UK WOMBLE Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 Im sure many of you have seen this site before, but some probably havent, i stumbled across it tonight while killing a few hours... Not for the faint hearted http://www.alsarcade.com/Andy/arc/grose/ oh dear.. Si Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susuwatari Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 Blasphemy!!! Sacrilegious!!! Abomination!!! Let's form lynching party for whoever hacked that Computer Space! I'll supply the torches and pitchforks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sku_u Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 I can't believe someone converted Computer Space to Pacman. That must have been a pain in the ass to do. It really makes me wonder what some of these arcade operators were thinking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ussexplorer Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 Well since I look at pictures before I read. I looked first then read the article. First thing that hit me was most of them looked gutted for parts. Thus, I didn't feel to bad. I don't really feel to bad for conversion too. We have all ran into conversions and some looked pretty good. Others look like sh*t. Well then again the arcade you run into is sortof the same way. Some are nice and clean with good look conversions compaired to just a monitor chucked into something. As for stuff in sheds. That isn't do bad, yea weather isn't friendly but still I bet most of those are par par and as most people say on the forum. If these are left overs from arcades. They are mostly 100% dead anyway. laters, ussexplorer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susuwatari Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 You wouldn't be saying the same thing if someone gutted an Adventurevision just to pop in a small TV and 2600 gut. A 2600 console is only a few bucks or so, a small color TV would be close to $50 and a portable 2600 system would probably go for a few hundred on eBay but an intact Adventurevision (working or not) would go for a few G's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ussexplorer Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 I would say it depends on when it happened. If the game came out, paid itself off and then died. Then it got trashed. Then the price went up for working or not. Like in all items. If it was already up in price no matter what. Then the person probably didn't know. I wouldn't have known. Especially before running into this website. Now I know better. later, ussexplorer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassidy Nolen Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 That Computer Space game was sold at auction about 5 years ago in PA. I did not go to the auction, but I remember all the hype about it. Bootleg board conversion. You really would have to bugger that cab to get a monitor vertical in there. Bizarre, and not worth the effort. Conversions are a strange bird....simultaneously the reason arcades are still around, and the downfall of all the classics that were gutted. Ops in the late 80's had literally TONS of games just sitting. Not that many people knew how to work on them, and the games were just sitting (that barn story is not that uncommon). Nobody could ever have imagined that there would be a resurgence, and a market for the dead stuff. Ops saw the cheaper alternatives to buying new machines, and the magic transformation from Missile Command to Mortal Kombat was born. I don't blame them, although it makes me VERY upset to see that stuff too. I worked a warehouse deal about 3 years ago where a number of us bought the entire level of a storage area. There were like 300 machines (I only bought a few of them, and somehow ended up with like 20 Pole Positions). Many of the games were classics that had been converted. Qbert to a flying game, Qix to a poker game, Robotron to a Silkworm. I guess they cant all be saved, but I did manage to get the Robotron redone. IMHO, the Internet is what saved classic games at all. Otherwise, you would never have been able to source the information you needed, or the resources to fix them (all the new production stuff for vectors, multi kits, MAME stuff). BTW, first time I have had to edit, so I will ask how to do it on the topic Cassidy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stingray Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 ... did manage to get the Robotron redone. You're my new hero. Thanks for preserving what I consider to be the best arcade game of all time. -S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vintagegamer89 Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 I have to wonder WTF is the matter with a person who do a thing like that to poor and helpless arcade cabinets? I wish bad luck and terrible hygiene upon those men and their families!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 I have an old Zookeeper cab in my garage that someone gutted and turned into a Arch Rivals JAMMA unit. I was going to MAME it, but gave up on that idea. Now I think I'd like to restore it to Zookeeper but I don't know how hard that would be. I think the only original parts left are the cab and the monitor (still has Zookeeper burn). Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 hahaha I know who did that page and I know the dude who appears in one of them as well. Funnily enough he goes by the name "Tempest" as well (on IRC). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrandviewCoin Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 I've seen this page before.. and man it makes me cherish my games that much even more. Attending several auctions through the years I've see my share of bad conversions.. Hell, Sept 11th auction is right around the corner, maybe I'll take my camera! Daniel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkeykong1 Posted August 20, 2004 Share Posted August 20, 2004 Damn that makes me wanna cry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flack Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 One of the saddest (and dumbest looking) ones I ever saw was a 720 cabinet converted into Mortal Kombat. Punch... or... DIE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flack Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 I almost forgot -- in my garage I have a Robotron cabinet with a Joust bezel with a baseball game inside. Go figure that one out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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