Introduction:
I always dreamt of someday owning my very own Arcade machine or even a Pinball. So after I bought my house I made those dreams a reality starting with a arcade cabinet later followed by a slot machine, an other arcade, some other machines that are now sold or in storage and lastly my very own pinball. These machines have taught me a lot as they keep breaking and needing upkeep and repairs. At this moment of time I have downscaled this hobby and only have one Arcade machine in active use.
I always dreamt of someday owning my very own Arcade machine or even a Pinball. So after I bought my house I made those dreams a reality starting with a arcade cabinet later followed by a slot machine, an other arcade, some other machines that are now sold or in storage and lastly my very own pinball. These machines have taught me a lot as they keep breaking and needing upkeep and repairs. At this moment of time I have downscaled this hobby and only have one Arcade machine in active use.
Vertical arcade cabinet (The Invasion):
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This the first machine I ever got, it came with the game Exerizer, but originally it started out as a vertical space invaders clone called "The Invasion". The cabinet was already converted (and in a pretty bad state) when I got it. Originally it still had a CRT monitor, but that one sadly died at some point so I replaced it with a LCD monitor. I gifted the dead monitor to someone who might be able to and hopefully has breathed new life into it. I also replaced the power supply and the control panel as the original had clearly gone through hell. At the moment is has a switching 6 PCB multiboard inside that can hold multiple game PCB's which you can switch between via a remote control. It also holds a video signal converter board that converts the original signal for the CRT to a standard VGA connector. The 60 in one board has a separate VGA output so I build in a switcher to switch between the two different VGA signals. The games that are currently loaded:
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What I still have planned for this one:
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Down Town (Romstar)
| Game: | Series: |
| Down Town | n/a |
| Manufacturer: | Controls: |
| Romstar | Joystick: 8-way Rotary [LS-30 type] / Buttons: 2 [Punch Kick] |
| Arcade system: | Release date: |
| JAMMA | 1989 (1989 years ago) |
| Wikipedia: | Arcade-museum: |
| n/a | Down Town |
| Status: | Issues: |
| Working / Missing necessary hardware | Game needs special joysticks |
| Work done: | Planned work: |
| n/a | Sell it maybe |
| Information: |
| Got it via e-bay only afterward I realized it needs special rotating joysticks. |
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Exerizer / Sky Fox (Jaleco)
| Game: | Series: |
| Exerizer | Exerizer / Sky Fox |
| Manufacturer: | Controls: |
| Jaleco | Joystick: 4-way / Buttons: 2 [Special Fire] |
| Arcade system: | Release date: |
| JAMMA | 1987 (1987 years ago) |
| Wikipedia: | Arcade-museum: |
| Sky Fox (1987 video game) | Exerizer |
| Status: | Issues: |
| Working | n/a |
| Work done: | Planned work: |
| Deep cleaned | n/a |
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| This one came with the cabinet. I really like this game, while not as well know I think it one of the best single screen SHMUPS (Space Invader / Galaga style) games I have ever played. It stoped working at some point, but this was fixed after a good clean in the dishwasher and a drying session in the oven afterwards. |
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Gals Panic! (Kaneko)
| Game: | Series: |
| Gals Panic! | Gals Panic! |
| Manufacturer: | Controls: |
| Kaneko | Joystick: 4-way / Buttons: 1 [Draw] |
| Arcade system: | Release date: |
| JAMMA | 1990 (1990 years ago) |
| Wikipedia: | Arcade-museum: |
| Gals Panic | Gals Panic |
| Status: | Issues: |
| Not Working | Scrambled visuals |
| Work done: | Planned work: |
| Deep cleaned, replaced capacitor | Clean soldering |
| Information: |
| Bought it via e-bay, and it had slightly scrambled visuals when I received it. I tried to give it a good cleaning but this only made it worse completely scrabling the screen making it unplayable. After chekking the board I found a small capacitor with a broken connection lead. Sadly the desoldering process did not go well as the old solder refused to melt causing me to probably burning and ruining some of the connections on the board. |
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iCade 60-in-1
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| Game: | Series: |
| iCade 60-in-1 (multi bootleg game card) | iCade multi game card |
| Manufacturer: | Controls: |
| Unknown | Joystick: 8-way / Buttons: 3 (various per game) |
| Arcade system: | Release date: |
| JAMMA | Unknown |
| Wikipedia: | BootlegGames Wiki: |
| n/a | ICade 60-in-1 |
| Status: | Issues: |
| Working | n/a |
| Work done: | Planned work: |
| n/a | n/a |
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First board I got after Exerizer, it has a lot of all the must have vertical classics. My favorite game on the card is Shao-lin's Road. It also contains Zaxxon from which I have a board game Zaxxon board game that was pretty fun to play.
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Strikers 1945 (Psikyo)
| Game: | Series: |
| Strikers 1945 | Strikers 1945 |
| Manufacturer: | Controls: |
| Psikyo | Joystick: 8-way / Buttons: 2 [Fire Bomb] |
| Arcade system: | Release date: |
| JAMMA | 1995 (1995 years ago) |
| Wikipedia: | Arcade-museum: |
| Strikers 1945 | Strikers 1945 |
| Status: | Issues: |
| Working | n/a |
| Work done: | Planned work: |
| n/a | n/a |
| Information: |
| Bought it via e-bay, one of my favorite vertical SHMUPS. |
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Twin Eagle: Revenge Joe's Brother (Seta / Taito)
| Game: | Series: |
| Twin Eagle: Revenge Joe's Brother | Twin Eagle |
| Manufacturer: | Controls: |
| Seta (licensed to Taito) | Joystick: 8-way / Buttons: 2 [Fire Nuke] |
| Arcade system: | Release date: |
| JAMMA | 1988 (1988 years ago) |
| Wikipedia: | Arcade-museum: |
| Twin Eagle | Twin Eagle |
| Status: | Issues: |
| Working | n/a |
| Work done: | Planned work: |
| n/a | n/a |
| Information: |
| Bought it via e-bay, a good vertical SHMUPS. |
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Horizontal arcade cabinet (Defence):
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Got this one from marktplaats.nl. It was already converted and in a pretty bad state when I got it. It came with a boxing game called Final Blow, I sold this game for a decent price almost making back the entire investment of the cabinet. I already did some work on it like replacing the buttons with ones that light up (also going from 3 to 2 buttons). The original idea was to convert the cabinet to a custom multi Bubble Bobble cabinet (BB, BB 2, BB 3, Puzzle Bobble). This cabinet is however pretty bulky and in a not so great shape. So I am now thinking of gutting it and selling the empty cabinet for the use in someones MAME project, I will then take the insides and combine it into the other vertical cabinet that I have. |
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| Gutting and selling |
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Horizontal arcade cabinet (Multi Games):
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Got this one from a friend. I was stalling it in my house as it would be his MAME project someday, but he did not had the room to store it at the time. After a couple of years however (after he moved to a new place with more room) it was decided that I could keep it as my own. It is not working at the moment and I am planning on taking the good working stuff from the my other horizontal cabinet and building it into this one as this one is better looking. |
| Planned work: |
| Filling it with the guts of my other cabinet and making a multi Bubble Bobble cabinet. |
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Youtube: Me getting the machine to "work" but with issues after we first received it:
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SNK Neo Geo MVS MV-2F
| System: | Manufacturer: |
| Neo Geo MVS (Multi Video System) | SNK |
| Model | Media |
| MV-2F | Cartridge |
| Arcade system: | Release date: |
| JAMMA | 1990 (1990 years ago) |
| Wikipedia: | Wiki Arcadeotaku: |
| Neo Geo (system) | SNK Neo Geo MVS |
| Status: | Issues: |
| Working | n/a |
| Work done: | Planned work: |
| n/a | n/a |
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The MVS (Multi Video System), as the Neo Geo was known to the coin-op industry, offered arcade operators the ability to put up to 6 different arcade titles into a single cabinet, a key economic consideration for operators with limited floorspace. With its games stored on self-contained cartridges, a game-cabinet could be exchanged for a different game-title by swapping the game's ROM-cartridge and cabinet artwork. Several popular franchise-series, including Fatal Fury, The King of Fighters, Metal Slug and Samurai Shodown, were released for the platform. I got it as a gift from one of my friends, it was originally part of the arcade cabinet that I also got from him. |
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Taito F3 System
| System: | Manufacturer: |
| Taito F3 System / Cybercore | Taito |
| Model | Media |
| n/a | Cartridge |
| Arcade system: | Release date: |
| JAMMA | 1992 (1992 years ago) |
| Wikipedia: | Wiki Arcadeotaku: |
| Taito F3 System | Taito F3 System |
| Status: | Issues: |
| Working 1x / Working with issues 1x | Occasional scrambled screen 1x |
| Work done: | Planned work: |
| n/a | Clean connection between board and F3 System |
| Information: |
| The Taito F3 System (also known as Cybercore) is an arcade game system released by Taito in 1992. Some early games running on F3 hardware were released as standalone PCBs, but most complete F3 kits consist of a motherboard and pluggable game ROM carts, very much like NeoGeo or CPS2 |
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Art Of Fighting 2 (SNK)
| Game: | Series: |
| Art Of Fighting 2 | Art Of Fighting |
| Manufacturer: | Controls: |
| SNK | Joystick: 8-way / Buttons: 3 [Punch Kick Throw] |
| Arcade system: | Release date: |
| Neo Geo MVS | 1994 (1994 years ago) |
| Wikipedia: | Arcade-museum: |
| Art of Fighting | Art Of Fighting 2 |
| Status: | Issues: |
| Working | n/a |
| Work done: | Planned work: |
| n/a | n/a |
| Information: |
| Came with the cabinet / MVS system. |
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Super Bubble Bobble (Bootleg) (Taito)
| Game: | Series: |
| Super Bubble Bobble (bootleg version) | Bubble Bobble |
| Manufacturer: | Controls: |
| Taito | Joystick: 2-way / Buttons: 2 [Shoot Jump] |
| Arcade system: | Release date: |
| JAMMA | 1986 (1986 years ago) |
| Wikipedia: | Arcade-museum: |
| Bubble Bobble | Bubble Bobble |
| Status: | Issues: |
| Working | n/a |
| Work done: | Planned work: |
| Cleaned it / replaced capacitor | n/a |
| Information: |
| My favorite retro game ever, and the game currently in my cabinet. It did not had any sound and one capacitor was loose when I recieved it, after a deep clean (in the dishwasher ofcource) and a freshly soldered capacitor it is now working fine. |
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Bubble Bobble II: Bubble Symphony (Taito)
| Game: | Series: |
| Bubble Bobble II: Bubble Symphony | Bubble Bobble |
| Manufacturer: | Controls: |
| Taito | Joystick: 8-way / Buttons: 2 [Shoot Jump] |
| Arcade system: | Release date: |
| Taito F3 System | 1994 (1994 years ago) |
| Wikipedia: | Arcade-museum: |
| Bubble Symphony | Bubble Symphony |
| Status: | Issues: |
| Working | n/a |
| Work done: | Planned work: |
| n/a | n/a |
| Information: |
| Its Bubble Bobble II and its great. |
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Bubble Memories: The Story of Bubble Bobble III (Taito)
| Game: | Series: |
| Bubble Memories: The Story of Bubble Bobble III | Bubble Bobble |
| Manufacturer: | Controls: |
| Taito | Joystick: 8-way / Buttons: 2 [Shoot Jump] |
| Arcade system: | Release date: |
| Taito F3 System | 1996 (1996 years ago) |
| Wikipedia: | Arcade-museum: |
| Bubble Memories | Bubble Memories The Story Of Bubble Bobble III |
| Status: | Issues: |
| Working with issues | Occasional scrambled screen |
| Work done: | Planned work: |
| n/a | Clean connection between board and F3 System |
| Information: |
| It is my 2nd favorite Bubble Bobble game after the original version. |
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Puzzle Bobble / Bust-a-Move (Taito)
| Game: | Series: |
| Puzzle Bobble / Bust-a-Move | Puzzle Bobble / Bust-a-Move / Bubble Bobble |
| Manufacturer: | Controls: |
| Taito | Joystick: 2-way / Buttons: 1 [Shoot] |
| Arcade system: | Release date: |
| Neo Geo MVS | 1994 (1994 years ago) |
| Wikipedia: | Arcade-museum: |
| Puzzle Bobble | Puzzle Bobble |
| Status: | Issues: |
| Working | n/a |
| Work done: | Planned work: |
| n/a | n/a |
| Information: |
| Wanted it for my Bubble Bobble multi cabinet as it takes place in the Bubble Bobble universe, and I had an MVS system already anyways. One of my pet peeves however is the fact that I have been unable to turn off the attract music, I can therefore not just have the cabinet on in the background with this game in it. |
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Super Sidekicks / Super Side Kicks (SNK)
| Game: | Series: |
| Super Sidekicks | Super Sidekicks |
| Manufacturer: | Controls: |
| SNK | Joystick: 8-way / Buttons: 2 [Shoot/Slide Pass/Tackle] |
| Arcade system: | Release date: |
| Neo Geo MVS | 1992 (1992 years ago) |
| Wikipedia: | Arcade-museum: |
| Super Sidekicks | Super Sidekicks |
| Status: | Issues: |
| Working | n/a |
| Work done: | Planned work: |
| n/a | n/a |
| Information: |
| Came with the cabinet / MVS system. |
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Tetris (Bootleg) (Atari)
| Game: | Series: |
| Tetris (bootleg version) | Tetris |
| Manufacturer: | Controls: |
| Atari Games | Joystick: 3-way / Buttons: 1 [Rotate] |
| Arcade system: | Release date: |
| JAMMA | 1988 (1988 years ago) |
| Wikipedia: | Arcade-museum: |
| Tetris | Tetris |
| Status: | Issues: |
| Working | n/a |
| Work done: | Planned work: |
| n/a | n/a |
| Information: |
| Its Tetris, what more do I need to say. It is one of those games that you can basically always just play a round of, and it is therefore a great choice to have sitting in your cabinet. Sadly this bootleg can not have its attract music muted, and I therefore had to mute it entirely when it was in my cabinet. |
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Sadly I do not own any Pinballs anymore at this moment in time. See the "Other" section for the ones I owned in the past.
Sadly I do not own any Pinballs anymore at this moment in time. See the "Other" section for the ones I owned in the past.
No longer in my collection:
Mistral:
Fun Land:
Data East - Tales from the Crypt:
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Mistral:
| Name: | Type: |
| Mistral | Fruit Machine |
| Manufacturer: | Distributor: |
| Bell-Fuit Games | Elam Group |
| Release date: | Arcade-museum: |
| Unknown | n/a |
| Status: | Issues: |
| Working | Some lights are not working |
| Work done: | Planned work short: |
| Replaced some light bulbs, Build in a button to add creddits | n/a |
| Other: |
| I owned this one for 10 years but ended up selling it as I needed space for more display cases. It was really fun machine to play once in a while but after 10 years it was time to let it go. |
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Fun Land:
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| Another slot / video poker machine that I used to own, I lend it to my parents for a while but at some point I sold it on marktplaats.nl. It was quite a funny machine with multiple poker and slot games. |
Data East - Tales from the Crypt:
| Name: | Manufacturer: |
| Tales from the Crypt | Data East |
| Type: | Display type |
| Solid State Electronic (SS) | Dot Matrix |
| Release date: | Produced: |
| 1993 (1993 years ago) | 4,500 units |
| The Internet Pinball Database: | pinside: |
| Tales from the Crypt | Tales from the Crypt |
| Status: | Issues: |
| Working with issues | Thinks its missing one ball on boot |
| Work done: | Planned work short: |
| n/a | Check ball launch mechanism |
| Information: |
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| Planned work: |
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| Other: |
| I ended up selling this one after having owned and played it for over 6 years. It was really fun machine to play but it was time to let it go. |
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Other:
The monitor that died from my vertical cabinet, I gave it away for free via marktplaats.nl in the hope that it would not go to waste and someone could fix it.
