EDOT Arrives!

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Well, after a long search, one came up locally.

Many thanks to baraka(John g) for the cab/lead.

Not working, and filthy but will clean up nice.

very tired now, but back to working on it.....

oh the garbage i see on the monitor - ps issue? going to rebuild that tonight......

Allpxhere:

http://s663.photobucket.com/albums/uu352/jonathan1138/EDOT12/

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Thanks guys, intent wasnt to arouse jealousy!

When i started "collecting", this was one i had in mind. I've passed on quite a few since that time. I finally decided that enough is enough, just do it!

I remember playing it at the spaceport arcade in the woodbridge mall in New Jersey as an 8 year old kid. I will never forget the first time stepping into the booth - i remember it like yesterday. It was quite an experience. That game was revolutionary for its time.

Times have changed - i've gotten alot taller. While shopping the cab last night, i cant tell you how many times i bumped my head exiting it. Dont remember doing that as a kid.

Last night i completely tore it down. There were mice living in it, very filthy. So far its cleaning up nicely. Everything seems to be intact EXCEPT for the back portion - its missing the backglass, back speakers and light fixtures (3 of them in the back?). I was told that the previous owner had this sitting in a basement for 20 years or so, and when they recently hauled it up the stairs, they shattered the backglass and just scrapped the fixtures along with it. Not sure how the speakers ended up missing. I have a nice pair of speakers to put in there, and since i will have a cab against the back, i may just hold off on putting fixtures back there - they will just shine onto the side of another cab.

My only other "disappointment" is the main Bezel is flaked out badly. Hoping for a Thisoldgame repro!

The monitor has no burn - and suprisingly the chasis / monitor was extremely clean compared to the rest of the cab. Boards look good, the PS board has some acid damage, so hoping thats my problem - we will see. I'm not very good troubleshooting boards, so i pray...

Right now everything is in parts, going to shine it all up and get it back together. Will report progress. My camera died, so no pics.....
 
Update - It was a mess when it got here, so lots of cleaning and polishing. New carpeting, tore down and tumbled every screw, repainted the insides, etc. Took me alot longer than expected.

Most Boards were rebuilt by CDJump (cant say enough about his help) and the game plays wonderfully now. Many thanks to MJenison, Elutz, Joey for help on a technical thread i posted. Baraka hooked me up with a nice cab - he actually had to talk me into it and i am glad he did!

Last time i played was 26+ years ago, so its been a long wait.... Today it plays exactly as i remember it. I watched ALOT of youtube of it over the years, and those videos do it no justice - its just one of those things. High score last night of around 25,000, i got the logic probe (yeah!). Quite an ingenious game.

Finally i can "push the game to the wall".

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Looks excellent! Are you missing the backglass?

I sold my edot a few years ago and regret it. Not because of the game play (I find that boring) but because how cool the cab looks.

Jon
 
Where did you get the Encom badge? Was thinking if I pick up a Tron or EDOT I'd like to toss one of those on after seeing Legacy.
 
The screen glitch was bad filter caps. When CDJump got the boards, they worked (some chips were out but overall fired up). When i got the game back, with a rebuilt PS too, still had the white screen. Bob Roberts sent over some caps and she worked (with some heat issues at the fuses, see a thread i started in technical help section). Right now, i am sure everything is good.

Exidy, yeah, no backglass for me. The previous owner had this in a basement for 15+ years. I guess one day he got brave and humped it up the stairs - with the backglass on! Needless to say it shattered. Fortunately, the back section is intact and the rest of the cab was in great shape, i just needed to bondo the rounded corners a bit. So yes, i am looking for a backglass (and expecting to pay up for one, its part of the deal i guess).
 
The Encom sticker was a print up by MoreCowbell - he had created Encom style marquees for Tron vids earlier this year and included that in his deal, i had one left over. Its just a sticker. Looks better than the rusted midway plate that i tore off the coin door.
 
The Encom sticker was a print up by MoreCowbell - he had created Encom style marquees for Tron vids earlier this year and included that in his deal, i had one left over. Its just a sticker. Looks better than the rusted midway plate that i tore off the coin door.

Ah okay. Yeah I was hoping for a metal badge, so no big loss. Besides EDOTs never pop up down here, and the Trons that do are usually garbage bait. Still lookin though.
 
For the metal plate - Rich at this old game had them along with his Encom marquee for Tron. I am sure they are long gone / sold out, but maybe someday he will remake them.

Yeah keep looking - they turn up. Since i started collecting three years ago, i passed on quite a few before finally finding the right one. Good luck though it helps.
 
EDOT is a beautiful cab, nice restoration, it looks great! Discs of Tron is one of my favorite games, but I've only played the upright, and from what I've heard it's just not the same experience :(

Congrats!
 
Baloo,

I've never played a UDOT. I was considering one, but knew that i wouldnt satisfied unless i had an Environmental.

The entire driver was playing it as a kid - if it weren't for that, i wouldnt have one now. When i was 8, i stepped out of the cab in awe and dazed. This was the 80s, it was impressive back then. I remember thinking that i just played the future of gaming! And i liked the game - there werent many games where you controlled a person shooting things at another in 3D at the time. Lots of space games / cute games up until then, it may have been one of the first third / first person "shooters".

In contrast, my kids now (oldest is 7) played and i could tell it wasnt the same for her as it was for me... Kids today are spoiled i tell you.

Still, the experience is something else - alot of thought went into the design.

First off, you have the layers of artwork on the playfield - Tron landscape and some bezels behind a two sided mirror. The mirror is for the reflection of the monitor back to the player so as not to hide the artwork behind it. You can hardly tell you are playing off a mirror. In fact - my wife was in the middle of a game last night (last time she will ever play it :) ) and i mentioned she was playing off a mirrored image, she was pretty amazed by that.

Next, the game has a relay board that activates the light fixture beyond all the Tron Scenery. So, none of that depth is seen (its just the text from the attract mode), until you start it up, which dramatically and in sync with the music fires up the light, all of the layers appear at once, kind of like you are dropped into the Tron world.

Another relay serves as a strobe for the lights below the players feet and on the CP. They flash wildly when you get hit. Its actually scary and will "shock" first time players, probably thinking they broke the game (its the equal to a Pinball knocker).

Add in the speech, and yes, its all smoke and mirrors done pretty well. The gameplay itself is pretty good too - like 3D Pong.
 
So yes, i am looking for a backglass (and expecting to pay up for one, its part of the deal i guess).

I'm open to offers. I plan to build a lightbox for it and use it as a game room decoration, but an EDOT without one is kinda sad... That said, the thought of shipping it gives me the heebie-jeebies.
 
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