“oh my god, it’s so shitty!”
So i found this cabinet on craigslist for $40, and a few days later, mitch and harrison picked up the cabinet (the 11th, i think) from some guy near USC. i have no idea where it came from or anything other than that. :D
the mainboard is gone, which we knew. the guy we got it from had no idea whether the monitor worked, so that will be one thing we test. it’s a standard res arcade monitor, so that’s good at least (if it works and doesn’t have terrible burn-in). the whole damn thing is in terrible need of cleaning, and we know that quarters get stuck in the coin slot. we’ve only had it for a day so far, so we haven’t put any power to it yet. that might be the first item of business, just to see what bursts into flames and what doesn’t. i’m not really sure what actually needs to be done first, so when we figure that out and do it, i’ll let you know.
i’ve made a flickr photoset of the pics we took to document the ‘before’ phase, and it’s here. Enjoy, and feel free to comment.
April 15th, 2006 at 1:27 pm
[...] My title sounds like a song, “Golden Axe Gone Away…” You can finish the rest if you must but before I get off track. I recently put my Golden Axe arcade cabinet on Craigslist.org for sale. I was going to restore it myself but time (mostly more games) caught up to me. Anyways, two guys came by to pick it up and through conversation I found out they work for Rhythm and Hues (that is working on the next Superman: Rhythm and Hues). So they told me they were going to restore it for their company and turn it into a MAME machine. I thought it was a good idea and asked if they would keep me posted. Well they did and also made a sight for it called RhythmMAME. I think this post gives an insight into how much work will be involved and tons of photos. Have fun. [...]