Even though I grew up with 90's style arcade cabinets, I've always had a soft spot for the "golden age"-era Midway cabinets, which housed games like Galaga, Galaxian, and Pac-Man. When a Ms. Pac-Man cabinet popped up on Craigslist, I jumped at the opportunity to pick it up.

Once

I feel quite a bit of nostalgia for a few specific arcade machines that were in my local Round Table pizza when I was growing up: The 4-player beat-em-up Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the 3-player racing game Off Road, the super cool 4-game Neo-Geo, and the cocktail cabinet version of

On Christmas eve, as we were driving to visit family, I was browsing Craigslist and stumbled upon an almost comical posting:

Free arcade machine, must go today, need to put up Christmas tree

I didn't realize people put up their Christmas tree the day before Christmas, but who was I

I've always been drawn to Nintendo's cabinet style, so when I saw a Nintendo cabinet on Craigslist only an hour's drive away, I jumped at the chance to get it.

The cabinet I picked up was orange. It had been converted to Arkanoid and had a beautiful original Sanyo CRT

The Nintendo VS. System was an arcade game system that played popular NES games that were slightly modified from their home counterparts. In some cases, the games were harder, had different levels, or included slightly better graphics.

While the system was primarily sold as a retrofit kit for Nintendo cabinets,