Hi everyone, for my first post I'm going to make a lot of you cry!
Long, long ago in a land far far away (actually the north of Scotland) I came across a discarded, rough, monitorless cocktail cabinet. Being interested in all things old pub orientated I initially had plans to take it home but then I realised that I have very little skills to actually do anything to have fixed it up.....so I left it.
That night I did a little research and figured out that even if I didn't have the skills to do it up maybe someone else would so the next day I went back only to find that by now it had been chucked in a skip and flattened a wee bit!
I hauled the mangled mess out of the skip and managed to rescue some of the unbroken bits which I have photographed below.
Only very recently have I discovered how rare this cab is/was and believe me, I have been kicking myself every day since then that I didn't take it home when I had the chance!
What was this cocktail I hear you ask. Well, I've done a bit of research and I believe that it was a genuine Namco Puckman! And what bits did I manage to save? As you can see by the pics below I've got 2 control panels, 1 with joystick and, more importantly the PCB.
I have no idea what I want to do with what I have though, I would love to make a cab for it but as previously stated, I have no skills to carry that off. I could get it hooked up to a Supergun with adaptor and just play it on a TV but I don't even know if the board is in a workable condition.
Long, long ago in a land far far away (actually the north of Scotland) I came across a discarded, rough, monitorless cocktail cabinet. Being interested in all things old pub orientated I initially had plans to take it home but then I realised that I have very little skills to actually do anything to have fixed it up.....so I left it.
That night I did a little research and figured out that even if I didn't have the skills to do it up maybe someone else would so the next day I went back only to find that by now it had been chucked in a skip and flattened a wee bit!
I hauled the mangled mess out of the skip and managed to rescue some of the unbroken bits which I have photographed below.
Only very recently have I discovered how rare this cab is/was and believe me, I have been kicking myself every day since then that I didn't take it home when I had the chance!
What was this cocktail I hear you ask. Well, I've done a bit of research and I believe that it was a genuine Namco Puckman! And what bits did I manage to save? As you can see by the pics below I've got 2 control panels, 1 with joystick and, more importantly the PCB.
I have no idea what I want to do with what I have though, I would love to make a cab for it but as previously stated, I have no skills to carry that off. I could get it hooked up to a Supergun with adaptor and just play it on a TV but I don't even know if the board is in a workable condition.
