Most bullet-proof arcade game manufacturer?

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In my experience I have found that Taito and DE boards tend to be the ones that always seem to work.

Namco/Midway tend to break the most.

Capcom would be pretty good if it weren't for the whole suicide thing.

So who do you think are the best and worst? Do bad we can't do polls.
 
I don't have a lot of Taito boards but they have held up pretty well. Even Taito's newer games usually hold up pretty well (the TypeX2 games excepting SSFIV have held up better than the other PC based arcades I have).

I've had a couple of Capcom boards suicide on me and the SSFIV mentioned broke in less than 90s days (had some minor issues out of the box too) so I give a thumbs down to them.

Atari seems to hold up pretty well. I remember coming across an old Steeplechase and Tank cocktail that still worked after being in storage for years. Couldn't say the same for the Gran Trak 10 or the Space Race that was there but I didn't expect any of them to work really.
 
I found, yes FOUND a Tetris PCB in an alley, covered in dirt and water, next to the ugliest POS tetris conversion I have ever seen. I put in the garage for a few days to air out (along with the cab)and plugged it in, worked perfect. Thats pretty damn bullet proof if you ask me :)
 
I would say almost all of them with the exception of Cinematronics. As far as I know they were designed to last five years and look how many are still playing all these years later because of dorks like us. :D
 
Never had a problem with a Konami made board, even untested ones and ones I have pulled out of machines sitting next to dumpsters seem to work.

Really, from a reliability standpoint almost all the Japanese manufacturers seem to stand above the American ones (with Nintendo down towards the bottom of the Japanese game makers).

I would actually rank Atari pretty darn low. Sure sometimes you will find one of their old black and white titles covered in dust in a warehouse and it will power right up, but that is because it likely got pulled from service and warehoused fully working after only a couple of years to make room for the color titles that came out in 1980.
 
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Yeah, I've had issues with Nintendo boards too....there console systems are indestructable though, seriously, drop a gameboy off your roof, I bet it will still work :)

you mean like this one(it got blown up):
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Arcade games I'm not so sure...
 
Midway has a lot to answer for with their Omega Race PCBs :p As does Atari for Pole Position I & II.

Exidy is usually pretty good but Victory is notorious for crapping out, which is probably why unlike most of their others they never used that board design for any other games.
 
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