Over a year ago, I traded a Hogan’s Alley for a Pengo from Tim Hill (MudManTim). Like most of my “keepers” I planned on restoring it. I also try to complete all my restorations with a nice clean owners manual with the original schematics.
February 23 2010
Savvy Door Opening Serpents Attack Disney’s Gaston.
Tagged Under : Artwork, Exidy, GameStencils.com, Mouse Trap, thisoldgame.com, Vector, Venture
This past weekend I managed to scan the side-art of my two Exidy games. Those games being “Mouse Trap” and “Venture”. It really made me feel good that I’m doing my part to help preserve another piece of arcade history.
February 19 2010
Detailing Exidy Mouse Trap – Part 1
Tagged Under : detail, Exidy, Mouse Trap, restoration
In January I let one of my restored games go for a an Exidy Mouse Trap and an Atari Asteroids. I’ve wanted a Mouse Trap for some time so I quickly got it to the basement so I could start detailing it and getting it into the lineup. After a short distraction due to another game, I was finally able to use the last few weeks to get Mouse Trap looking real nice and ready for the game room.
Back in October I finally was able to play a dedicated Gottlieb Mad Planets and loved everything about it. I wasn’t very good but something about the game play that was very different from anything I have ever played. Even the wife was entranced by it, especially the rhythmic music and sound effects which very much surprised me. What surprised me even more was the comment from the wife asking “Why don’t you own a Mad Planets?”.
January 11 2010
Two New Classics Arrive to the Arcade.
Tagged Under : Asteroids, Atari, Donkey Kong Jr., Exidy, Mouse Trap, Nintendo
Many months ago Rich Sain (mxracer47 from KLOV) from Illinois listed some classics for sale including Exidy Mouse Trap, which was on my short list of games I’d like to have someday. Being that Richard was looking for a restored or a mint original DK Jr. and I was thinking of selling mine I figured I’d contact him.
December 21 2009
Donkey Kong Jr. Gets Some Final Touches.
Tagged Under : Artwork, Donkey Kong Jr., Nintendo, restoration, Review, This Old Game, thisoldgame.com
Several months ago Rich @ This Old Game started selling high quality solvent ink jet Donkey Kong Jr. Bezel Decals printed on self adhesive satin vinyl. So, seeing as I was never 100% happy with the reproduction I purchased from another vendor I decided to order a replacement from Rich. Unfortunately, the other vendor used CPO adhesive on their decal which didn’t want to come off which wasn’t a good thing as I had originally spray painted the lower bezel support.
December 02 2009
Ice Cold Beer: The Side Art – Part 2
Tagged Under : Artwork, ICB, Ice Cold Beer, Reproduction, Side Art, Taito, This Old Game, thisoldgame.com
It’s been a few months since starting the Ice Cold Beer side art project was started but the artwork is officially off to Rich at This Old Game for production. When Chris Rhodes and myself originally took on this project I thought it would be a fairly easy project but I was wrong. The original plan was to vector the art. However, after talking to Rich about the final medium (Solvent Ink Jet with Screened Clear Coat) it came apparent that all the halftones were going to be next to impossible to recreate by vectoring the art and retouching in photoshop was the best way to start.
December 01 2009
Laser Cut Wall Art & Keychains from GameStencils.com
Tagged Under : Asteroids, Keychain, Tron, Venture
I received a shipment from Brian Jones from GameStencils.com last week with a few cool laser cut items which he offers at his site. Brian has been very busy creating many new products including arcade themed t-shirts, cabinet artwork, mappy marquee boxes, laser cut key chains and more which are all available on his website.
November 27 2009
Nice @!#?-ing Marquee.
Tagged Under : Gottlieb, Marquee, Phoenix Arcade, Q-bert, Q*bert, Reproduction, Review
When I picked up my Q*bert back a couple of years ago it was missing the marquee. While I was looking for a replacement marquee I discovered that Darin Jacobs at Phoenix Arcade reproduced the “Swearing Marquee” back in 2004. Unfortunately, the time I discovered that he still had some in stock I had already purchased the more common marquee in near mint condition and just couldn’t justify buying an additional marquee.
October 12 2009
Donkey Kong 2 – The Serial Number Tag
Tagged Under : Donkey Kong 2, Jumpman Returns, Nintendo, restoration, This Old Game, thisoldgame.com
A couple of weeks back I received an expected shipment from This Old Game with an unexpected surprise. My Donkey Kong 2 serial number tag. Knew it would arrive sooner or later but wasn’t in any hurry to get it…
