Re: Atari Power supplies

> Is this you site also? (it's a nice site!)

Its mine. Thanks!

It started out about a year ago. I bought 22 arcade games from a vendor.
This was out of a warehouse that I'll guess had 200 classics?

They must have had about 30 vector games. I'm going back in Jan/Feb to
pick up as many vector games that I can grab. Most of the stuff has some
sort of problem. What did they have when I was last there? I remember lots
of asteroids and asteroids deluxe, space duels, 3 or 4 tempests, a
battlezone, a lunar lander, and a space wars. (I wanted the space wars,
but it was too damn tall to fit in the truck.) Probably more... I really
wanted to steer away from vectors at the time.

Among the vectors I picked up were: Star Wars Uprights (3!), Tempest
Uprights (2). (One Star Wars was given to a friend. The other is on
location at a friend's covenience store. The last is in storage because
its components were used to fixed the other two. GET THIS: bad ampliphone
tube, HV, deflector, PCB, power supply, regulator board, and flight yoke!
I think the wiring harness and the coin door are good, though.)

Anyhow, the idea was to sell enough of them to make back my initial
investment and to make my hobby self-financing. Didn't happen. Between
really liking the games I got, and really not being any kind of
salesperson, I kept them all except for two that I gave away. (Star
Wars and Bad Dudes.)

The initial idea of the web page was to be a public face to advertise and
sell off some of the games. Didn't happen. But the initial commercial
aspect is why the look is so polished.

After a few months, I dropped the commercialism, and used it to host the
documents that I've been creating on various subjects (many geared towards
new collectors).

I'm working on a replacement for the site, though. Kind of a
Yahoo/Slashdot kind of thing for arcade games. Here are two advanced (and
non-functional) design layouts:

http://arcade.gameshop.com/proto/proto2.htm (Home page)
http://arcade.gameshop.com/proto/proto3.htm (Centipede subpage)

(Clay Cowgill would either laugh... or quite possibly kill me... if he
were to read the parody on the Centipede page. See the second bulletin.)

I'm working on the initial/basic version of this site now. The design
layouts above are where I want to go, but it'll be a long ways down the
road if it happens. I'm going to start with a basic Yahoo structure and
work in features from there.

Now I've strayed WAAAAY off-topic at this point. Thanks for the
compliment!

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jcm
jmccorm@galstar.com