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BGOllie

new project just arrived. Taito cocktail table.
It shall host a Frogger !

Doge

BGOllie wrote: »

new project just arrived. Taito cocktail table.
It shall host a Frogger !

You certainly didn't wait around for your next project!

Looks in pretty good nick too.

BGOllie

just found out that this came from the Peter Davies collection raid : https://arcadeblogger.com/2016/08/06/pete-davies-the-invadar-arcade-collection/

CiDeRmAn

BGOllie wrote: »

just found out that this came from the Peter Davies collection raid : https://arcadeblogger.com/2016/08/06/pete-davies-the-invadar-arcade-collection/

That's a great name, I implicitly trust him already....

Lovely looking table Ollie, Peter Davies would be happy to know it's gone to a good home..

eddhorse

Peter Davies, what a legend, congrats.

CathalDublin

BGOllie wrote: »

just found out that this came from the Peter Davies collection raid : https://arcadeblogger.com/2016/08/06/pete-davies-the-invadar-arcade-collection/

Awesome piece of history to have with a cabinet
Does it have the plaque or have you even checked yet?

KeRbDoG

BGOllie wrote: »

just found out that this came from the Peter Davies collection raid : https://arcadeblogger.com/2016/08/06/pete-davies-the-invadar-arcade-collection/

There is a photo album of the folks taking the collection from the guys place, had a news paper which had the sale of Atari Games Ireland Ltd (in Tipp) to Namco Europe news piece from late 1996;
https://www.flickr.com/photos/missilecommand/28775519696/in/album-72157671994624096/

CiDeRmAn

KeRbDoG wrote: »

There is a photo album of the folks taking the collection from the guys place, had a news paper which had the sale of Atari Games Ireland Ltd (in Tipp) to Namco Europe news piece from late 1996;
https://www.flickr.com/photos/missilecommand/28775519696/in/album-72157671994624096/

Imagine a time you could have hopped in a car and driven to where they make Atari/Namco stuff.
Set up a shrine or something....

BGOllie

CathalDublin wrote: »

Awesome piece of history to have with a cabinet
Does it have the plaque or have you even checked yet?

no Ronnie said he took it off but it's on this pic: https://www.flickr.com/photos/missilecommand/28189800944/in/album-72157671994624096/

lower left, with the pacman artwork.
Alex did a full video on it too (hoping to have him at some point on my podcast to talk about the Sky Skipper story and that raid in France last year ) :

KeRbDoG

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Imagine a time you could have hopped in a car and driven to where they make Atari/Namco stuff.
Set up a shrine or something....

There should be (if not already) a granite block on the ground near the place with a brass plaque commemorating it right?

CiDeRmAn

KeRbDoG wrote: »

There should be (if not already) a granite block on the ground near the place with a brass plaque commemorating it right?

I don't pray to a god, but if I did it'd be wearing either a Namco or an Atari t-shirt

Hurrache

I see Billy Mitchell has been stripped of some of his high scores and banned from competition because he didn't use official cabinets but emulation.

Famed high-score gamer Billy Mitchell, best known for his leading role in "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters" documentary, was officially stripped of his "Donkey Kong" and other video game high scores and banned from submitting scores to the world's largest tracker of video game world records following a decision that he cheated, Twin Galaxies announced today.

"With this ruling, Twin Galaxies can no longer recognize Billy Mitchell as the first million point 'Donkey Kong' record holder," the group wrote in its announcement. "According to our findings, Steve Wiebe would be the official 1st million point record holder."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-king-of-kong-star-billy-mitchell-20180412-story,amp.html

KeRbDoG

It's even made the BBC

BBC wrote:

Donkey Kong champion loses title for 'using emulator' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43752171

fmul9798

Great find and should be a lovely restoration. Where did you pick it up from?
Be sure to post some pics or one of your videos.

BGOllie wrote: »

new project just arrived. Taito cocktail table.
It shall host a Frogger !

Jack burton

Went to token for a couple hours last night to play some pinball.

Their pinball tech has a lot to do. Tons of minor issues and a few bigger ones with the pins. Lots of them easy fixes, like new carbon steel balls, almost every pin I played with magnets had magnetized balls. Few of them were only giving out 2 balls instead of 3 for multiballs. It's a pity because they have a savage lineup

Had a couple of good games on Tables Of The Arabian Nights. I'd love that machine. Only real problem was the ton of forigners that were there shouting, screaming and slapping pins haha. I'm too used to playing in my garage on my own.

Place in general was rammed. Didn't get on any arcade machines though.

Optimus Prime

Hey, whats the deal with magnetized balls? The Star Wars i bought has a magnet in it that diverts the balls down one lane during a "trench run" type thing where you fire the ball from the xwing, sometimes it gets stuck on the magnet, sometimes it doesnt go down.

Do the balls get magnetized after a while or something? could this be the issue?

Jack burton

Oh yeah 100% my theatre of magic has magnets. After a while the ball will become magnetized and won't release from the metal when it's shut off.

Get the carbon steel balls. They reduce the chances of it happening.

https://www.pinball.co.uk/shop/spares-accessories/general-parts-spares-accessories/balls/

Optimus Prime

Thanks a lot! will get some of them

Doge

Found a site full of links to images that can be written straight to your Raspberry Pi's SD card, and have a hyperspin like interface with artwork and video previews of games.

I can't link to the site obviously as they're pre loaded with roms, but they have the images in different sizes for SD cards, e.g. 16GB, 32GB, 128GB etc..

Here's a video of one of the ones I'm going to try out, note the guys in these videoes do not give away the links also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHjK_jVmoSg

I'm only interested in having arcade games playable in a cabinet or on a Pi really.
I have no interest in putting Console games on there.

CiDeRmAn

Will these work on the new RPi3+ I wonder?
I know Retropie did work back in March, when the device was launched.

KeRbDoG

Usually whats only required for the thing to boot on a new version of the pit if the underlying distro isn't the latest, is a 'dist-upgrade' on the older pi it would run on...unless something radically changes with the new underlying distro breaking everything so backup, backup, backuo!

CiDeRmAn

I don't know how to backuo!
What's a backuo??

KeRbDoG

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I don't know how to backuo!
What's a backuo??

:rolleyes:

http://comicbook.com/gaming/2018/04/19/snk-new-hardware-neo-geo-40th-anniversary/

New NeoGeo Harware announced for 40th, probably another mini or some lcd device but we can always hope

o1s1n

Deleted User wrote: »

http://comicbook.com/gaming/2018/04/19/snk-new-hardware-neo-geo-40th-anniversary/

New NeoGeo Harware announced for 40th, probably another mini or some lcd device but we can always hope

Oooh a Neo Geo AES mini would be amazing!

Jack burton

Little Neo Geo bartop would be so good!

fmul9798

Ooooh, now this could be one to watch. I'm looking at the teaser picture too much given it could be a cardboard box, but I'm hopeful it's not some small lcd device anyway.

So many neogeo titles released on the switch lately it could be a dock with a proper joystick.. once its not neogeo x 2 I'll be happy.

o1s1n

So seeing as my consoles appear to be failing one by one (!) I thought I'd get back into the arcade game for a bit. Haven't really changed out any games in ages.

Went rooting in the attic and found this classic. Not sure why it's not in my cab full time actually, it's by far one of my favourite arcade games.





Psyvivarararararar comes out...



Mercs goes in..



And it still works, phew! Been a couple of year since that has been powered up.