I know it’s been a little while since my last ‘purchases’ post. It’s not through a lack of purchases, more a lack of time! The people that know me, know I take A LOT of photos. I started this to try and help me deal with my horrendously bad memory, but also handily gives me…
Radar Scope: Part 1
So you may have seen in my last purchases post that I picked up a Radar Scope boardset. I purchased the boardset off the same eBay seller that I got HeliFire from, but this one arrived in a much different state. As is always the way with eBay, reading the description is key. All of…
HeliFire Cocktail: Part 3
Now it’s been a long while since I’ve had an update for HeliFire, aside from some small purchases (replica artwork). As my cocktail arrived “non-working” I’ve continuously browsed the internet in a vain attempt at picking up some spares. I know I’ve managed to pick up buttons and coin boxes, but anything HeliFire specific seemed…
Rebuilding Nintendo Joysticks
Due to many years of hard usage and sometimes unsavoury conditions (normally spilt drinks!) many Nintendo joysticks are in desperate need of attention. The area that suffers the most is the main bearing (a small bearing sandwiched between two metal spot-welded plates). As dirt, grime and sometimes rust build up around the bearing, it begins…
Donkey Kong Junior: Part 1
So if you’ve seen my “Purchases (Mar-Apr ‘18)” blog post, you’ll have seen I recently picked up a Donkey Kong Junior. I’ve been wanting DKJr for a while now mainly to complete my Donkey Kong trilogy, but also as a good excuse to replace the Double Donkey Kong board in my DK cabinet. A fellow…
Purchases (Mar-Apr ‘18)
I thought I’d post a quick update with my purchases during the last couple of months. The year started very quiet with no purchases at first, but there’s always the normal post-Christmas recovery! My first arcade delivery was from a fellow collector, Tony Temple (arcadeblogger). Tony kindly supplied some parts for my Space Fever project…
Nintendo’s “Recycling” Programme
It’s a pretty well-known fact in the Nintendo arcade scene that the original Donkey Kong game boards were originally Radarscope and were repurposed by Nintendo after poor US sales. It has come to light more recently, that this wasn’t the only occasion Nintendo recycled game PCBs to make other games. In my early collecting days,…
vs. Unisystem with Excitebike
When I imported my first two Nintendo cabinets in 2016, they both came across the pond as converted vs. Unisystems. I bought both with the intention of returning them to factory releases (Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr etc.), but never thought about what I’d do with the conversion kits I ultimately removed from them. The…
Space Fever B&W Cocktail: Part 3
So before I start with the full strip down of the cocktail, I thought I’d better fire her up and see what we’re dealing with PCB wise as it was sold with “glitches”… I plugged her in, switched on the power and waited. These old monitors do take some warming up and eventually the screen…
My Nintendo Arcade 