{"id":160,"date":"2020-04-20T21:03:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T21:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ethan.757.org\/?p=160"},"modified":"2020-04-20T21:03:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T21:03:39","slug":"donkey-kong-cabinet-re-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethan.757.org\/index.php\/2020\/04\/20\/donkey-kong-cabinet-re-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Donkey Kong &#8211; Cabinet re-art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donkey Kong&#8230; one of my favorite classic games. I&#8217;m not good at it, I&#8217;m pretty terrible at the game play. But it was one of the favorite games (along with Centipede) from when I was younger. I&#8217;ve had the machine for 15 years now perhaps. I bought it broken, and repaired the monitor (which needs a bit more repair now.) The side art has always been bad, but it usually sat sandwiched between other games so I didn&#8217;t care. <\/p>\n<p>During a black friday sale, Phoenix arcade had side art on sale. I grabbed a set. And it sat. For a long time. Finally motivation hit to get it done! <\/p>\n<p>Partial art was present on left, and removing it was a PAIN. Goo gone and a plastic scraper is what it came down to. Rubbing alcohol also helps but the minute it evaporates the glue is fixed back in place. It took a lot of work.<\/p>\n<p>I took lots of measurements and c-clamped stuff to the machine to help guide the art. That being said on the right I went a little quick, and had to peel it back and relay it down. This caused a small bubble in the art, smaller than a penny.<\/p>\n<p>While I was at it I also took the opportunity to paint the base black. It was a re-creation done as the original one had deteriorated. I probably made the base 10 years ago and somehow it has held up, even though DK has been to MAGFest several times and a few events when I lived in Norfolk.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, here is a gallery:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"imgur-embed-pub\" lang=\"en\" data-id=\"a\/TlIMTQF\" data-context=\"false\"><p><a href=\"\/\/imgur.com\/a\/TlIMTQF\">Donkey Kong cabinet re-art<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/s.imgur.com\/min\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donkey Kong&#8230; one of my favorite classic games. I&#8217;m not good at it, I&#8217;m pretty terrible at the game play. But it was one of the favorite games (along with Centipede) from when I was younger. I&#8217;ve had the machine for 15 years now perhaps. I bought it broken, and repaired the monitor (which needs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethan.757.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethan.757.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethan.757.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethan.757.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethan.757.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ethan.757.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/ethan.757.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethan.757.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethan.757.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethan.757.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}