Current state of gameroom - infested by kids and dragons!

Someone just asked about gamerooms on Jeff's coinopspace.com site, and I thought I'd post a video that shows the current (pitiful, but fun) state of my gameroom. I have all the games moved in a row under the stairs. I've also now finally got all the moving boxes and file cabinets out of the way.

From left to right in the background...
The Candy Cab (Still currently with RushNAttack/GreenBeret board) fits up under there so you can sit under the steps.
Then I've got the Top Score pinball starting out the row.
Then the Lock N Chase (needs a cap kit at least, but possibly has lost a gun or two).
Then my working Jail Break (hopefully to be rotated to vertical to run TimePilot84 and my other vertical Konami's).
My Sega Turbo (working mostly blind), and hopefully soon to be cap kittd).
Not visible, but will go in eventually where the Christmas Crap shelf is - The boards and CP, etc of a Roadblasters and a monitor that I'm going to make into a dual kid/adult sized sitdown.
Barely visible - A fake kiddie pinball (the kind they sell for $75/$100)

In the foreground is the cheap ($40 at Kmart last year), but amazingly fun air hockey machine.
On the right, you can barely see the side of the castle (with blue fabric) I'm framing in for the kids.

Where the heck have I been?

Let's see, where have a been? Since my last post, I took a bazillion business trips, smashed my car, lost a grandmother-in-law, landscaped my back yard, tried (in vain, but had fun soldering) to fix my inlaws TV, done a lot of rearranging of the basement den/arcade/shop/kids castle/Dreamcastland/etc and started coaching my daughter's soccer team.

Zap.

There goes 8 months.

Had some good pinball and arcade on my business trips. The best was probably GamesNAt in Pittsburgh, and the bowling alley next to the Pinball Parlour in Earlington, PA (Philadelphia area).

This week, I helped turn a fellow member of the awesome Yahoo EM pinball group onto Fitz's in St. Louis. They only have a LOTR, but it's well shopped, and the Rootbeer and Cream Soda are to die for.

I got the fever for it so bad that I took the wife and kids there before the Trout Fishing in America concert at the Library.


In other news, Jeff Rothe has got his great new website called coinopspace.com up and running. He calls www.coinopspace.com a "Classic Arcade Game Forum". Sounds about right. It's like KLOV or RGVAC or RGP, only with great graphics and (so far) lots of friendly "hobby" folks. (i.e. not a lot of jerks/egos).

They've helped me out with some cap kit questions, so I'm ready (I hope) finally to tackle my cap kits this winter.