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by **bruce** » Wed May 21, 2008 8:56 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Did you ever encounter one of those "in the wild"? I'd assume not, but since you saw a Major Havoc on location, I am not prepared to assume anything.

I don't think I ever played Computer Space, although I did play a very early, I think Atari, coin-op space shooter. Vintage late 70s, and you shot spaceships, one of which was shaped sort of like the Enterprise. I played it sometime between 1977 and 1980, I think. It might have been Computer Space, but I think the controls were a yoke rather than a set of buttons.

Bruce

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed May 21, 2008 5:02 pm

Oof, it's over $9000 now.

I think the only one I'd break the bank for would be a dedicated Major Havoc. Maybe when I am in my 40s.

PINBACK UPDATE: I believe he is currently in Colorado! It doesn't look like the save game kit will get here in time, which sucks, but since he's not committed himself to moving out here, we have plenty of time.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed May 21, 2008 10:29 am

Yeah, the KLOV guys have been talking about it - though the thread doesn't have that much going on, just a couple comments on how the game itself actually sucks.

I imagine someone has probably made a modern version of it somewhere, like one guy did with Death Race, so I could play it that way to get the idea of it, but it probably does stink. It's funny how nostalgia works, doesn't it? I have very vivid memories of my brother and I being at the bowling alley while my parents bowled in their league, and playing the Road Blasters and Playchoice 10 they had there. And if I had encountered a RB while I still had space downstairs, I woulda snapped that up. But move the line a few years earlier to when Computer Space came out (a game I didn't see) and it's just a historical artifact to me. Did you ever encounter one of those "in the wild"? I'd assume not, but since you saw a Major Havoc on location, I am not prepared to assume anything.

by **bruce** » Wed May 21, 2008 9:52 am

No, ICJ, you need THIS:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0236725338

Current bid when I looked at it was $4550.

It's Computer Space, nearly mint.

Bruce

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon May 19, 2008 4:02 pm

That would be ideal, wouldn't it? But no. Unfortunately. In fact, they have you remove a leg from a chip to get it to work. Just a leg! That sucks. I need a ROM burner.

by **AArdvark** » Mon May 19, 2008 3:14 pm

No mod disable switch? Like hold down button combinations when power on?

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by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon May 19, 2008 12:53 am

pinback wrote:Yes, things are a little when you can hold down the fire button!

CONTROVERSY!

For those of you who joined this thread late, I have a mod done to my Asteroids. I mean, it was done before I got it. I didn't do it.

The PCB had the "multishot" mod that lets you hold the button down to spew out your four shots at once. It also makes the rocks go quicker than they normally would.

I haven't dug around to see if it can be undone. I might just buy another PCB. But they are going for over a hundred bucks on eBay. That's why they say every game is worth at least $200 - you can part out the monitor and circuit board for at least that much, in most cases.

Because Ben has played much, much more Asteroids than I, I will let him decide how we proceed here. If he hates the mod, then it goes, but if he can live with it, then maybe I will let it be.

by **pinback** » Sat May 17, 2008 9:37 pm

Yes, things are a little easier when you can hold down the fire button!

CONTROVERSY!

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat May 17, 2008 8:03 pm

pinback wrote:I can see nobody has broken that elusive 10,000 point barrier.

It is not saving scores yet. I just got 22,000 and now I don't want to turn it off. :(

by **pinback** » Sat May 17, 2008 7:47 pm

I can see nobody has broken that elusive 10,000 point barrier.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat May 17, 2008 4:54 pm

pinbacker wrote:Get Asteroids and I'll move back to Colorado.

I can recommend Parker, CO as a lovely town near work and my place. We go for Indian food every Friday, let me know when the u-haul is coming so I can take off work and get your stuff set up. See you soon!

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 3:36 am

Oh. I reset the Mr. Do! machine and it hasn't acted up since.

There are some pictures of what it looks like now right here:

http://www.arcadecrusade.com/gallery/v/ ... bbsherwin/

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:09 am

Last night I had a weird corruption issue with Mr. Do!. It's very possible that I am running too many games off the same circuit. So it looks like that's it for any more games.

Thank you for following this thread! This has been...

Arcade 3000!!!

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:23 pm

Added a story about how I broke Mr. Do! bringing it down the stairs, but then fixed it. If you know anything at all about how electricity works you will think I'm an idiot, but that's okay because I am.

http://www.joltcountry.com/features/index.html

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 6:08 pm

I'm basically going to get the thing to transmit an image of my head like J. Jonah Jameson's Spider Slayer, and get the thing registered to vote.

by **AArdvark** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:19 pm

And the control board will accommodate your average pod of octopuses. Do they travel in pods? well anyway, it'll be awesome. Robotron sticks as well?

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by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:58 pm

It will also be the best MAME setup in all of Colorado. So, yes.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:57 pm

It was either you or Draal, so I had a 50/50 chance.

How's the ip checkin, Jonsey, how's the checkin?

It, like most phpBB functionality, is a piece of shit.

by co » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:50 pm

it would have been posted before your reply if I hadn't answered the telephone and talked to my boss for ten minutes. How's the ip checkin, Jonsey, how's the checkin?

by **hygraed** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:26 pm

I can't think of a more fitting cabinet for a MAME machine than Polybius.

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