There is a very nice full Gunbird 2 arcade pcb kit with matching serials for sale over at gfront, but at ¥50,000 it’s a bit too rich for my blood. Here are their photos: Blog entry: 新着基板（シューティング） Cheers, Ralph.
On posting pictures of my Taisen Hot Gimmick Kairakuten kit, someone requested better pictures or the pinout for the player 2 harness pictured here. The harness plugs into the pcb onto the housings pictured below. Here is the pinout: I…
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I’ve been very fortunate of late that after many years of a drought of Psikyo Arts, things seem to have picked up nicely. First set I caught is Taisen Hot Gimmick 3 – Digital Surfing. Whilst it is nice to…
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This is one if those games that doesn’t come up that often and one sold last week on ebay for AU$970. Pictures by kind permission if the eBay seller. I’ve seen the inside out box before when my mate received…
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I went to visit Mo at VideotronicsUK last night with Richy13 from Arcade4Life. Over the last few months, Mo has imported three containers of Japanese Candy cabs. It was these that we went to see. We started off at main…
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I can’t remember how long I’ve wanted this piece of art. It was a great many years before I could even confirm its existence much less look for one. A few weeks ago I received a private message from the…
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Ay up, The Psikyo arts harvest from Yahoo Auctions Japan continues. First up, an item I’ve not seen before: a very nice condition Tengai tent POP. I’ve never seen one of these before either so I’m quite chuffed to have…
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I just dug out Strikers 1945 Plus for scanning. See the results by clicking the flyer icon in the slider above. As with all of the other scans, click on the Open Image in a New Window option (middle icon…
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Questions on whether a pcb is genuine or a bootleg or a conversion crop up with staggering frequency. Since I started with arcade collecting in 2005 I have seen precisely three Psikyo pcb conversions and I have been fortunate enough…
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By popular demand (well OK, I may have overstated that slightly as one person asked, but hey ho)!!! Hot Gimmick 5 with 4 wins and punishment scenes. I won against: [a] Komuci [b] Momoko [a] Grin-Grin [a] Asagi&Moegi I finally…
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