Questions to those that collect video games

[pinball22]

Label variations: text, pic, silver, red, Sears text, Sears pic.

[ddaniels]

Since I started this thread, I'm going to take pictures tonight and post them showing my various systems and how my basement is layed out. I'll be curious to hear what everyone has to say of my layout.

[bust3dstr8]

The best thing is to just live in the moment, look at all the cool stuff you have!! Don't think about the big deal you missed last week or what you will do if when your old shitty hands are full or arthritis. Enjoy what you have now and deal with the future when it arrives.

[ddaniels]

 

I wanted to show the $50 Hokus Pokus pinball when I first got it home and the after many months of hard work picture.

 

I took two different angles of my basement so I could show all of the games that I have.

 

This is what my wife gets to see when visiting the basement

[shadow460]

That is fabulous work on the pinball machine! That's what I call restoration!

 

When I get a basement large enough I gotta get me a Virtual On: Operation Moongate and a Jurassic Park machine!

[Mirage]

Yeah, that's a nice little area. I didn't know if these were just junky machines sitting in a corner or nice machines in a nice arcade area. I can't imagine anyone having a problem with that... they're clean, tidy, and good machines. Relax and enjoy them!

[ddaniels]

Yeah, that's a nice little area. I didn't know if these were just junky machines sitting in a corner or nice machines in a nice arcade area. I can't imagine anyone having a problem with that... they're clean, tidy, and good machines. Relax and enjoy them!

 

Thanks for the nice comments. The Hokus Pokus machine was quite the project. The person who owned it before me painted the entire cabinet white hence covering the original artwork. I had to purchase a stencil set for that game and the correct matching paint. I was lucky that the pinball (for it's age) was mechanically working fine.

 

Every game shown in my pictures I personally worked on so that it would look better. For example, the Arachnid dart game, I purchased all new decals as the original ones were faded. That was quite the project finding those.

 

I really enjoy taking something that is old and attempt to bring it back to life.

[Rik]

The best thing is to just live in the moment, look at all the cool stuff you have!! Don't think about the big deal you missed last week or what you will do if when your old shitty hands are full or arthritis. Enjoy what you have now and deal with the future when it arrives.

Good advice!!!!

[ddaniels]

That is fabulous work on the pinball machine! That's what I call restoration!

 

When I get a basement large enough I gotta get me a Virtual On: Operation Moongate and a Jurassic Park machine!

 

Thanks for the compliment.

[Recycled]

I like that space invader on the chalk board!!

[ddaniels]

I like that space invader on the chalk board!!

 

Thanks. For those interested I got those from here

 

http://www.whatisblik.com/Merchant2/mercha...ct_Code=BL-106A

[Numan]

If the collection came before the marriage, she had ample time to know what the story was with the collection. Put your foot down.

 

If the collection came after the marriage, then you have problems, so you have to work out a solution, say you agree to keep it in only one room out of the way in the house.