day one with my OMEGA RACE

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Tonight I actually had a chance to escape to the garcade and do an initial assessment on my new Omega Race. Here's what I was able to find out:

1. game powers up!
2. black light assembly (and original bulb) work fine
3. lower marquee assembly working
4. monitor working (monitor chassis has red light, screen has that light black color to it)
5. serial number is either 120 or 420 (I think it's 120)
6. the game's last stop before the person who sold it to me was an auction house in NJ

The upper marquee isn't working yet, but I think it's because I don't have the main and daughter boards for the game yet. It is a series of GE 194 bulbs (7 if I recall correctly while typing), not a fluorescent tube, which actually surprised me a bit. Even my Asteroids from 1979 has a tube up top.

It does not look like there is power getting to the coin door bulbs, as I switched one out and nothing happened. But this is way at the bottom of the list, so I'm not really worried about that just yet.

In short, it's been a good day one! Let's hope the further updates are as successful!
 
sounds like the monitor could use a cap kit and transistors, maybe a fuse or two. Grats on your game. Hope you can get it working.

Thanks AR! Actually I think the monitor is just like that because there are no boards in there currently. I'm hoping the monitor view will improve once I score a PCB :)

Can anyone tell me why this game didn't make the cut for the 48 or 60 in 1 games? Or is it out there and I just haven't seen it listed yet?

VG
 
Can anyone tell me why this game didn't make the cut for the 48 or 60 in 1 games? Or is it out there and I just haven't seen it listed yet?

VG

If I'm reading your question correctly, I would say that it was skipped over for the multi-boards because it's a vector. Even though the XX-in-1 boards run MAME, they stuck to all raster stuff, probably because vectors look like crap on standard resolution monitors.
 
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I thought your boards were not working, didn't realize they were missing. You might be able to test the monitor by plugging it into your Asteroids depending on the monitor model numbers.
 
I thought your boards were not working, didn't realize they were missing. You might be able to test the monitor by plugging it into your Asteroids depending on the monitor model numbers.

No problem at all- I actually just got to play this game on MAME and I like it! Now to just find the boards lol.
 
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