Track & Field with a Trak-ball

[NovaXpress]

Usually I ran into the traditional machines, three buttons which had to be slapped silly. But at a laundromat in a crapsville called Fredericktown Ohio I once found a machine which used a trak-ball instead. You had to spin the ball fast (in any direction) to move. It was a lot easier and more fun than the button version. Was this an official Konami machine or did some engineer splice this together at home?

[Ralph3]

There was one that used the trackball at the old La Mirada mall in CA back in 84/85/86. The control panel was different than the normal control panel. According to http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter...T&game_id=10180 it was a later conversion board. And it was MUCH EASIER and fun to play. I had the top scores on every event, but, DAMN, I got some major blisters from that damn game!

[GruBBworM]

:-) That cocktail table you see at that site is going up on ebay begining next week ill post addy once its up :-)

[SS]

a crapsville called Fredericktown Ohio

 

Near Mt. Vernon, OH?

[NovaXpress]

Near Mt. Vermin in Knox county? Yes that's the dump I was referring to. Home of the FFA Jacket and Luke Perry!

[SS]

Near Mt. Vermin in Knox county?  Yes that's the dump I was referring to.  Home of the FFA Jacket and Luke Perry!

 

I spent my formative childhood years growing up in that neck of the woods. When did you live there? For me it was from '77 to '83. I used to spend almost all of my paper route and lunch money at the "Electric Animal" arcade in Mt. Vernon.

[NovaXpress]

Flashback! I remember the Electric Animal though I wouldnt have remembered the name if you hadn't said it. It shut down around 86 or so. I moved to that area in '83 and got the hell out in '88. That was a lousy area to live in, but at least one could drive to Columbus. In Nebraska there is no hope.