Mr. Do!
Looking for RGVAC member “Alphamonster”
I “Ping’d” Eric – “Alphamonster” on the Google Group today, and hope that he has the time to get back to me. At one time, he had a white Mr. Do! and he seems to know his stuff when it comes to arcade games rarely posting on the group. Hopefully he finds my message and is nice enough to shoot me a line.
In another post, a guy by the name of “Keith in NJ” had asked “Eric” (Alphamonster) if he would take some photos of the white character Mr. Do! sideart for him, because he was looking to do the exact same thing I am, reproduce the artwork. I emailed Keith today to see if he ever got a response, or if he was ever able to find photos big enough to reproduce the artwork. We’ll see what he says.
Found an artist on the BYOAC forum today that has been collecting / tracing pieces of Mr. Do art for a project of his since 2005 named Keith Corcoran. I emailed him to see if he knew anything or could lead me in a certain direction on getting the artwork for this game.
Later in the day, Dan emailed me back and gave me some more history on his Mr. Do. He said that he sold it back in 98-99 to PA Gameroom Warehouse. I checked the site, and they have this particular Mr. Do! I couldn’t believe it. I don’t know if it is the same one he had or not, but it also isn’t cheap. You can check it out here, going for the affordable price of a used car at $1195.
Update August 28th, 2008
I never did hear back from Alphamonster way back last year, but I just happened to be looking on the ‘For Sale’ forums on klov and saw a profile of the same name of a collector out in Long Island New York (where I think Eric was located). I ended up emailing him, so hopefully this time I do hear back. Although, I think I sent mail to the same email address (“heman2rit@hotmail.com”) so maybe my luck will be the same.
Reply from Dan on Mr. Do!
Dan was great, and got right back to me. He confirmed the information about Gleeb making the cabinets, and also said that he owned the machine at one time. He has photos of it on his other website (which I didn’t know was his also, also a nice design) CoinOpVideoGames.com. He has a section on games he previously owned, here is the photo of the machine.
Emailing Dan Hower about Mr. Do!
Got information today that Dan Hower actually runs arcadeflyers.net, a great arcade flyers resource, complete and really nice on the eyes. I emailed him to see if he knew anything, because it looks like he has a long history in the business so at the very least he may be able to give me some history on the machine.
Mark Deroller follow up for Mr. Do!
Found another email for Mark Deroller about this game at mderoller@yahoo.com. Hopefully this one doesn’t work since his other two emails bounced back to me.
Mark DeRoller mentions a Dan Hower in his posts, and that Dan supplied a photo of the bezel for him. I was thinking that maybe Dan owns the machine as well, knows someone who does, or just has access to photos and information about most games.
I also found another post of a guy who owns the game as well, so I am shooting him out an email to see if he can help me out. He emailed me right back and let me know that this was a dedicated import from Japan. He said he thinks a company named Gleeb made the cabs, even thought the game was made overseas by Universal of course. So there was a similar conversion kit out there that looked like it, I have seen two different versions in the photos. Either way, very interesting.
Mass emails sent for Mr. Do! information
I estimate that I have now emailed over 20 people on the VAPS group to see if any of the owners of a Mr. Do have this particular model, or know anyone who does, but I haven’t had any luck. I have had a ton of great responses back though, people are nice to at least let you know that they don’t know anything.
Found posts about Rare White Mr. Do! on RGVAC
I find a post on the Google Group from 2001 of an individual in New York who owns this machine. Emailing, however, returns nothing as the emails are bounced back as the address is no longer valid. The individual’s name was Mark Deroller, so if you have any information about him, and if he still has this game or not 6 years later, please email me. Does the guy still collect?
I also found a post from Eric – “alphamonster” on the Google Group that claims to have the machine. The post is from 2005, but when I emailed him I didn’t get a reply back either.
