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Some of you may recall a coinop member selling this machine a couple months back. Well, after making it's way around the country over the years, it's now in my garage begging for restoration attention. Initially i was just going to clean this up a bit and leave it alone but after really giving it a good once over, there were several things that had been done to it that i just didn't care for. The 1x3 base that was added looks like ass and i'm not sure why the leg levelers were removed since t

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I had the chance to play this one again this year at California Extreme and also down at a museum on the wharf in San Francisco. I figured i'd find one to restore some day if i got lucky and that time came much sooner than expected. I got an inside tip on a small lot of machines an hour and a half away from my house. As the lady read through the list of games she had for sale, nothing was getting my attention until this one was mentioned. With a little cash in pocket i set off determi

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Peeling this art off was nothing short of a several hour nightmare. I tried several different things including heat on one side of the art which produced poor results and finally had to resort to adhesive remover and a scraper to get the other side off. This is going to need a boatload of retouching but if there's any chance of ever seeing this art reproduced, it's probably gonna have to start here. I can get this scanned in one pass on a big flatbed but the big question is who's up to the task… Continue

Here we go with another insanely time and wallet consuming resto that will eventually find its way into my collection. I've never really been a big fan of the gameplay on this one but the cabinet is so cool, i just had to have one. I bought this as a complete and working machine several months back and the condition was good but not good enough that i would throw it in my basement as is so what the hell, let's restore it. The detail list will be very long on this one so stay tuned as i slowly pl… Continue

Summer has flown by and i've had very little time to work on arcade restorations but i thought i'd squeeze this one in before the snow flies. This was acquired many months ago as a working machine but in pretty sad cosmetic shape. I tried peeling the sideart off for reproduction purposes but the heat gun and no amount of patience would get it off in one piece so i gave up and poured on the liquid stripper. The cabinet has alot of bondo on it but the imperfections underneath all that mud are smal… Continue