tthurman

Everything seemed so common place back then that you would have likely have been viewed as odd for taking a camera into an arcade, but I'm glad some did anyway. https://timeline.com/golden-age-video-arcades-940a177ccb30 Some pretty cool footage put to horrid music (IMO)

PC Gamer review

30 hours remaining as of this post. https://www.gog.com/en/game/genesis_alpha_one_deluxe_edition

Not perfect, but makes it look so easy. https://www.tiktok.com/@fixer17d/video/7155370887926091013?is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7155370887926091013

Dead Space was a good game too, with much more dated graphics obviously. First thing that entered my mind while reading.

Sorry to hear this Tom, this is unacceptable

Ah, the good old days when everything crawled blazingly fast in at 56k speeds (if you were lucky) at a snail's pace over dial-up. Who doesn't remember anxiously waiting for the last few graphics to finally load in anticipation of clicking the next available smorgasbord of links? The internet of those days is certainly gone, but it's fun to look back at some of these sites that shared similarities with these early designs. Naughty Dog's site especially reminds me of sites from those days. https://www.timeextension.com/news/2022/10/gallery-take-a-trip-down-memory-lane-with-these-classic-video-game-websites

I know some of you Sega fans out there will appreciate this, so I had to post this when I saw it. "This is the hypothetical Sonic 4 on Sega Mega Drive that never happened"

I purchased one of these along with a yoke adapter a couple of years back and the quality is superior to the original in that it addresses the shortcomings of some of the internal gearing. I "think" a short run of the Arcade 1up Star Wars cabs was available with these and with the additional manufacturing quantity that the overall price dropped to where it currently is. I can't seem to find that info now but do seem to recall it. Regardless, there are kits to convert the 1up cabs to these available at Alan-1. This is a bargain for anyone looking for a first-rate quality reproduction yoke considering I must have put at least 1k in restoring my original.

I've been waiting for these to become available, looks like a modern replacement for the Dell 2007FP https://www.retrorgb.com/arcooda-20-240p-arcade-monitor-review.html

Good read over at Bob's. https://www.retrorgb.com/makemhz-announces-xbox-mod-project-stellar.html Looks and sounds impressive. https://makemhz.com/products/xboxhd

“Yanko Design”

Ah, makes sense. I never played either back in the day, and only played Sinistar after your many mentions of it here.

2. Williams’ Blaster Cockpit Looks just like the Sinistar cockpit. The duramold cabs are interesting, never saw one though, in fact I never saw a lot of these! http://duramold.rotheblog.com/

The Rotheblog used to be much more active until several years ago when the forums closed down, but I visited it again last night for the first time in years. I had found some reproduction side art for "War of the Worlds", which I was completely unfamiliar with. I stumbled upon this article while searching and thought it was interesting to see this run-down on classic and sometimes very rare games from 2008. https://www.rotheblog.com/2008/08/arcade/15-most-valuable-classic-arcade-games/

Williams Defender Restoration 1 https://arcadeblogger.com/2022/10/02/william-defender-restoration-1/

James Earl Jones Retires From Voicing Darth Vader An AI program voiced Darth Vader in ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ so James Earl Jones could finally retire More here

Glad to see they went with Sean Connery era bond for these https://arcadeheroes.com/2022/09/22/james-bond-007-pinball-revealed/

It's no secret that Tony's blog is among my favorites and in this update Tony details a Defender cab he picked that needs a bit of TLC. https://arcadeblogger.com/2022/09/12/weekend-pickup-williams-defender/ Clearly a bit of Wilma Deering influence in that poster.

This is a decent kit that I found a while back and put it on the back burner until I had some extra cash. I was surprised to find it locally, but iFixit had refurbs for $29 that everyone claimed looked new, so I thought I'd just pick it up on a future order. Long story short, it seems it's gone from their site now, so I ran to my local Home Depot to grab one of the six they showed in stock. Got there to find a single one left on the shelf. Anyway, I can vouch for it and it if you're in the market, seems like a good assortment of necessary tools for consoles and controllers. https://www.homedepot.com/p/iFixit-Mako-Precision-Bit-Set-67-Piece-IF145-299-4/308082198

"looks" like decent quality for a stamped frame, I would guess they would retail for perhaps as much as $50 ish each. For that price and in a pincab I think it would be worth rolling the dice. Sucks to see people getting taken like that though, It's hard to imagine that people can be such asshats to others!

My guess is a bunch of vendors got hung with unpaid and undelivered orders. I've seen this in the speaker industry more than once, AV123 left their suppliers high and dry and much of that inventory was later purchased or otherwise acquired by Danny Richie who had spent his time and efforts on the R&D. Better something than nothing from a bunch of defunct branded inventory.