Game Restorations
Did you know all of our games undergo a full restoration? We rigorously work to bring our arcade games back to life using all original parts, and to ensure our pinball games work flawlessly - updated with color screens, new rubbers, routinely waxes and cleaned, and tasteful upgrades.
While most arcade bars are ok buying games at auction and dumping them on the floor, we care deeply about our selection of games. I personally believe the quality of the games is a reflection of the company and the brand – and we spend significant time, effort and money to back up our beliefs. I restore all games with new paint, artwork, updated lighting, as well as all original monitors, boardsets and controls. You won’t be playing any multi-cade, new reproduction or games without an original monitor at Super Rad (with very few exceptions like games with a native VGA out) – our games are meticulously restored to work as they were intended to the day they were released.
ARCADE RESTORATION
Arcades provice a very different challenge to restoring than pinballs do – arcades don’t have a LOT of components. In fact, most arcades have 5 important components TOTAL – the monitor, the power supply, the game board (pcb), the control panel (buttons/joysticks) and the wiring to connect it all. BUT, these arcades are classics, some are 40 or more years old, and require an extensive overhaul to be presentable. So we break our arcade restorations into two parts – visual/structural and electrical/components. You have have a fully restored arcade cabinet that looks great but doesnt work, and you can have a game that plays flawlessly but looks like it came out of a dumpster. Our goal is to have arcades that look and play great using all original parts.
PINBALL RESTORATION
Restoring and maintaining pinball games is ENTIRELY different than getting an arcade back up and running! There is HUNDREDS of parts in a pinball, and the game can technically function without a lot of them even working, every thing that doesn’t work makes the game less enjoyable, harder to play, harder to score points (because certain modes or parts may not work that give those points out) and ultimately just make it not fun. So unlike arcades, pinballs require a constant maintanence to keep every part working how it is supposed to. In addition, we upgrade every game we can to have modern lighting, modern screens, and do what is called a top side teardown on every game we get – we take the entire top of the game off, take every piece apart, clean it, replace bad parts, and put it all back together.