Our arcade has grown from one to four.
Here's an image of the final result of today's adventure. Before today, only the Pac Man machine was there.
We just finished up moving the machines from work to the house. I am totally exhausted. It was a lot more work than I anticipated. The arcade in our office is on the 16th floor which is the top floor of the building. Getting the machines from there to the parking garage involved two elevator rides, and carting them halfway across the building on an appliance dolly we rented from U-Haul.
After we got them all to the garage, we loaded Sinistar and Luner Lander on the trailer along with Tekken 3 which was the game won by my coworker. We took the legs off the pinball machine and put it in the back of the Jeep (and it fit, barely.)
We then made a very slow drive home in order to not disturb the 1000 lbs. of arcade machine on the back of the trailer, and only had to make one emergency stop when the Sinistar panels all seemed to come unlatched and start flapping about in the wind.
After we arrived home, it was 99 degrees outside and the sun was very bright. Not exactly the ideal conditions to be moving huge bulky stuff around. The machines, having been blasted by the sun on the drive home were also extremely hot and the radiated heat made them uncomfortable if not difficult to move. We totally lucked out when our neighbor from across the street, Don, came over and helped us move the machines up the stairs in our house. He saved our butts because I don't know if we would have been able to manage with two of us. Did I mention the stairs? That was the worst part. It basically involved the three of us doing the old heave-ho up the stairs with each machine on the dolly, one at a time, and usually doing the last few stairs in one final surge of desperation before passing out.
So we now have a nice little mini-arcade in our house. Pac Man works of course, but the three new ones all need varying amounts of work. The Star Trek pinball machine almost works, but has a few switches that are stuck and need to be fixed. The Sinistar machine has a broken plug that needs to be replaced, and beyond that I'm not sure if anything else is broken. Ditto for the Luner Lander. It doesn't currently power on, although I know it worked a few months ago. Possibly a simple fuse exchange will fix it and get it working again.
Well, that's all for now, I'm going to go mess around with the new toys.
We just finished up moving the machines from work to the house. I am totally exhausted. It was a lot more work than I anticipated. The arcade in our office is on the 16th floor which is the top floor of the building. Getting the machines from there to the parking garage involved two elevator rides, and carting them halfway across the building on an appliance dolly we rented from U-Haul.
After we got them all to the garage, we loaded Sinistar and Luner Lander on the trailer along with Tekken 3 which was the game won by my coworker. We took the legs off the pinball machine and put it in the back of the Jeep (and it fit, barely.)
We then made a very slow drive home in order to not disturb the 1000 lbs. of arcade machine on the back of the trailer, and only had to make one emergency stop when the Sinistar panels all seemed to come unlatched and start flapping about in the wind.
After we arrived home, it was 99 degrees outside and the sun was very bright. Not exactly the ideal conditions to be moving huge bulky stuff around. The machines, having been blasted by the sun on the drive home were also extremely hot and the radiated heat made them uncomfortable if not difficult to move. We totally lucked out when our neighbor from across the street, Don, came over and helped us move the machines up the stairs in our house. He saved our butts because I don't know if we would have been able to manage with two of us. Did I mention the stairs? That was the worst part. It basically involved the three of us doing the old heave-ho up the stairs with each machine on the dolly, one at a time, and usually doing the last few stairs in one final surge of desperation before passing out.
So we now have a nice little mini-arcade in our house. Pac Man works of course, but the three new ones all need varying amounts of work. The Star Trek pinball machine almost works, but has a few switches that are stuck and need to be fixed. The Sinistar machine has a broken plug that needs to be replaced, and beyond that I'm not sure if anything else is broken. Ditto for the Luner Lander. It doesn't currently power on, although I know it worked a few months ago. Possibly a simple fuse exchange will fix it and get it working again.
Well, that's all for now, I'm going to go mess around with the new toys.
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