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Mods Jamming

19th May, 2010 - 2.30 pm

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I’ve been busily sorting out a JAMMA headphone socket and an autofire adapter for my Egret 2. The headphones work a treat and I have mocked up the auto-fire too. Here’s a glimpse of them. I’ll put up a full article when I finish. Headphones: I did this video for a friend, when I say [...]

It’s been all go

31st March, 2010 - 8.14 am

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It’s been a cracking few weeks. First off I have given my room a subtitle: Ramcade! I got a replacement monitor for my Power Drift, only to then find a stack more problems. After weeks of trying I eventually got it working. Then promptly sold it! I had to make way for… The Egret 2 that [...]

Mission Control V4

14th February, 2010 - 4.59 pm

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The start of a new layout for mission control. I’ve moved a few things around and got my arcade machines in. Turned them all on for the first time together. Thought you might like to see the results! Mission Control V4

No… Really… No-one Can Survive the Masher

9th February, 2010 - 7.41 pm

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  9th February 2010:  EEEEEeeeeeeeekkkkk!  No other words needed!          

Dances With Machines

1st February, 2010 - 5.39 pm

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Wahoo! Dragon’s Lair 2 came. The only trouble is there’s nowhere to put it! So: Shift the Smash T.V.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

18th January, 2010 - 7.13 pm

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Wah we wah we wahhhh: My Smash T.V. and Powerdrift eventually got delivered. Smash T.V. is nigh on mint, it just needs a bit of a clean on the control panel. Powered it up and it worked fine. Absolutely brilliant game. Wah we wah we wahhh: The Powerdrift was damaged internally. The monitor control PCB [...]

Get me out of Here!

4th January, 2010 - 5.52 pm

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4th January, 2010: I sold it a few days ago and the  time arrived where I had to prepare to move my Cinematronics Space Ace ready for removal by a courier.  As it happened it was Sunday, 3rd January and I had the motivation to move it. I wasn’t expecting the courier for another week [...]

My Life is Empty!

4th January, 2010 - 2.41 pm

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4th January, 2010: Sent my Space Ace out today to a lucky owner in Italy. So I have no cabs in my room! My life is empty and will be until the snow disappears. I have loads of pictures of packing it up, I’ll post them shortly.

First Steps First

29th December, 2009 - 5.25 pm

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29th December, 2009: Obviously my plan to own my own dog’s nadgers arcade room thingy has to begin somewhere. Today it was to arrange delivery of my existing Space Ace to Italy and to sort out a second job. Seriously… A second job. Well not so much a job as a way of raising funds [...]

Goodge St Casino, London: A Visit

27th December, 2009 - 7.46 pm

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Goodge St Casino, London: A Visit Tuesday, 18 July 2006 00:00 There I was one day, reading some discussions at shmups.com, when I noticed a discussion about arcades. It’s a topic close to my heart because I go to Blackpool every year for a couple of days specifically to visit the arcades. The only things that [...]

The Space Ace Saga: Part II, “Can We Keep Him?”

27th December, 2009 - 7.28 pm

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So to recap, it’s just after Christmas 2004 and there I was with a piece of smashed up wood in my front room and all I could do was play the Space Ace laserdisc on a separate player.

The Space Ace Saga: Part I, “No-One Can Survive the Masher”

27th December, 2009 - 7.08 pm

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November, 2004… eBay should be switched off. Well that’s my opinion anyway because it’s solely responsible for a new disease sweeping the world; the “press the button, go on, BIN it, you know you want it, it’s there, just press the button” disease. It’s the ultimate car boot sale. There I was one day, minding my own business, when all of a sudden the urge hit me, but eBay, for once, couldn’t help me. So off to the rest of the interweb I went and posted a couple of messages on a couple of discussion boards thus, “Space Ace wanted”.

The Great Stick of Everything

27th December, 2009 - 6.41 pm

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Ikaruga, a hard game by anyone’s standard, and one that requires an accurate input device, which unfortunately the Dreamcast (DC) pad isn’t.