There is not a whole lot taking place on the restoration front right now. I simply don’t have time. Although the All American Football cabinet still needs new t-molding, I’m tempted to dive into a full blown restoration of either Donkey Kong or Track & Field. Right now, I’m leaning towards the Track & Field restoration.
I’m also working on acquiring another non-working game. I haven’t committed yet, but the price is right and it’s not too far away. The only problem is working out the details of a pickup as my calendar is pretty full for the next few weeks and I’m not sure how long the current owner would be willing to hold onto it for me.
For those that are interested, there haven’t been too many updates to the site as I recently attending a week long conference in Florida and just returned Sunday from a week long vacation in South Carolina. In Tampa, I briefly visited the local GameWorks. I was pretty disappointed in the game selection. They had a couple of Madden showcase cabinets, a ton of sit down racers, a few redemption games and 3 pinball machines. They were all Stern machines including a Nascar machine which was out of order, a Family Guy machine and one other which I can’t recall the name of. Not one classic game in the joint.
In South Carolina, I took my kids to a mini-golf/go karting place one evening after dinner. They had a decent arcade with about 5 pinball machines (the only one I can remember is a Williams Funhouse), some sit down racers including Need For Speed, Fast and The Furious, Mario Kart Arcade GP (which my kids think we need to own), some skeeball machines, a few redemption games, Tekken 3 and 5 if memory serves correctly and even a Ms. Pacman/Galaga 25th anniversary game.
That’s all for now….I’ll save my brush with death with a shark for another day. I might have to stretch the facts just a bit to make it sound more impressive than it actually was.
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