can anyone help me with my pong like arcade??

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does anyone recognize this arcade?? it seems like pong but in your pics pong is yellow and says PONG on it... anyone have any ideas? I'd like to know more about it and how to fix it. it runs but the screen is not centered on the game and one of the knobs is sticky

any help appreciated :)

rachelle

here's a pic

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It looks a heck of a lot like a Wiliams Paddle-Ball, but it has a different control panel.

It's one of a zillion different Pong clones that came out around the time of the original.


Sounds like you have very minor problems. You can adjust the monitor, there will be knobs on it somewhere. Some of those real early black and white games just had TV sets in them, and some had actual monitors. Post some pictures of the inside and we can help you.

The control knobs on these games are simple potentiometers. If the one is jittery/flakey, then you can either try to take it apart and clean it, or just replace it with a pot of the same value. A squirt of tuner cleaner inside the control is a good place to start.

-Ian
 
It looks a heck of a lot like a Wiliams Paddle-Ball, but it has a different control panel.

It's one of a zillion different Pong clones that came out around the time of the original.


Sounds like you have very minor problems. You can adjust the monitor, there will be knobs on it somewhere. Some of those real early black and white games just had TV sets in them, and some had actual monitors. Post some pictures of the inside and we can help you.

The control knobs on these games are simple potentiometers. If the one is jittery/flakey, then you can either try to take it apart and clean it, or just replace it with a pot of the same value. A squirt of tuner cleaner inside the control is a good place to start.

-Ian

I agree...looks very similar to the Williams Paddle Ball I own...but this version is clearly a hockey game. I remember reading Williams did produce a variant of a hockey game early on as well...but I have never seen a picture of one. More pictures please! I'm very interested to find out the identity of the game.

Thanks for posting.....

Alan
 
curious, how much did you spend on this? I noticed theres a ripped off tag towards the upper left hand corner :)
 
I agree...looks very similar to the Williams Paddle Ball I own...but this version is clearly a hockey game. I remember reading Williams did produce a variant of a hockey game early on as well...but I have never seen a picture of one. More pictures please! I'm very interested to find out the identity of the game.

Thanks for posting.....

Alan

Looking at it some more.....the orange bezel rivets, the monitor shroud and the coin door are not indicative of a Williams....or at least those features do not match my machine....
 

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Cool I'll take the back off and take some more pics i think the tv like screen inside says sega or it said sega somewhere in it i do recall, oh and i bought it at value village for $89 about 2 years ago :) i love old videogames and arcades i have 2 arcade machines and about every early game system i can think of :)

thanks for your help

Rachelle
 
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