21 October 2006,

Finally scored a Atari Lynx cart that has been at the top of my Most Wanted list, QIX. Link to my Atari Lynx page here.

16 October 2006,

Site has been down in the last 48 hours due to a server move. Back up now. :)

16 August 2006,

New game/cart is:

• The King of Fighters '94 (c) 08/1994 SNK. Pictures here

Thanks to Aussie Arcade Forum member Feeras for this cart. :o)

27July 2006,

PCB SALE... A few of old Black & White pcb's and some colour raster, (not working). Link here

21 May 2006,

Torrents for download added to Downloads section.

Fraggal, creator of the famous FRAGGAL BOOT CD, is back with a new version for us all.

New features to 4.02.F:

- Completely new install interface
- AdvMAME 0.97.0
- Dos Mame 0.100
- ArcadeOS 2.51
- ArcadeVGA support
- Fixed goofy random bugs here and there
- ArcadeOS "UPDATE.BAT" support!
- Several more options for installation.

Latest Torrents are:

FRAGGAL'S BOOT CD ver 4.02F

How to Beat Space Invaders (Australian magazine circa 1980)

19 April 2006,

New PCB is:

• Bomb Jack (c) 10/1984 Tehkan . Testing and fully working, pictures here

In other news, I received my Super Single (Plus)* from OzStick. Review and pictures of the unit can be found here.

12 April 2006,

New PCB is:

• Namco Classics Collection Vol.1 (c) 1995 Namco. Testing and fully working, pictures here

30 March 2006,

New PCB is:

• Double Dragon (c) 08/1987 Technos. Universal. Tested and fully working, pictures here

20 March 2006,

New PCB is:

• Cosmic Avenger (c) 07/1981 Universal. Working, pictures here

11 February 2006,

Have put some time into overhauling the entire website. This is the result.

09 January 2006,

New PCB's are:

30 December 2005,

Recent purchase is a Nintendo Micro Vs. System, Boxing. (circa 1984). Works fine, although it is missing the battery cover and white plastic has faired terribly over time, (22 years old). Pictures here

03 November 2005,

New PCB is:

23 September 2005,

I have a soft spot for 1970's Black & White games. I have acquired quite a few of them now

New PCB's are:

Pictures are here.

01 September 2005,

New PCB is:

26 July 2005,

Australian Links updated.

22 July 2005,

New PCB is:

11 July 2005,

New PCB is:

9 July 2005,

Won some more arcade-related memorabilia lately on eBay, an Atari embroidered jacket in new condition. See pictures of it here.

19 June 2005,

New PCB is:

Been busy with new job lately and haven't purchased much recently either, hence the lack of updates. Hopefully I can start adding some more info to the site.

29 January 2005,

New PCB's are:

PCB pics here.

9 January 2005,

PCB pics here.

Just a minor amendment. I found out one of my "Space Fever"s is actually a genuine1980 Nintendo Space Firebird. yaaaay, love this game, great sound on it. Was introduced to this game when I was young years ago at a place called Peppermint Park in Port Macquarie, NSW. Ahh the memories. :o)

Happy New Year everyone. Scored some more boards recently:

MAME related:

JoyMonkey has updated his fabulous 'rom sorter script' to .90. The utility is available here. What is it you ask, here is a snip about what it does.

VMOVE.BAT is a simple batch file used to seperate vertically orientated MAME roms from the horizontal roms. Just extract the contents of the zip into your ROMS folder and run VMOVE.BAT - It will create a folder on your hard-drive called C:\ROMSVERT and then it'll move all the vertical roms you've got into it, all horizontal roms are left in your ROMS folder.

30 March 2006,

New PCB is:

• Double Dragon (c) 08/1987 Technos. Universal. Tested and fully working, pictures here

20 March 2006,

New PCB is:

• Cosmic Avenger (c) 07/1981 Universal. Working, pictures here

11 February 2006,

Have put some time into overhauling the entire website. This is the result.

09 January 2006,

New PCB's are:

30 December 2005,

Recent purchase is a Nintendo Micro Vs. System, Boxing. (circa 1984). Works fine, although it is missing the battery cover and white plastic has faired terribly over time, (22 years old). Pictures here

03 November 2005,

New PCB is:

23 September 2005,

I have a soft spot for 1970's Black & White games. I have acquired quite a few of them now

New PCB's are:

Pictures are here.

01 September 2005,

New PCB is:

26 July 2005,

Australian Links updated.

22 July 2005,

New PCB is:

11 July 2005,

New PCB is:

9 July 2005,

Won some more arcade-related memorabilia lately on eBay, an Atari embroidered jacket in new condition. See pictures of it here.

19 June 2005,

New PCB is:

Been busy with new job lately and haven't purchased much recently either, hence the lack of updates. Hopefully I can start adding some more info to the site.

29 January 2005,

New PCB's are:

PCB pics here.

9 January 2005,

PCB pics here.

Just a minor amendment. I found out one of my "Space Fever"s is actually a genuine1980 Nintendo Space Firebird. yaaaay, love this game, great sound on it. Was introduced to this game when I was young years ago at a place called Peppermint Park in Port Macquarie, NSW. Ahh the memories. :o)

Happy New Year everyone. Scored some more boards recently:

MAME related:

JoyMonkey has updated his fabulous 'rom sorter script' to .90. The utility is available here. What is it you ask, here is a snip about what it does.

VMOVE.BAT is a simple batch file used to seperate vertically orientated MAME roms from the horizontal roms. Just extract the contents of the zip into your ROMS folder and run VMOVE.BAT - It will create a folder on your hard-drive called C:\ROMSVERT and then it'll move all the vertical roms you've got into it, all horizontal roms are left in your ROMS folder.

2 November 2004,

Scored some great Classic games today:

All work 100%. PCB pictures here

I missed the sites 3rd Birthday on the 28th October, (slack I am). Even though I don't get many hits, I love updating the site when new things come along, and when time pemits.

20 September 2004,

Site update and upgrade. It was time to give it a fresh look. The animated gif were bugging me. So after 2 days working on it on and off, we have what you see now.

Fire Fox is a alternative internet browser. I have been using it for awhile now and I can honestly say that I won't be going back to Internet Explorer anytime soon. Click the Fire Fox link above to try this browser out for yourself. Don't be scared, it's just a program like many others you have installed on your PC. It can be easily uninstalled with no troubles what so ever. It's not a 'all invasive program' like Internet Explorer. Give it a go, you be glad you did.

06 September 2004,

Latest accumulations are:

2 Atari t-shirts and 1 Atari cap, free. Thanks Mark

27 July 2004,

Latest scores are:

13 July 2004,

Latest wares are:

29 June 2004,

My eBay auctions failed to sell so they are now on my 'For Sale' page. The asking price is $15 for the URL Inc pcb, and $30 for the Challenge pcb.

In other news, I received 4 unopened packs of Topps Donkey Kong cards from 1982. It features 3 rub-off cards, 3 stickers and 1 stick of gum. After 22 years the gum was no good though. :o( I opened 3 packs and kept 1 for unopened. Pics are here.

22 June 2004,

eBay Auctions from 21 June 2004 - 28 June 2004:

Update on the pcb's listed below. The Crash 'n Score works great. I scored a nice bezel pictured here, to go with it.
Formula K is not working and the Destruction Derby is in a sad state, ic's missing, bad caps etc. I hope to find time to get it going one day.

After a long hiatis JoyMonkey has updated his fabulous 'rom sorter script' to .83. The utility is available here. What is it you ask, here is a snip about what it does.

"VMOVE.BAT is a simple batch file used to seperate vertically orientated MAME roms from the horizontal roms. HMOVE does the opposite. Just extract the contents of the zip into your ROMS folder and run VMOVE.BAT - It will create a folder on your hard-drive called C:\ROMSVERT and then it'll move all the vertical roms you've got into it, all horizontal roms are left in your ROMS folder".

11 June 2004,

More Black & White boards,

Will be testing most shortly.

28 May 2004,

Scored a Sega Outrun 2 keyring the other day, (thanks Shane). Picture here.

Also received a nice picture of a Pinny Parlour that I used to haunt when I was on Holidays in Port Macquarie, NSW. Picture here.

10 May 2004,

Received my recent win off eBay, 1979 Taito Straight Flush Bezel and Control Panel. Pictures here.

27 April 2004,

With the help of my friend Geoff I finally got around to testing my Super Bug and Express Raider and they work fine. I didn't have a B&W monitor for testing the Super Bug on and no spares for knocking up a Data East harness.

Wanted, good prices on Jamma fingerboards, 18 & 22 way edge connectors.

14 April 2004,

Yesterday the mail came and I received my 1977 Atari Super Bug lot. It was a good win. Remember this game is 27 years old now. Pictures here.

Lot included:

The geocities site will still be used and updated.

06 April 2004,

New pcb is:

26 March 2004,

The new Ripley's Believe it or Not has arrived on the Gold Coast, Australia. I got to play a few games before it goes out on site. Pics are here.

This pinball is going to be located at P&P Chicken Bar and Cavery, Shop 1 on the corner of Price St Nerang (Petros), across the road from the Mobil.. Owner is Shane from Austral Amusement Co.

15 March 2004,

Scored a Robotron Lynx cart of eBay recently. Boxed and works great. Pics here.

14 March 2004,

I have added a new 'Australian Collectors Web Sites' section to the links page. If you want your page up, contact me.

12 March 2004,

I recently swapped my non-working Orca Crazy Kong, (bootleg), along with a LAI Berzerk control panel, for a working single layer pcb of Crazy Kong, (legally licensed; by Falcon). Today I finally received it. yaaay. Pics are here, along with pics of my Cabal I scored recently.

10 March 2004,

Scored a nice Space Invaders T shirt the other day.

New pcb is:

18 February 2004,

My T-shirts that I ordered from the U.S. finally arrived today. 1 is an Atari Dig Dig, the other is an Atari Night Driver. These can be purchased here. Pictures are here.

20 January 2004,

New pcb is:

02 January 2004,

First off, 'Happy New Year'. Lets hope it's a good one for you all.

New pcb's are:

15 December 2003,

Lord of the Rings pinball has arrived on the Gold Coast, Australia.
Site will be announced in the next few days.

The owner/operator of Lord of the Rings pinball is Shane from Austral Amusement Co . He had just picked the machine up after several where flown into Sydney from Stern in America, when I got the call saying "oi, I got one. Drop round for a few games before it goes out on site". Needless to say I was there in a flash. I have played The Simpson's Pinball Party and Terminator 3, but this pinball is finished beautifully, and the back glass artwork is stunning. The playfield is very nicely done and the flow of shots for various modes is great. Stern's best effort so far. The manufacturers date is 4 Dec 2003.

The Lord of the Rings pinball is getting the playfield mylared by Gordon Williams of Pinball Rescue. While at his house I discovered a very nice collection of EM games. The highlights for me were the Sega Helicopter and a 1957 Bally De Luxe Club Bowling. Click here for pictures

17 November 2003,

JoyMonkey has updated his fabulous 'rom sorter script' to .77. The utility is available here. What is it you ask, here is a snip about what it does.

VMOVE.BAT is a simple batch file used to seperate vertically orientated MAME roms from the horizontal roms. Just extract the contents of the zip into your ROMS folder and run VMOVE.BAT - It will create a folder on your hard-drive called C:\ROMSVERT and then it'll move all the vertical roms you've got into it, all horizontal roms are left in your ROMS folder.

16 November 2003,

I have got the host issues worked out, (pheeew). www.thepinnyparlour.com is back online. Thank Dean.

Having issues with the host of my site. After many attemps to solve the problems I have had to rollback to http://geocities.com/thepinnyparlour.

Small update to the links section.

28 October 2003,

"HAPPY 2ND BIRTHDAY"

(***bright lights, glitter and all that crap***)

That's right 2 years ago today this little site started. My goodness I've spent lots of cash since then, heh heh heh.

In a bizarre coincidence, a kind person has donated his hosting services for me to use. A really big thanks goes out to him, cheers. :o)

So here today I can announce that www.thepinnyparlour.com is going live today when the upload is complete. (Great birthday present).

15 December 2003,

Lord of the Rings pinball has arrived on the Gold Coast, Australia.
Site will be announced in the next few days.

The owner/operator of Lord of the Rings pinball is Shane from Austral Amusement Co . He had just picked the machine up after several where flown into Sydney from Stern in America, when I got the call saying "oi, I got one. Drop round for a few games before it goes out on site". Needless to say I was there in a flash. I have played The Simpson's Pinball Party and Terminator 3, but this pinball is finished beautifully, and the back glass artwork is stunning. The playfield is very nicely done and the flow of shots for various modes is great. Stern's best effort so far. The manufacturers date is 4 Dec 2003. Click here for some pictures.

The Lord of the Rings pinball is getting the playfield mylared by Gordon Williams of Pinball Rescue. While at his house I discovered a very nice collection of EM games. The highlights for me were the Sega Helicopter and a 1957 Bally De Luxe Club Bowling.

17 November 2003,

JoyMonkey has updated his fabulous 'rom sorter script' to .77. The utility is available here. What is it you ask, here is a snip about what it does.

"VMOVE.BAT is a simple batch file used to seperate vertically orientated MAME roms from the horizontal roms. HMOVE does the opposite. Just extract the contents of the zip into your ROMS folder and run VMOVE.BAT - It will create a folder on your hard-drive called C:\ROMSVERT and then it'll move all the vertical roms you've got into it, all horizontal roms are left in your ROMS folder".

16 November 2003,

I have got the host issues worked out, (pheeew). www.thepinnyparlour.com is back online. Thank Dean.

Having issues with the host of my site. After many attemps to solve the problems I have had to rollback to http://geocities.com/thepinnyparlour.

Small update to the links section.

28 October 2003,

"HAPPY 2ND BIRTHDAY"

(***bright lights, glitter and all that crap***)

That's right 2 years ago today this little site started. My goodness I've spent lots of cash since then, heh heh heh.

In a bizarre coincidence, a kind person has donated his hosting services for me to use. A really big thanks goes out to him, cheers. :o)

So here today I can announce that www.thepinnyparlour.com is going live today when the upload is complete. (Great birthday present).

The geocities site will still be used and updated.

28 October 2003,

Big story recently for me is new domain name and host. Details of that shortly.

Finally on the 29th October this little project site turns a whole 2 years old. A whole heap of things have happened to me regarding arcade and mame in 2 years. This site has recorded the journey.

Finally got one 2 of my most wanted boards, IPM Invader and Crazy Kong.

New pcb's are:

Pictures of the boards are here.

An operator friend of mine in Queensland has had a nice rare dedicated Scramble come through his workshop while I was on a visit. I took a few pictures of it here.

12 October 2003,

Update on my Arcade Controller for PC Gameport, 'Controller Box'. Finally made a decent control panel overlay. Click here

05 October 2003,

Have been thinking of making a controller with joysticks for my PC. With the help of this page, Jivin' Jim's Jazzy Jumpin' Java-less Page, I have been able to rig up a arcade controller that connects to the 15 pin, D-connector gameport of my PC. 4 button, with 2 joysticks, (2nd joystick hooked up to fire buttons - Robotron). Thanks to Super Mapppy for his help and for pointing me to Jims web site for the infomation.
Some pictures of progress so far can be viewed on my 'Miscellaneous' page here.

Pictures of my 1983 Seibu Denshi Stinger pcb are here.

JoyMonkey has updated his 'rom sorter script' to .74. The utility is available here at the downloads page.

17 September 2003,

New PCB is 1983 Seibu Denshi Stinger. Will try and convert to a Wiz if possible.

Pics of my Arkanoid and Street Fight (Empire City:1931) are available here.

07 September 2003,

New PCB's are: 1986 Taito Arkanoid. Have always wanted this game. Second is 1986 Seibu Kaihatsu Street Fight (Empire City:1931). I got 2 now. I was hoping it was going to have the Empire City:1931 title screen but it hasn't.

Mame.73 is out. JoyMonkey has updated his fabulous 'rom sorter script' to .73. The utility is available here.

On the 30th of July I had said that I won a Route 16. It turns out that it was not a Route 16. The PCB has since been identified as a 1982 Yachiyo Electronics Mole Attack and has been sold.

11 August 2003,

Big update today. Mame.72 is out and today I got a nice 26" horizontal 4 player cab. It will be for Mame when time permits. Click here to check it out.

08 August 2003,

Austral Amusement Co have announced that Stern Pinball's latest, Terminator 3 is now on the Gold Coast. This pinball is located at P&P Chicken Bar and Cavery, Shop 1 on the corner of Price St Nerang (Petros), across the road from the Mobil.
Get out there those who want to play the latest Stern offering. It's set on $1 for 3 balls. I'm out there myself shortly.

05 August 2003,

Minor site update, i.e.: 'For Sale/Wanted' and 'Miscellaneous Arcade' pages added.

30 July 2003,

New PCB is 1981 Tehkan/Sun-(Centuri Licence) Route 16. I won this today so I await it's arrival.

Today I got to play Stern Pinball's latest offering, Terminator 3. It is very nice looking machine and is reminiscent of old Williams machines in sound and beautiful playfield. After a quick few games and getting a feel for it, I found the shots where aplenty and flow is excellent. The RPG feature in the headbox is fun, as is the nice effect of the blue light in T-X challenge mode. The steal ramps are nice and clean looking, and really look great on the playfield. The tight and twisting ramps are fun shots to make.
My opinion is on hold for the moment as I only had 1 hour to play the machine today. Next week I will be able to play it for awhile and get a good feel for the game and reach some decent modes. I hope it's as good as 'The Simpson's Pinball Party' which I rate as excellent.
This machine is owned by Shane from Austral Amusement Co and will be out on a site (yet to be announced) shortly.

28 July 2003,

Thanks to Shane from Austral Amusement Co. The 2 x unknown control panels have been identified as Berzerk and River Patrol. Thank mate. :o) Check them out, click here.

24 July 2003,

I won 5 assorted LAI control panels recently and today they arrived. 1 x Donkey Kong, 2 x Ghostmuncher / Uniwars, 1 x River Patrol, 1 x Berzerk. To check them out and maybe help me identify the unknowns, click here.

13 July 2003,

Today I received 2 fully working low boys in good condition. These were free from a friend who needed the room. He removed both games and I got everything else. Thank Sean ;o)

Red Marquee low boy has a horizontal monitor with 2 players. Great for 2 person shooters.

The Galaga marquee low boy had a a bootleg Galaga called Gallag in it.
Click here to see them

06 July 2003,

Mame .71 is out and JoyMonkey has updated his fabulous 'rom sorter script' to .71. The utility is available here.

30 June 2003,

Site update all around.

16 June 2003,

New PCB is 1984 Namco Pac-Land. Thanks to Geoff. Images of the pcb can be viewed at the 'arcade collection' page.

04 June 2003,

Minor update. More links added to the 'links' page.

30 May 2003,

Have just added heaps of new pictures of my game boards, (pcb's), to the 'arcade collection' page. Have also scored some nice caps, (the ones that go on your head), lately to.

24 May 2003,

Mame .69 out, whoa!, I just finished getting the last. :-) JoyMonkey has updated his fabulous 'rom sorter script' to .69. The utility is available here.

New PCB is 1990 Alpha Denshi Co. Blues Journey / Raguy, ok it's a MVS Cart.

19 May 2003,

New Mame is out, (.68), wooohooo. JoyMonkey has updated his fabulous ROM sorter script' to .68. The utility is available here.

New PCB is 1989 Capcom Strider. Status unknown. This PCB is a 1989 Capcom Final Fight. Untested.

07 May 2003,

New PCB is 1983 UPL Nova 2001.

02 May 2003,

New PCB's are 1992 Capcom Street Fighter 2, 1989 UPL Omega Fighter, 1982 Data East Burnin' Rubber.

Haven't has time to test them yet. Status unknown.

23 April 2003,

New PCB I scored is 1988 Sega Altered Beast.

Today, with help of my friend, I got around to testing out the old B&W 1976 Gremlin coMotion pcb. It works great, :-) not bad for a 27 year old piece of hardware. The other board I thought maybe a Gemlin bootleg, is not working but we suspect it to be one of the dual games like 'Invinco / Deep Scan' or 'Invinco / Head On 2'.

18 April 2003,

Got some more PCB's today, one is an old B&W 1976 Gremlin board called 'coMotion'. It's a 4 player version of 'Blockade'.

The two other boards I'm yet to identify. I think one is a Gremlin bootleg board, and the other is a board made by ARTIC that I'm yet to identify.

08 April 2003,

[ANNC]-- The 'VerticalMameList' is officially finished. JoyMonkey's Rom Sorter Script is my preferred utility.

Fantastic News: Fellow Mamer (JoyMonkey) has been hard at work creating a very easy way to sort out Vertical, and Horizontal Mame Games. He has called it 'Vertical / Horizontal Rom Sorter Script', and I have to say it works brilliantly well. So well in fact, that if he continues to update it with each new release of Mame, I will be ending my 'VerticalMameList' as this is just the thing I was looking for (at the time of building my own cabinet), but was never around.

Please go to the 'Downloads' page to get JoyMonkey's great utility. UPDATED TO MAME.67

Links page updated.

12 March 2003,

Have updated the 'VerticalMameList' to coincide with the release of Mame.66

List availble from the 'Downloads' page,

10 March 2003,

Finally got my new PCB's in the mail today: WWF Superstars and Nastar. Click here to see them.
Also purchased some minty NOS (new old stock) game guides published by Pinnacle Books Inc and written by Fred & Stan Goldstein in December 1982. The guides are of Pac-Man and Donkey Kong. Very good information I might add.

23 February 2003,

I went to play the new Stern 'Simpsons Pinball Party'. What a fun game, it's great and has alot of features which really increases ones enthusiasm to play more. This machine is on the Pacific Motorway, southbound at Reedy Creek Ampol Gold Coast. (nice Galaga there as well).

Austral Amusements (Gold Coast) owner/operator Shane, gave me some nice pinball flyers today, so a big thanks goes out to him. :)

Shane also let me have a few games of his fantastic Williams Gorgar. The sound on this is great as with all Williams games.

21 February 2003,

Got some nice screen perspex's today. Mid 1970's Sprint 2 and Atari/LAI Firetruck. Nice edition to the walls they will be. Also, some pics of my Mortal Kombat 3 marquee, and my Strider PCB as well as the Sprint 2 and Firetruck can be seen here.

New PCB's are: Nastar and WWF Superstars.

12 February 2003,

Have updated the 'VerticalMameList' to coincide with the release of Mame.65

List availble from the 'Downloads' page,

29 January 2003,

I just scored my most wanted game PCB, a Capcom Strider. I was instantly hooked on the gameplay, sound, and the excellent graphics when it came out (circa 1989). Thanks to John.

Have updated the 'VerticalMameList' to coincide with the release of Mame.64

List availble from the 'Downloads' page,

22 January 2003,

Purchased a Sega Wonderboy PCB. I like this game, it took alot of my money when I was going to high school. Pics are here.

16 January 2003,

Have updated the 'VerticalMameList' to coincide with the new version, .63 of Mame.

List are availble from the 'Downloads' page,

10 January 2003,

Some new pictures of my Mame / Jamma cocktail are up on my 'Mame Projects' page.

09 January 2003,

Have been in the process of updating my 'Mame / Jamma Cocktail' with Fraggals famous boot CD with AdvanceMame and ArcadeOS version 2.5. To read all the drama, click here.

07 January 2003,

Site has been updated to reflect some minor navigation issues. It's now easier to find things. Have added a 'Hand-Held' & 'Downloads' link on the navigation bar to the top left.

06 January 2003,

New pictures are up on my 'Arcade Collection' page of my Sega Bank Panic, Rastan, Tiger Heli and Data East Shoot Out PCB's.

Some new pictures of my Mame / Jamma cocktail are up on my 'Mame Projects' page.

Scored a new hand-held, a Tiger Electronics Street Fighter 2 in good, working condition. Click here to see a pic

04 January 2003,

I have compiled a list of vertical games (mostly original and with no clones) supported in Mame.62. The purpose of this is to enable vertical monitor Mame users, and/or, small hard disk drive Mame users, to use only vertical Mame games and keep HDD space to a minimum.
There are 661 games/Roms, using 632 megabytes of storage space.

Small zipped text file, (8.16kb), can be downloaded from here.

01 January 2003,

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I hope all your wanted games and cabinets come to you this year. :o)

New PCB's I have are: Bank Panic & Shoot Out. Pics up soon

Las Vegas (The Purple Mame Page),has one of the best Mame pages for information that I have seen. ArcadeOS & AdvanceMame users will particularly find this site useful. Jammed packed with tech info, tips and of course LV's new ArcadeOS version 2.5.
Fraggal's famous boot CD (new version 3.9.1 with Advance Mame 6.2.2 and ArcadeOS 2.5) is available there as well, COOL. :o)

18 December 2002,

Picked up a much sort after Atari Lynx cart today, Pac Land. Click here to visit my Lynx page. Also got a Tomy Caveman, and a Bandai Electronics Frisky Tom in great condition. Click the follwing to see Caveman, Frisky Tom.

08 December 2002,

New PCB's Rastan & Tiger Heli.

Web Site has undergone some updates on everypage. Mainly with images being reduced to save load time. Game names are linked with image of games. Be sure to check them out.

Well, Russ at Filtek stuffed up and sold my friends PCB (Lax Dig Dug) and my Nastar PCB DOH!, to someone else. Mistakes happen now and then.

My friend and fellow collector Geoff, (check his site by clicking here), has sold me his Rastan and Tiger Heli PCB's. Cool! :-)

11 November 2002,

This site celebrated it's 1st Birthday on the 29 October. I have archived older garb,(news), with a link at the bottom of this page.

Recently bought a Street Fight PCB, (a.k.a, Empire City: 1931). I really loved this game when it came out. You either love it or hate it (Thanks Russ from Filtek). Click here to see images.

I also have a Nastar PCB coming soon from Russ at Filtek as well as a Tiger Heli from a fellow collector Geoff, (check his site by clicking here). I loved playing these games when i was at school.

I got another hand held Gakken Puck Monster so I can make one good one out of the two. Click here to check it out.

Got some Atari Lynx games coming soon too, Toki, Joust, Ms Pac Man & Stun Runner.

18 October 2002,

I won recently a Konami Super Baskerball PCB in great working order.

17 October 2002,

I recently purchased some more hand held stuff. Why?. It was part of my childhood as well. Games are, another Tomy Scramble, Gakken Puck Monster, Atari Lynx bag including 2 Lynx II's and heaps of game carts. Click here to check them out.

13 September 2002,

Over the last few weeks I have picked up some cool hand-held games. These include a Nintendo Tropical Fish Game & Watch, a Tomy Scramble, and a Atari Lynx system with 7 games. Click games for infomation.

07 August 2002,

I have decided to showcase Australia's Own Pinball and Coin-Op Collectors Magazine, ARCADE & FLIPPER REVIEW.

On other news I have updated the LINKS page.

13 July 2002,

The other day I picked up a 20" Blue Low Boy cabinet. It's in superb condition with a JAMMA+ harness, and a SNK Neo-Geo Slot 1 board with carts, The Path of the Warrior (Art of Fighting 3), and Alpha Mission II. Click here for all the information.


Click to enlarge image

05 July 2002,

Picked up some Nintendo Game & Watches off Ebay the other day. They included a Donkey Kong, Fire and a Octopus. Click here for more on them

22 June 2002,

Just uploaded some pics and details of my PCB collection in 'Arcade collection' link. Also included is my wanted section

I need help tracking down a component for my Great 1000 Mile Rally 2 PCB. I have included some pics to show what part is need. The black component is split down the middle causing the game to not register credits and not allow 'fire' button imputs. If you can help, let me know.

16 June 2002,

Heaps of images added of my collection.

07 June 2002,

Tonight while perusing the classifieds, I saw a advertisement that I had to investigate. An old upright LAI cabinet with a Time Pilot marquee and Act Fancer PCB was what I had found in great condition. The image is messy but the sound is there and I hoped to find out whether the PCB is a Time Pilot. Although it doesn't look good, as the PCB is to new for a Time Pilot. I would like to find out what this machine originally was.

***UPDATE***
I should of realised it wasn't Time Pilot PCB inside when I saw a horizontal monitor setting. lol. In addition, the cab has been Jammatised to accommodate the fully working Act Fancer PCB inside.

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If you know what the cabinet and control panel is oringinally, let me know.

24 May 2002,

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I watched it, (I must confess), and I enjoyed it, lol.

There's nothing like Pac-man and family chomping the ghosts. I must not forget Pepper (Ms Pac-man), Baby Pac, Sour Puss the Pac-cat, and my fav Chomp Chomp the Pac-dog.

10 May 2002,

Today I scored an old Binatone Colour TV Game MK 10 Home gaming console (circa 1977-78?). This manufacturer was licensed from Magnavox to make these in Britain (the console even has a little sticker on the back saying "This product is licenced by magnavox".

It's a PONG based system with primitive 2 player joystick and button. It uses a GI 'Pong in a chip' #AY-3-8610 chip (this chip contains 10 veriation of Pong). It's in excellent condition and only needed the internal speaker to be wire back to the circuitry. I fired it up and it works perfectly so I had a few games and it bought back the memories. BTW it costs me $5 Australian.

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09 May 2002,

Today I went for a trip to the tip (dump) and salvaged from certain landfill, a gutted Sega Enduro Racer. The game board, wire harness, monitor, marquee, handlebars (controller), coin door etc were gone. Other than that the cabinet is in remarkably good condition and the sideart is complete and is in excellent condition.

WARNING: If trashing dedicated machines shocks and offends please dont read any futher.

I know I have said in the past that I don't trash dedicated games but this is beyond my help, plus I'm not really trashing it that much.

There is not much hope in restoring this dedicated back to it's former glory, (to many parts to hunt for), so I'm deciding to mame it. I'll fit a horizontal 20" monitor and do as little modifying as possible. I'll keep the sideart intact and NOT spray paint it. Very little will be cut into or hacked, apart from the control panel that will be drilled into to install 2 joysticks and 6 buttons per player, player 1 & 2 buttons. An IPAC will be installed for this.

The purpose for not hacking the whole cab to pieces is that I cant bear to totally trash a dedicated completely. Maybe in the future someone might be prepared to try restoring this back to it's former glory.

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17 Apr 2002,

Today I picked up a really old (70's) home made PONG machine. It uses a GI PONG in a chip. I will probably strip this thing down and redo a new cab and modernize it. Don't panic it's a home made job, no wrecking any dedicated stuff here.

09 APR 2002,

After some constructive criticism that I appreciate, I have rework the site as to make it compatible with other browsers. (Hope I achieved this)

04 APR 2002,

THE MAME / JAMMA COCKTAIL PROJECT IS FINISHED!
PICS HAVE BEEN UPLOADED.

Click here for more

29 Mar 2002,

Today, after many days of frustration, I FINALLY have made real progress on the Mame / Jamma Cocktail Project.To read all the drama, click here.

15 Mar 2002,

I have finally got the Mame / Jamma Cocktail Project underway. The plexi, artwork and sideclips have been fitted and it looks great (will have some pics soon). Now I just have to hook up the PC along with the JPAC, and hopefully it will all work. I'm a little worried about the 1 volt output the video card puts out to the monitor, I hope the monitor will work with low voltage. If not, its off to purchase a video amplifier from Ultimarc.

07 Mar 2002,

Finally got a spare PC to go into the Mame / Jamma Cocktail Project. Just ordered the plexi for the top and purchased the side clips. Nearly ready to go. Wooohooo :o) Click here for more info on this

25 Feb 2002,

R.I.P. MAME.DK. ROMS

Huge thanks to DigDug, Mr Do and Bombjack and any others at Mame.dk for being the best Rom related site around.
A end of a great site for ROMS due to a Cease & Desist order I believe. The copyright hounds are barking and on patrol..

20 Feb 2002,

A link to Classic Arcade Game Locations around Australia has been added to links. Please don't e-mail me about your arcade game location finds. Use the CAGL site to upload your finds.

11 Feb 2002,

Just picked up another PCB. It's Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition. I'm not sure what condition it's in though so I'll have to test it.
**UPDATE** Works fairly well with just some jumbled artifacts on the screen. Should be easy to fix. I think it's a ram chip that's causing the drama with this board.

31 Jan 2002,

R.I.P. Shivasite. Welcome IR Pinball. New link added to Links

21 Jan 2002,

Yesterday I picked up a few non working PCB's that I will try to get going. They were Super Pang, Shinobi, and what I was told by the guy who sold them to me, a Shinobi 3.

09 Jan 2002,

Finally got my Great 1000 Mile Rally PCB in the mail today. Seems to work fine except for some niggling issues that I hope to resolve soon.

08 Jan 2002,

More links added to the Links page.

03 Jan 2002,

Just purchased a secondhand 20" Kortek monitor. It's going into the Mame/Jamma cocktail. Take a look, I've uploaded some pics.

Pinball links have been added to Links page. Thanks Sean :o)

01 Jan 2002,

Happy New Year all.
Hope all your dreams and wishes come true.

28 DEC 2001,

Just got back from Brisbane where I purchased a Namco Pole Position fully enclosed cockpit (with a PP2 mod) in great condition. It works well and plays great. I will post some pics shortly.

24 DEC 2001,

Just won a Great 1000 Mile Rally game board on Stuff. Hope it arrives soon so I can check it out.

22 DEC 2001,

Just purchased a second hand JPAC (in great condition) for $90 Australian. A saving of $34 on the retail price. This will be used in my Jamma cocktail cab to run MAME.

8 DEC 2001,

Went for a trip to the local arcade in my town and found this conversion. It's a Terminator 2 converted to a Judge Dredd. It has Judge Dredd sticker side art slapped up the side and a Dredd marquee along with Dredd game board. Would be easy to revert back if needed. It's a really crap picture, sorry.

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1 DEC 2001,

The MAME/JAMMA Cocktail Project started with pictures and explanations

29 Nov 2001,

Today I pick up an old JAMMA cocktail cabinet in fantastic condition with everything minus a monitor, top glass and board for FREE. Thanks Geoff. :o)

22 Nov 2001,

I'm working on buying my first arcade game. Hope to have one soon to kick off an addiction that I think may never be cured, (nor do I want a cure). When I do start I will document the collection PINNY PARLOUR.

9 Nov 2001,

Links to Australia Arcade, Pinball, Repairs etc uploaded to Links page.

5 Nov 2001,

Planning has started on a MAME cab. The CAD program has been given a work out (so have I for that matter as it was the first time I had used it) so something should be up soon.

31 Oct 2001,

Click game titles to see screenshot.

29 Oct 2001,

"THE GRAND OPENING"

(***bright lights, glitter and all that crap***)