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Non-NEC Console Related Discussion => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Ninja Spirit on May 30, 2006, 04:29:44 PM
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Anyone have their rooms decorated with these?
I have
>Warriors of Fate (Capcom)
>Final Fight (Capcom)
>World Heroes 2 (SNK)
>Gravitar (Atari)
Just 10 minutes ago I accidently snapped my Final Fight marquee in half, but no biggie really cuz I can frame it up.
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I don't have any, but I would love to get some.
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Best way to get them, if you're lucky to set foot in an arcade that's lived through every era in video games, it's a gold mine of marquees. The manager might give some away just to free up space.
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I bought a decent-sized lot of them on eBay once for about $25. I have:
Golden Axe
Commando
Rygar
Darkstalkers
Ghosts n' Goblins
Double Dragon II
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Anyone have their rooms decorated with these?
I have
>Warriors of Fate (Capcom)
>Final Fight (Capcom)
>World Heroes 2 (SNK)
>Gravitar (Atari)
Just 10 minutes ago I accidently snapped my Final Fight marquee in half, but no biggie really cuz I can frame it up.
Photos please!
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Anyone have their rooms decorated with these?
I have
>Warriors of Fate (Capcom)
>Final Fight (Capcom)
>World Heroes 2 (SNK)
>Gravitar (Atari)
Just 10 minutes ago I accidently snapped my Final Fight marquee in half, but no biggie really cuz I can frame it up.
Photos please!
They're in the shop getting framed as we speak.
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I only have one placed on my wall,my favorite one of all time!!!!
! ! ! TIME KILLERS ! ! !
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I used to have a poster of Zanac on the wall of my bedroom. I had to take it down years ago when it got tattered and torn. I want to buy another one, but for a poster thats 18 years old I don't think they still exists today.
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Anyone have their rooms decorated with these?
I have
>Warriors of Fate (Capcom)
>Final Fight (Capcom)
>World Heroes 2 (SNK)
>Gravitar (Atari)
Just 10 minutes ago I accidently snapped my Final Fight marquee in half, but no biggie really cuz I can frame it up.
Photos please!
Btw http://www.arcadeflyers.net (http://www.arcadeflyers.net/) has pictures of them all 8)
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I have a strip of marquees along two of the walls of my arcade room, a 5 foot wide Capcom service centre plastic banner across one of the other walls and a the sketch art SSFIIX poster on the inside door.
I designed the marquee and desktop wallpaper of my MAME cabinet with Capcom flyers as the background. The bezel is patterned with mini flyers and a large shiny Capcom sticker along the top.
I still have a stack of marquees that I don't have much use for sitting behind the cabinets.
Just 10 minutes ago I accidently snapped my Final Fight marquee in half, but no biggie really cuz I can frame it up.
I'm pretty sure that I have a spare Final Fight marquee(other than the one on the FF cabinet) that I never put up on the wall with the others. I think that I'm going to go put it up right now. :)
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Best way to get them, if you're lucky to set foot in an arcade that's lived through every era in video games, it's a gold mine of marquees. The manager might give some away just to free up space.
I once got dozens of marquees, sideart, pcb's, parts, etc... from a friend of my girlfriend's brother-in-law who was once an operator.
I later regretted turning down 2 cabinets, but I did grab his Bubble Bobble cabinet, which looks very cool even though it needs to be fully refurbished to function(I'm saving it for my next MAME cabinet).
Thats where I got the giant Capcom banner and a pile of Capcom stickers.
EDIT:
Alright, here's some crappy pics-
(http://www.superpcenginegrafx.com/arcade1.jpg)
(http://www.superpcenginegrafx.com/arcade2.jpg)
(http://www.superpcenginegrafx.com/arcade3.jpg)
(http://www.superpcenginegrafx.com/arcade4.jpg)
(http://www.superpcenginegrafx.com/arcade5.jpg)
(http://www.superpcenginegrafx.com/arcade6.jpg)
(http://www.superpcenginegrafx.com/arcade7.jpg)
(http://www.superpcenginegrafx.com/arcade8.jpg)
(http://www.superpcenginegrafx.com/arcade9.jpg)
I had forgotten about Magic Sword and Commando, I should get them up soon too. My arcade room is becoming a storage room pretty quick as I transform my Masters Of The Universe room into a general gaming room.
I hate to admit it, but I don't play my real arcades very much since making my Mame cabinet(which sits in our living room near the Black Tiger cocktail coffee table). :(
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I have tons of old-skool arcade marquees (mostly early- to mid- 80's). The few later-era marquees I have are for games like Punkshot and Double Dragon II (and III?). I know, they are old too, but they are the most "recent" titles I have.
I made a lightbox (it held one "standard-size" marquee at a time) only to realize that I should have designed it to hold TWO marquees (on opposite sides). Unfortuntately, there was really no place in my home to put the lightbox, so I sold it on ebay.
Next time I build a light box, I'm gonna use flourescent bulbs. One reason I sold my old lightbox is because I used incandescent bulbs and even with low-wattage bulbs and ventilation holes, it just got TOO DAMN HOT.
I don't have many paper/cardboard inlays (I forget what you call them) that surround the monitor and are under the glass. I have Section Z... and maybe 1-2 others. I sold a bunch of them because they are sooooo fragile and I didn't have a good method for storing them. I wish I took the time to store them properly, but I was too lazy (all I need were some big pieces of cardboard to sandwhich them between).
I would love to make an illuminated wall of marquees, but I fear that it would look ugly. Plus, it would be pretty tough to design something that was slim, looked nice, and accomodated all the different-sized marquees. Simple rows / columns would be boring... I'd want to create a pattern... like masons do with walls and floor tiles...
Of course, that might look ugly as well...