Asteroids Deluxe Blue Monitor Overlay

[djw90]

My Asteroids Deluxe was missing the Blue Monitor overlay. So my wife bought me the film for christmas. The problem is the film shows wrinkles when laid on the monitor. There was some kind of carboard piece theat held the original overlay. I want to build one ot house my film. Does anyone have an original?? Can you post pics and diminsions of the cardboard piece?? Thanks in advance

 

[thebman80]

Yeah there was a cardboard overlay I actually might have one in the garage I can take a look tomorrow if you want. It might even have a spare blue overlay and I stress might though.

 

[djw90]

Sweet. Thanks alot

 

[Michael Roma]

Can anyone provide a picture of what this looks like? I read a couple of old posts on the net where people said that it was somehow attached to a cardboard bezel w/ stars on it. I have the cardboard piece (I think) and want to see what it should look like w/ the overlay.

- Mike

 

[AtariShag]

I've thought of changing mine to green or red one day, just for fun.

I would post pics of the cardboard piece, if I had a camera with me at the moment.

 

[tng25]

I have my AD apart rebuilding it and took a couple of pics of the blue film piece.

 

[Michael Roma]

Thanks for the pic...

 

[Phetishboy]

I have a diagram drawn out for the dimensions of one of these. I was gonna make one a few years back. If I can find it, I'll scan it and post it.

 

[orion3311]

Mine actually has a wrinkle and its a huge PITA - but I messed around with it enough so that it doesn't show up. One thing I did to help was leave it out in the sun to help iron it out.

 

[DWJ]

My Asteroids Deluxe was missing the Blue Monitor overlay. So my wife bought me the film for christmas. The problem is the film shows wrinkles when laid on the monitor. There was some kind of carboard piece theat held the original overlay. I want to build one ot house my film. Does anyone have an original?? Can you post pics and diminsions of the cardboard piece?? Thanks in advance

While we're on the subject - do the monitors in everyone's Asteroids Deluxe machines have a blue gel stuck to their faces, or was that an Omega Race thing?

I've got an AD cabinet with the blue monitor overlay. The monitor in it came from an operator many years ago, and also has a piece of relatively thick blue plastic glued to it.

In this configuration, the light from the screen therefore has to go through two blue filters before it even gets to the half-silvered mirror. Brightness is up as far as it can go without having visible retrace lines. The game looks great in the dark, but is still a little dim (even with the anti-glare kit installed) when in a brightly-lit room. I wonder how necessary that blue gel is... or if it's even supposed to be there at all.

 

[orion3311]

Probably swapped - the original AD only has the blue plastic sheet attached to the carboard as shown above.

 

[Tronic]

I have a diagram drawn out for the dimensions of one of these. I was gonna make one a few years back. If I can find it, I'll scan it and post it.

I am interested in getting a copy of that if you can get it posted. Thanks

Luke

 

[mrbill2084]

the cardboard has some black light colors on the sides. I was messing around with astreoids deluxe the other day(I actually have 4 cabinets at the house right now). 1 of them have a green based blacklight behind the mirror art. 2 of them have an orange based blased blacklight art(have not checked the 4th one).

I think the orange looks better. I should have taken an pic when I had the mirrors out...

 

[DWJ]

Probably swapped - the original AD only has the blue plastic sheet attached to the carboard as shown above.

Thanks - next time the monitor fails (probably 2013 or later; the monitor itself has only failed once from dried LV electrolytics... although it has outlived two Big Blue caps over the past 8 years!), I'll swap it for an un-gelled monitor and see if it's brighter!

 

[smalltownguy2]

While we're on the subject - do the monitors in everyone's Asteroids Deluxe machines have a blue gel stuck to their faces, or was that an Omega Race thing?

I've got an AD cabinet with the blue monitor overlay. The monitor in it came from an operator many years ago, and also has a piece of relatively thick blue plastic glued to it.

In this configuration, the light from the screen therefore has to go through two blue filters before it even gets to the half-silvered mirror. Brightness is up as far as it can go without having visible retrace lines. The game looks great in the dark, but is still a little dim (even with the anti-glare kit installed) when in a brightly-lit room. I wonder how necessary that blue gel is... or if it's even supposed to be there at all.

An old thread, I know, but I have an update for this. I currently have an AD without the blue plastic layer on that bottom cardboard, and it looks like CRAP through the mirror. The monitor glow from the tube is reflected in the starfield, making it look like there's a huge television in space with asteroids playing on it. No amount of brightness/contrast adjustments will fix it. I need to get my blue transparent overlay replaced.

Anyone have any ideas where I can find a suitable material to use? Craft store maybe?

 

[fatherpain]

yes I found blue gels for the AD I sold, at an art supply store.... You may have to double them up to get the proper shade of blue.

Tom

 

[asteroidsNut]

I think you can get the colored film from here as I got my Battlezone films from here. You can request a free sample from the website.

 

[smalltownguy2]

Holy crap there's like 300 colors on that website? Which blue do I need?