ARCADE GAME COLLECTION

I have only had 3 games in my life and 2 are still with me.

My first was a 4 player cocktail pong that I purchased from a junkyard in Colorado when I was in collage. It was modified with a video in for the monitor and we watched the news on it in the living room between games.

The second was a BattleZone that a friend gave me. My father had it repaired and all the graphics on the cabinet replaced. It is gorgeous. He is keeping it in his game room. I fly out and visit it (and him) sometimes. Now I will have to find another excuse to visit him because I brought it back with me on my last trip. It has been sitting pretty much unused in his game room so I added it to mine. It currently needs a diode in the HV section of the monitor. Other than that is is very nice.

I shipped it from Maryland via Forward Air. Shipping for the Game and the rest of the junk shown (800 lbs) was just over $300. Pretty good deal and fast service also. I highly recommend them. The guys at Ajax Amusements in Herndon packaged it for me. I highly recommend them also. They have a nice showroom and some fine games. Check them out.

Here is the game loaded into my van after I picked it up at SFO and sitting in its new home in the game lab at work.

 

 

The third game is a SFIIce that I bought at a garage sale for $25. It is in pretty good shape overall but the monitor was dead. I took the monitor to a TV repair shop in the hopes that it will be something simple. The monitor is a Hantarex Polo 25". I was able to find the manual and schematic on the web.

Here are the pictures of the cabinet as it was when I bought it.

Detail of the graphics

Controls and Control wiring
The Mainboard and controls slide out of the cabinet for ease of repair.

Game PCB and Powersupply

The game is standard JAMMA harness with a 25" Horizontal monitor.
I will be adding a few more games to it with a PCB switcher in the future.
Sadly most of the games I really like are pre-jamma. ;)

The TV place was unable to repair the monitor so I bought a new
Wells-Gardner to replace it. I will post pictures when it arrives.

The monitor is in. I bought it directly from Wells-Gardner for about
the same price (or lower) than I was quoted locally. I have been
so busy playing I haven't posted pictures yet.

The sound went out on the system board and playing the game
without sound was boring. I added a J-PAC PC to JAMMA
adaptor from Ultimarc and it is now a mame machine.
(I was awful at streetfighter anyway)

The PC sitting next to it is a 400mhz PII with an ATI
Rage II pro video card. It is running ArcadeOS under
DOS and AdvanceMAME. When I get everything
tuned and working correctly I will mount the guts in the
cabinet. Until then the keyboard and reset switch is handy.

 

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