Robin Harbron

I meant to post about this way back when I got it in June or so, but never got around to it. Ben and Kyla were playing it today, and I had the camera ready, so it was a perfect opportunity.

I’ve wanted an arcade cabinet for a long time, and when things seemed to work out perfectly, I went for it. I was going to the 2007 Midwest Gaming Classic near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and didn’t really have any choice but to take my truck this time. So, I had the vehicle, I had the route, and I put out a call on the AtariAge.com forum to see if someone had a cabinet for sale. I guy I had talked to online a couple time had a Tetris machine up on eBay right at that moment for a really reasonable $200. Not only is Tetris the one video game my wife likes, but it’s also a JAMMA cabinet. JAMMA is a standard that makes it really easy to swap games out. All the connections: electrical, video, audio, controls, coin go to one connector that can be removed and put on another board in seconds (or minutes if you take the time to properly secure the new board).

For some reason, the younger kids call games “game-gas”, and this is “The Big Game-Ga”. It gets played quite a bit.

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