DECO Burgertime and Moon Patrol
I traveled to the recent St. Louis area Super Auctions to hang out with fellow collectors and to scope out the goods up for auction. I had a great time and hope to do it again. (St Louis Auction) Of course when you’re also planning to pick up a nice DECO Burgertime, it makes the road trip a little easier.
I worked out a deal with Troy Smith of arcade unlimited for a non-working DECO Burgertime. He agreed to drop it off at the auction so I could pick it up during the preview the night before. I was barely able to fit it in the back of my 4 runner and the ride back to Pat’s was a cold one. It’s a surprisingly tall game, but very light like a Nintendo cabinet. I got it back safely and looked it over. It’s complete and in decent shape overall. I’m going to grab some control panel parts for the game and I’ll likely clean it up come Spring. For a little more history on DECO games, take a look at the atariprotos website. I plan to install Dave Widel’s multi-DECO kit to get the most from my only DECO cabinet. Stay tuned.
DECO Burgertime
I had one spot remaining on the trailer for the ride home and ended up getting this very nice Moon Patrol to fill it. Another fun Williams classic that should be easy (!) to get up and running. I’ll stash this one away until Spring as well.
Moon Patrol
EDIT: 110409 – Both the DECO Burgertime and Moon Patrol uprights have moved on to new owners. I’ve been downsizing due to the limited space in my game room and the excessive quantity of projects I have. Trying to have just a few!
Tags: burgertime, DECO, Moon Patrol
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:36 pm
John,
Since I don’t know you, can’t say I want to forward someone’s contact info. If you’d like me to forward your contact info to Troy, I can do that. Just send me the info. Chris
July 26th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Is there supposed to be another comment here from John? Did it get deleted?
Hard to believe it’s been since March already since you got this.
Have you ever run across photos showing the Deco cabinets with either, what I suppose, is the Burgertime specific conversion sideart or the decal that was a more generic conversion kit piece? That part that says ‘Deco’?
http://www.arcadeflyers.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=3243&image=3
http://www.arcadeflyers.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=282&image=1
Or is this the best anyone has ever seen?
July 26th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Oh, and one other thing…
What is that piece to the right of where a ‘shoot’ button should be? Is that a button? It almost looks like a dial or something…
July 28th, 2009 at 8:29 am
@Rotheblog: I had never seen that before. All my searches brought up images of just the plain woodgrain sides, very nice. Not sure who John is.
July 28th, 2009 at 8:32 am
@Rotheblog: That’s a button cavity you see. Its missing the top of the button. I should have grabbed the extra panel from QuarterArcade when i had a chance! They show up once in awhile, so it shouldn’t be that tough to find just a replacement button. Or, if you mean the silver patch thing, its just a plug to fill a hole that’s not used on this game. I think other deco games (when switching out the tapes) required the 2nd button. So if you do the multi deco, you’ll need another button.
August 19th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
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