Spotlight on: Moon Patrol

As I began to fall in love with classic games as a kid of the 80's, Moon Patrol was one of my first 'favorites'. A local bingo hall called Jake's was where I played Moon Patrol quite regularly on Friday nights while my mom and grandmother played bingo. As a kid I could make it to point 'Z' then to point 'J' with a high score of 79,360.
 I was able to acquire one from a local amusement company, only to have it destroyed by Hurricane Katrina years ago. This one was one that I had sold to the owner of a bar room in the French Quarter back in '02. He still had it and agreed to sell it to me for around $300. It developed a logic board issue that was resolved by swapping in a working spare, and also has a new repro CPO installed.

Spotlight on : Wacko

Here's one of the games in the arcade that gets regular play, a Bally/Midway Wacko. It uses the MCR-2 hardware, similar to Tron/ Kickman/Solar Fox and a few others.
One Friday Ouida and I stopped by Dee's Amusements in Mississippi to see what they had for sale, and this Wacko was sitting outside in the parking lot. Worse yet was that it was getting ready to pour down raining. The owner, Bill, said $50 and it's yours. I quickly agreed and they brought it inside until I could swing by with my truck the next day.
As for what's been done to the game, of course the G0-7 has been recapped along with Bob Roberts G0-7 trim pot kit to make adjustments smooth. Next, the linear power supply was removed and replaced with an Arcadeshop switcher. Onto the MCR-2 board stack. All ribbon cables were replaced with new ones that I built from scratch. The sound board kept throwing a 'Sound Board Interface Error', so a working spare was swapped in. A repro CPO from Thisoldgame has been ordered and I also have a trackball rebuild kit waiting to be installed. The SSIO board has r135 removed so that sound runs in the attract mode.

Time to get caught up again

Life gets busy sometimes, and it's been a while since I last posted, but now it's time to get caught up once again on the happenings in the game room. First, to start things out, here's a picture of a custom shirt that my wife got me for Christmas. She made sure that the font onthe shirt matches the game room wall lettering font!!