OH YE GOT CIRCUIT BOARDS DO YE

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 9:13 pm

So, Flack dropped by (psh, lookit us JCers all getting together and hanging out) and signed the fuck out of my copy of Commodork, and we played some arcade games and I got the bug for a new one. Of course, I have no room. Here is how I am dealing with my Problem:

1) A guy on KLOV was selling a "Jail Break" board for $20 shipped. I didn't even know if I had anything that would run it. I took a look and it's conversion class: Konami! LIKE GYRUSS! Granted, Gyruss has one button and Jail Break needs three, but fuck it. BOUGHT.

2) Jon Exidy was selling a Centipede board for $75, working, complete, everything. I had always been jealous of the cabaret Centipede at Lyons Pinball. Jealousy leads to hate, hate leads to fear, fear leads to sUfFerRing. So I bought the board, gonna pick it up in Parker, CO tomorrow. I have nothing to put it in. I am vaguely considering doing the legwork to get a cabaret cabinet, not that I have any idea if there's one local.

A lot of people said that the movie "The King of Kong" really inspired them to get a Donkey Kong machine. A lot of people have said that when Tron 2.0, the movie, comes out, prices for Tron will go through the roof. I would also like to state that the main thing that inspired me to get a Centipede board was that recent horror movie The Human Centipede.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Jul 03, 2011 2:50 pm

Update!

I sold my extra Gyruss PCB. Sold it for $80, which is $5 more than what I paid back in the day.

I bought a spare Arkanoid PCB. It is now my only Arkanoid PCB, as I sold my Arkanoid to cleverlyj.

When I bought Marble Madness, the guy threw in a Road Blasters PCB (as well as the control panel and pedal). Road Blasters takes two boards, the generic System 1 one as well, and I don't have a dupe of that.

I took the money I got from the IntroComp and used it to buy a Tetris PCB, bezel and marquee. My understanding is that Tetris is JAMMA. The KLOV page says something about a "Tetris pinout." That doesn't sound good. That doesn't sound JAMMA. But I have found far more references to the thing being bog-standard JAMMA.

So I dunno. I don't have room for any games, but maybe I'll have Tetris rotate in and out with another JAMMA-compatible cabinet.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 12:31 pm

Gyruss is a good board to own, especially with a JAMMA converter. Gyruss on the 48-in-1 board isn't quite right. I can't remember if it's the sound or the feel or what, but I remember it being slightly off. (Not enough for me to own one, but a little off.)

I have about 10 boards sitting around, stuff that either came out of old cabs or stuff I've picked up along the way. I don't know if I mentioned it or not, but the middle cabinet out in my garage is actually just a JAMMA test cabinet.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 8:42 pm

Yeah, the sound on 48-in-1 Gyruss is like getting vm from the of Mouth of God on a boy-soaked Ngage.

I also just bought a Warlords PCB. I don't have anything else for Warlords, but at least it's a start. My goal will be to somehow acquire the rest of the items for cocktail Warlords within one year.

I may have a problem with PCB acquision.