ScuzzBlog: Diaries December 2018 Entry 21st December 2018: Post 06: For the love of Elvira For the love of Elvira Elvira fans will know of my love for this woman. Man does she get my motor running. So imagine my annoyance at not being able to readily link a feature on the box artwork that I lovingly restored recently. I managed to tangle the images with Captain Planet of all things. Anyway I have managed to extract the lovely Elvira from her nightmare and added the other half of my images in an extended blog of her wonderful games. So here we have the very lovely Elvira. Preserved. Previously on scuzzblog. I kinda made a conscious decision back in April 2008 that I would resist adding much more to the collection. Over the ten years since that date I have added a number of items, but still refrain from collecting general computers and the more bulky items. I have seriously run out of space. Saying all that I do keep an eye on the auctions and if something comes up that catches my eye I will put the odd bid in. I have been desperate for some time to get hold of a boxed version of Elvira the Arcade Game. Sadly sellers just want way too much for the game and it sells better in the States. So when a boxed game came on the auctions relatively cheap I was intrigued as to why. Turns out the box and poster has suffered water damage. Anyway, I won the auction and determined to scan the box and restore in Photoshop the actual box art. In truth Photoshop is so good I could basically print off a new version and make a new box if I so wanted. Not an issue as the artwork is all I wanted anyway. In addition to the box being damaged the first disk was also faulty. I was able to make a repair with another disk that I have. Elvira Unboxed My water damaged box of Elvira the Arcade Game. The box corner, front face and poster were damaged. The inner box had survived better. The poster had also picked up water damage. Poster damage to both sides. I also had to mend the first of the game disks. This was the box art in its damaged state. This was the box art fully reinstated. The poster in its damaged state. The poster in its repaired state. And earlier that month Elvira you failed me Elvira the Arcade Game Elvira.. What lovely artwork. Sadly Disk 1 was busted. I do have another working set. There are just the two disks. So I X-copied the disks... And woke Elvira up with my copied set. Managed to get into the game on using the book for the password. So I placed the copied set in the box. Time to fire up the 1500 and see if the disks work on that machine. The game was OK until it reached this point and then kept bombing out. So I used my copied first disk and the original second and could fly past the dreaded crash point. I was able to continue and enjoyed a good hour playing the game. Great fun. Elvira II Elvira For all the very wonderful computer retro gear I have featured on this website this image of Elvira gets more hits than any other. No idea why The very wonderful Cassandra Peterson

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