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« on: February 26, 2016, 07:40:34 am »

Hello everyone from Kalamazoo, Michigan!

It's been my dream for many years to have my own home arcade and am now starting to realize that dream with my family.  I started out with some pinball machines last year (Iron Man and Pirates of the Carribean) and just picked up my first two standup cabinets last weekend (Ms. Pac-Man and Jr. Pac-Man field kit conversion in a Pac-Man cabinet).  While in decent shape I'm already working on stripping down the pieces to restore.

I have great memories of growing up in a local arcade called Star World and in a world of console games, cell phones and tablets, I want to pass similar memories on to my children of real, original gaming.

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« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2016, 10:35:19 am »

Hello fellow Michigander!

Hey did you find that Jr Pacman on Craigslist? I was looking at that. I'm in the Detroit area but I always check on Craigslist in the Kalamazoo area too. That's a game that is not on my list of must haves but when I saw it on Craigslist it caught my eye just because it was interesting. Sounds like it went to a good home.
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« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2016, 11:58:16 am »

Nope, wasn't that one.

I actually was up in Lansing last weekend visiting my brother-in-law and went to his new business location and there they were, buried and sitting in the back of the garage.  I immediately asked him send a text to the building's owner and he said he had sat on them for 9 years hoping to get to them as a project someday and never did so he offloaded it what I considered a steal of a price.

Wish I could always find those!
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« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2016, 10:25:44 am »

Hi fellow Michigan Arcader!
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