Flash forward four years.My girlfriend and I were spending a lazy Saturday hanging out watching some movies when our phones start ringing, turned out my buddy Jeff was heading up to Jacksonville to obtain a full-size arcade Pump it Up dance machine and needed help getting it. So we agreed and off to Jacksonville we went, we got the the arcade and needless to say it was going to take two trips over two days to break the Pump machine down and transport it back to Jeff's. So while Jeff was tearing the machine down Nancy (the aforementioned girlfriend) and I start playing video games.
Now here's the twist, essentially every arcade and pinball machine in the place was for sale, so I was attracted to a non-functional Mars Matrix machine for only $500 (which for Florida was a damn attractive price). So Nancy's talking to the arcade manager and he says that the Blitz'99 machine standing right behind me is only $200, fully functional. Now I'm no fan of sports video games, so I immediately had a vision of putting the guts of the cabinet up on eBay and finally having what I needed to build my retro gaming arcade cabinet.So we brought it home, and deconstruction began...
