Arcade Resources
Stencils to restore your Stern Scramble arcade game
In case you missed it over at CoinOpSpace.com, Rich Lint posted on a thread that he used some vellum to hand trace his Scramble cabinet, has vectorized the artwork and is now doing some test prints to check artwork accuracy. Very soon, accurate Scramble stencils could be available. (more…)
Turn off music playing automatically in Ning
Short post today that will only interest a few. Here is a short explanation on how to turn off the autoplay option for music on a profile page on CoinOpSpace.com which runs on the Ning software. (more…)
Stenciling a Ms. Pac-man – Part 7
It’s finally time. All the cabinet prepping, spraying down solid coats of primer and blue, your Ms. Pac-man cabinet is ready for the fun part, appling the artwork. It’s time to add the yellow, the largest artwork stencil and the most crucial as this will set the tone for the other two colors. We’ll also talk about what not to do, which yours truly managed to discover by experience 😉 (more…)
Stenciling a Ms. Pac-man – Part 6
In the last part of the Ms. Pac-man tutorial we taped up the stencil, positioned it and then removed the backing and smoothed the stencil to the cabinet. You can repeat this step for the other two sides, I will try to show photos of this later. Today, we’re going to look at removing the pre-mask on the sideart stencil and then taping up your cabinet for the yellow coat, finally! (more…)
How to use the CoinOpSpace forums
This post is very much targeted to address some of the questions about how Ning has structured the use of their forums. I hope that this answers some questions that I have been getting. To state again, the Ning forums are just a piece of the overall picture of creating a user community. The forums are not nearly as in depth as something like vBulletin, they are very stripped down to what is needed – reply, add images and some basic formatting. But some of the common quick links are available. (more…)
Custom die rules for arcade game artwork
Many differenet pieces of arcade game artwork need specifically punched holes, most of the time this artwork is on the control panel for the game. Some holes are standard, but when they aren’t then a custom ordered die is needed for that run of artwork, which can add up to $100 per piece. Ever seen one of these dies? I had a general idea of what they looked like, but nothing specific. Here are some photos, explanation, and identification of which die is for what piece of artwork – Including Star Wars, Agent X and Pole Position.
Ms. Gorf Game? Is someone pushing for this code?
As I was doing a lot of research last night and today on the history of Dave Nutting and Associates for an interview I conducted I came across information for a sequel that was being developed for Gorf. This probably isn’t news to some of you, to others it may very well be. Information is scarce, but all sources seem to point that whatever development stage the Ms. Gorf game was in, it’s sitting in a corner gathering dust. You probably couldn’t even label it as a prototype as it never made it to a testing stage. Is anyone pursuing this game to bring it to light? (more…)
