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.
Ever since Chomping Quarters manufactured an accurate reproduction molding for standard plywood cabinets I’ve been getting lots of requests to reproduce the dreaded “offset” molding. The need for offset molding has plagued many arcade collectors with Nintendo particle board cabinets for years. Well, your prayers have been answered and Nintendo “True Offset™” molding is NOW AVAILABLE in our store!!!
Well, it’s true… Sometimes you don’t pick the game the game picks you… or something like that.
After close to a year and a half the Ice Cold Beer side art reproduction project is finally complete!!!
When I picked up Food Fight I knew my restoration options were somewhat limited due to lack of reproduction artwork. Luckily for me the overall condition of my game was pretty clean and Phoenix Arcade did reproduce the Control Panel Overlay (CPO) a couple of years back. So I’ll be sticking to the basics before I toss her into the game room. The basics involved cleaning the inside of the cabinet, wiping down the outside of the cabinet (Magic Erasers are indeed magic), repainting the marquee brackets and restoring the control panel.
It’s been a little over two months since I started restoring Ice Cold Beer and it’s time to wrap up this restoration and do some final detailing and assembly.
