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When I was in high school, a friend of mine had a full-size Ms-PacMan arcade game. I never even had an Atari system. These two things, coupled with the fact that my friends and I always hung out at arcades, must have caused my inner-need to have my own game-room. Shortly after moving into our current home in 2000, I found a an ad in the Trading Times classifieds for my favorite arcade game from the arcade, a Sega Shinobi. The asking price was only $75, and it included an extra circuit board-- Golden Axe.
Both games were, of course, very dated compared to my kids' console systems. It didn't matter; they fell in love with both. I mounted the two boards next to each other so we could just switch the harness to change games. We beat Golden Axe immediately, but Shinobi was a different story. It wasn't until this year that we beat Shinobi-- and not until I configured it for infinite lives. I hold the high score.
In the Summer of 2008, I stumbled across the ultimate garbage-picking find: A Sega Face Off bubble hockey game. It was disassembled (in three pieces), but appeared to be complete. Not that I had any room for it in the garage, but I couldn't pass it by. After reassembling it, I tested it out and it worked! It had three bad gearboxes, and the players had been repainted poorly-- but it didn't take much to make it playable. It was actually because of that find that I ended up getting rid of the antique car and making the garage into a game room.
