wise, then I will strip the game down paint wise. I went to a yard sale and picked up a couple of glasses, one is a Pac Man Glass, and the other is a Ms Pac Man glass.

See the picture of the glasses. I am also looking for a Power Supply for a C64 that I have. I am also looking for Vic-20 Cartridges, and Cables from the C64 and Vic-20 to the 1541 Disk Drives. I have started collecting Computers that I used to own and also Game consoles (such as the Atari 2600). The addiction never stops :-) If you have any of the above and would be willing to part with them, please let me know.

November 14, 1999
Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. (Ok, so there weren't any rumors...that I know of ) If you sent me an email, I am trying to get to them if I can. If I missed your email, I apologize, I am going through about 200+ emails right now that have been neglected over the last 30 days.

If you didn't get an answer, (and don't get one in the next day) then send your question again. My "Test Rig" is up and running and I already want to change it. I need to think about how to make it easier to hook things up and I need to build something to give me an easier work space. October is now long over and I actually have some spare time again now that I am not helping with the Haunted House (See the Banner at the bottom of this page for a link to info on that). November has started out slow as I am trying to catch up with everything else that was also put on hold during that time. Hopefully this month I can start working on my new Donkey Kong cabinet and converting my Current Donkey Kong cabinet to Donkey Kong Jr.

The cabinet is going to require a whole new paint job from the ground up. That should be interesting. Since the game was converted from Donkey Kong (its an actual Donkey Kong Cab) to a JAMMA cab I will need to build a new wiring harness. Luckily, they converted it to a Vertical JAMMA cab so the Monitor is already mounted in the correct direction. Since I am going to be doing that, I need a couple of parts, if anyone can help out here, please email me.

I will need the Metal bar used to hold the PCB's in place (Donkey Kong didn't have the cage). Many Thanks goes to Donald Gesswin for sending me the connector that connects the two PCB's on my Donkey Kong Jr.! Thank you! I would also like to thank Dan Gooch for selling me an absolutely beautiful Donkey Kong Jr.

Front Glass! I sold my Space Shuttle Pinball, it was taking up too much room and I didn't have the time to work on it. I finally broke 100,000 points on Stargate the other day!! I'm able to do about 2 warps then I proceed to getting my ass kicked. Its probably the most played game right now in my collection.

Its made me take a new approach to restoring my games as well. I am going to work on getting them up and running, then worry about the art work since that seems to be my Achilles heal at this point. There will be exceptions like Donkey Kong where I don't have any art for it anyway (or an easy way to reproduce it) . I will be dealing with the cosmetics of the cabinet and the operation of the games first, once I find a good way to reproduce the side art and kick panel art, then I will disassemble the games again, paint them and then re-assemble them.

This way I can enjoy playing the games as I have with Stargate. If you are going to repro Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr Side Art, drop me an email as I would like a set as well. I also picked up a Mr.Do's Castle PCB (Don't know if it works yet...need to work on that) and a Ghosts & Goblins PCB (Sound Problem). I plan on starting on the Donkey Kong/Donkey Kong Jr.restoration this week, so as I get something done on it, I will put information up here. If you haven't looked at this site, http://www.enteract.com/~twisnion/ then you should take a peek!

Its for Video Game Parts Reproductions. Some really cool stuff on there. I'm looking for more sites like this! Looking for more reproduction Art? Check out the Arcade Shop!

Lots of really cool reproduction stuff on there. I also added a link for Pinball Restorations. Visit the PinHeadz site. Updated a ton of links, and added new ones. FabFan finally has a separate page for the Overlays! Spies changed a little bit, if you are looking for the Manuals and such, you need to go to http://www.spies.com/arcade/ instead of www.spies.com .

If you're still looking for manuals and can't find them, try ftp.stormaster.com in the /pub/RGVAC-Arcade directory. I would also like to thank the 21,000+ visitors to my site! Well, thats it for now...

November 14, 1999
Many thanks to Ernie for catching the error on the Checking Florescent Lights Tip! It should have read 100 VAC and not 100 VDC. The page has been updated.

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