1993 Atari Arcade Cabinet Restoration — 3 WEEK CHALLENGE

For shits n gigs, you could sneak in a personal message to your friend in one of those. Maybe change a date or serial number to his birthday or something?

 

Oh I have a whole separate decal I made with that stuff. Just didn’t post it because it has my name on it haha

 

I like secretly changing labels for things around the house. My partner has a Nalgene bottle that I lovingly changed the label to say “Nalgona” (means big booty girl in Spanish). I got a strongly worded text a couple days later when she finally found it.

 

Reminds me of this:

 

Big things are happening this weekend.

The control panel obviously has a lot of holes in it from its previous lives. They just drilled new holes for new buttons every time a new game was installed in the cabinet. The last owner used a cheap plastic overlay, which I didn’t like.

So I bought a 16 GA piece of sheet metal cut to size by my local metal shop. This will be riveted in place.



I also purchased new plexiglass for the marquee, and also to replace the broken bezel.

 

Before this picture was taken, the finish consisted of:

- 2 Layers Filler Prime
- 400 Grit Wetsand
- 2 Layers Satin Black

In order to get rid of the imperfections (dirt, paint sagging, runs) in the paint, I 400 grit wet sanded the base coat.



After the wet sand, I applied three more coats of Black Satin basecoat and here is the result:



Nearly perfect finish:



As a reminder, this is how it looked only a short time ago:

 

You sir, are winning at life.

 

I have my moments. That's not even the best one: She drinks a tea that is supposed to help with menstrual cramps called "Healthy Cycle". Somehow the label on that got changed to "Healthy Psycho".

 

That's classic!!! My wife would FREAK!!!

 

Sneak Peak

 

Ha ha I was just gonna you if you had done anything yet this week.

 

Finishing up this weekend. His birthday is next Friday the 11th.

 

NICE!!

 

I always thought the graphics for the game rampage were awesome on the side of the machines.

 

I thought they were just stripes?

 

The one in my local Dairy Queen growing had the Godzilla character stomping on a building on one side

 

Cool!!

 

Never mind that was the newer one I confused yes the older on I’m the Dairy Queen had stripes. My bad you were right. I had to search it

 

No bad....I just wasn't sure if I was remembering things right....I'm sure they changed up the graphics over time.....and it has been a LoooooNG time

 

I want the original one, but the newer one from midways graphics. That’s the one I remember playing before elementary school growing up with quarters I got from stealing the bottles out back of the store and return them to the same store. This was the early 90’s for me.