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I go through a lot of Classic Atari Game Boards that use POKEYS and have noticed more and more original POKEYS are failing as of late.
I had 4 Tempest board sets repaired recently and as you know each AUX PCB uses 2 Pokeys so a total of 8 with these 4 board sets. Out of the 8 POKEYS, 4 were bad.
I have noticed POKEYS going bad more often on other Game Boards that I have had over the last couple of years as well.
Just curious if others have noticed more original POKEYS going bad recently and any thoughts as to why other than age?