Interesting Arcade Links – 2009-02-22

• Pac-man for sale, NW, Craigslist Indianapolis – $250 OBO. For a Pac-man, decent deal, talk it down, PS issue – http://snipr.com/c1qwl #

Indianapolis operators hate EM Pinball machines

Or so it would seem. When pinball and arcade machines were at their peak, operators view these games as money making machines, and nothing more. Once a game had made back it’s money and then some, the views were two fold – either the games were worthless, or the resale value of said games were just as much as the purchase price. Indianapolis operators were no different, and here is the urban legend of two houses full of EM pinball machines in the Indianapolis area that were bulldozed to the ground, with the pinballs still inside.

Live Tim Skelly chat a success!

Tim Skelly was the first live creator chat (February 4th, 2009) at Coinopspace.com and everything went pretty smooth. Right around 50 members attended the event and Tim was nice enough to extend the session from an hour to just over 2! And as a result, most all members questions got answered and a few new insights were uncovered.

Here is the formatted version of that transcript. I have taken the information relevant to the conversation and formatted it so that the arcade history is more easy to pick out. The original chat was over 28 pages so paring this down was imperative for anyone serious about reading 🙂

Interesting Arcade Links – 2009-02-15

• Updated post from back in 2007 on Zookeeper stencils. Looks like Brian Jones has started finishing up the details. http://snipr.com/5ugti #
• Looking for used Atari Assalt joysticks, used preferably, too expensive from videogamespart.com – http://snipr.com/5ugxy #
• Want to buy a Konami Track and Field PCB. If you have one looking to sell, contact me or shoot Duane an email at duane.robidoux@gmail.com. #
• Looking for a Crypt Killers arcade game manual pdf scan or physical. If you have one for sale, get

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Update on the Mappy Kickplate Reproductions

Been waiting on new kickplate for your Mappy arcade machine? I posted awhile back about finishing the Mappy artwork separations and sending the files off to This Old Game. Well, today Rich posted an update at Coinopspace.com on his weekly Friday blog that he has been making the films and the artwork may print as early as this week!

The ever common, mouse infested pinball machine!

It pays to have a great network of coin-op collectors locally that will help you out in finding great deals on arcade and pinballs machines. In theory this may have been a good deal, a Free pinball machine on Craigslist, but there was a little bit of a problem….

Service / Repair your pinball machine in Indianapolis

Yesterday I made a trip up to the Fishers on the northside of Indianapolis to check out Ace Gameroom, which opened it’s doors in November of 2008. Ace Game Room sells everything you might need for your upper end gameroom, neon signs, pool tables, bars and of course, arcade games and pinball machines. This isn’t necessarily something that your average collector is interested in as they tend to decoration their gamerooms with one of kind signs and classic authentic game artwork. However, Ace Game Room is smart in that they have positioned themselves as the pinball collectors friend, and I was impressed.