KidVidiot
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I picked up a (really) cheap 2 player Atari Football a little while ago and it's kind of been on the back burner but I've been thinking more about it and would like to get into restoring it. It's in decent shape with some wear on the control panels and a chunk of wood grain vinyl missing on one side corner. Also I'm not getting any raster on the monitor at all, but when I plugged it into a monitor in another game it worked like a charm. So a few questions I had:
-My control panels have a lot more graphics on it than the repro ones phoenix arcade sells - I take it there were two different versions? Which one was the original? My machine has the green overlay so I assumed it was an original run. Was a repro ever made of the other one? Also considering the original graphics were silk screened onto the actual metal, does a stick-on overlay even come close in the first place?
-Has anyone replaced the wood grain vinyl before? What did you use?
-Does anyone sell repro decals of the side art? Mine are in good condition but if I'm replacing the vinyl I assume I'd need a new pair.
-Do I need a 4" trackball rebuild kit or 4.5" kit? Different sites have conflicting information.
-Any other games use the same size monitor? Not sure I will be able to fix this one, as parts don't seem to be common.
-My control panels have a lot more graphics on it than the repro ones phoenix arcade sells - I take it there were two different versions? Which one was the original? My machine has the green overlay so I assumed it was an original run. Was a repro ever made of the other one? Also considering the original graphics were silk screened onto the actual metal, does a stick-on overlay even come close in the first place?
-Has anyone replaced the wood grain vinyl before? What did you use?
-Does anyone sell repro decals of the side art? Mine are in good condition but if I'm replacing the vinyl I assume I'd need a new pair.
-Do I need a 4" trackball rebuild kit or 4.5" kit? Different sites have conflicting information.
-Any other games use the same size monitor? Not sure I will be able to fix this one, as parts don't seem to be common.
