Dragon's Lair Fans - Arcade Lifestyle
General Chat => All the rest => Topic started by: Purity on November 23, 2009, 11:18:19 PM
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Hi, I'm Ben from Manchester, UK. I'm a member on Jamma+ and stumbled across this site whilst taking a look at pictures from Level 42's warehouse raid ;D
I have a small gamesroom which includes 2 Jamma cabs, (Leisure time & Videomaster), a bookies converted Mame cab, an Asteroids Cabaret that I'm in the process of restoring, an 80's vinyl wall mounted jukebox, and I am also in the process of adding a mini-outrun cab to the collection.
I'm hoping at some point that I might be able to add a Space Ace, Dragon's Lair or similar cab to my collection, but for now I'm hoping to swap parts/advice/and maybe even machines with like minded people
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well, Welcome here !
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Welcome! - im sure youre going to enjoy your stay!
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Welcome here :spaceace:
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Welcome Purity :-* If you liked Arcade warehouse raid, I suggest you to read many road trip stories available ... just right here (https://www.dragonslairfans.com/roadtrips/roadtrips.htm) ;)
Have fun ;)
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And of course welcome from me too ;D
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Welcome Purity, have a nice time here. But ...... where are the pics of the Asteroids? (You will notice that most people here are very fond of photos)
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Hello Ben welcome on this forum :pac: :pac: :pac:
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Welcome Purity, have a nice time here. But ...... where are the pics of the Asteroids? (You will notice that most people here are very fond of photos)
worth a million words, my friend.
welcome purity. from my old neck of the woods i see. :spaceace: i've not been back for many many years. does Jenny's arcade in Piccadilly gardens still exist?
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Welcome Purity, have a nice time here. But ...... where are the pics of the Asteroids? (You will notice that most people here are very fond of photos)
Quite happy to share some photos of the Asteroids once it's restored :) It's not much to look at, at the moment. Just an empty shell with woodworm/wet rot that I've been treating
Other cabs I have are very generic, and not very exciting I'm afraid:
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/fosterben3/Arcade/Leisure.jpg)
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/fosterben3/Arcade/Mame.jpg)
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/fosterben3/Arcade/Videomaster.jpg)
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Welcome Purity, have a nice time here. But ...... where are the pics of the Asteroids? (You will notice that most people here are very fond of photos)
worth a million words, my friend.
welcome purity. from my old neck of the woods i see. :spaceace: i've not been back for many many years. does Jenny's arcade in Piccadilly gardens still exist?
I'm sure there is still an amusement place in Piccadilly Gardens, although I don't know if this is called Jennys. I think it's full of fruities now
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Welcome Purity :-* If you liked Arcade warehouse raid, I suggest you to read many road trip stories available ... just right here (https://www.dragonslairfans.com/roadtrips/roadtrips.htm) ;)
Have fun ;)
Wow man, impressive!!! You have clocked up some serious miles collecting cabs!!
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Welcome Purity, have a nice time here. But ...... where are the pics of the Asteroids? (You will notice that most people here are very fond of photos)
Photo as requested. This is a pic after some cab restoration work
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/fosterben3/Arcade/Asteroids.jpg)
A list of external repair work done:
a) Treated rotten/woodworm damaged base, and tmoulding grooves
b) Filled and sanded base and t-moulding grooves
c) Fitted adjustable legs
d) Cut a new t-moulding groove, especially around the corners
e) Repaired wood damage to bottom of cab, top of cab - several chunks were missing
f) Cleaned the paint off the laminate sides
g) Fitted new t-moulding around entire cab
h) Repaired wood damage around CP hinges. Cleaned rust from CP hinges and fixed them back onto the cab
i) Repaired wood damage where CP had been ripped off the cab, fixed CP back onto cab
Now to work on the internal bits :-)
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(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/fosterben3/Arcade/Videomaster.jpg)
Welcome! I'm sure you'll enjoy this wonderful forum. ;D
I have such a Videomaster cab, and I love it! :) I remember it from my childhood.
Did you change the joysticks? The ones you have don't look like the originals..? On the other hand, the original joysticks were not very good.
Did the control panel come with those two buttons in the middle, or did you add them later?
It all looks very nice and professional. Maybe yours is just a later model than the ones I've seen. And it looks like it's in mint condition! :)
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Yes the joysticks are different, and unfortunately someone had drilled two extra buttons in the CP when it came to me :-(
The cab looked completely different when I first purchased it and I had to change the entire CP as you can see below in the before and after pics:
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/fosterben3/Arcade/VideomasterBefore.jpg)