Atari Steeplechase (1975)

[Jon-A-Tron]

Last year I restored an Atari Steeplechase from 1975. This was rescued from the French Raid where the house was falling down in 2017. I wasn't involved in that rescue mission but picked up the cabinet locally after it had exchanged hands a few times.


You can read up about the French Raid on Tony's blog here.

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Here it is completed.


I've done a video on the work I did to the cabinet with a few clips from the UKVAC Meet Steeplechase Competition we had this weekend.

 

[qjuk]

Fantastic, nice to see this machine bought back to life and being enjoyed.

You did a cracking job matching up the pattern to the original vinyl. Enjoyed watching the video, thanks Jon

 

[PAC-MAN]

Great work, nice one!