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    Wow! My friends and I actual played that once back in the day .. I thought it was interesting but didnt want to play again. I should pull out the 2600 version and get some people to the line on this one.

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    >>Clearly the problem is in between the monitor and the game haha...but I haven't thought about it in a long time.<<

     

    The problem with mine was a loose edge connector which slips onto the big PCB. I took a jewelers screwdriver and bent all the connector brushes to make better contact and cleaned everything. Now the edge connector grips the PCB well. That made the monitor work for me.

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  6. Posted · Edited by Rob Mitchell

    And fixed it! Now it plays properly! Fully functional! Bad chip was AD561JN.

     

    The arcade game is looking great! It has a new door and lock. We scraped all the peeling paint and stickers under the glass and placed a new underlay which features all the labels and borders. (Arcadeshop.com). All circuits have been recapped.

     

    We will take it to the Southern a Fried Gameroom Expo here in Atlanta in June 2018!

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    Thanks to the locksmith at Decatur Lock and Key, the original lock is back in good working order with two new keys. First he had to remove the broken key part. Then made two new keys based on that. All pieces put back in place and aligned. It works like new!

     

    When the key broke, the previous owner had to chisel open the cocktail and destroy the hinges. I will have to buy a new piece of mdf and install new hinges ...

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  13. Posted · Edited by Rob Mitchell

    I found an Asteroids cocktail at Goodwill this past Saturday. The sticker said that the monitor does not work. We plugged it in and it made Asteroids sounds! We payed more than I wanted to but it will look great in our downstairs bar area so why not.

     

    I got it back to our garage and started takimg it apart. I found a 1985 quarter inside! After some brief cleaning and inspection, I plugged it in and the monitor came on! The gameplay is happening but the vectors are distorted. In selftest mode, that is apparent. Play counter is 76k

     

    I disasssembled the control panels to clean all the grime off the buttons. I removed the springs from the buttons and then gave the white pieces a good soak and scrubbing. That made them look good but not good enough .. so yesterday I soaked them in the Oxy/peroxide/UV process in the sun for 6+ hours. Now they look perfectly new!

     

    See pics thus far.

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