My Arcade

I'm a fairly serious collector of coin-operated arcade equipment. There's probably a better word than "serious" for a person who owns ten pinball machines, but we'll leave that to your imagination ...

My primary interest is mid- to late-nineties pinball machines, but my collection also includes several juke boxes, a few rifle games (shooting galleries), and a HUGE ball bowler machine. If you're a fellow collector or enthusiast in the area of Nashua NH, I'd love to hear from you. I've been working on coin-op games for several decades and can assist you with repairs to your games.

Here are some pictures of my basement arcade. Click on any of the thumbnails below for a larger picture.

Coke machine, Indiana Jones, Cirqus Voltaire	Scared Stiff, Creature from the Black Lagoon	Seeburg HF100R Juke Box
Bally ABC Bowling Lanes Ball Bowler	Chicago Coin's "Rodeo" Shooting Gallery	Fish Tales, White Water
Haunted House	Currently in the workshop

Some notes about these games:

	Scared Stiff is an early production model (or sample game); it has many features such as glow-in-the-dark bones that were dropped in a cost-savings measure. You can see the color-wash applied to the bones at the factory; this step was omitted from the majority of the production games.
	Haunted House belongs to my oldest daughter. This is about the fourth one of these games that I've owned. I spent some serious time touching up a number of worn areas on the wooden playfields; this surely is a labor of love.
	The ABC Bowling Lanes is over fourteen feet long! I snagged a NOS backglass off eBay for this game.

As I restore these games I'm having the playfields sprayed with automotive clearcoat (a highly durable plastic finish). This is similar to the finish that was applied to late-model games at the factory; it serves to preserve the artwork on the wooden playfield from wear. I send my playfields to Bill Davis for clearcoating; Bill's an absolute wizard at making old playfields look new again!