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My girl and I decided to have an impromtu pre-Labor Day BBQ. We have beer can chicken, brats, grilled veggie kabobs, Grill Fried Green Tomatoes and salad. Have a happy and safe weekend one and all.

Chicken & Brats

The Table

Good Friends

So I have been struggling with my recently acquired Robotron coin-op cab, trying to get the screen to correctly display. As some of you may remember, the play field was displaying too wide, leaving approximately 20% of the action off screen. Well today i received and installed a new width coil and it did the trick. My Robotron cab is now performing properly and ready for some ass kicking. My first goal is to break 1 milion points, and then to shoot for the world record. Think I can make it? Stay tuned to find out.

Robotron as it Should be Viewed

So I have been struggling with my recently acquired Robotron coin-op cab, trying to get the screen to correctly display. As some of you may remember, the play field was displaying too wide, leaving approximately 20% of the action off screen. Well today i received and installed a new width coil and it did the trick. My Robotron cab is now performing properly and ready for some ass kicking. My first goal is to break 1 milion points, and then to shoot for the world record. Think I can make it? Stay tuned to find out.

Robotron as it Should be Viewed

At 40 years old, I am not your typical reality television personality, i.e. large breasted woman or brainless money whore. Well, ok, I might be a bit of a money whore, but I do posess a certain level of intelligence as is proven by the fact that I somehow successfully secured not one, but two college degrees. And both Mike James and Bubba have bigger Moobs that I do. But I digress.

At 40 years old, I am not your typical reality television personality, i.e. large breasted woman or brainless money whore. Well, ok, I might be a bit of a money whore, but I do posess a certain level of intelligence as is proven by the fact that I somehow successfully secured not one, but two college degrees. And both Mike James and Bubba have bigger Moobs that I do. But I digress.

As part of my Robotron addiction I have been doing some research on the game and its creators, Eugene Jarvis and LArry Demar. I came across some interesting videos on youtube of the creators talking about the game and their enthusiasm for the games chaotic pace. I especially like when Jarvis is talking about "grabbing the game by the joysticks and banging it up against the wall in rage." Fun stuff. Check out these videos.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuEuCp280J4[/youtube]

As part of my Robotron addiction I have been doing some research on the game and its creators, Eugene Jarvis and LArry Demar. I came across some interesting videos on youtube of the creators talking about the game and their enthusiasm for the games chaotic pace. I especially like when Jarvis is talking about "grabbing the game by the joysticks and banging it up against the wall in rage." Fun stuff. Check out these videos.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuEuCp280J4[/youtube]

I spent my "day off" working at my vintage video game shop (located inside Comically Speaking in Reading, MA - www.comicallyspeaking.com). Since I have been in the shop last, we have gotten in a ton of cool stuff, including lots of boxed Sega Genesis goodies and a complete boxed NEO GEO Gold Edition home console, which of course I snagged for my collection. The NEO GEO was one of the last major home consoles that I did not already have in my collection.

Behold the NEO GEO Goodness

I spent my "day off" working at my vintage video game shop (located inside Comically Speaking in Reading, MA - www.comicallyspeaking.com). Since I have been in the shop last, we have gotten in a ton of cool stuff, including lots of boxed Sega Genesis goodies and a complete boxed NEO GEO Gold Edition home console, which of course I snagged for my collection. The NEO GEO was one of the last major home consoles that I did not already have in my collection.

Behold the NEO GEO Goodness

So I discharged the monitor to my Robotron cab and did the cap kit this weekend. Here is some video from my first attempt to do this. Obviously, since I am posting this blog, I did not electrocute myself, this time.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdLH6Q4MA8[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NKpl-G37To[/youtube]