Apr 07
Last night I finished the new 1L5B-panel for the new EGRET II and I am very pleased with the look and overall greatness of it. đ I wanted to try out some new stuff, so I’ve modded an Seimitsu LS-32 joystick with an LS-40 shaft. This is also known as the LS-36 (not an official …
Mar 14
Picked up my second EGRET II today: (Sorry for the iPhone picture, I didn’t have a lot of time tonight). It does have some scuffs in the bezel and surrounding body, but just some fast touching up with some appliance paint really made a whole world of difference right away. Already ordered parts to assemble …
Feb 27
Finally sourced and bought another EGRET II. As soon as the weather allows, I’ll go get it and post some pictures of it as well. Will be great to play some ESPGALUDA in it, and ESPGALUDA II (360) in my other one as that’ll be arriving this week. I have something else coming as well. …
Nov 01
Took some new photos of my candy cabs. I’ve updated the cabinet pages, but the photos can be seen directly from here as well. Here they are side by side (using a flash). Here’s a picture without flash. And here’s a couple of pics of the Xiong Ba from above. All pictures are opened in …
Jun 23
Sold a couple of games and invested in a reproduction overlay for my new EGRET II 1L7B panel. Super Contra as well as Gunforce are now gone from the collection. Never mind as I never play them anyway. Someone elses treasure now, hopefully.
Mar 23
Yesterday was a day of joy and excitement. My new cabinet, a Taito Egret II arrived! This will surely be in vertical mode most of the time. I have tested using a laptop and a J-Pac in it and it’s really great for playing Raiden III. This is not the new-in-box thing that I’m replacing …
Hi folks,
I'm a bit too old (born 1974), father of two girls and one boy and have been an avid arcade game fan since I first got to play Knuckle Joe (the game's really crap, what was Taito thinking?) but it got me hooked. Me and a couple of my friends used to ride our bikes around town just to check out the latest games. And we we're really good at playing them. Luckily for me, the game operators responsible for the machines around my home town really had a great feel for what games would be popular.
Look at my collection to see some of the titles that I now as an adult had do have. I was too young to play at the local video rental (they had two NSM cabinets and later switched one of them to a JK Cabinet) and the best operator in town, Video Games was their name.
I stood there watching the older kids play. There was the 15 year age-limit and I was only about 13 at the time. I also played a lot on Aleph cabinets. The operator that favoured those is called Adon-Bolagen.
/Jorgen
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