Though purple isn't my thing I think the restoration is looking great. Nice arcade room BTW. You've got a great selection there plus a number of them are running systems so games can easily be swapped out.
I also see the corner of a pinball, what have you got there?
It's on old EM pinball machine called "
Big Ben". It doesn't look like much but everyone of my friends start obsessing over their high score. It's defiantly a "shooters" table. I've been upgrading my bulbs over to
LEDs recently for the hell of it.
Meh, that Narc looked like it was in shit condition.
If he saved the art and sticks he could send it off to someone who actually cared. Besides who wants a cab dedicated to Narc? I don't want a dedicated cab for some generic title (and I enjoy Narc!) when I could easily swap in and out a dozen other PCBs.
I mean granted there are some cabinets out there worth saving. Narc? Not so much.
I really dig the purple.
Given any thought to repainting some of your other cabs?
I've never been a fan of Narc and I think this cab was from LA or back East because the joysticks were rusted solid. I'm guessing from the ocean. That's why you see a screwdriver in the first picture. I had to use a hammer and the screwdriver to pound out the joystick shaft from the main body. It took me almost 45 minutes to remove the two joysticks. Oh, the control panel overlay was all cracked and ugly. Yeah this cab was 2 steps away from the dump.
Now as for a classic cab. I consider any arcade machine (mostly pre Jamma) with an original control scheme as worth to be left alone and not converted. For example: Tron, Tempest, Pac-Man, Centipede, Asteroids, hell even the Neo-Geo because of the LEDS credit display.
I have an old decent shaped Simpson cab (which will replace the blue cab) that I will convert since the repro decals are soo damn expensive to replace, since someone slashed the decals to shreds. I plan on painting that machine Ninja Turtle Green and put Turtles in Time in it. Then have each joystick colors after each turtle in the game.
My Street Fighter 3 cab and the Neo-Geo (which was one of my first conversion which I did a real sloppy job on) I plan on repainting.
Any ideas for the SF3 colors? Remember it has to go well with the yellow wall.
The MVS conversion I'll probably leave for last just because I'm always keeping my eyes open for a real Big Red four slot.
I still have an empty Mortal Kombat 3 cab that needs to be built from the ground up. The cool thing about that cab is that it came with 2 optical joysticks.
The MK3, Narc, Simpson and the blue X-men conversion were all junk cabs that I got for free. With some elbow grease and lots of room and time, you can turn the most dilapidated cabinet into a nice looking machine.
