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As a person who is looking, down the track at buying a pinball, knowing what people are asking would be extremely helpful to manage my future savings budget before I seek one out

Great find, hope it is nothing major. Love to see the end result :D

What a fantastic looking bottle. Would buy one just for that :D

There is another beer other than Boags??? Mind you I am also partial to Carlsberg, especially their elephant beer :D

I feel what you are saying Rat. These days it would be hard figuring out waht today's kids might reminisce about in the future, there are just so many things they have now. When I was a kid it was pinnies with little levers to push the next ball up or playing outside with air rifles and exploring. The world has changed in so many ways

First game of the day..and now I have the correct stool, things are much better ;) 249,130

Thanks Rat. I really understand the button thing, that was why when I bought my cab in the 80's it was a hankin or not at all. They were the cream of the crop when it came to buttons that reacted fast back in those days. I like the buttons on this cab, though I probably need to give the micro switches a bit of a clean up. The joysticks are the MCA ones, & again, that is what I am used to & love the feel of. Owning this & playing games like Galaga & Qix bring back a lot of good memories of some crazy, but fun times had during my mis-spent youth. I had to wait until I was older to get into Uni (long story) so spent many years drifting between jobs & just having a party before life became too serious & I had to give arcade games away for a long time. This is more than just a games cab to me...it is a bloody time machine ROFL

Thanks Rat & felixthadog. Ok I get that it is not a dedicated cab, & I am also very green when it comes down to all this stuff. The cab is certainly like nothing that was around when I was spending my youth taking LSD & playing arcade games like Galaga. I had the hankin table with a Galaga card in it back then, & yes, we did swap cards out quite regulalry. Able Amusements used to sell them for about $25-50 back then, which made for a great home gaming setup, especially as consoles in those days were mainly pixel type games with crappy graphics & sound. The one game that always had to go in my games room was Galaga, that was a must have for me. The way Galaga feels on this cab & card is very close to my much loved Hankin table, so I am over the moon happy with what I picked up, and at the price I paid for it....well that was just a joke really, basically not even the cost of a meal at a local eatery. (Love my rib eye marinated in bourbon, which costs $5 less than I paid for the cab). The namco controller are of a type that I never did get the feel for, like most PS controllers, they just don't feel right. Another of my old time favs was Qix, and I could get pretty aggressive with the joystick on the game. The joysticks on the cab can handle that kind of agression, but I always felt the playstation type joysticks were going to break. They probably would handle it, but they just don't "feel" that way to me. I did not grow up with consoles, so it is a case of what a person is used to I guess. The purists will no doubt have their say, but at the end of the day, there is only one gamer who knows the way a cab should feel, and that is the one who plays it the most, me! :lol: I bought it for my own pleasure, if others want to play on it, great, & I can see a few games night happening here, especially as none of the local places have a cab of any description (although I think one of the pubs may still have a crappy old table). I play a few games on my PC, which can handle just about anything that has been made so far, and probably anything that is likely to be made over the next year or so. (32GB 1333Mhz RAM & a 2GB graphics card with a 3.6 Ghz quad core CPU) Mostly I play driving games like Need For Speed & The Crew on that, so am quite used to PC gaming. Have tried various plug in controllers over the years on that also, but have never liked the feel of them & always go back to my programmable keyboard. As for the sound issues on the 48 in 1, it does not sound too bad to me, I also read somewhere that the sound quality can be improved by using the jack on the board, but have not tested that out yet. I might, or I might not.

Well I probably won't have time to get the old skills back, but have improved my score 192,890

Great price & cab. I think this is the one that was offered to me last night, but I just don't have the spare $$$ right now. :(

Have not loaded it up yet, but from this discussion, this is going to be xtremely interesting playing it on my computer...luckily i have programmable keys

Beautiful looking telescope. If you don't want to use Gimp grab Irfan View & also get the plugins pack. Totally free & a fantastic little tool for rotating & basic edits on pics

When I first posted pics of this cab in the LAI thread I was told lowboy, & I thought that was not quite right...Being a total n00b to these beasties, please tell me which is right? Lowboy or fatboy? EDIT: just Googled fatboy & thank you, you are correct

I came across an old, very dirty & dusty LAI Fatboy cabinet at a recent local garage sale. The person I share my house with, great friend of many years, & I had planned on building a games room eventually, but it was not supposed to be until we had bought the land next door & built a massive shed on it. When I found I could get the cab for $50 (+ a can of coke :lol: ) I figured it was worth a try & would be a fun project to see if I could get it going. Previous owner had no idea what was wrong with it, except it didn't work any more. He said it had an 18 game card in it. After dropping the beast on top of myself (slipped on wet grass moving it inside) and taking a couple of weeks before I could bend my back & get inside t have a good poke around, I finally got stuck in during the past week. With thanks to many of the great members here who helped with loads of advice...even some advice I could have done without :lol I finally got it running. Guts of it are a JAMMA setup with a 48 in 1 board running into a 24" LCD montior. The marquee was a hidden surprise that I found when changing the flouro tube out. Don't have that game on the machine, but I liked the look of it

:lol Your maths are about right