Thanks, Bruno (
also for the welcome back...) !
- Hehe, yes : mine has ALL squares angle only ! ( Argh ! It "fixes" Monolith's modern-style but they could be dangerous, too !
) .
The monolithic part of the cab is all black, but the cp is made by silver-laminated woodpieces : this way I certainly reach my "goal", 'cause it looks like a large jaw that litterally "bites" the Monolith ! Both cp and the base have different "origin" than the same monolith... as if to signify that the symbol of the birth of intelligence had been "captured" by an alien hard-videogames-lover, and then stopped its "teaching the meaning of life and the history of the World" in a specified point... of course in the arcade games era
... philosophical, isn't it ?
!!!
Ok, there are also another part that is in black: the front covering of the CP, splitted in two parts: one is fixed to the CP and the lower could be pulled to extract the keyboard drawer... Well, they're "out-of-the-Monolith", so they could be re-painted in the same silver of the two "jaws", but I left them in this way, because I like it "reprises" the front development of the main shape of the cab
!
- For the buttons I took almost all that I
still have in my "arcade parts stock", but yes: my original project shows they should have been all black ! BTW: the reds are for the "insert coin" and the yellows are for "pause" (the left one) and Mame's "throttle" function (the right one) .
- The marquee art ? YES, it's
that picture ! It's signed to the low-left with my nick and to the low-right with the name of our wonderful italian site/forum
! I'll show it up, when it would be delivered to me ( ... "vacation" period...
) !
- BombJack: yeah, in the advanced rounds it could be kinda' impossible to complete the bombcatching with a perfect ! It's basically due to the incredible speed that some enemies are capable of... so, if you want to stay alive or save more remaining lives that you can, you HAVE TO complete those rounds in the fastest way, while watching the score counter for the coming of the "B", "P" or "E" bonus letters
! BTW: at the end of that clip you can see my friend leaves me to complete the the 100th round... WITH A PERFECT
!
-polaris: hehe, no, there's no other pictures made in different angles of sight
!