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Scuba Steve

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What games have a reputation for being difficult to keep up? Just from this forum you get the impression that Pole Position is on such a list. Not a problem as it's a game I never want to play again or collect.

Spy Hunter on the other hand… I've had a few locals KLOVers tell me it's a maintenance nightmare. Something to do with sound boards issues.

Any others?
 
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Battlezone breaks down for us a couple times a year... and Omega Race is a pain to get going if the PCB has battery damage.
 
Spy Hunter on the other hand… I've had a few locals KLOVers tell me it's a maintenance nightmare. Something to do with sound boards issues.


Damn. I guess I should learn a little bit (or a lot bit) more about repair and maintenece before I buy a Spy Hunter then, eh?
 
Exidy's Victory is notorious and a nightmare to debug, which is probably why there isn't that many around, and Atari System 1 games tend to fry their audio/power regulator boards. And pretty much anything that has old batteries is a tragedy waiting to happen, especially Omega Race and Q*Bert, and I hear Badlands has a really crappy gas pedal design involving a gel pad.
Damn. I guess I should learn a little bit (or a lot bit) more about repair and maintenece before I buy a Spy Hunter then, eh?

I had a Spy Hunter cockpit for years and never really had any trouble other than the Peter Gun music sounding scratchy, and no doubt recapping the audio board would have fixed that.
 
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Any pinball machine. There are always little maintenance issues. Bulbs out, switches to adjust, cables to reseat, etc. Because of the pounding they take, any pinball machine is far more likely to have issues. But the flip side is that they are worth it.

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I'm no expert in this question, but it sure seems like Ampliphone monitors get talked about an awful lot... So, Star Wars.

And I think Tempest 6100s are notorious for going bad...? And Sega vectors?
 
Any game with a battery mounted on a PCB. IE: Williams games, Williams and Bally pins, Pole Position,Qix and a whole host of others. Any game whose PCBs require non-standard voltages to operate, Q*bert being a big one. Laser Disc games, EM pins, claw cranes, change machines, anything with a ticket dispenser.
 
Wow this was almost a decade ago now.

Heh, you know you've been around a while when you can say these kind of things. ;) Once in a while my 10 year old son will say it'd be cool to have a game and I tell him we did have it... then I think back to when we had it and it was before he was born. :eek:

Damn... thanks for making me feel old.... :(
 
Turbo seems to give a lot ofpeople trouble, but its not the most common game so you probably don't hear too much about it. And tested and working boards for it usually get snatched up pretty quick. I've been really lucky with mine though
 
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