First games of 2010 are in the garage...But what is this??

TheDrewster

Well-known member

Donor 2012
Joined
Oct 5, 2008
Messages
7,668
Reaction score
314
Location
Reno, Nevada
First games of 2010 are in the garage...But what is this??

So today I brought home my first games of 2010. Asteroids and Centipede. I thought I was buying a Millipede but it turns out it was a Centipede.

The Asteroids has seen some bad days. There is pretty significant water damage. However, some Windex and a couple thousand paper towels made it look nice and clean. This will be next in line for restoration after I finish the Space Duel and GORF.

The Centipede is something Ive never seen before. It certainly plays blind, but it looks to be like some sort of hack-a-jamma setup. Has anyone seen one of these cabinets before?
 

Attachments

  • S7302842.jpg
    S7302842.jpg
    94 KB · Views: 89
  • S7302843.jpg
    S7302843.jpg
    94.1 KB · Views: 85
  • S7302844.jpg
    S7302844.jpg
    62.9 KB · Views: 88
  • S7302845.jpg
    S7302845.jpg
    72.2 KB · Views: 88
  • S7302846.jpg
    S7302846.jpg
    72.7 KB · Views: 94
Centipede:
 

Attachments

  • S7302847.jpg
    S7302847.jpg
    93.3 KB · Views: 159
  • S7302850.jpg
    S7302850.jpg
    88.4 KB · Views: 135
  • S7302849.jpg
    S7302849.jpg
    96.8 KB · Views: 138
  • S7302848.jpg
    S7302848.jpg
    50 KB · Views: 133
Does anybody else have any info on the Centipede cab? It looks familiar but I dont know why.
 
cent

i know the deal with the cent cabinet
since i have been in this since that was new, lol
it is a 1980-81 era game, in that era game biz was huge, games like that one could make $350 per week, and sometimes 500 and even in bad locations they made 125 or so, demand for games was huge, so much so that dist. were always out of games, and were very choosy who they sold to, and at what price., so anyway demand was so big it was very profitable for anyone who could build and sell games to just do so with parts they could buy from a atari dist. thats the deal with this, its not a pirated or boot game, thats a different story, what is it, is a game some one made a cabinet for using real atari parts of the pcb, trak ball, power supp. and the person who build it likely made hundereds of them and likely sold them for 2400 or so and was into them for about half that maybe, this was especially common in the la calif area, and common for so. cal. to be a big market for local made versions, and parallells
 
dude... its fingerboard hell in there... damn somebody did alot of head scratching and soldering to get that boeotch to work!!

i vote see what ya got/get it working... gut it, 60-1 it, sell it, use $$$ to buy real centipede cab and have money leftover to properly restore said cab...
 
Someone really spent some time cramming all of that original Centipede hardware into that thing. Too bad its not a dedicated cocktail table.
 
As someone who has had both dedicated cocktail with 13 inch, and dedicated 19 inch upright I can honestly say, unless your legs don't work dump the crappy cocktail (screen to small, people with big hands very restricted movement using trakball in cramped quarters, not as pleasant to look at) and get off your butt and enjoy playing centipede as it should be played, standing up on a 19 incher with colorful sideart to accent your window treatments.
 
Last edited:
looks like a Williams Cocktail cab.:confused:
w.jpg
 
Last edited:
Back
Top Bottom