Electric Yo Yo....

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Any other fans out there? I used to dislike this game but been playing more and more on Mame and kinda digging it!

Does anybody else remember seeing this game back then? Victim of conversion fodder? I'm thinking this game tanked back then due to it's rarity....Using ebay as a guide, I've never seen a Cp, Flyer, Boardset or Marquee for that matter, ever for sale!


Besides Jon/Exidy, did anybody else have/had one their collection?
 
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I owned one.

trade/sold it to Anthony P (Quarter Arcade)
http://www.arcade-classics.com/gameroom_pix/eyy/index.html

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jon
 
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A true Multi-Taito would be neat, if it could run all the classics, on classic hardware, etc.. The semi-generic-ness of the Taito cabinets (besides ZK) would be perfect for that.
 
I've played it, it must have been Anthony's before he sold it as I don't think I've ever seen another. Fun Game.


I don't think the one pete has came from quarter arcade. I think al K tracked it down. I think then tim L owned it for a few years and when he sold off some of his games he sold the entire taitio collection to pete. If you look at cax photos from around 2004? Thats when tim sold them to pete. Pretty sure there are 2..

here is a 2003 pic of EY at cax. you can see it has new looking carrige bolts in the panel that are not there in exidys pics.
http://www.andysarcade.net/personal/org/cax2003/Dcp08046.jpg

here is another pic showing no tear in the CP overlay (pretty sure that was my victory I gave to Al that he passed on to pete)
http://www.andysarcade.net/personal/org/cax2003/Dcp08047.jpg

better pic from 2009
http://www.bossyman15.com/gallery/ca09pic/electric_yoyo.jpg
 
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Dcp08047.jpg


hahahaha

thats me playing EYY.. Andy took that picture. btw. that taito row is pete ashdowns

Im famous!!!

jon
 
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Yeah Anthony's went to a big collector out west, same guy I sold my Zektor too.....




I don't think the one pete has came from quarter arcade. I think al K tracked it down. I think then tim L owned it for a few years and when he sold off some of his games he sold the entire taitio collection to pete. If you look at cax photos from around 2004? Thats when tim sold them to pete. Pretty sure there are 2..

here is a 2003 pic of EY at cax. you can see it has new looking carrige bolts in the panel that are not there in exidys pics.
http://www.andysarcade.net/personal/org/cax2003/Dcp08046.jpg

here is another pic showing no tear in the CP overlay (pretty sure that was my victory I gave to Al that he passed on to pete)
http://www.andysarcade.net/personal/org/cax2003/Dcp08047.jpg

better pic from 2009
http://www.bossyman15.com/gallery/ca09pic/electric_yoyo.jpg
 
That game stresses me out

That's why I love it!!!

So it seems only a few are around.... To my knowledge it's the only Taito cab the uses the yellow and black color scheme... Has anyone ever came across a cab that was converted from a EYY?
 
Did a little more research on this game and my quest to own one seems grim...

Some old posts on rgvac claim that there are 5 or less EYY's and Kram's out there! Followed by Space Dungeon being the next rarest.....Any truth to these numbers???
 
Did a little more research on this game and my quest to own one seems grim...

Some old posts on rgvac claim that there are 5 or less EYY's and Kram's out there! Followed by Space Dungeon being the next rarest.....Any truth to these numbers???

I remember Electric Yo-Yo from the arcade days. I never heard of Kram or Space Dungeon until collecting years later. Kind of ironic in that as a collector I have a Kram, had a Space Dungeon (traded it), but never had an Electric Yo-Yo. Got lots of parts, boardset, monitor glass, marquee, but no CP, no whole game.

Of the 3, I like Kram game play the best, then EYY. Space Dungeon is ok, but it got too hard too quick to be any fun.
 
I remember Electric Yo-Yo from the arcade days. I never heard of Kram or Space Dungeon until collecting years later. Kind of ironic in that as a collector I have a Kram, had a Space Dungeon (traded it), but never had an Electric Yo-Yo. Got lots of parts, boardset, monitor glass, marquee, but no CP, no whole game.

Of the 3, I like Kram game play the best, then EYY. Space Dungeon is ok, but it got too hard too quick to be any fun.

Joe, I don't remember seeing any of the 3 BITD and frequented alot of the Chicagoland arcades back then....The rarest ones I recall were Tin Star and Wild Western...

I only knew of EYY from RGVAC in the late 90's, Kram from an old Playmeter mag and SD from "Joysticks.":D
 
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