Our Day at NOA
This post is easily a year in the making, so bear with us because it is a long one. Tons of pictures and lots to say – I’d grab a beer ahead of this and set aside a bit of time. The backstory When I (Whitney) initially signed onto the project with Alex and Olly, we truly only had a color flyer and a lot of enthusiasm as our main ingredients to restoring the cabinets. Olly had done a tremendous amount of work with the...
We can rebuild it!
We’ve fielded a lot of questions from the arcade community about exactly ‘how’ we intend to finish the Sky Skipper Project and make faithful restorations that are accurate – and complete the unfinished parts of the game. What you see on the left is how we do that. Needless to say, the story behind getting to this cabinet, as well as the small army of people behind the scenes that it took to make that day a...
30 years of nothing…and then eBay happened
eBay is an interesting place – of that there is no doubt. Like all dedicated arcade hunters, I have a plethora of saved searches and notifications keeping me up-to-date on new arcade-related listings. Despite all the technology in the world providing the assist, nothing works if you don’t pay attention to the messages. It’s tough to stay up-to-date and plow through all the eBay e-mails every day and invariably...
The Story So Far…
If you are just coming to the whole Sky Skipper ‘canon’ and are wondering what has led up to this point, then you have found the right post. We’ll re-cap the saga behind the story right here, and provide enough jumping-off points to other places in the site that can be explored for more detailed information. To start, there are a few links to check out that could be considered prerequisite information about Sky...
Project Timeline
Sometimes it helps to see everything in a more linear fashion. Here’s how Sky Skipper fits into the overall Nintendo arcade timeline and how, 34 years later, it finally sees the light of day again! Sky Skipper Game History & Project Timeline 1983 Jul...
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