Passed on a 1972 2-player Atari Football CT....

TheDrewster

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It had some water damage with no sideart and it didnt coin up (probably a loose wire) but it had a good PCB, 2 good trackballs, great CPs, bezel and glass and a great B&W monitor with minimal burn in. Had the manual too. I passed on $100. I was probably going to part it out before the cabinet collapses or crumbles, but I couldnt bring myself to buy it. Should I go back and get it and save the parts or did I make a wise choice by passing?
 
If I was closer, I would have paid $100.00 for the game. Not on my most wanted, but would love to have one in the gameroom.
 
No water damage, a little bit of the base is chewed up. I don't think it is a wire, he has had a lot of people look into it. The board is not booting anymore. My fault. I wasn't paying enough attention and I put the board back in upside down and plugged it in. Now I get to try to figure out what I fried and replace it. On the bright side, I think I may have found the problem with the coin input. One of the pins was bent under the CPU. I haven't had a chance to look up the data sheet to double check that it is an input pin, but since everything else works...err... worked, I think it is probably a good bet.

I still can't believe I did that.

Thanks for the sloppy seconds Drew.

Edit: BTW, the game was made in 1978.
 
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