Investigating my lockup garage...
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Last one for this evening, another cocktail and another Atari game, Asteroids! Not just one Asteroids though, thereās also an Asteroids deluxe. I seem to remember they came with 3 legs between them rather than 4, so I need another leg set made up from tubular steel. Hoping to get at least one completed and move the other on, who needs 2?
Retroman839
Senior Member
thanks for that very enjoyable
roll on episode 2
roll on episode 2We are developing a new property to be our āforever homeā, and it has a big games room the size of a triple garage in the garden š
Not finished with the first lockup yet, and another cabinet I could never forget buying, my lovely Gyruss. Like many of the other cabinets, delivered to the lockup as a temporary storage solution and still there 3+ years later. I love this game!
And to finish off lockup #1, around 6 storage boxes of spares, PCBs, power supplies, control panels, buttons etc. Iāve brought these boxes home so I can go through and attempt to identify all the games, but I can see some Atari shaped boards in hereā¦
Ahhh gyruss! Owned sold regretted lol like many others. Canāt wait to see the next things unearthed šš»
Iāve had this lockup garage for 10 years, around Ā£900 a year, plus I now have a temperature controlled unit for storage during the house renovation. That costs a bomb! Hence the audit and consolidation, get everything moved to the new place and save on fees.
Next PCB on the bench and I canāt pin down what it isā¦.image search has narrowed it down to Galaxian or Moon Cresta, based on shape of board, connectors and the positioning of daughter boards and massive capacitors. But nothing identifying the boards as official, so perhaps a bootleg? And yes itās absolutely filthy, looks like sat uncovered in a shed for 10 years.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
Ok this next one I think is a bit special, or at least rare, itās a Missile Command, but if you look in the corner of the PCB you will see it was made by SEGA. This was another one from my operator haul, he said that a fruit machine feel over in the back of his van and smashed the cocktail cabinet that this Sega board was in. He chucked the broken shell but rescued the PCB first, as well as the trackballs (which I think I may have somewhere too but not yet turned up). And idea of the rarity of this? It is filthy and some of the EPROMs are exposed, but only light corrosion on the chip legs.
I canāt find another example online of a Sega Missile Command PCB, so wondering if itās a unicorn
I canāt find another example online of a Sega Missile Command PCB, so wondering if itās a unicorn
The next 2 are nice and easy as they are from the 2 cocktail cabinets, Asteroids and Asteroids Deluxe. Some signs of corrosion, maybe a spillage at some point on one of them, but hoping they can be used to bring the 2 cocktails back to life.
John Bennett
Senior Member
I just like the idea of a guy effectively doing a raid on himself
Fraggle200
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1 credit for 38p or 4 for a Ā£1? who wouldn't want to put Ā£1 in when you need to find 38p for a shot.
I did consider putting this in the Operator Raidās section but Iām not an operatorI just like the idea of a guy effectively doing a raid on himself
