The start of arcade night year 3! And it be on Talk Like A Pirate Day as well!! ArrrRR!!! Unfortunately, at this point I’m still recovering from bronchitis and Quin came down with a fever. So we warned folks and most stayed away. The few brave ones who came out got to play 2 pirate-themed […]
Finally got back to arcade night again! We had a very low turnout, with most of the “regulars” not able to make it. But we did have two first-timers join us, which is always fun. We played Jr. Pacman Robby Roto Star Trek Tutankham And the scores… Name Jr Pacman (raw) Jr Pacman (norm) Robby […]
Here are the games we played this month: Battlezone Galaga Rally-X Wizard of Wor And here are the scores: Name Battlezone (raw) Battlezone (norm) Galaga (raw) Galaga (norm) Rally X (raw) Rally X (norm) Wizard of Wor (raw) Wizard of Wor (norm) Score Boyd 15000 1 32520 0.443300654 29640 0.99724328 11600 0.653061224 3.093605159 Brian 5000 […]
Back to games we haven’t played before this month: Crystal Castles Popeye Robotron Tinkle Pit And here are the scores: Name Crystal Castles (raw) Crystal Castles (norm) Popeye (raw) Popeye (norm) Robotron (raw) Robotron (norm) Tinkle Pit (raw) Tinkle Pit (norm) Score Boyd 14467 0.797170298 20850 0.342348143 60425 1 299900 1 3.139518442 Bill 12936 0.639058143 […]
This month we did a “best-of” list via a poll of folks who play. Here are the games we played: Crazy Climber Frogger Ms. Pacman Qix And here are the scores: Name Crazy Climber (raw) Crazy Climber (norm) Frogger (raw) Frogger (norm) Ms. Pacman (raw) Ms. Pacman (norm) Qix (raw) Qix (norm) Score Bill 15300 […]
Today I took a long overdue opportunity to update the section of our website that shows off my arcade machine. A lot of changes have happened since I first took some pictures and did a little write-up — BACK IN 2004! So I decided that a simple way to organize writing about the different swappable […]
Yes! A Star Wars yoke! I found this yoke a couple of years ago on ebay. It was actually from an Apache 3 arcade machine. I cleaned it up, painted it, built a “steering column” of sorts for it and got it working with my cabinet. I used the “Dual Strike hack” (which at the […]
Obviously, this is for driving games. Pole Position is the one that I play most often with this panel. The steering wheel and the gear-shifter came from a Badlands cabinet (ebay!). It feels very natural when playing Pole Position. The shifter is really a 4-gear shifter, so games that have more gears still work (like […]
This panel is really about playing Defender. I loved that game as a pre-teen and spent a lot of quarters on it. Having a panel that lets me recreate that experience is very cool. I found a website (maybe a posting on a news group) that had the dimensions of the original Defender panel. So […]
This panel is for games like Centipede, Millipede, Missile Command, and Marble Madness. It’s pretty much a generic trackball panel. I had to abandon my traditional button layout on this one. Basically, in order to let players decide which hand they like to use for the ball and which for the buttons (think Missile Command), […]
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