Dragon's Lair Fans - Arcade Lifestyle
General Chat => All the rest => Topic started by: Belike on February 21, 2010, 08:39:25 AM
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Hi Guys,
First of all, I would like apologize for my poor English, I'm from Hungary and when I was a child in the 80's we were forced to learn russian, all the other foreign languages were diasallowed in those years.
Paul recommended me to visit your website and I was glad to see, that there are still a few arcade maniacs in Europe like me. ;)
Atm. I have four original Zaccaria cabinets(2 phoenix,1 scramble and another phoenix pcb in a starplash), 2 pinballs(Locomotion from Zaccaria and a Poker Plus from Recel)2 general jamma cabinets(one with a big screen) and about 20-25 pcbs from the 80's.
I'm planning to to inform you time to time about the dedicated machines for sale in hungarian auctions sites, maybe you can find something interesting.(atm. I saw a House of the dead(~500 eur) and a Time crisis(~200 eur) both of them in nice working condition).
Paul was so nice and took some pics from my Zaccaria collection to his website, you can see them there.
I wish all the best for you and kind regards from Budapest.
Bela
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Hi Bela, and a warm welcome to you :)
Thanks for posting in English.
Zaccaria cabinets? Sounds interesting (any pictures by the way)... I'm wondering what was the arcade machines in Budapest back in the 80's... did you have dedicated games? Imported? ...or mostly generic cabinets' maybe? Of course don't hesitate to share you 'arcade' stories right here ::) :-*
Be yourself at home :-*
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Welcome on board Bela !!! :spaceace: :spaceace:
Enjoy your stay.
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welcome to "the Club" 8)
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Welcome!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Welcome! :) I must say as DarthNuno, do you have any pictures of your collection? ;D
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Here you can see some pics from the Zaccaria cabinets, I will fill up some more soon here:
http://www.zzzaccaria.com/photos_www_harcsa.htm
I will come with the stories also soon:)
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Here you can see some pics from the Zaccaria cabinets, I will fill up some more soon here:
http://www.zzzaccaria.com/photos_www_harcsa.htm
Nice collection Bela :-* :-*
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Hey and welcome to the community! i´m sure you will enjoy your stay!
and, i think:
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Some Arcade history from Budapest:
There was an Amusement park in the middle of the city(still exists) and the only Arcade in Hungary was there.There were huge rows in front of each games, sometimes we had to wait more than an hour to play.1 credit was 5 forints, which is 2 eur cents now.
The most popular was the 2 Zaccaria games, Phoenix and Scramble.
The dedicated cabinets that I remember:Asteroids, Berzerk, Gyruss, Tron, Tutankham, Piranha, Star wars, Vanguard, Hyper Olympics, Space Invaders and a lot of electro mechanical pinballs.I've heard the rumour that all the cabinets was a part of a bartel business between Italy and the hungarian government.A few years later there were more and more pubs and little arcades whre we can play the games like Kangaroo, Zaxxon, Amidar, Roc'n rope, Dig Dug. Moon cresta etc..
I've heard also (the biggest shame in the history of Hungary), that when these machines from the amusement park's arcade sterted to break down and there were no experts to fix them, they smashed all the arcade cabinets and the pinballs, and threw them to dump.
I played a lot in that times with videogames, I had an Atari 2600, commodore 64(still have).
Than the arcade fever started to end in the 90's, everybody played with consoles at home like Nintendo and Playstation.
I missed these games very much, but didn't do anything to get them in the past 20 years.
Than last summer I accidentaly saw a Phoenix for sale in a hungarian auction site and all those beatiful years were came back to me.
I bought that one from a little village near Budapest, it became my first own dedicated cabinet.
To be continued........
Please somebody explain me, how to upload pics here ::)
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you can´t upload pictures.
You have to upload them to a photo album/ftp/etc, and link to them..
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Ah, thanks ;)
http://picasaweb.google.com/harcsabela/DropBox?feat=directlink
You can find another album from Prypiat, Chernobyl here, it's also very interesting, especially from pic.46.
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If you want to post images on the side here´s a quick 101..
Find the image on the web you like to use here, and right click on it and choose "Image Properties":
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Copy the adress:
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Place the address inside a "[ img ][ /img ]" - you can use this botton: (https://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/Themes/default/images/bbc/img.gif)and it will look like this:
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Welcome Bela. The Zaccaria cabs are beautiful, aren't they? I have a Zaccaria vanguard and a zaccaria scramble. Great games, and the art on the cabs is stunning.
It's nice to hear some arcade stories from Hungary.
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Thanks for the instructions Muerto! :D
Yes the art is amazing on Zaccaria cabinets, I saw your vanguard Ckong, very, very nice, especially the control panel.
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Just for try to place an image :D
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Welcome here Bela :spaceace:.
A very good choice the Zaccaria cabs, but the best (in my opinion) is your Locomotion Pinball : one of the best ever made pinball :-*.
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Thanks m8, I love it, especially the sounds. :)
I also have an extra original brand new playfield for it :)
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It has a funny history:
I tried to find a Locomotion and I registrated myself to pinballowners.com.
I found one there for sale in Hungary and I figured out, that the guy works 100 meters from my office in a tyre repeir service and he kept the pinball there, so I could took a look at it next day and bought it for 250 eur :D
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What a lucky man, this Bela :lol: :-* !
It's a very hard to find pinball I think (one day perhaps :'( ) and the ~3D colorfull artwork is such a great touch of originality.
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Just to inform you, my pcb list: ::)
Phoenix, Scramble, Super cobra, Eyes, Bank Panic, Track & Field, Popeye, Kangaroo, Dream soccer 94, Roc'n rope, Traverse Usa/Zippy race X2,Tutankham, Super basketball, Frogger, Vanguard, Shinobi, Cabal, Bagman(rules :D), super bagman. Double dragon, P.O.W., Sunset riders.
I'm very curious about your pcbs, if you have time and if it's not confidential please post here. :oops:
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you can see "all" the members PCB´s/games here:
https://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php?topic=1184.0
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Very good list Bela (I have Roc'n rope too ;) )!