Awesome stuff you've just bought (+pics please)

[_rm_]

Soon. I heard you guys like bees so probably once I've gotten that in the mail

Who doesn't?

[Tregard]

I just bought a house near London for an eye-watering price. Feel like my life has been in limbo for the last few years while I saved up, so this will hopefully be a nice chance to start building some savings again and kick off some hobbies. I'm thinking of building an aquarium first as I've always wanted one. After that I'm thinking either arcade machine or motorbike...

[SuperGrafx]

Got myself a genuine Casio F-91W watch

Cheap and great. I love it!

[jasoncslaughter]

Found this Irem side art while looking for parts to do a full restoration of my Madonna, and I thought it might be a nice addition to the arcade room. It will probably be a month or so before I have time to do the restoration, but I figured I would go ahead and get the side art framed.

Getting the bubble out made me a bit nervous.



I cut the excess out and mounted it on some white paper since there was a bit of grime outside the logo.

[cicada88]

so sick

[emphatic]

Very nice!

[SuperGrafx]

A dragonfly logo?

[MOSQUITO FIGHTER]

No more cigarettes for me.

[BIL]

A dragonfly logo?

It's on a few of their late 80s/early 90s console games, at least in Japan - Metal Storm's Famicom box is where I know it from. At first I thought it'd be a robotic helper/enemy in the game itself, haha.

Looks beautiful, JCS.

[Xyga]

No more cigarettes for me.

^ good. it is said that it works for a comfortable majority (about 7/10 individuals) who can quit tobacco without going nuts thanks to it.

me -> after 1 year of exclusive e-cig i've reduced the nicotine dosage to about 5mg (started with 16mg!) and I barely use it now, only a few minutes every day.
In a months I believe I will be nicotine-free, for good.

Then it will be time for my next planned struggle; fighting the beer/glass and greasy/sugary food 'okawari' syndrome.

[Satan]

Good luck, I put on about 45lbs since I quit smoking and I've lost the same 15lbs about 4 times now.

[MOSQUITO FIGHTER]

^ good. it is said that it works for a comfortable majority (about 7/10 individuals) who can quit tobacco without going nuts thanks to it.

me -> after 1 year of exclusive e-cig i've reduced the nicotine dosage to about 5mg (started with 16mg!) and I barely use it now, only a few minutes every day.
In a months I believe I will be nicotine-free, for good.

Then it will be time for my next planned struggle; fighting the beer/glass and greasy/sugary food 'okawari' syndrome.

Congrats, that's awesome. Yeah, I quit cold turkey before for about two years and started up again about two years ago. Had a job where everyone smoked around me. I couldn't hold out.

I've been using mine for about a week now and I can already breathe better. I'm using 19mg right now. Having no problems whatsoever doing without the analogs. Even if I did get my nicotine mg level down I'd still probably get some 0-3 mg just to mess around with the thing every now and then.

[drboom]

I use to be a 2-2 1/2 pack a day smoker when I decided to quit. The patch did it for me, an I haven't had a craving since. Been about ten years too. You do have crazy dreams if you sleep with it on, but I always considered that a plus. Good luck!

[system11]

I cut the excess out and mounted it on some white paper since there was a bit of grime outside the logo.

You ... cut ... that.

(edit this might not be what I feared it was, but still...)

Hey people - don't be cutting original arcade artwork, seriously just don't do it. Ever.

Never ever do this. Do it to repros.

[Strider77]

Well he did find it. But I would have just printed one out if I needed to frame it.

[Fudoh]

That old IREM logo looks great, so I took the liberty to recreate it. On the sticker I don't think too much details of the "Cyber-Dragonfly" were preserved, so I used another source for that. Preview and a PDF download link below. If somebody does a T, I want one for free And thanks of course to jasoncslaughter for the great find!



PDF: http://pms.hazard-city.de/irem_logo.pdf

If somebody wants the open data file(s), just PM me.

[BIL]

Very cool. I wonder what the story was with that critter. Looks distinctive enough to star in his own biomechanical STG.

edit: oh google <3

As Irem entered the 1990s, their logo included a dragonfly because in Japan, dragonflies symbolize "martial success," due to similarity in the sound of the word "dragonfly" and "victory" in Japanese.

[system11]

I don't think there's any accident at all that it looks like a Galaxian one, they did release a version of that game.

[drunkninja24]

Friend of mine does perler art commissions, had him rig up one for the Type C ship from Dodonpachi



love how it turned out

[hien]

its probably not as awesome as a Doom Guy diorama, but a freshly completed Strider kit is still pretty damn cool.

Holy shit. You wouldn't believe how jealous I am right now. I knew that this kit existed but have never seen a completed one besides the promo pics. This looks so good. Awesome job!

[Some-Mist]

way too stoked for this/the new album.

[Strider77]

[MOSQUITO FIGHTER]

Got a Mexican Strat.

[Sgt.Wafer]

[nissling]

Some anime LDs.





Also found this inside one of the Blue Seed box sets...



Local pickup. Price was 1000 SEK ($117).

[trap15]

[PC-FX stuff]

Sorry, I love the PC-FX for a lot of weird reasons, but I don't think it qualifies as "awesome"
Nice get on the system CIB though, such a cute box and logo and console.

[RealPlumpBox]

Ordered 2 new posters and framed them.

[mirkvid]

Nice posters, where from?

[RealPlumpBox]

Nice posters, where from?

http://www.redbubble.com/shop/shmup+posters

I really want some CAVE posters but can never find any for a decent price.

[Stompp]

Aye, those posters were really nice