Jungle Jim’s II

This was the 2nd Jungle Jim’s location, which opened on June 12, 1982. It was next to Ponderosa on Marr Road.

As a fun bit of history, the owner of Jungle Jim’s was Harold Tice, who was quite the enterprising fellow. He wanted to take Pac-Man boards and install them into other less popular game cabinets. Midway didn’t take too kindly to this idea and sued him. Interestingly enough, this very idea later became a standard practice in the industry. But the concept of conversion kits was not yet a thing for the arcade industry in early 1982. In the 1990’s, the JAMMA standard was born from this very idea and became the standard nearly all games were built on. Sadly, Tice was just a few years ahead of his time.