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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.

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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.

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Ice Cold Beer finally got a final cleaning and a couple coats satin black. When you plan to apply vinyl to a cabinet it a very important to put a couple of good coats of paint on your cabinet to give the vinyl something to stick too. Just remember, adhesive on vinyl WILL NOT stick to a flat finish so always use a satin, semi gloss or glossy finish. I prefer to use oil based paint with a satin finish with a foam roller.

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Overall Ice Cold Beer was not in too bad of shape and the cabinet was pretty solid. But after restoring more than a few games games I’ve learned that even the easiest restoration takes longer than expected.

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When I added an Asteroids, Mouse Trap and a Mad Planets to my collection in January I figured it was going to be a busy year for collecting and restoring. However between family, work, freelance, reproducing Nintendo T-molding and building my new e-commerce store I haven’t fully restored anything this year. I mean, I was able to detail Mouse Trap and Mad Planets but as far as a full fledge restoration it just hasn’t happened this year. Until today when I decided that “Ice Cold Beer” was going to be my first (and probably only) restoration of 2010.

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When purchasing a game that only lived one year in an arcade then spends the next 25 years living comfortably in a home use only environment there isn’t much you need to do to “make it better”. However, being a perfectionist who usually enjoys doing full restorations there is always something you can do to “make it better” and my Mad Planets wasn’t any different. But this time things were a little different and there was no reason to take a game who survived 26 years and fully restore it.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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