Another Atari 720

don1400

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Hello,
Last year May 19th I bought a beat up 720 locally and just recently got all the art and vinyl in house to start the restoration during the Memorial day weekend. This past Tuesday I stopped by my local vid place to pick up a chip I needed and ran into a guy I hadn't seen in about 15 years, he had worked there back in the day. After exchanging hellos he asked if I was still collecting, told him I'm still at it but right now I just started a restore on a 720, he tells me he knows where's there's one that doesn't need much restoration, to make a long story short he works for another coin-op in town and they have one collecting dust and would I be interested, hell yes, and eventually head on over to his work place to take a look. I made a deal with the owner right then and there and in the back of my Blazer it went. One year and 10 days, two 720's. I gave it a quick cleaning for the pix, along side the resto candidate. Game fully working, 100% original along with all matching numbers.
Rich
Green Bay

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Very nice Rich. Great to see your 720 assembly line. I'm always happy to see more 720s being restored and brought to the hands of true fans.
 
The pics could be fooling the eyes, but the artwork on that nicer one sure doesn't look as yellowed as mine was. Hard enough to find one, now you have one to play and one to restore..
 
The pics could be fooling the eyes, but the artwork on that nicer one sure doesn't look as yellowed as mine was. Hard enough to find one, now you have one to play and one to restore..

After I cleaned off the CP I thought it hadn't yellowed much till I put the repro beside it!
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I opened up the bottom section coin door last night and found all the manuals and schematics in mint condition still in the plastic sleeve. Only thing game missing is the RFI cage.
Rich
 
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