Back on July 1st, I posted about 4 arcade themed “RUB N’ PLAY TRANSFERS” that I picked up on ebay.

This is a quick post to let anyone that might be interested know that more have turned up on eBay:

Frogger: http://tinyurl.com/5dbcaj
Zaxxon: http://tinyurl.com/5myjmy
Robotron: http://tinyurl.com/5stnwh
Donkey Kong: http://tinyurl.com/6468we

Hey! I haven’t had any time to post here lately. The wife was told that she’ll be losing her job sometime between now and January, so I’ve been working extra hard on my gay day job to see if we can save up some extra money. Unfortunately, car repairs ate up what little we had saved. Damn bloody cars…maybe I’ll buy a scooter or a segway or something.

Anyways…I spotted this the other day and thought it was pretty cool:

See the FREE ALLIGATOR REMOVAL sign? That seems like a really great deal. I bet they do it for free because they can use them to make shoes and other alligatory stuff.

I *think* this is actually a joke however, because we live in RI, and I haven’t seen an alligator in these here parts for quite some time. (We did see a coyote walk right through our back AND front yard the other day!)

I was very tempted to call the number, screaming that an alligator is eating little bobby, and ask them to hurry here with their tranquilizer darts and see if they actually come. Here’s a closeup of the false advertisement:

Cya later alligator.

I just picked this up from eBay:

I was a little bummed out to find that the cereal is all gone but at least the box still smells a bit like it. I was going to make a big bowl of 25+ year old cereal for breakfast and see if I lived or not but now that’s out of the question.

Here’s a commercial for this cereal from back in the day:

For all you weirdos, here’s what the backside looks like:

If I find one more box like this I can send in the proofs of purchase and get me one of them there Wacky Whippers! Man they look dangerous (and wacky!).

I’ve been so damn busy lately… haven’t had much time for posting or working on games. Hopefully I can get back to goofing off very soon.

I’ve been collecting Presto Magix transfers for awhile now….I used to love them when I was a kid. Usually when I search for them on eBay a few non Presto Magix brands turn up. I’ve never been interested in getting any of those until I found these:

They’re from ‘81 and ‘82, still sealed. The wife wanted to play with these, and I told her if I caught her opening them she would have to sleep outside in the woods. She has been warned.

Hey there, hi there, ho there. I just read about this on FirstShowing.net:

DiCaprio is officially attached to star as Bushnell in the movie titled Atari, an idea that writers Brian Hecker and Craig Sherman sold to Paramount on Friday.

- picture stolen from FirstShowing.net…hope they don’t mind

This sounds pretty cool…it’s amazing how much old arcade game culture is sneaking into modern entertainment these days.

You can read the full story here.

Man, I haven’t posted in a long time. I’ve had some nasty cold or something, and between that and trying to keep up with work I haven’t had much time for anything else.

Anyways…here’s a quick post. This guy hacked his Roomba vacuum cleaner into Pac-Man (sort of):

Sometime towards the middle of last week, I got sick of dealing with useless jerkfaced bastards customers and quit work early. I headed to the garage to start working on prepping my Baby Pac cabinet for painting.

Look at all the crap I had stowed away inside:

Read the rest of this entry…

I was sitting at the computer, and a mail truck I did hear
When what to my wondering eyes should appear
But a bunch of stuff for the arcade.

First up, my Centipede keychain from Oleszak Creative:

I haven’t decided, but I think I’ll probably put my Centipede keys on this and hang it on the coin door. The packaging for this was very cool, but I forgot to take a pic of it before I opened it. You can see the packaging and more examples of these keychains here.

Next, some DK art from ArcadeShop.com:

The thing stuck to the marquee in that first pic is the instruction card for under the bezel. I’d love to see these with the masking removed, but I’m not going to remove it until I have restored the Popeye cabinet that these are going to go in. I have all the art I need now for this. The only parts I need are a DK PCB, joystick, and buttons.

Finally….a “Tokens” marquee:

The plan for this is to make it into a backlit sign to put over my token machine.

That is all. Go back to watching cat videos on YouTube.

I can’t stay off eBay lately. I’m a junkie (emphasis on junk). Here’s some more Presto Magix for my collection that arrived yesterday:

The first 3 are super cool. That last one is a bit lame.

Maybe I’m just being fussy, but shouldn’t national news reporters know who the current president is?