{"author_link":"\/author\/mcfunkypants\/","author_name":"McFunkypants","author_uid":"2297","comments":[{"author_name":"MerlijnVH","author_uid":"14952","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 10:55pm","epoch":1409007000,"text":"That's awesome!"},{"author_name":"YopSolo","author_uid":"16503","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 11:01pm","epoch":1409007360,"text":"no download !\r^^"},{"author_name":"xgeovanni","author_uid":"11296","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 11:14pm","epoch":1409008140,"text":"5 for innovation."},{"author_name":"Natman","author_uid":"14440","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 12:37am","epoch":1409013120,"text":"Good work, sir."},{"author_name":"jsspiegel","author_uid":"11418","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 1:14am","epoch":1409015340,"text":"Really innovative and sweet project. The description (and the picture of Mullet Christer!) gave me a great mental picture of your journey. Hard figuring out to rate you in the technical categories, gave you middle of the road :)"},{"author_name":"Kyatric","author_uid":"5250","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 1:24am","epoch":1409015940,"text":"Full five stars, because why not.\rGood job, nice explanations and nice take on the theme ;)\r\rKeep up the good life Christer ;)"},{"author_name":"markman","author_uid":"4219","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 3:31am","epoch":1409023560,"text":"this is just awesome, dude. so much win."},{"author_name":"ruerob","author_uid":"36728","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 7:31am","epoch":1409037960,"text":"What a nostalgic project. I really want to make this, too. Please let me know when your ready with your project and how it turned out."},{"author_name":"Gamepopper","author_uid":"21252","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 10:56am","epoch":1409050260,"text":"Are there any before and after photos? I'd say that's what this restoration project is lacking..."},{"author_name":"InfectionTeam","author_uid":"37445","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 4:49pm","epoch":1409071440,"text":"Seems like you had a lot of fun, nice project ;)"},{"author_name":"Lyszie","author_uid":"40854","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 5:02pm","epoch":1409072220,"text":"Wow, that's so cool! For free - you are so lucky :)) just amazing! Have loads of fun with your new "toy"!"},{"author_name":"jgthespy","author_uid":"40108","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 7:15pm","epoch":1409080200,"text":"Brilliant take on the theme. I hope you enjoy your arcade machine!"},{"author_name":"badlydrawnrod","author_uid":"745","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 7:39pm","epoch":1409081640,"text":"The graphics are really lifelike! Actually, I really enjoyed watching that. It was playing Galaxian (as opposed to Galaga) that got me into programming, so your 41 year old self just connected to a slightly older and greyer person."},{"author_name":"01010111","author_uid":"11474","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 7:44pm","epoch":1409168340,"text":"Christer you are so dang cool I wanna hang out with you!"},{"author_name":"GeorgeBroussard","author_uid":"8631","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 10:41am","epoch":1409222160,"text":"This post pleases me. Having grown up on early 80s arcade machines, I get it :) Nice job. enjoy the cabinet."},{"author_name":"(Not) Ivano","author_uid":"29702","time":"Aug 29, 2014 @ 9:51am","epoch":1409305560,"text":""It was like a ray of light came down from the sky and told me: THIS IS YOUR CHANCE!" - awesome, Christer. :3"},{"author_name":"deepnight","author_uid":"2982","time":"Aug 29, 2014 @ 11:56am","epoch":1409313060,"text":"I love the idea!\rYour 1989's self probably loved that too! :)"},{"author_name":"kristoffer zetterberg","author_uid":"27525","time":"Aug 29, 2014 @ 8:25pm","epoch":1409343600,"text":"great take on the theme! love it!"},{"author_name":"Xanjos","author_uid":"21201","time":"Aug 29, 2014 @ 9:32pm","epoch":1409347620,"text":"A rather unusual entry (compared to pretty much everything else) but I love your literal real world take on the theme."},{"author_name":"commodoreKid","author_uid":"39580","time":"Sep 1, 2014 @ 10:54pm","epoch":1409611740,"text":"Have fun playing mate :)"},{"author_name":"Ted Brown","author_uid":"12485","time":"Sep 2, 2014 @ 3:51am","epoch":1409629560,"text":"\/wipes green tear of jealousy :)"},{"author_name":"jukimv1986","author_uid":"5402","time":"Sep 3, 2014 @ 9:35pm","epoch":1409779800,"text":"That was an inspirational story. Great job!"},{"author_name":"jerombd","author_uid":"12512","time":"Sep 8, 2014 @ 1:49am","epoch":1410140640,"text":"Awesome project :))))))"},{"author_name":"0x0961h","author_uid":"21155","time":"Sep 9, 2014 @ 9:49pm","epoch":1410299040,"text":"This is VERY innovative, I'm not kidding. :)\rGreat job on connecting your worlds. :)"},{"author_name":"Endurion","author_uid":"103","time":"Sep 14, 2014 @ 7:38am","epoch":1410679980,"text":"As a same aged player I can relate to this.\r\rAwesome job, and perfect entry. I usually don't comment Jam games, but this one touches me!\r\rCongrats, and feel envied :)"}],"images":["ld30\/2297-d0297626bbdf375e721319214f939816.jpg","ld30\/2297-c5ff9b82835d1da6adaf8ce45100b345.jpg","ld30\/2297-49d7936bfe998fe775b75f02055e67e2.jpg","ld30\/2297-b8977719f1f86a408c248523ef5b145e.jpg","ld30\/2297-0d346abe45a7c35f09661138da43525f.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/vine.co\/v\/MLFMXZXKv7E","text":"VIDEO1"},{"url":"https:\/\/vine.co\/v\/MLLgbw2wVXe","text":"VIDEO2"},{"url":"https:\/\/vine.co\/v\/MLUAvv2V1T7","text":"VIDEO3"},{"url":"https:\/\/vine.co\/v\/MLLHIeZVW32","text":"VIDEO4"},{"url":"https:\/\/vine.co\/v\/MLxaAWl0Ypb","text":"VIDEO5"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"16693","g_author":"2297","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"16722","g_title":"1989 to 2014","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"50","g_commentcount":"25","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/2297-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/2297-shot1.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/2297-shot3.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/2297-shot4.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/2297-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Connected Worlds: 1989 to 2014\r\nARCADE CABINET RESTORATION PROJECT\r\n\r\nTwo worlds, connected: the old me at age 16 and the new me at age 41. I grew up in the arcades in the eighties and nineties. Instead of buying lunch, I'd play Gauntlet II or Super Sprint with my friends in the arcade across the street from my junior high. \r\n\r\n25 years ago, I promised myself that when I was old and rich, I'd have an arcade machine in my house, much like the previous generation of adults would restore jukeboxes to relive the happy memories of their youth.\r\n\r\nI finally got the chance to live this dream on the Friday night of Ludum Dare. Lo and behold I discovered an arcade cabinet by a dumpster with a FREE sign. It was like a ray of light came down from the sky and told me: THIS IS YOUR CHANCE!\r\n\r\nThe machine was completely stripped: empty apart from some speakers, a questionable power supply, and a light inside the top nameplate.\r\n\r\nIt was heavy, and it was full of dirt and dust. Somehow I was able to fit about half of it in the trunk of my car and drove home incredibly slowly, fingers crossed the whole way home. I was so scared it would fall out: the thing is GIANT, and seems to stick five feet out of the back of my car.\r\n\r\nThe first step was to vacuum the inside, then get some soapy water and scrub two and a half decades of dust from the plexiglass, outside vinyl, and quarter slots. The inside was worse, but it was labour of love, working away in my sunny backyard, and never really felt like work.\r\n\r\nOnce it was clean enough to bring inside, I created a temporary workshop for the project in my basement. Extension cords, work lights, soldering iron, wires aplenty, and all sorts of spare parts that I'd been hoarding over the years were brought together and I dove in to get something working.\r\n\r\nI had a stroke of luck in that an old 27\" TV fit the cabinet. I had some old old game parts with Ms. Pacman, Gradius, Pole Position and Galaga roms inside. I had a JAMMA joystick and buttons, with no instructions and all the circuit boards had Chinese writing on them. Add some big speakers and the full arcade experience, straight out of 1989 world came to life.\r\n\r\nBy the end of the weekend, I was able to play those games on a real arcade machine. A dream come true. \r\n\r\nI plan to put more time into this project, clean up the outside a bit more, alter the TV bezel to better fit the cabinet, and print my own graphics on vinyl to completely refurbish the machine and turn it into a PC-based emulator (MAME BOX) and indie game playing monster, ready for Steam, Unity, Flash or HTML5 games, too. \r\n\r\nWhat luck! I'm on my way to owning a real arcade machine. The forty-one year old me and the sixteen year old me just reconnected. These two worlds, my past and my present, live together as I play Ms. Pacman on my very own arcade machine. Teen me just high-fived old me. Woot! \r\n\r\nWhat a world of difference 25 years makes. I love my life. =)\r\n\r\n- McFunkypants","title":"1989 to 2014"}