Jolt Country

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.

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.

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.

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.