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Found these over on the KLOV forum. Ganked them for a flickr set The 80’s were awesome (32 pics so far)
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whats that I sees? oooooo lit up marquees
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Neither of my machines had working marquees and I had replaced bulbs and starters on both with no luck. Turns out it was the magnetic ballast that had gone bad on both of them. Strange because I did not know those could go bad. Seems new regulations have made them obsolete, but I was lucky […]
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Picked up baby pac man last night. She is in great condition and I got it from a guy who restored it and got it working. Baby pac man is part video game part pinball machine. You start off in the maze eating pellets and then can take a tunnel to the pinball part where […]
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guy is building a pinball machine based on Bill Paxton
1 Comment · Posted by beerorkid in arcade man cave, random crap
ummmmmmmmmmm……. OK getting closer
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switching out the bulbs in my machines with LED bulbs
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Quick vid showing a bit of my switching to LED lights. The vid really does not do it justice. The LEDs are so amazingly bright. It just POPS and shines so well. Loving it. some pics. only the lights near the ramps have LEDs. The circle in the middle is old bulbs left side of […]
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She lives, Bride of Pinbot is fixed and happy
1 Comment · Posted by beerorkid in arcade man cave
Amos came over last night and performed some surgery on my main driver board. Thanks again. Noticed that the board had some crappy work done to it before. Instead of replacing the header pins and connector they soldered the wires right to the back of the header pins. That means I cannot get the board […]
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Video Game – E3 2009 – Attack of the Show these guys smash a whole arcade full of games 🙁 On the subject of games. I almost got a new arcade machine Thursday. Theresa talked some sense into me. We are still trying to sell the TV and I put in the description that I […]
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future / visual / virtual / hyperpin pinball
3 Comments · Posted by beerorkid in arcade man cave, games
I have been messing with this the past week and currently am just using visual pinball, but the games are really well done. Some look so realistic it is freaky. Downloaded a bunch of tables last night and played late into the morning. Best part is it is free and there are hundreds of tables. […]
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