Due to a variety of reasons, posting has been light over the past month or so. I hope to change that today, with a rare “double post” update. Hopefully, after the second post, you’ll see one of the reasons that my free time has been so limited.
First up, my Christmas haul for this year. Really, it wasn’t a haul, just the one item that I had asked for (other than a pinball machine which I did not get). I managed to score a reproduction control panel for my Donkey Kong cabinet, along with a reproduction joystick. These are available from Mike’s Aracade and I’m very pleased with the quality. It is not installed on the game yet, more on that in post number 2. Here are a few shots of the control panel and joystick that I snapped on my way out the door this morning. I was in a rush, so the quality is not the best:
While the old control panel wasn’t in terrible shape, it had a few cigarette burn marks, the bolts were all rusted and the black laminate was peeling from the wood. I’ll clean the old one up, keep the joystick and buttons just in case and try to sell it to another collector. Pictures of the entire Donkey Kong cabinet and old control panel are available in the photo gallery. I can’t wait to get it on the machine but that may be a while.
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