For those of you that have been here before, you may know that I’m working on redrawing a scan of a Moon Patrol bezel so Rich at ThisOldGame.com can make reproductions. It has been very slow going. If you read the other updates in this section, you’ll see that I had all of the color work done, and the black lines that were feasible to vectorize. The part that has taken me all this time is the night sky, which had to be done as a raster image in Photoshop. Here is what I started with, after removing everything that was already vectorized:

Here is the end result, including the black vector portion layered on top:

The only thing I have remaining now is the halftone shading on the buildings.

Checkout this warning posted by Alaskan park officials regarding Alaskan Grizzly Bears:

You are likely to be eaten by a Grue!

I’m a big fan of Infocom games from the 80s. Yes, I’m a geek. This guy that I’ve never heard of until today - MC Frontalot - has a new “nerdcore” song and video all about Infocom:

I don’t have a good post title for this one, as I’m just going to tell you what I’ve been up to lately. I’m am deeply sorry to dissapoint you with a lack luster heading. If you have a better one let me know and I’ll change it!

Saturday we had a Yard Sale. It was our first one at this house. The main catalyst for this yard sale was lack of room, due to large numbers of arcade games now overtaking every available square inch of our house. We had loads of junk piling up in our back cellar, in closets, etc…

Man! We unloaded all sorts of crap to unsuspecting yard salers. I was suprised to see things go that I didn’t expect anyone would want. Bread machine - GONE! Ice cream maker - SEE YA! Old cordless phones - DON’T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE A$$ ON THE WAY OUT! We raked in a whopping $125!

We then proceeded to Walmart and spent it on more junk.

In other news, I got the sound working on Wacko. I also noticed that the monitor on Defender just decided to stop working on the same day. I haven’t had a chance to check that out yet.

Lastly…someone over at the KLOV.com message boards asked people to post pics of things they remember from their youth. I posted my Presto Magix collection:

Click the pic above to zoom in.

I’ve had a few drinks in my day, but never quite enough to have a night like this guy. He woke up realizing he lost his pants, and a big cashier’s check that was inside.

I woke up cold not knowing where the heck I was, and I didn’t realize it at first because I still had my shoes and socks on,” he said. “When I got up, I realized, my God, I don’t have any pants.

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It’s been a long day. We left around 7AM to pick up a Wacko in Long Island, NY that I got on eBay. We got there around 10, stopped for lunch on the way home and got back around 3:30. I spent most of the rest of the day rearranging the game room to make space for it.

Wacko has a very unique cabinet design.

I think it would probably look like the only straight cabinet after too many beers. Here are some more pics:

It’s in pretty good shape, and plays fine. The sound was working when I tried it in NY but cut out when I got it home. I’ll mess with that tomorrow.

All of our games were in 2 rows facing each other. I had to rearrange one of the rows to make this fit, and it actually looks like we have more space now for some reason.