The Broken Joystick

I picked up the restaurant booth today. It’s almost perfect. Just the right size – not too big. I could do without the brown but it will do. Gonna rearrange the arcade this weekend and make room for it.

I also played around in the arcade tonight and I got my Konami NBA Play by Play kit working! Turns out a dipswitch was flipped. Cool. Not as fun as NBA Jam, but I played a few games of it. Cool PCB setup with mini I/O boards to connect P3 and P4 and USB ports to hookup a separate cabinet (I think) and VGA output even.

I picked up a new cabinet today to house my vertical multigame PCB. Found it on Craigslist locally. It’s JAMMA and plays blind – will have to see if I can get the monitor to work – if no, I have an extra working monitor. It will be a fun project to convert. Anyone know what cabinet this used to be? I suspect Atari but I couldn’t figure out which one.

Also, it had a weird converter card in it that says Dynamo:

Anyone seen one of those before?

I saw an ad on Craigslist for a decent bartop machine (non-working) for $30 the other day and I went and picked it up today. The monitor looks brand new – a nice 13″ vertical monitor with ZERO burinin. Not sure what I’m gonna do with this… JAMMA V multi-game, Arkanoid, swappable H JAMMA? Who knows. I’ve wanted one of these for a while now to play with though.