Introduce yourself here!

[ChrisBEANS]

Hello everyone, my name is Massimo and I write from Italy, I'm from 78 (old man) and I love Street fighter 2 C.E.

78 and still playing SF?? Sweet!!! Good to meet you dude.

[RolexTM]

Hey all!

My name is Alex, i come from southern Germany near Lörrach.
I have been tinkering and working with electronics, computers, cars and motorcycles for 20+ years.

As i side project i am part of a small computer museum, where i mainly work with the server stuff and fixing electronics.
The other people there have their love with home computers / game consoles / arcade stuff / japan stuff ...

The Japan / game guy recently bought a whole lot of arcade PCBs where i have been slowly working my way through.
This forum has been a GREAT help, so i thought i might just register here since i may contribute a bit and also i currently
have a wonderboy in monsterland bootleg here that is almost fixed but needs just a little idea....

See the flyer of our museum here

so henlo hoomans, be prepared to see some questions about my dreaded wbml sprite problem here soon

[Carlos]

Hola a todos soy carlos de españa y ando buscando una blast city

[Tenkei]

Hello everyone !

I'm Tristan from France, I've been a fan or arcade games for quite a number of years and I finally got my very own New Astro City recently.
This forum has helped me quite a bit but I still need some help to make it work perfectly and that's why I registered, it might help future owners too.

Big thanks to everyone involved in this community, you're all amazing.

[Wiihavealife]

Hello everyone!

Been lurking here for a good month or two now so thought it was time to join you all here

I've been mainly into rhythm games for a long time now and own a few cabs of that nature (DDR, Jubeat, Reflec Beat).

Looking to get more into the world of candy cabinets and the capcom cute repro preorder had taken my interest so I jumped on that. I'm excited when that will arrive and what I'll be able to do with it. Still have to figure out what I'll be doing for the monitor

Very new to this stuff so I'm always reading and finding out more as I go along.

Glad to have finally joined and to participate on the forums with you all!

[LordGorchnik]

Well hello there. Been around for a bit but what ultimately led me to register was the fact you all have a buy/sell section.

My father and I both enjoy arcade games but he is more on the pinball side while I enjoy the stand-ups and specifically Shmups genre.

Best wishes to all.

[Simone]

Hello i simone a greeting to everyone is interested in the marketplace for candy cabs and spare parts

[Ajax]

Hello everybody,

My name is Aaron, and I'm from and currently live in Utah, in the US. I've been into games my whole life, got into PC Engine in the early 2000s. Got my first Neo Geo cab (an MVU4) back then, fulfilling a childhood dream. Many cabs have come and gone since then, but I still actually have that MVU4. I moved to Japan for several years about a decade ago, and spent a lot of time in all kinds of game centers, primarily in east Japan (some in west Japan, but to a much lesser extent). Major ones located right outside the exits of big train stations, tiny ones barely on the map to which you have to drive/ride a bike, and everything in between, I guess.

While I was first starting my family and finishing a graduate degree, I kind of had to take a hiatus from my hobbies in order to focus. I have very slightly more time now, and have been kinda getting back into arcade games since earlier this year. I've currently got the above mentioned Neo Geo machine (it's out having the chassis repaired currently, but I do still own it), two Blast City cabs, a Vewlix F, and a Neo Geo Big Red. All kinds of hardware and games, none of it very baller status, but I've very thoroughly enjoyed all of it.

I've been on a certain Neo Geo related forum for a good while, joined AP not long ago, and have referenced various things on this site many, many times over the years. Thought it would be a great time to finally join, and hopefully contribute in some small way. My username is Ajax everywhere, and I'm very happy to be here. Thank you for having me, I look forward to interacting with all of you.

[Demitri1983]

Hey Guys, been into arcade stuff since 2007. I have a few modest cabs and a small collection of games. Looking to build on my knowledge by using the Search function. Hope everyone has a good day. Thank you.

[Ignorama]

Hello, my name is Matthias and I am from Germany. To be honest, I registered here, because I am looking for a game and a member of a german board told me, that its up for sale here. I am not really in the arcade world, more a regular console player. I am 33, started with the Super Nintendo in the 90s and went all the way to the PS5 today. But I am a collectors as well, so I own about 100 CiB SNES games and, which may fits a bit to arcade, a Intellivision Full Set. So I am at least familiar with some of the classics like Space Armada, which is basically a Space Invaders clone.

Don't know what else to write, but if there are any questions feel free to ask

[Astrix]

Hi, new to the forum . I don't have any arcade hardware as of yet but I do have a Bally Atlantis pinball machine and will be looking to pickup my first candy cab! Thanks!

[PLAYRADISE]

Hello,

I‘m Martin from Austria & I‘m a pinball guy but today I bought an SNK Neo SC19-4 from Japan.

Can‘t wait to get into this hobby too.

All the best & stay healthy,
Martin.

[UmaroPj]

Hello,

Umaro from France.

I play and love videogames for almost 35 years now.

I think I have played almost all systems since the 8/16 bits area.

The first game I played in arcade is Shinobi, back in 1989 I think.

I began to buy real arcade PCB games like 4 years ago.

Happy to be here

[dynamic]

Hello,
I'm dyn, glad to join your Forum, have a new astro + raiden and some stuff.
cya

[Jamesdcat]

Hi

I have just joined the forum, I have loved arcade machines since the eighties and worked in one in the early nineties, and now find myself with it as a hobby in the twenty twenties. I have a few projects on the go at the moment much to my wife’s distress but unfortunately slightly addicted. Happy to be on the forum

[sl1pm0de]

I’m from the states. I love all things arcade. I also do restores and love hunting down arcade treasure wherever it may be found.

Games List
https://www.arcade-museum.com/members/m ... _id=386263

Rarest games owned
- Environmental Discs of Tron
- Splatterhouse JP
- Night Slashers US (Looking for JP version. Please DM me if you know where I can find one for sale.)

Favorite owned game
- Dedicated Ghouls n Ghosts cab that also holds Ghosts n Goblins

[klee123]

Heya all


I'm from Australia. Recently got a Minigun Supergun and a few boards and really getting into this hobby.

Nice to meet you all!

[captainfatsas]

Hello,
My name is Dimitris, really happy to join the page. I love arcade games

[Petkorazzi]

Well, I've always found introducing myself to a group of strangers to be pretty awkward but here goes anyway!

My name is Joel but people usually call me Petko or "Pet;" I'm 38 and live in Pennsylvania, USA. Semi-frequent lurker of the forum for a while but never thought I'd actually own an arcade machine of my own or have anything to contribute to those who do so I never registered. That all changed last week.

After years of dreaming and searching for a Candy Cabinet (ideally an Aero City), I'd nearly given up - they're rare in the Mid-Atlantic USA and when you do find them they're quite expensive. Pure dumb luck had me stumble across a Facebook listing for a 100% functional Ms. Pac-Man machine...in a Capcom Impress cabinet with no screen burn-in or visible damage at all...for about 1/4 what I'd seen candy cabinets go for in my area. I had it loaded up in my truck that day.

Here's where I feel like the "I have no idea what I'm doing" dog meme should go. I practically lived in arcades as a youth in the 90s and have done the usual skim-reading online, but I know nothing about owning my own arcade machine. Further, this cabinet is an enigma - Ms. Pac-Man predates JAMMA, the control panel is definitely not original (it's a jigsawed piece of Lexan), and (perhaps most critically) I have no keys for the cabinet. I know there are adapter boards to convert old Midway games to JAMMA and I hope that's what's going on here, but I do have a secret fear that some mom-and-pop vending company hacked the harness to bits. Ugh. Another oddity is that the joystick in the cabinet has an octagonal gate (which is really annoying for Ms. Pac-Man).

So, here we are. I'm going to be bugging all of you with a billion questions I'm sure. Some plans/ideas for the near-mid future:

1. Pick the locks open with an impressioning tool and see what we've got going on in there; either have keys made or put new locks in.
2. Flip the jumper on the Ms. Pac-Man board to the factory setting of 10,000 points per extra life (it's set on 20,000 right now).
3. Find an original Impress 2-player control panel and put that in there.
4. Fix the coin mech and have it take 100-yen coins for that "authentic" feel.
5. Rotate the monitor (which terrifies me, as I'm afraid I'll break something) and convert to ARpiCADE

A preemptive thank-you for the welcome and here's to a long future relationship, as now that I've got this thing I'm never letting go of it!

[GeryM]

Hi arcade friends,

I am new here, although I have been watching the forum for a long time. My name is Gery, I live in the Czech Republic and as a kid I played on arcade machines and later on consoles, for me nostalgia and love for life. I have been interested in the arcade scene for many years, I own two candy cabs, two dedicated cabs and many pcb boards, neogeo games. For me it is a return to childhood, memories, beautiful times, nostalgia. Relaxation from hard times