Re: OT: Turning Atari Rush Driver Video into Rush the Rock?

Well that makes a lot of sense. But i still don't
see why the video collectors don't document some
stuff like us pinheads do.

for example, the pacman mod web page i did.
it turns out that is a well-used web page, so i
know this info is useful.

i'm not saying there has to be a repair guide for
every video game, but a collective area (blog style
even) for video repairs would be most useful.

I know video games are generally not collectible.
but some do live in our hearts 'forever'. take
pac/mspac. i get LOTS of questions and "do you
have one for sale?" type things. so i know there's
interest, at least in that game.

I created a web page on G07 monitor repair,
and the Tempest XY monitor. I wish there were
more repair guides for other monitors. I will do
a Well 4600 repair guide at some point. i just
haven't had to rebuild one of those lately.
http://www.pinrepair.com/g07

With the advent of xbox and Wii and that
stuff, i can see that video games don't have
the "legs" that pinball does. Hence spending
a lot of time developing repair guides is
not prudent. but still, so of these game are
pretty cool. for example, the early b&w stuff,
galaga, galaxians, etc. Repair guides on
those systems would be good. (I have some
notes on some b&w repair here:
http://marvin3m.com/video/seawolf.htm )

On Mar 7, 10:53 pm, "Mickey Johnson" <micks...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I don't really understand the video collectors
so much. Us pin people, well, we share pretty
openly. the video guys don't seem to do that
as much. What's up with that?

Several reasons, first of all Rush is too new to really be in with rest of
the arcade collecting community information.  Once video games went surface
mount that pretty much killed the bulk of what you can do at home with a 7
dollar soldering iron.

Second vids really are a different beast to document. It breaks down to 5
things.

1) monitors -> all the info is out there, just not organized.  its
essentially TV repair, and while its easy, its hard to recommend newbies
when there are high voltages involved.

2) power supply ->  Unlike pinball machines, it is so easy to convert to
cheap switching power supplies that it really doesn't require the
documentation of the recitifier/power supplys of the pinball machines.  On
top of that, by the late eighties, all games have switching power supplies
that can be easily swapped out for $20 per supply.

3) Logic board ->  Also unlike pinball, most video games do not share a tech
platform, while you can write one guide that will cover 10-20 pinball
machines,  when it comes to vids you would be lucky to write a guide that
could cover 3 games, most guides would be for a single game.

4) value ->  Truth is that most games are not collectalble and not as
valuable.  Many games just get smashed or converted to something newer and
then smashed later.  They just don't have the artwork that each individual
pinball machine has.  With the exception of blown out playfields or pinball
machines with moisture damage, all pinball machines get saved.  Because of
this, there are many more machines that need repair and restoration.  Video
games just are not this way.

5) popularity ->  The video collecting craze is over and many of the people
that needed tech help have moved on to new hobbies (some moved to pinball)..
Because video games can be played so many different ways (emulation/classic
game packs for current consoles) many people don't have to have that old
original game working to play  their favorite game.  That leaves just the
die hards left that pretty much have all the info to begin with.

Well thats my take on it anyway.

Later,
Mickey

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