September 20 2011
Reproduction Pepper II Side Art Now Available!!!
Tagged Under : Pepper 2, Pepper II, Reproduction, Side Art, This Old Game, thisoldgame.com
About a year ago I picked up an Pepper II in order to complete my Exidy Row. Unfortunately my Pepper II was pretty trashed and was missing side art. But lucky for me Rick Ford (RoadRunner) was kind enough to loan me his New Old Stock (NOS) side art in order to reproduce the art for my restoration project.
May 01 2011
Ice Cold Beer: The Side Art – Part 3
Tagged Under : ICB, Ice Cold Beer, Reproduction, Side Art, This Old Game
After close to a year and a half the Ice Cold Beer side art reproduction project is finally complete!!!
January 26 2011
Taito’s Ice Cold Beer Control Panel Artwork Vectorized – Part 1
Tagged Under : Control Panel Overlay, CPO, ICB, Ice Cold Beer, Reproduction, Taito, Vector
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.
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.
September 14 2009
Ice Cold Beer: The Side Art
Tagged Under : ICB, Ice Cold Beer, Reproduction, Side Art, Taito, This Old Game, thisoldgame.com
A couple of months ago I was talking with Chris Rhoades (Chris25810) and he was still trying to locate an Ice Cold Beer that had salvageable side art so it could be scanned and reproduced so that he could complete his own restoration (Be sure to read Chris’s blog post about his Ice Cold Beer restoration). I casually mentioned that if he lived in Michigan that I knew of two for sale. Next thing I knew we were in discussions on purchasing one of the machines and making this project a reality.
I won’t get into to many details at this point and time but yes I officially have an Ice Cold Beer (ICB) in my garage. Ahhhh yes, the ultimate party novelty arcade has arrived. A big thanks to MudManTim, another MI collector who was generous enough to have delivered it to me out of his personal collection. Also, another big thanks to someone we’ll leave unnamed at this time who also helped make this happen.
February 10 2009
Do It Yourself Backlit Skeeball Marquee. Part 2
Tagged Under : Game room, Sign, Skeeball
In part one of my “Do It Yourself Backlit Skeeball Marquee” I explained the steps I took to create the light box from scratch. I’ve since finished up the light box and will explain the steps in which I did so.
