Do you remember your first time ?

[level42]

I do !

And through some other thread I realized I never published pictures of it......

Here we go !!!

Double Axle. The UK Electrocoin version. Found it on Marktplaats. That was the time that I seemed to be the only one on Marktplaats looking for these cabs


Loved the artwork. The overall look of the art and cab is much nicer than the US version IMHO....


Sometimes I don't realize how long I already have been in this hobby, but this pic shows it clearly

Notice that tiny foot on the gas pedal !!!!


I never changed a cap on that machine....everything worked fine after I fixed the PSU problem...(see below)




The power supply section. The one with the huge caps was for the vibration of the steering wheel which was incredibly powerful (but I think the neighbors never liked it )
The Hantarex PSU formed a strange duo with the monitor because it supplied 135V DC (!!!) to the monitor.....I have one of those up for grabs now in the Eurocade marketplace thread....


Love the marquee which was partly a mirror




I think I needed two complete roles of kitchen-towel to get both the screen and the bezel fully cleaned, nicotine, nicotine and more nicotine....but it heavily improved the picture !
The CP was faded, like the kick area, but nothing was available nor did I really want to invest in it that much...


For some weird reason the fan on top of the monitor chassis was hooked up to the +5V while it was a +12V fan ! This caused the problem with the machine. MAYBE this used to work when everything was new, but when the fan aged and got dirtier I bet the load got heavier on the 5V and caused a transistor to blow on the PSU. Replaced it and had a working cab
Naturally I replaced the fan and connected it to the 12V. While I was at it, I decided to hook up the lights in the buttons. The lamps were already there, but the factory didn't bother....I liked it


First time I had a cab and now game room of course, so it was really popular with my nieces and nephews...




The picture was much brighter and better than this pic, I think I couldn't turn the flash off on this simple old camera....

It was really a fun game, similar sprite set-up as Outrun. The most fun was that you had a level where you actually had to crash into upcoming traffic as much as possible !!!!
I think there was some other intermediate or "final" things to do too but can't remember (jumping cars or something ?).

I decided to move the cab into the clubhouse of my marching band to earn a little pocket money (and have some fun). It actually made some pocket money every week but at one point in time some people wanted it gone....I didn't know where I was "in the hobby" at that point in time, so I decided to sell it, since my wife didn't want it in the living room any longer either.

3 weeks after selling it I saw the ad for the Galaxian on Marktplaats. Having missed one before AND having it played in Fun Spot that summer I chased the seller like nuts.........the rest is history

This was in 2006 !

[Etienne MacGyver]

I do also !

It was a nice romantic date with my girlfriend back in the days.............


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whhooppps  wrong subject 


you mean arcade wise 

24-09-2009 !



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[level42]

You newbie !

Whatever happened to that cocktail ? I forgot !

[Etienne MacGyver]

its at Ckong..

[level42]

Owyeahhh, it was in his temporary Rotterdam storage for a while !!

Mmmm maybe one of the pieces he can "let go" in the trimming down process.....

[gyruss]

This was my first cab, a generic royal video with P.O.W.

[level42]

My -real- first cab was the Playscene MAME machine...but that doesn't count...

[Etienne MacGyver]

Owyeahhh, it was in his temporary Rotterdam storage for a while !!

Mmmm maybe one of the pieces he can "let go" in the trimming down process.....

maybe I can buy it back ? 

[Q*ris]

My first time was not exactly brilliant but I was lacking practice...

I was at a BBQ and a friend of mine who knew I loved arcade told me: "I went to the dumpster this morning and there was a "1942" there".
Wooot? I became really nervous because the dumpster was closing in half an hour and despite my desperate attempts to leave the BBQ, in the end I could'nt make it there before the closing.

So I went there anyway and climbed on the trees around the dumpster to check if the cab was there...
... and indeed there was A cab but it turned out that for my friend all the cabs are called a "1942"... duh!

Anyway I left 2 notes on both entrance of the dumpster saying that I was very interested by the machine and the next day... they called me back! (I was checking my phone every 5 minutes at work).

So I went there on my lunch hour (which turned out to be a 2 hour lunchtime) with my tiny Renault Clio, totally unaware of the weight and size of a cab, of course.
I managed to put half of it in my trunk and left the place to drop my precious at home (in the hallway of course).
Boy, I was soooo happy...

Later on when I inquired a bit on how to fix this or that, what part of the monitor can be replaced, sideart and so on, I was... mmh, less enthusiast 

Later, I tried to give it away on some Belgian forums but nobody wanted it even for free 
So I decided to bring back the poor thing to it's previous home 
Brought it back to the dumpster (and believe me throwing away things is VERY hard for a pack rat like me).
Needless to say that the guys from the dumpster were less than happy to see me coming back with the cab.

Fun story to tell (now) but the important thing is that it didn't discouraged me at all to keep on being an arcade lifestyler 

And now for your viewing pleasure only, my arcade collector friends:

 

[Superully]

hey chris, do you know what cab you dumped?

[level42]

Yup saw that too...the one from the ship looked a bit better though

And the monitor would have produced very little picture with the missing yoke and broken neck....did they want the cupper from the yoke maybe

Interesting chassis, no idea what it is !

[Etienne MacGyver]

oh boy what a comment comes to my mind now.....

dont you guys just love the combi "chrischris & CRT necks" 

[Superully]

here's my first time story: i had wanted an arcade cab for a long long time, but the lack of space (and money) always said NO! the first cab i was really seriously interested in was a gauntlet cabinet (located in munich). back then, i had no idea that there even was a community for that stuff out there, i didn't know that the individual parts had names (bezel and marquee sounded like a foreign language), let alone that there are reproduction parts out there. the problem with the gauntlet cab was that the overlay had severe cigarette burns and i had the idea of fixing those burn with colored tape . but the sheer size of the machine and the lack of a bigger car for transporting it (i had a very small one back then) made me to not bid on the game. it sold for around 250 euros.

but from that moment on i was hooked! i started surfing the internet, found two german arcade sites which became my favorite reading material for the next few days. i was impressed with the stuff that some of the guys had and thought to myself, "that's what i want to do as well, this looks like a lot of fun!". at that time a missile command upright was listed on one of the forums as well, i contacted the seller and for some strange reason it was still available. i still had the transportation problem, but i was able to get a small van from a friend of mine in exchange for the four private english lessons for his son!

grabbed the van and drove about 200 kilometers south! arriving at the seller's location i was standing in sheer awe in front of the missile command cabinet, still not really able to grasp that this was going to be mine. i told the seller, "let's quickly pull it out and load it into the van" and he smiled. but not because he was happy to see it go, but because he realized he had a newbie in front of him. why? because i had thought moving and loading an arcade game would be a walk in the park, after all it's just some pieces of wood and a tv inside. when we started pulling it out together, it started to dawn on me: oh my god, what have i got myself into? with the help of a trolley we manouvered it down the stairs, into the van and off i drove (into the sunset) - without an idea how to get that thing up into my apartment. in all honesty, i had thought that i could easily carrye this thing myself!

back home, i called my friend patrik and he came over with his wife and his daughter ronja (who was around 8 back then) and a wooden agricultural trolley. soon we found out that we won't be able to get it up with that thing, so we took an old carpet, placed the machine on its back and pushed / pulled it up the stairs. it took forever and there were times in between where i wanted to give up and bring this thing back. is that really worth it, i thought!

but up in the apartment, we moved the game into my bedroom, fired it up (it still worked) and just stood there watching the screen! wow, this is really it!!! my very first arcade game - and one of the real classics as well! i couldn't believe it (and somehow still can't)! from that moment on, my life has never been the same ...

i didn't take any pictures and write roadtrip reports then, but over the course of the next few weeks i discovered this forum, browsed through bruno's fabulous roadtrips and realized this is the way to do it. i still go through old roadtrips reports from time to time, so many good (and sometimes bad) memories.

this really is the best hobby in the world - and such a great arcade community like this is the icing on the cake!!!

[Q*ris]

Cool story, Ully and well spotted guys about my "first love".
Until today I had never realized it was the same cab as yours... amazing!!
I want it back now and clean the paint on the sides 

@Etienne: I know, it's kinda my superpower "super monitor neck breaker" 

[gyruss]

Great story Ully! I always wanted to own an arcade game too, but mainly a Nintendo cab. When i started researching around 2002 i found out they weren't available in Europe at all  so i decided to buy an xbox (1) with the money. Years later, after the watching the King of kong i became interested again and bought my first cab. And now i own 2 beautiful Nintendo's and a few other awesome classics, isn't that great!