r3tro74

The joysticks not responding to "left" was due to a broken green wire at the console end connector. I was able to trim back the plug enough to get to the break to solder. Both sticks were like this

Awesome, thanks! Most of the games seem to work after the cartridge cleaning. Still have some random black and white dots in and out on the screen and it's a bit blurry but quite playable. River Raid was one if my favorites when I was a 10 year old kid! Thanks!

Thanks for the suggestions! What is a good way to clean the cartridge socket/game cards?

The Atari is having some troubles. It's a 4 switch wood panel. Sometimes when swapping games and powering back on, the screen is all static/vertal lines or just blank. The only remedy seems to be unplug the power and wait about an hour then it seems ok. Also sometimes the controller plugs have to be wiggled around a bit to get the "left" direction to work. Any common repairable issuses or am I better off finding another unit? Thanks