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Here I am : Little Rabbit
« on: August 19, 2013, 02:35:09 PM »
Hi Guys !

I've been reading your posts for quite a long time but stayed aside until now :).

Strange enough, I'm a collector of video game consoles, micro computers and arcade machines. My favorite period is the early eighties :-*.

I'm especially fond of machines and stuff from ATARI. I love Namco games too, with PACMAN being of course the best of the best ! :) I grew up with an ATARI VCS, and then an ATARI 800 XL on which I learned everything about video games of that era :). I ended up working in the French video game industry for a while, but that was quite a long time ago.

I Live in France (Nantes), and my collection is for now sadly stored in various locations where I can't actually take care of it. Hopefully, the building of my future house is really close now, so I'm expecting my first gaming room in a few months/years/decades ;) !

Some of you might know me from another arcade forum : Gamoover ;).

I'm pretty happy to join your community.

See you,

Little Rabbit
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« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2013, 02:50:31 PM »
Hello and welcome ;D

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« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2013, 03:10:03 PM »
Welcome in the lair Little_Rabbit :spaceace:

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« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2013, 03:52:05 PM »
Hi there and Welcome !

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« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2013, 04:09:50 PM »
Welcome, good to have you!
Looking for Dragons Lair 1 or 2, Space Ace, Double Dragon, Robotron and yeah... a Shinobi would be cool, too!

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« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2013, 04:48:57 PM »
Hello Little Rabbit,

enjoy the forum :).

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« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2013, 05:27:01 PM »
Welcome here!!
As always, pictures is always appreciated... If you can get to the games ;)

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« Reply #7 on: August 19, 2013, 05:48:34 PM »
Welcome to the house of fun!

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« Reply #8 on: August 19, 2013, 06:16:32 PM »
First of all: A big welcome!

When you say you worked in the French game industry, do you mean local games, or a French multinational?
If you're willing/able to answer ofcourse  8)

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« Reply #9 on: August 19, 2013, 06:17:24 PM »
Finally!  ;) Welcome to this board, Little Rabbit  :)
Hey, now that you are a registered member, you'll have access to our famous 'business area' ...enjoy!  8)

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« Reply #10 on: August 19, 2013, 06:59:03 PM »
Welcome and enjoy this awesome board  :spaceace:
PROJECTS FROM SCRATCH:

Galaga - PacMan - Donkey Kong Red Cab - Track & Field Upright - Tempest - Burgertime - Gyruss - Defender - Track & Field Cocktail - Robotron 2084

RESTORATIONS:

Q*bert - Timber

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« Reply #11 on: August 19, 2013, 11:58:54 PM »
Welcome, welcome petit lapin  ;D

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« Reply #12 on: August 20, 2013, 10:24:29 AM »
Hi !

Thanks a lot for your warm welcome and your very kind words !

As always, pictures is always appreciated... If you can get to the games ;)
To get to the games is currently pretty difficult because they are not stored where I live, but I have many pictures of the various road trips I conducted to get them. So I should be able to post a few pictures in a near future ;). I hope you like old cabinets and defective PCBs :D. I can at least already give you a short list :

- Video Pinball (ATARI Europe French version : "Flipper Video")
- Pole Position (sitdown cabinet)
- Space Invaders (upright from Midway)
- Super Breakout (upright US cab)
- Rally X (NSM cocktail table)
- Pacman (upright Midway)
- Galaxian (upright Midway, not mine, to my little brother ;) )
- Rolling Thunder (upright ATARI, not mine, to my little brother ;) )
- Quadra Pong (a strange round cocktail table version from ATARI Europe)
- Robotron 2084 (Williams upright US cab)
- GTI Club Rally Côte d'Azur (twin cab)
- Super Bug (upright ATARI Europe cab)
- Pole Position 1 (upright cab, not mine, to my little brother ;) )
- Pole Position 2 (upright cab)
- Asterock (upright SIDAM cab, no pcb)
- Race Drivin' (sitdown cab)
- Xevious (ATARI upright cab)
- Pacman (Midway cocktail table - very poor condition)
- Roadblaster (ATARI upright cab)
- Ace Driver (Namco twin cab, very poor condition)
- Space Invaders part II (Italian version with Taito PCB, from "Racing Team")
- Time Pilot (ATARI Europe upright cab)
- and a few generic uprigth cabs and coktail tables ;)

And to calm your possible enthousiasm, almost nothing is working, so yes, I'm gonna be pretty busy the next decades to repair all that stuff !

When you say you worked in the French game industry, do you mean local games, or a French multinational?
If you're willing/able to answer ofcourse  8)

Not in French multinationals, only small independant development studios. To name them, it was at Delphine Software and later at Carapace (which is not as famous as the first one ;)). I used to be a programmer, lead programmer and later, mainly worked as a technical producer (making the interface between the development studio and the publishers).

Finally!  ;) Welcome to this board, Little Rabbit  :)
Hey, now that you are a registered member, you'll have access to our famous 'business area' ...enjoy!  8)
Thanks DarthNuno ! Yes, I realized that yesterday, and to be honnest, I already had a peek at one post that AsPic forwarded me ;).

See you!

Little Rabbit

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« Reply #13 on: August 20, 2013, 10:53:51 AM »
Hello,

Nice list, +1 french collector here  :)

Bienvenue Petit Lapin !

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« Reply #14 on: August 20, 2013, 12:14:07 PM »
Welcome here Little Rabbit