SiLic0ne t0aD presents: the Sears/TELE-GAMES - Super Video Arcade Controller

SiLic0ne t0aD · February 23

With all these cool Inty arcade style controllers being built lately, I figured I better get in on the action too. 😛

I finished this project up about a month ago, but haven't really shown it publicly, until now. However, this is just a custom, one-off controller that I built for myself, so no worries about stepping on anyone's toes or anything like that.

Some may have seen it before in it's first gloss black incarnation (pics in my gallery - as I actually built this years ago), but over this winter, I decided to give this thing a total facelift and re-do it in the Sears - Super Video Arcade color scheme, with the SVA being my favorite of all the Inty models. 😎

This was built using Grips03's fabulous DIY PCB he was offering once upon a time and a busted up Neo Geo AES controller as the base. It's pretty much the same internally as his controllers, but I really tried to make it look different.

Color wise, I used SEM Color Coat - "Sante Fe", which is a pretty dead on color match to my SVA. I cleaned up some logos found online and made some new designs in Photoshop. They were printed on Silhouette - Brushed Metal sticker paper, then laminated. Lastly, I had some high quality, heavy duty Woodgrain vinyl stashed away for ages (the same kind used on some ice machines) and decided to cut down a strip, die-cut the top corners and add it to the front lip, so that it kind of resembles the face of the SVA console. All that's missing is the gold TELE-GAMES logo. I may try making a water slide decal at some point, but I'd be better off just having it printed onto a new piece of the actual vinyl itself. I'm pretty good with it as-is though, TBH. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I took some "glamor shots" a while ago, but just recently added stickers to mark the Pause and Start buttons (though this really needs to be changed to say Enter instead.. Whoops!). 😅

Anyway, here it is.. I present: the Sears/TELE-GAMES - Super Video Arcade Controller™ ©

Currently with a 4-way gate installed, but I can change this to a NG style square 8-way or JNX GOTW Octogate. I'll probably swap a Seimitsu LS-56 in eventually. I installed threaded brass inserts on all screw bosses, so they'll never wear out anytime soon.

(haha - just kidding on the copyright/trademark thing, but seriously though, I'd love to see DoubleDown make Sears version.. He makes amazing controllers!) 🍻

Edited February 23 by SiLic0ne t0aD