Quick introduction...

[Kaizen]

Hi all, just a quick intro.
I've visited this forum many times when researching various arcade related topics.
I'm an active member of AA and KLOV, same username.
I played arcades back in the day growing up in Sydney, Australia in the eighties.
After discovering MAME back in 2006 I scratch built a cocktail cabinet and proceeded to build another 50 over the next 12 months, quitting my job and building cabs full time.

This is one I built in 2014.



After that I moved onto 'real' arcade cabs.
I currently have just under arcade 40 cabs (most working) including numerous space invaders cabs of different varieties.

Space Invaders -- {Taito Blue Upright, LAI Blue Upright, LAI Red Part II Upright, LAI Colour Cocktail, US Midway Deluxe, US Trimline, NZ Taito Part II, Taito Part II Cocktail x3, Spark Invader (clone), Logitec Space Invaders (clone)}

Taito Defender Upright, Williams Defender Cocktail, NZ Defender/Defense Command (Chastronics Cab), Taito Speed Race Upright, Taito Blue Shark Upright, Taito Crazy Climber Upright, Taito Chase HQ DX, AGI/Taito Top Speed Upright, Taito Grand Champion, LAI Scramble Upright, LAI Karate Champ Lowboy, Taito Time Tunnel Cocktail (running Jungle King PCB), Taito Space Chaser Cocktail, Taito Phoenix Cocktail, 'Score' 4 Player Pong, 'Challenge' 4 Player Pong.

Defender Virtual Pinball

I'm currently working on making reproduction Taito Space Invaders Cocktail Control Panels which I'll post about in it's own thread.
https://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php?topic=7147.0

Some of my cabs, all are CRT screens with original PCB's....

[Andreas_AUT]

Welcome, you have some really nice games in your collection!

[DarthNuno]

Welcome to you, Kaizen 

Wow, what an invasion of invaders  ... impressive!

It's the first time I see that TAITO model on this picture (the left white one)



It is a legit one?

[rogerxy]

Welcome Kaizen! Nice collection of SI:s

[Pinge]

Awesome Invaders collection, I thought I had many... and I only have a Taito UR and recently got a SI II coctail (japanese with color)... 
If you happen to have a spare PCB fpr the latter Im more than interested.

Planning to get the SI Pinball? That is a beatiful pinball machine.

[Kaizen]

Awesome Invaders collection, I thought I had many... and I only have a Taito UR and recently got a SI II coctail (japanese with color)... 
If you happen to have a spare PCB fpr the latter Im more than interested.

Planning to get the SI Pinball? That is a beatiful pinball machine.

The Taito 3-Layer boards don't come up for sale very often.
I had been looking for two years without success then managed to score 3 within two weeks just recently.
One is working and the other two are faulty.
They are all allocated to cabs so none for sale sorry.

Welcome to you, Kaizen  

Wow, what an invasion of invaders   ... impressive!

It's the first time I see that TAITO model on this picture (the left white one)



It is a legit one?

Yes it's a licensed Taito cab. They were built locally in New Zealand, not many were made..
It was sited at a caravan park in Christchurch all it's life.
When the caravan park closed down, the son of the owners kept it and brought it with him when he moved to Australia.









Note the hand made B&W chassis...

[rogerxy]

That's really cool! I recently visited NZ and Sydney but failed to find any old school arcade place 

[Pinge]

Ok, I hoped they were not rare ofcourse, in worst case I guess I could throw in whatever space invaders in the cabinet...
Dont even know if the monitor is ok yet.
Do you know what monitors they came with?

Btw: this is your introduction thread and Im waaay offtopic, sorry