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[69er]

hello all ukvac users,,,,,,,,,,,,,, i have been on a parallel forum for about 18 months and enjoy helping with a bit of advice and reading about collectors cherished cabinets, problems and cures and often contribute to the forum sometimes with a good off topic fun statement,,,,,,,

in order to save any confusion i am the same user name on both forums and hope i will be accepted here with equal warmth and friendship... i see a few familiar users on here who know me already!

for those who dont use that other one ,,the intro-,, i am an old boy with over 35 years experience in amusements, have worked for the biggest company around in the 80s when most of these collectable video games were front line on motorway services and at the seaside

i am an engineer at heart, love owning and repairing (tinkering) but have been in sales and manufacturing and operating arcades & pubs) also......as an associate partner with a quite well known company in north wales........ but i am trying to retire......gracefully.......

with arcade interests thats impossible at any age............

 

[JohnBud]

hi 69er, welcome to ukvac. im sure your input will be welcomed as will you.

 

[DanP]

Hi and welcome along to ukvac! Any insight you have will be greatly appreciated. Personally I'd love to hear some stories from back in the day from the other side of the coin (pun intended). I was a punter back then, getting into the nuts and bolts of maintainence and repair quickly became a necessity once I started collecting 20 years later...

Dan

 

[muddymusic]

Hi Norm, nice to see you on here

This man knows his stuff!

 

[Guests]

Welcome to UKVaC.

 

[IDCHAPPY]

Howdy buddy, a paralell forum eh?

Welcome aboard

35 years you say? i was barely floating about in my dad's baw sack back then

IDCHAPPY2011-09-26 23:06:44

 

[Alpha1]

Howdy buddy, a paralell forum eh?

Welcome aboard

35 years you say? i was barely floating about in my dad's baw sack back then

What is amazing though is that you existed as an embryo when you mother was a baby inside your grandmother.

Mad that innit.

 

[IDCHAPPY]

Howdy buddy, a paralell forum eh?

Welcome aboard

35 years you say? i was barely floating about in my dad's baw sack back then

What is amazing though is that you existed as an embryo when you mother was a baby inside your grandmother.

Mad that innit.

It's pure

to think about it .

 

[69er]

hi there ,,,,, and thanks for the welcomes.......... i nearly put parallel universe (nah too geeky!)

yes over 35 years,,,,,,, i had an old old 'indy 500' car game back then..to mess with from an arcade in rhyl, chucked out as a none runner but just a drive belt needed..... was sort of driver video but more like 'driving visual effect' i was already operating a pool table since mid 1976 in the local youth club (where i was a youth leader) because the rental supplier,a local bus driver went out of business and gave it me...

we also had an nsm hit 120 juke on hire from mam inn play a national company at the time but it was hellish dear to rent at £44 a month....

back to the indy racer,,,,,,,, top technology! a bright projector lamp shone through a revolving drum which was the road and a plastic race car steered left and right as it turned...... the sound was generated by a guitar string vibrating under a record player stylus cartrdge........

also in the bleak early 70s i acquired one of those footy tables where the players run back and to from goal to goal using up / down levers and the score was displayed on nixie tubes with orange numbers inside............ these where just for my exploring mind as i had got fed up with taking old 3 channnel tvs to bits without learning anything

and my very first pinball. a 60s magic city , (ive had 4 magic cities over the years and still have one)

in the house back then,and purely for home entertainment, i had a taverners 'millionaire' 1p fruitie with a bar handle on the front and it paid 10p top prize with 27 ways to win if cheques appeared any position in the window , it also had random hold ,,, so hold after hold ,,and hold after win was possible ........... and yes i still have it its probably my longest owned machine bought in 1972...

however my first foot on the rung of multi machine operator came when in 1977 i acquired a jupiter L100 jukebox for £150 from the late jimmy broderick of star warehouse at camden lock london, to complement the pool table at the youthie, sent the hired nsm back. made a bit of money ...............

so late 1977 went out bought a atari breakout, a garlando footy, and a gottlieb golden arrow pinball all coin operated from brighouse games in yorkshire and in great like new order - still have the L100 the golden arrow and the footy............. the latter two still sited ................

those where the days,,,,,, our version of ebay was the exchange and mart advertiser weekly paper and the stuff could be got there as near the back in among the adult films and bankrupt stock listings was a little column called coin operated ............ wow !

then one day i found hazel grove music co.. just down the road near stockport...took all the pinballs they could part with and a couple of decent poltables and my first secondhand midway space invader was from there too at just over £400 ....so on and so on... addicted ??? not really it seemed impossible to sell machines on or back to the dealers, without losing loads of money so just kept adding more machines and finding more sites to put them on and by the 80s there was no going back.......................... ..several thousand machines later.. im here on a collectors forum, tho i sort of hoard more than collect?

as said i still have a few things ive had for over 30 years... or almost 40 in the case of the 1p millionaire................ it really helps understanding electronics, being into amusements when relays were used and transistors and logic ics was just being introduced,,,,,, you could see pretty well what some of it did as it replaced the old hard wired stuff.

69er2011-09-28 22:15:55

 

[IDCHAPPY]

Great story man

, must be strange to see how fart they've come on it 30 odd years eh?

 

[andyman]

Hi Norman and welcome to the dark side

i had got fed up with taking old 3 channnel tvs to bits without learning anything

That's were my fascination began too, one thing it did provide was a good bit of soldering/desoldering practice, but yeah, not much else

 

[IDCHAPPY]

I just dont think i'd be keen on getting in about a TV, i have to start learning about stuff though

.

I have a couple of non working pcb's to get stuck into

IDCHAPPY2011-09-29 06:56:28