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7/01/09 - New addition to Nintendo Row - Vs. Hogans Alley
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Recently I had picked up a Nintendo Vs. Duck Hunt cheap and then fixed the gun and audio on the game. While working on the game, there was a settings sheet
for a Vs. Hogans Alley on the back door. So this game was originally a Vs. Hogans Alley, a cooler gun game which is much more fun to play.
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Now enter KLOV, an online forum for everything arcade related. I find someone selling an entire Hogans Alley kit for a low price. This kit includes the chipset,
a marquee in nice unfaded condition, and a never used cardboard game topper advertising the game as "New".
I buy the kit, and turn the Duck Hunt back into a Hogan's Alley. For the uninformed, Nintendo made grey Vs. Unisystem game cabinets which were made to swap out games.
In my case, the game started as a Hogans Alley and was changed out at some point into a Duck Hunt. It was as simple as changing out 7 game ROMs and a marquee
to turn the game back into a Hogans Alley. Of course I had previously fixed the gun and audio which was the first part of the transformation. The game is now
in its original dedicated form.
Vs. Hogans Alley marks the 6th Nintendo game in the Vintage Vault Arcade and Gameroom. This follows behind Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr. Donkey Kong 3,
Mario Bros and Popeye. It also marks the first gun game in the gameroom.
Click here to read more about Vs. Hogans Alley.
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6/25/09 - Vs. Duck Hunt gets a working gun
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So I pick up this VS Duck Hunt real cheap from Craigslist. It had missing sound and a non-working lightgun,
but the game came up, the monitor was good, and it coined up. So first thing I do is cap the audio board and
replace the sound pot and then I had fully working sound. So the next thing I do is start to check out the gun.
All wiring checked out, it was getting +5V to the electronic board in the gun, and the optic lens was good.
I decided to buy a Nintendo Zapper light gun from ebay for $6.10 and try to get it working with the cabinet.VS guns are expensive
and rare, and NES zapper guns are plentiful and cheap. They were made for the NES, the nintendo home entertainment system. I manage
to get the gun working 100% with my arcade cabinet, so VS Duck Hunt lives again.
Click here to read about the Nintendo Zapper Light Gun Mod tutorial.
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6/20/09 - New Acquisitions: Pepsi Machine and Slot Machine
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I have been looking for a soda machine since last summer. I found one at a garage sale, went home, thought about it, came back to buy it and it was gone. You snooze
you loose. So I had written off getting a soda machine up until now.
Enter Craiglist yet again. There were 3 items from the same seller, a 70's Pepsi soda machine, a 60's EM slot machine and a
1980 Space Invaders video game. A local collector wanted the Space Invaders and I wanted the soda machine. I went ahead and took the slot machine also.
Interestingly enough the items were being sold by a local collector that lived only 5 minutes away from me. He had an awesome collection of pinball machines
and the absolutely prettiest jukebox I have ever seen. Plus he was a real nice guy, that's always a plus.
So that soda machine is a monster. Definitely around 500 pounds and was a pain to get into the gameroom. The slot machine is definitely a novelty with no computer components
and all relays and mechanical wheels.
So the gameroom now has its own soda machine, stocked with Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Diet 7Up, Dr Pepper and Diet Dr Pepper. Now its time to do some more
entertaining!
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6/12/09 - New Acquisition: VS. Duck Hunt
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Mmmmm Ninty. That means another Nintendo cab. I picked up a Nintendo VS. Duck Hunt today from Craigslist. There is a sound issue and the gun has problems registering.
However the game comes on and the picture is rock solid and colorful.
After I get this game working this will be my first shooter. This will also make the 6th Nintendo arcade game that I own. It will be a little crowded on Nintendo row in the
gameroom once I get it moved down there. First things first though. I gotta get this thing working 100%.
Nice score!
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6/05/09 - Gameroom Magazine ~ Gameroom of the Month
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The Vintage Vault Arcade and Gameroom is the Gameroom of the Month in the June 2009 issue of Gameroom magazine. I highly recommend getting a subscription
to this fine magazine by clicking here. However, for those that do not have a current subscription you can
view the article of my gameroom by clicking here or on any image below.
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6/02/09 - SOLD: Bump N Jump
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Craigslist never disappoints me except for this one time, where my Bump N Jump never sold. I even lowered the price a little bit. I finally managed to sell it at my garage sale this weekend.
It made a nice attraction for all the kids that showed up, and finally sold towards the end of the day. Don't worry, I received a fair price for it, more
than the money I had into it. 
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