That's really nice :)

Arcade and pinball machies are great, expecially the originals. I have a Smart Toss'em which is like one of those skeetball machines that I bought at a kids funpark bankrupsy sale years ago.

They have some great arcade games on ebay but th shipping breaks the deal. I'm looking for a tabletop pacman.

I love SkeetBall. When I am on holiday I end up spending a fortune on it, collect the tokens, and end up with some useless piece of crap that I don't need and could have purchased for a fraction of what I paid out on the damn game.

If I am with friends, we often play for drinks.

Mine is the shorter version, here a pic of it when I first got it years ago and had a place that it fit in! Unfortunatly when my girlfriend moved in it had to be put in storage to make room for her stuff, ahhhh compromise!

Tortus32,

Look into buying or building a MAME machine. I bought 3 old arcade machines years ago that had various problems. I sold the functioning game boards on Ebay and made some money. I ended up having nothing invested in the cabinets.

I made refinishing the cabinets a hobby. I have only completed one of the machines but I had a good time doing it. I installed a cheap PC that plays everything perfectly and got a new control panel - http://x-arcade.com/two-player.shtml.

I've got an arcade machine that plays about 3500 original games, a video poker machine, and a Rock-ola CD jukebox in the house. I bought a skeeball table about a year ago and put it in the garage. If you grew up playing games now is an excellent time to pick up your old favorites without spending a ton of money. Contact a vending machine company near you and see if they have anything they want to get rid of. That is how I bought my cabinets.

I figure I will finish the other two cabinets one of these days.. its good to have a hobby on stand by I think. haha