A Blue Shark in the gameroom

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Well I should have known better because I really don't have any room but I gave in and picked up another one. A local collector had a non-working Midway Blue Shark up for sale. I had not seen one before but it looked like it would be a cool game to have so I picked it up for $100.

I got it home plugged it in and it appeared to be dead, there was no video on the monitor or sound from the speakers and the blacklight wasn't working.

The quick Summary of what I did to get it working
• Plugged it into a known good monitor and saw that the game was playing fine.
• No sound was caused by a bad 1n4004 on the power board. I now had all the sounds but the one for the octopus
• Replacing the LM3900 at J5 fixed the octopus sound
• Replaced the bad ballast and installed a new white blacklight bulb
• No HV or heater on the m5000 monitor. R43 was open and the 73v was not reaching the flyback.

Now it's running well and I just have to clean it up a little. A welcome addition to my arcade.
 

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How awesome is that? Fucking sweet Matt.

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Hell for a mere $100 I'd start throwing out furniture to make room!

Hey if you could take some good pics of bezel, control panel, side art and PCB, I just sent them a better picture of the full front of the cab but the KLOV database still needs the rest.
 
awesome! i'm glad someone who really appreciates the black and whites picked it up and it didn't go to someone who would let it sit in a garage for years while they think about MAME'ing it.
 
Nice! I like the art a lot! I have always been a fan of the reflected games like that. Nice score!
 
One of these sold on eBay a few months ago for almost $900 FYI
 
Thanks guys. Like I said before I'm glad to have it in my gameroom

So... will you be bringing it to the NW Show this year?

Yes as it stands now I plan to bring it to the show. I also got the sound issue on my Night Driver sitdown figured out so I plan to bring that too. They need to survive a 12 hour burn in test first but i think they'll do fine.
 
Thanks guys. Like I said before I'm glad to have it in my gameroom



Yes as it stands now I plan to bring it to the show. I also got the sound issue on my Night Driver sitdown figured out so I plan to bring that too. They need to survive a 12 hour burn in test first but i think they'll do fine.


Awesome score Matt!! Look forward to playing it at the show..:cool:
 
Awesome game! Blue Shark is one of the earliest games I recall playing and I haven't seen one in person since about 1980.

Kyle :cool:
 
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