Well I have gone crazy. I recently went on a little road trip to Niagara Falls and picked up a pretty nice Party Zone.
Playfield is pretty solid, ramps are mint. Dancing dummy intact. All plastics unbroken and in good shape.
Cabinet faded to death. Sound was funky but swapped some resistors on the soundboard and sorted that out. GI power from the transformer was borked pretty good but I repinned and replaced the molex connector.
So anyway I have decided that this game is going to be restored to the best of my ability.
I have installed a new ColorDMD, I have brand new cabinet decals that are UV reactive, pinball pro speakers and sub installed, wired in stereo and connected to a Pinsound+ that arrived today. I am on the list for a repro playfield and plan on powder coating the game once I finish the swap in the future.
I have gotten to work on a custom audio mix to replace all the shitty music and will be working to re-record all of the call outs. I am also thinking to replace the supersonic robotic comic noises with short clips of 90s era comedians and adding additional phrases for the female character to speak to keep things fresh.
In just under 2 hours I changed out almost every song with what I feel were appropriate selections.
Chicken Feet = Chicken Dance Club Remix
Pinball Wizard = Pinball Wizard remix
De-Funk = Daft Punk Around the World
Safe Sax = Safe Sax by Dax
Crash Dummy = I Like to Move it or Macarena Remix and I may add Cotton Eyed Joe or cmon Ride it (shuffles through however many tracks I put in the folder)
Ozone Rocket music = Intergalactic
Game over = Ice Ice Baby, cut to start at “will it ever stop? I don’t know, turn off the lights and I’ll glow” because the game does indeed.
Feelings = actual recording of Feelings
Come Fly Withe Me = remastered Sinatra original
Purple Haze = Techno Purple Haze Hendrix remix
The main game music and multiball are tracks I will buy from PremiumBeat.com once I decide on the options I am considering.
Volume leveling will be a bit of a process but once my new MacBook Pro arrives I can drop my tracks in to Logic and knock this out way faster than with Audacity on my Windows tablet.
If anyone has additional ideas for the custom audio let me know and I will be more than happy to share the work once I get it to a respectable place.
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