Here’s my current list of arcade games.
Got a few EM games as well.

Asteroids
Bandido
Battlezone
Black Widow
Blue Shark
Burgertime
Centipede
Circus Charlie
Crossbow
Death Race
Destruction Derby
Dig Dug
Domino Man
Dragon's Lair
Dragon's Lair II
Elevator Action
Formula K
Frogger
Front Line
Gauntlet II
Gravitar
Gun Fight
Ivan Stewart Off Road
Joust
Lunar Lander
Major Havoc (in a tempest)
Moon Patrol
Ms. Pac/Galaga reunion.
Paperboy
Pong (Atari)
Quantum
Sea Wolf
Sinistar
Space Ace
Space Duel
Space Invaders Deluxe
Star Trek (captains chair)
Star Wars (cockpit)
Steeplechase
Stunt Cylce
Subs
Tank II
Tapper
Timber
Trak 10
Tron
Zoo Keeper

I feel you. I’m at the point now where I’m really selective and pass on games I would have bought in the past because space is a premium. Gotta pick and choose wisely these days.
Pretty much out of space, yet I keep buying

Yes, Timber is a pretty rare game that is really quite fun and highly desirable.
It came out right around the time of the arcade crash in 84 when the big arcade like Aladdins Castile started closing up locations.
The production run is just over 500 machines so it was rare from the get go.
Theres a bunch of games from that era that are really rare like this.
Some because the games sucked, but some (like Timber) were victims of bad timing on release date.
Heres a thread on KLOV I started a while back.
https://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=428401&highlight=timber+tapper

Looks like he's doing a fantastic job with these.
If I didn't have a Timber I would be buying one.

LOL yep thats it.
Nice detective work.

Picked up two Bronze Age black and whites over the weekend.
Atari Breakout and UPL (SEGA Gremlin) Depthcharge.

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Acquired this EM Sub game rescently.
A buddy went and grabbed it for me and dropped it off at my folks house in SoCal.
Need to make a road trip out there to go pick her up.

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I had a Qbert a few years back that was an operator conversion to 1942.
Most of the original Qbert harness was still inside and had been hacked in the conversation.
It had a couple paper tags hanging off the harness that said the same thing.
My buddy Phil has the cabinet now and is converting it back to Qbert.

Anyhow, I was doing some research and it seems that they put test machines out at specific locations before they actually put these into mass production.
They put them out at specific location and had people taking notes on the players reaction to try to gauge if the machine would be a success or not.
Apparently they even did this in some locations where there were people watching from behind a two way mirror so the players did not know they were being observed.

I had one of these for a while.
The monitors are nothing more than rear projection TVs. In fact if one of them ever goes completely out, a rear projection TV is a drop in replacement.
I would start with checking you connections and see if you have a lose cable somewhere.

Congrats.
Looks like a beauty.

Black Widows were factory converted from Gravitars.
Check the back of the machine and see if it has the ID tag.
Its probably a dedicated machine (I.E. factory conversion) rather than a field conversion from an OP.

Awesome.
I just picked up this one this week.

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Aresome rug.

Very nice.
It’s actually quite tuff to find a nice dedicated Ghosts n Goblins.
Great game for sure.

Very cool.
The Museum of Pinball in Banning California has one of these. As does the Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas.
Very interesting and fun machine.
Thanks for sharing.

Picked this up yesterday to add to my black and white arcade game collection (which is one of my main collecting areas).

Tora Tora
Its basically the attack on Pearl Harbor as a video game.
Similar game play to Space invaders, only the moon bases are a row of US battleships and your being attacked by Japanese zeros in groups of three.
There’s even a single plane that comes down that’s a kamikaze and crashes into your ships.

Very excited about this one.
Really friggin rare.

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I would think this would not be very popular among WWII veterans, which may attest to why its so rare today.
I can only envision a Pearl Harbor vet walking into an arcade and bowling alley and being like "What the flying F......?).
This came out around the same time period where games like Death Race was being removed from arcades for violence because the cars were running over people. I love this sort of stuff and its one of the major things I collect.
Going to open her up and do some work on her this weekend.
I took the lower back door off to tuck in the power cable before I moved it. and its pretty dusty inside.
She plays, but needs cleaned up and the monitor re-capped.
Also, Its a mirrored game, but either the bulb or starter is burnt out.
I asked the guy if it had a colored background and he did not know.
When I had the lower back door off, I could see the edges of the black light reactive background, but couldn't tell what the art looked like.
Can't find a video of it online either.
Guess I will find out this weekend.

Delved a little bit into Tora Tora tonight.
The machine does have a black light for a reflective background (like Space Invaders) and a color gel to simulate color for a black and white game.
Basically the gel colorizes the water and the are you are firing from. The cardboard behind the glass is orange and reflects though the mirror to make the sky orange and pair it with the orange in the bezel so there is a transition. Got the black light working and replaced the bulbs for the marquee.
Gonna need to recap the monitor at a minimum and will probably replace the caps on the PCB, power supply and sound board while I’m at it.
Anyhow, here’s what she looks like in color.
Basically Pear Harbor the arcade game.
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Beautiful

Chicken Sam maybe?

I’ve got a Shoot The Bear in my garage and looks very similar.

Wait, what?
It’s it a Trap the Jap? Or Shoot the Jap? Or one of the conversions where you shoot Hitler?
Would love to see some pictures.

That’s really frigin cool.
Good on you for taking on this project to save it.

I’ve never actually seen a war conversion in person. I think they are really fascinating as a lot of the artwork seems hand done making each machine kind of unique in its own way.

Some of the ones pictured here are really interesting.

http://www.pinrepair.com/arcade/killer.htm

Smoking deal.
Fantastic game.

Anybody have a SEGA Frogs they want to sell?
Not to be confused with Frogger (totally different game).
I believe it was called Frogs and Flys on the Intellivision.

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Yep, I’m aware. My main collecting interest is black and whites and I have no issue having to pony up on the price for the right machine.
Here’s the current configuration of our main arcade room at the house. Want to add a Frogs to that lineup.

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Nice, Shark Jaws is pretty impressive.
Ive never owned that machine.

I own a bunch of other black and white titles as well that are either in other rooms or that garage.
That's about 1/3 of them I suppose.

The other option is to be on the lookout for a Championship Sprint, which is the same cabinet.

There’s another version of it that’s let’s just say is a little more inappropriate.

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