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CAX or Bust!

Ok I finally get this coin o phrase!

So after a grueling couple of days of printing a masive amount of shirts for this years California Extreme

something like 18 screens, 3 days, and 500 shirts.

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Added by Richard RikiTiki on July 28, 2010 at 3:30pm — 3 Comments

UPDATED: The following were some highlights of an interview ThisOldGame.com had with a former Encom designer I had left out a few details that at the time werent relavent to the VP2.0 project that have since raised some questions so Ill try to fill in some of those blanks

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Added by Richard RikiTiki on July 7, 2010 at 6:00am — 6 Comments

CAX Ts 2010!!

Ok its official and TOG has been given the go from Team Extreme to once again design and print the Tshirts

for this years big event.

Still working out some details and trying to narrow down the designs but they're looking
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Added by Richard RikiTiki on June 26, 2010 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment

CNCs are for Fancy Peoples

Im no Bob Villia but for my latest and greatest project Im startin from scratch and cuttin it old skool.

Though Im not ready to let this cat out of the bag quite yet but I thought I'd start with sharing some of the cabinet building highlights.

So for starters

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Added by Richard RikiTiki on June 25, 2010 at 6:00am — 1 Comment

Some Local Charity Work

Not my first set of custom Tshirts for a local Arcade Collecting Group

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Added by Richard RikiTiki on June 7, 2010 at 6:00am — 3 Comments

N'-Q at TOG

Original post: April 13, 2010
Updates: Ongoing

Last Updated: 05-21-10

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Added by Richard RikiTiki on May 21, 2010 at 8:00am — 7 Comments

TOG To Repro Movie Prop

Now heres an interresting Project-Orginally proposed on KLOV to repro this movie prop as seen in the trailer for the new upcoming movie Tron-Legacy

As the interest grew I got more intrigue by this project and worked closely with an unnamed source getting this art started, vectored, and color seperated making this a reality.

So a couple of things to point out I decided to scree

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Added by Richard RikiTiki on April 12, 2010 at 11:17am — 10 Comments

Arcade Tshirt of The Month-April

The Tshirt of the Month Club continues with our 4th design of the year-Red Baron!!!

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Added by Richard RikiTiki on April 6, 2010 at 10:56am — 3 Comments

Tip Screening 101

And a Happy Birthday to our own Audiomidiman!!! This Inserts for you

So Bill had sent me his original joystick insert for his Mad Planets restoration. Basically a small plastic insert with a raised Gottlieb logo which is supose to be silver that had worn off over the years.

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Added by Richard RikiTiki on April 4, 2010 at 2:30pm — 1 Comment

Lets Play with SideArt!!

Last month when I had Chris get a bunch of art full sized scan, which included: Timber, R-type, Wacko and there was yet another that was sent off...NOS Nintendo Playchoice Si

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Added by Richard RikiTiki on April 3, 2010 at 3:00pm — 3 Comments

Spy Hunter Cockpit Art Continues

Continuing Spy Hunter art for the cockpit TheShanMan brought by the floor piece to the cockpit alot of cockpits Ive seeen is usally missing the floor piece.

Its constructed from a piece of .060 sheet metal with a typical CPO type application then screwed to the

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Added by Richard RikiTiki on March 30, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Major SideArt

Move over Tempest , and make room for some Major Side Art

Last year EndofLine over on KLOV had won an ebay auction for

NOS Major Havoc Conversion SideArt. Many of you know the conversion kits did not come with sideart but a postcard/voucher you could send into Atari to purchase

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Added by Richard RikiTiki on March 29, 2010 at 12:49pm — No Comments

TTTTTIIIIMMMMBBBBEEEERRRRRRR!!!!!!!!

Well Chris' at it again with his next full on resoration which is always good news for everyone else that might need artwork. So Timber along with severval other art pieces were sent off to Art Services in Minneapolis, MN for full piece scanning. Last week I got the scans back of the kickplate

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Added by Richard RikiTiki on March 8, 2010 at 6:00am — 5 Comments

Starship1 - Captains Log

Space the final frontier. These are the continuing blogs and repair logs of the Starship1.

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Added by Richard RikiTiki on March 7, 2010 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Arcade Tshirt of the Month-March

The Tshirt of the Month Club continues with our 3rd design of the year-MOON PATROL!!!

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Added by Richard RikiTiki on March 1, 2010 at 6:30am — 10 Comments

Side RT-ype

Some neat minty ninty art. R-Type SideArt which came to me like most projects...unexpectedly.

A few months back our local PAC group (Portland Arcade Community) met up at Cjs AKA OregonArcad

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Added by Richard RikiTiki on February 26, 2010 at 3:00pm — 3 Comments

Spy Hunter vs Spy Hunter Cockpits

Ive added more projects this past week than I have all year and will be posting ALOT more in the days to come

But yesterday I had the opportunity to visit the ShanMan to scan and work on the SideArt for the SpyHunter Cockpit.

He had not one but 2! And while I wa

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Added by Richard RikiTiki on February 25, 2010 at 12:36pm — 2 Comments

Omega Race-The SideArt Ups and Downs

Lesson learned get all the facts, look at all the details and Always read the fine print before taking on a project.

Orginally presented on KLOV a few years back I cant even remember who started this one. But heres a project that Ive had on the backburner for quite s

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Added by Richard RikiTiki on February 9, 2010 at 1:00pm — 8 Comments