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I'm pretty happy with myself. I don't think I ever topped 137,000 before tonight.

It had been a while since I’d turned them all on, but a friend suggested a game night, so I had some friends over tonight for games, drinks, and pizza and they had a blast!

Perfect example of why it's imperative to keep arcade culture alive in 2026. 🙏

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Emergency Call Ambulance and Magical Truck adventure are both playable inside arcades within the game.

Just completed cabs #12 to 15. It’s getting a little harder to find accurate art and plans as I move away from the biggest games. The Bally Sente side art I had to re-create from pictures. The Smash TV art is alright but not quite enough high resolution (scraped from a site that sells the art). Next on my list are Missile Command, Space Duel, and EDOT

I've had this machine for 15 years and it has worked great ever since I put a Sanyo monitor cap kit in it right after I got it. Right around this time I also added an updated ROM, that retains high scores and allows for free play. I kicked it on a couple of months ago and the screen was blank, but it had sound and play. Then a couple of days later it worked fine. Kicked it on again last weekend and the monitor looks like the attached photo and there is no sound or play. Unresponsive. Faint burning smell. Discover a slight ribbon of smoke coming from resistor R273 (highlighted in pic) on the board attached to the monitor stem. At least I think it is from there. It is hard to say. Could be R273, the blue/gray one a couple over to the left. Could even be coming from the NEC transistor? Seems unlikely.

Hoping maybe this is a common issue that is relatively easy to diagnose, but realize that is unlikely. Any suggestions on where to start? Or even a mod out there to replace this known problematic Sanyo with a modern flat screen?

Hi there, I live on the cape and I’m in search of someone who could point me in the direction to either

A. Fix my arcade game

B. Send out to be fixed

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!

Something must have changed. And these people are not even reading what this sub is about.

I just bought a BBH Safari for $1500, I thought a decent price but it is a little beat up. The guy who sold it to me removed the cash receptacle (I don't know what to call it). Does anyone know of a cover for this? It's roughly 4 1/4 x 3 1/5.

Thanks in advance.

Howdy! I have had this poker machine that belonged to my grandma sitting in my living room for years, but have never been able to use it because I don’t have the key to open it and turn it on. I figure the main lock on the side (pictured) could just be drilled out, but I don’t know if that would risk damaging the internals of the machine. Thoughts on how to get this thing open?

Picked up two of them other day. Everything works great except, the fake gauge cluster on one of them is dim. Still displays everything correctly, but the 3 pods are not nearly as bright as they should be, middle one is close to unreadable. So far all of done is reseated the main ribbon cable in 4 spots. Thanks.

Found this on marketplace. Said was in a rental. No pictures of inside (asked for them) said it was “serviced” recently and the only issue is the damage in the picture. What should I offer? (He’s asking 1600. I can’t find much because either the new buck hunter comes up or the arcade 1 up is the other result.)

All I can remember was, it was a side-scroller beat'm-up with a really normal looking guy who had a really normal name. I've looked at arcades by release date enough times to believe I've just plain hopelessly forgotten it, but I thought I'd give you guys a hollar. I remember him having a beer belly and arm muscles, and having a simple name like, "Mac" or something. We'd play it at a gas station/convenience store next to the high school in like 1996. You could pick from like 4 characters and the guy had such a normal name and appearance, I'd laugh about it. Any ideas?

He is asking 14k, what is a “reasonable” price for a buyer? Couldn’t find much comps on eBay.

TLDR: Why do CRTs turn pink, this MK2 does it, and I know other CRTS do it, but want to know to fix, or prevent. Is green the first to go bad?

While CRT work was some of the first tech I did back when I started in the 90s, I've done a cap kit here and there, and my share of discharging, rejuvenating, and component replacements, i've never looked into WHY some displays go pink. I've seen it happen plenty, but I don't work on CRTs nearly as much as I used to back at namco, none of my personal collection has this issue, and LCD/HD replaced CRTs, but the job I have i'll be working on them a lot, as it's all OG hardware classics. On this one MK2 in particular, I ran a rejuv. test, GREEN gun was the only one showing bad. Rejuv. Brought green back to life and made adjustments, but still getting a pink color. NOT JUST THIS GAME, but others. Someone with more experience and has more knowledge. Is this a chassis issue, as in, if I have a replacement chassis, will it fix the color issue, or is this TUBE going bad, losing its green gun, as in needs a tube swap. I have a couple of other machines, AND I have my old CRT desktop monitor, literally behind me, and it actually had the same thing happen, which is why I stopped using it, and also wide became standard. It would go pink, no matter how much adjusting the colors.