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Category: Arcade

11 April 2015

New arrivals 11/04/15

Written by S11
A big pile of cheaper things for once including some which are pretty interesting! The Deep – it’s like a strange take on Scramble except all you can do is bomb in two directions and control the rate of...
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Arcade
29 March 2015

Metal Slug 2 – reducing the slowdown

Written by S11
UPDATE 15/05 – DO NOT BUY FROM PEOPLE PRODUCING MODIFIED CARTS, the readme file specifically bans making money from this patch.  Since this work is given away entirely for free, a modified cart is worth the same as an...
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Arcade, Games, Tech / Repair
16 March 2015

New arrivals 16/03/15

Written by S11
Managed to get hold of two surprising things this past week or so!   Spider – strange little game by Buena Vision, it’s another Qix clone, this time without girls and instead having a strange and occasionally colour cycled...
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Arcade
06 March 2015

New arrivals 06/03/2015

Written by S11
I really should do a few posts showing some of the art I recently picked up.  Instead, here are more PCBs.   64th Street – already have a Japanese one of these, this is a World version.  Not sure...
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Arcade
10 February 2015

New arrivals 10/02/2015

Written by S11
Things.  Many things.  Sheer number of PCBs in the house now becoming a problem, the large number sat here for sale isn’t helping much either.  I should really take a few photos of the art I’ve picked up lately...
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Arcade
01 February 2015

Repair – Namco NB-1 leaking capacitors

Written by S11
A never-ending plague… I picked up a NebulasRay earlier this week, hard to find these days and I’d heard someone mention reliability issues.  It arrived, it worked, and upon close inspection I can see one reason these would fail. ...
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Arcade, Tech / Repair
26 January 2015

New arrivals 26/01/2015

Written by S11
So I finally had to address the silly idea of just using DD/MM as the post date for these.. Couple of things, one seen before but it helps me track everything when I’m documenting the collection to post things...
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Arcade
29 December 2014

LED Storm – an unusual game with an unusual history

Written by S11
Living as I do in the UK, consoles weren’t really the big thing and everyone had home computers – the Spectrum, C64, and later the Atari and Amiga.  On the ZX Spectrum and the Amiga when I graduated to...
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Arcade, Games
25 December 2014

Miss World ’99? New game discovered.

Written by S11
I picked up a Miss World ’99 by Eolith which arrived today.  I was honestly expecting this to be an alternate name for Landmaker, but …. Allegedly this says Miss World..  Not being able to read Chinese (at least...
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Arcade
24 December 2014

New arrivals 24/12/2014

Written by S11
Last PCB haul for the year, and there are some really interesting ones. UFO Robo Dangar – this one is licensed by Tecfri.  Or was it?  It’s known that Tecfri licensed quite a number of games from various manufacturers,...
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