Popular Post Atari Creep Posted November 18, 2016 Popular Post Report Share Posted November 18, 2016 A buddy sent this to me knowing that Kaboom is one of my all time favorite games. I am assuming it is a 1 off custom cab. Anyone know anything about it or even better, played one???? Thing looks awesome! Justin, AtariHero, jmjustin6 and 5 others 8 Quote Don't just watch TV, PLAY IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted November 18, 2016 Report Share Posted November 18, 2016 Wow, yeah, they did a great job with that. That cabinet is perfect. I haven't seen this before but it says "Todd Rogers Challenge Edition" on the side which tells me this was part of a high score event or possibly something to do with Twin Galaxies. Todd Rogers is a champion player and has long been associated with the Twin Galaxies crew. Also, it's sitting next to a "Man vs. Snake" edition of Rock-Ola's Nibbler. Tim McVey was long considered the Nibbler champion and there's a documentary called "Man vs. Snake" on Netflix right now that's a lot like King of Kong. MaximumRD and Atari Creep 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Creep Posted November 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2016 Wow, yeah, they did a great job with that. That cabinet is perfect. I haven't seen this before but it says "Todd Rogers Challenge Edition" on the side which tells me this was part of a high score event or possibly something to do with Twin Galaxies. Todd Rogers is a champion player and has long been associated with the Twin Galaxies crew. Also, it's sitting next to a "Man vs. Snake" edition of Rock-Ola's Nibbler. Tim McVey was long considered the Nibbler champion and there's a documentary called "Man vs. Snake" on Netflix right now that's a lot like King of Kong. Oh Cool! I will have to check that out. The Professor and Justin 2 Quote Don't just watch TV, PLAY IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted November 18, 2016 Report Share Posted November 18, 2016 Here's some of Todd Rogers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaCIRg-I1tI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWwVvhi-yzs The Professor, Atari Creep and chas10e 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted November 18, 2016 Report Share Posted November 18, 2016 And here's the official trailer for Man vs. Snake: The Professor and Atari Creep 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Creep Posted November 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2016 That looks cool! Justin and The Professor 2 Quote Don't just watch TV, PLAY IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Adventure Square Posted November 19, 2016 Report Share Posted November 19, 2016 Yeah, watched the Nibbler doc last week and it was great fun! Feels tailor-made for us. And so does that cabinet. Amazing work on it. The Professor and Justin 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Stilphen Posted November 25, 2016 Report Share Posted November 25, 2016 (edited) Yep, that's a custom one-off cabinet someone made. The Todd Rogers "Challenge Edition" was something Todd asked me years ago if I could make for him (but I couldn't). He wanted a version of Kaboom! that only had one bucket (i.e. 1 life). He also wanted a 1-life version of River Raid. Edited November 26, 2016 by Scott Stilphen Justin and The Professor 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted November 25, 2016 Report Share Posted November 25, 2016 it was at the 2016 Free Play Florida expo in Orlando, FL - look under the Kaboom picture on the side artwork of the cabinet Justin and The Professor 2 Quote Brian Matherne - owner/curator of "The MOST comprehensive list of Atari VCS/2600 homebrews ever compiled." http://tiny.cc/Atari2600Homebrew author of "The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion" book series available on Amazon! www.amazon.com/author/brianmatherne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prOk Posted November 27, 2016 Report Share Posted November 27, 2016 This was a cabinet I did for Free Play Florida for Todd. Todd's a great friend of mine and the show and he loves kaboom too, so I figured what the heck i'll make a cabinet out of it for him. Amazing how many corners of the interwebs this cabinet has made it's way to! Atari Adventure Square, Arenafoot, The Professor and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted November 27, 2016 Report Share Posted November 27, 2016 This was a cabinet I did for Free Play Florida for Todd. Todd's a great friend of mine and the show and he loves kaboom too, so I figured what the heck i'll make a cabinet out of it for him. Amazing how many corners of the interwebs this cabinet has made it's way to! You did an amazing job with this cabinet prOk! It absolutely looks like something Activision could have put out when Kaboom! was new. How did you make it? Welcome to the forums prOk, it's great to have you here! The Professor 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Stilphen Posted November 28, 2016 Report Share Posted November 28, 2016 Here's a few more VCS-based custom cabinets: Arenafoot, AtariHero, Atari Adventure Square and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prOk Posted November 28, 2016 Report Share Posted November 28, 2016 You did an amazing job with this cabinet prOk! It absolutely looks like something Activision could have put out when Kaboom! was new. How did you make it? Welcome to the forums prOk, it's great to have you here! Thanks for the welcome It feels strange to be a newbie on a gaming site, but that's what I am here! The cabinet was a scratch build based on the atari mini/cabaret plans from classicarcadecabinets.com that I modified a bit. The artwork I scanned my Kaboom box and vectored it for print with some customization that thisoldgame.com printed for me. The rest of it was just hand fabrication of all the metal bits and such, and at the show at least it was running a PC and emulator as I simply didn't have enough time to adapt a 2600. That *is* happening, just didn't make it for the show. Once it's converted to a 2600 it will be playing Todd's one bucket kaboom in a cart. The Professor, Arenafoot and Justin 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted November 29, 2016 Report Share Posted November 29, 2016 Thanks for the welcome It feels strange to be a newbie on a gaming site, but that's what I am here! Welcome prok! Justin 1 Quote Brian Matherne - owner/curator of "The MOST comprehensive list of Atari VCS/2600 homebrews ever compiled." http://tiny.cc/Atari2600Homebrew author of "The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion" book series available on Amazon! www.amazon.com/author/brianmatherne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Creep Posted December 7, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2016 This was a cabinet I did for Free Play Florida for Todd. Todd's a great friend of mine and the show and he loves kaboom too, so I figured what the heck i'll make a cabinet out of it for him. Amazing how many corners of the interwebs this cabinet has made it's way to!Its amazing bud! My hats off to you. Quote Don't just watch TV, PLAY IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prOk Posted February 22, 2017 Report Share Posted February 22, 2017 Thought i'd share a quick update on this. Finished the full conversion to actual atari 2600 hardware and a CRT monitor. TrekMD, AtariHero and Arenafoot 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariHero Posted February 23, 2017 Report Share Posted February 23, 2017 I'd love to have one of these for my own arcade although it would have to be fully coin-op It is great to see this finally happen...Kaboom coming full circle since it really was an adaptation of Atari's Avalanche that most gamers aren't familiar with. Kind of weird that Atari never "responded" to Kaboom! with an Avalanche port. And that Yars Revenge cabinet above looks beautiful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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