When I first moved into my current house almost 7 years ago the gameroom got a relatively quick and not thought out coat of purple paint and games shoved in there. Then I kinda ran with a memorabilia everywhere theme and filled every corner with ’stuff’ from my childhood. Read the rest of this entry »
OK, so I did a complete rethink of the gameroom and the old ‘memorabilia everywhere’ look is gone leaving me with tons and tons of vintage toys and things from the 70’s and 80’s. Here’s a quick list of it all, if you have a particular piece you might want please email me and I can send pictures etc! Read the rest of this entry »
Just a quick update to show the near finished game. Have to restore the control panel still so the brackets and stick etc aren’t cleaned up yet, also need new locks and some marquee molding strips but that’s it.
Well, almost.. Here’s just a progress shot or two after painting the cabinet and starting to put things back together after polishing. I still need to order some ground braid and some bolts but getting there fast on this one! Read the rest of this entry »
It’s been too long since I did a somewhat detailed how to for restoring cabinets. So, for the first time in a few years i’m going to do one. This time, I’m going to go through the steps I take to fix badly damaged plywood issues commonly found in Williams style cabinets. Read the rest of this entry »
Every now and again, something very obscure and super cool finds it’s way to me. This time, it’s the original films for Bally Sente Snake Pit. Not a whole lot to write about it, but the pictures are really neat. Very very rare to find machine in the US, almost as hard in Europe. Legend has always said that Snake Pit was a custom game for Chuck E Cheeses and this film seems to support that theory.
Anyway, here’s something to look at:
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Something I have just as much fun doing as collecting coin op games is my collection of memorabilia that decorates the gameroom. Pretty much anything from the 70’s to mid 80’s that was interesting to me at the time is game.
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Just about anyone that knows me knows what my favorite movie of all time is. Walt Disney’s The Cat from Outer Space. It was one of the first movies I ever saw in the theatre, and my best memories of being a kid are of going to this movie with my grandfather. Over the years i’ve collected a number of items related to the movie including various posters, books, DVD’s etc but the one thing that had always eluded me was to get a copy of the actual film on film. This isn’t the 35mm version found in theatres, but the 16mm one usually sent to schools or events.. BUT, it’s finally here, an original Disney print of the movie on actual film reels.
This is a cute shot of Jake (ZunarJ5).
The classic BV logo.
Here’s a few photos of the original yellow film canisters with the Disney studios decals:
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Neato!
First before anything else, gotta say thanks to Curly at Little Shop of Games. Visit him at littleshopofgames.com, great Florida based local pin shop. Also, gotta hand out some kudos to Dan ‘gamedoc’ who is a local collector that has taken on a new enterprise of making custom powdercoated sets.
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