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Jeff — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:29:08 +0000

Just a note to all…I moderate all comments on this site. That means your comment on any particular post will not show up immediately. I get notified when a new comment is posted, and either approve it or disapprove. I will not show up on the site unless I have approved it. This is necessary to keep the spam comments from appearing. I receive almsot 100 of those a day. Unfortunately, notifications of new comments have started getting rejected by my e-mail spam filter even though I have it set to allow them. Until I work this out, it might take a day or two for legitimate comments to appear on the site.

New Game Added, Another Coming

Jeff — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:05:19 +0000

Well, it’s been a hectic month. When I last posted, I promised pictures of my newly acquired Golden Tee cabinet with 25″ monitor. Those pictures haven’t been taken yet. I’ve started removing the parts from my All American Football cabinet to put in the new cabinet and am slowly returning the All American Football to it’s original state.

Yesterday, I picked up a non-working Centipede. This one is in very rough shape and needs a lot of cosmetic repair. It’s going to get a full restoration eventually, similar to Dig Dug. I’d like to get the game working first before committing a lot of time to the restoration. Pictures will be forthcoming.

I also made an offer last week on a non-working Operation Wolf. I just got a call that they accepted the offer. I will probably pick it up sometime this weekend. Again, pictures will be forthcoming. In summary, I owe you pictures of three new cabinets. Stay tuned.

All About Me

Jeff — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:45:44 +0000

By popular request, I finally developed an “About Me” page. Click on About in the menu above. Warning, this page is probably not safe for work as you might find yourself asleep at your desk before reaching the end. If sleeping on the job is allowed at your place of employment, have at it.

Jeff’s Arcade Wordpress Launch

Jeff — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:26:18 +0000

Welcome to the new home of Jeff’s Arcade, formerly jmphillips.net. Besides a fancy new domain name, I’ve switched content management platforms. The old site used Joomla while the new site will make exclusive use of Wordpress.

I have grown extremely fond of Joomla over the years, but found it to be too complex for a simple website like mine. I will continue to develop sites in Joomla, but think that Wordpress and many of its social networking features are a better fit for the content of this site.

All of the articles from the old site has been transferred over, and jmphillips.net now automatically forwards all traffic to jeffsarcade.net. I still need to re-code many of the image links as they still point to the old site, but they work so I can take my time with that part of the transition. To help with the loading times of the site, most images for a post will not appear until you click the “read more” link.

I’m not sold on the theme I’m currently using so the look and feel of the site may change over the next few days as I experiment with different themes and then begin to customize them. If you have a link to jmphillips.net on your website, you will probably want to update it to jeffsarcade.net. I have submitted the new site to the appropriate search engines, but It will take some time before it’s indexed.

The focus of the site will remain the same, to provide you with information about my arcade restorations and hopefully in the near future to chronical the building of my small basement gameroom.

Lack Of Updates

Jeff — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:59:59 +0000

Progress on all of the arcade restorations has come to a screeching halt. Not because of lack of desire, rather a lack of free time in the schedule. Traveling soccer season has started for my son and daughter, which means two nights of practice each week and games on the weekends. Track season has started for my daughter which means track meets during the week and on the weekends. Baseball season has started for my boys which means baseball practices scheduled at various times during the week. Fortunately, baseball games don’t start for a few more weeks. I think you get the idea….time to work on the arcade machines is limited.

The good news, I’ll be adding another game to the collection tomorrow. It is supposed to be working and in pretty good cosmetic shape. I’ll post some pictures of the new additional Wednesday or Thursday. All I will say right now…it’s the machine I’ve wanted since starting my collection. If it’s working and in good shape, it’s getting plugged in for some quality playing time. Any restoration on it will wait until I’m done with All American Football and Track & Field.