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Ice Cream Jonsey · Post 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/

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post 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!

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

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

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post 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. :(

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

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

CONTROVERSY!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post 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.

AArdvark · Post 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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Ice Cream Jonsey · Post 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.

bruce · Post 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

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post 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.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post 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.

bruce · Post 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