Tighe Lory

This is a great kit that adds freeplay and high score saving to a Donkey Kong Junior arcade game

Here is the final result. I still have a few minor things to do.

I picked up second reproduction quality side art for my Donkey Kong Junior, it turned out really nice!

Here you can see how replaced all capacitors in my Donkey Kong Junior (Sanyo 20EZ Monitor)

I was able to play this rare game at a local arcade collector's party. It is really cool, makes me think of Star Wars crossed with Space Invaders!

I made this table on casters with a 36" height surface to match with my basment arcade. Previously the consoles were in the way and didn't fit in.

I was able to play this rare game at a local arcade collector's party. It is really cool, makes me think of Star Wars crossed with Space Invaders!

This is a modern sequel to Sea Wolf and Sea Wolf 2. I was able to play this in the Chuck E Cheese in New Hartford, NY

I happened to pass by this store on my vacation and I pulled over and shot some video. It was closed at the time, but the store is very cool!

I took the whole family to Funspot this Monday (July 30, 2012) This is unedited video from the visit.

If you have a Saturn SL like me you can use this tip to cool your beverage!

Well, I never thought I would do it, but when the opportunity to buy a Star Trek: The Next Generation Pinball machine presented itself I decided that I would sell the Virtual Boy so that I could get it. Thanks to Nathan Barnatt (AKA Keith Apicary http://www.youtube.com/talkingclassics & http://www.youtube.com/user/nathanjbarnatt) for buying the Virtual Boy and making my dream of owning this pinball come true!

I recently picked up this cool bootleg of Ghosts 'n Goblins. This is the same as Capcom's version, just some bootleggers copied the hardware and ROMs and sold this cheaper to arcade operators back in the 1980's.

I picked this up just the other day, it needs a lot of cleaning and tuning, but it is a nice solid game.

I am making a custom Nintendo style arcade cabinet, and I am using Formica for the sides.

So I had an extra suicided Marvel Vs. Capcom and rather than just have it phoenixed I had it converted to Hyper Street Fighter 2 Anniversary Edition

This is a really neat JAMMA board from the 90's with Ms. Pac-Man Championship Edition and Super Zola Pac Gal on it. Both have a timer you have to clear the stage in and are in turbo mode. Thanks CrazyKongFan for bringing it along!

Thanks to CrazyKongFan for stopping by again on his way to FunSpot, watching him play Gaplus is always amazing, even with my flaky right fire button. I need to fix that.

Fun game, pick one up for your Naomi.

I decided to make a JAMMA adapter so I could use a 60-in-1 multiboard in my Space Invaders Part II cocktail arcade game. It currently has Crazy Kong bootleg board in it called Big Kong. I am not getting rid of that.

So I picked up a Donkey Kong Junior converted to a Playchoice 10 mostly so I had a Nintendo cabinet.

I fixed the monitor by washing it and installing a cap kit (cap 166 was missing! - Thanks Broodwich with you eagle eye finding 166 on the board!)

Before:


Washing:


After: (looks great in person)
The cabinet was pretty rough, but a nice plywood one. It had chunks missing from the sides, the side art was worn to white in places, the t-molding was pathetic, and the base was reduced the the structural integrity of frosted flakes, and that isn't GRRRRREAT!

I made a new base, filled the missing chunks with bondo, Colored in the missing parts of the Vs side art with sharpies, and painted the sides and speaker area with color matched latex paint.

In New York there are so few places that will color match oil based enamel paint because of VOC restrictions that I assumed that I would have to either use crappy latex paint, or buy super expensive automotive paint. If I were to spend money I would but vinyl for the sides, but I really didn't want to spend my money on this one so I went with latex. Looks good, but if you want you can easily scrape it off.

Funny thing is that my 8 month old spilled the paint over that I got at Home Depot (40 miles from my house) so I went to Wal-mart, and their color matching computer was broken, so then I went to ACE, and it turns out that they will color match oil based enamel!

I picked up a quart oil based, but didn't use it as the cabinet was already half painted in latex. I got is as a back-up in-case the latex was a huge failure. It wasn't, it looks good.

I installed some of AudioMIDIMan's True-flat molding, and that stuff is beautiful!

Before:




In progress:



New base:


Almost there:


Done:






Also I installed 1.1 Bios and 2600's NES cart adapter in the Playchoice. It is amazing -- Just Awesome! I had a little trouble with it, but all the issues were my fault, I washed the Playchoice board and adjusted the +5v and it cleared up everything.

Adjusting +5v on a Nintendo PSU is a real pain!




Oh, and I installed a new lock and polished the plexi with with this:

http://www.amazon.com/Meguiars-Profe.../dp/B002L3Z5WC

I was going to buy Novus, but this was right in front of me at Wal-Mart. Worked OK.

Huge thanks to Kosuge-san http://www.youtube.com/user/tekkou0 for sending me this awesome (SAIKO!) package! I really appreciate him finding this for me! It will help me complete one of my upcoming projects!

I was interviewed by Game Room Junkies about my weight loss and world record attempts.

This will make my second Galaxian cabinet, although the other one was in much worse condition and has a much different fate. This one it in mint condition, I just need to install a cap kit and it will be perfect!