Back again!

I've been away from this hobby for more than a little while. I'm not sure what happened, but maybe real life caught up with me. I definitely spent a long time trying to recover from my little spinal injury, and I'm still working on it.
I have slowly started working on the game room again, but this hobby is a bit difficult as long as my back is not 100%. The games are heavy beasts, and I need to wait some more until I can move and carry them like I used to.

First of all I have decided that my hoarding should end, and I am selling some pinballs. I started off with Elvira and the Party Monsters, and yesterday I sold Who Dunnit.
I will try to shop/fix/sell one pinball every month this winter, until I have only my favourite six left. That should be manageable, and other people will have more fun with the games I'm selling than I've had while they were in storage.

I feel a bit bad for not having touched the games for more than a year, and even more for some friends who I promised to help with games, but I hope I'm slowly getting into it again.

Out of order

If I have any readers left, you may be wondering where I've been. I actually got a spinal disc herniation, so I've been more on the sofa than tinkering with games. I'm slowly recovering, and I'm hoping that I can update the blog more often from now on.

Colour changes

Changed some colours and removed the background, hoping to improve readability.

There and back again - A logo tale

I've decided to revert to the old logo due to popular opinion. That is, I've modified it a bit to my liking, and I think I can live with it now.

So, to sum it all up, this is how it went:

• Original
• Graffiti
• Reworked original

New background

A bit too much?

One of my friends left a (very honest) comment, that I should stop drawing and start restoring. I'll get back to that tomorrow, when I'm parting out a JAMMA cabinet and testing power connections on Robotron.

Logo iterations

I got quite a lot of comments on the new logo recently, and even some here in the blog for a change. Many positives, and also some who preferred the old one.

One of the few comments in the latter category was from Jeff Rothe, whose opinion I respect after having followed his blog (and artwork reproduction) for some time.

I feel I've kind of painted myself into a corner with this one, as I spent more time on the new logo than the old. Also, it's personally quite annoying that the first logo was based on a truetype font (BM biscuit), I usually draw the outlines myself.

The other authority on the subject (my wife) also finds the former logo more fitting to the retro arcade theme of the blog, so I might abandon the new graffiti style logo. It was more cheerful and readable before, I guess. I'll consider it for a couple of days.

I updated the logo one last time.

New logo

I fired up Photoshop and drew a new header logo, but it seems to be lacking something. Colours, more elements or what.. Perhaps it's just the wrong ratio. It looks a bit boring at the moment. And I messed up some of the paths, so they don't look quite curvy enough. 

Maybe I'll rework it, or go back to the old one, but that one is based on a truetype font, and it just doesn't feel right.

Edit: I added some more stuff to make it marginally more interesting.

Now is the time for comments.