Here we go

I finished building my Q*Bert arcade cabinet almost a year ago (a log of that project is here: http://qcab.blogspot.com/). It takes a lot of work to build a cabinet from scratch, and I have no intention of either building another, ever, or buying a cabinet that only plays a single game.

Unfortunately, I forgot to rule out getting a cabinet for free. When someone at work decided to give away an original Robotron cabinet, I ended up picking it up. Since the cabinet inspection date was April 1982, this was probably made for the original release of the game.

Robotron is my favorite game (on any system) and it happens to be the best game ever made, so this was a pretty good game to get. This cabinet doesn't work at all. It won't even get power from the wall.

The restoration process will be quite a different experience from building a MAME cabinet from scratch (no duh, huh). Most of the work will be on the circuit boards and wiring inside of the machine rather than cutting plywood. Only after that's done will I take the whole cabinet apart and repaint it.