Picked up a Paperboy.

I picked up this paperboy for a great great price with a 25 inch monitor.The person is also sending me two more boards and a control panel.He also goner show me how change out the monitor.

killer deal. But that sceen looks very flat in there. does it really have a crt or does it have an lcd in there? If its using an adapter, then its not a medium rez monitor.
 
killer deal. But that sceen looks very flat in there. does it really have a crt or does it have an lcd in there? If its using an adapter, then its not a medium rez monitor.

Not to mention would lower the value of a Paperboy significantly.

However, he can't be using a 25" LCD in 4:3 format, since there is no such animal.
 
I want to put a 25 inch monitor in my second Paperboy. It's definitely the way to go.

As I recall it needs some kind of converter for this. Anyone know? Vintage Arcade Superstore mentioned that it needed one. Maybe they need it for whatever kind of monitor they use.

I will open it up soon and put pictures back on this forum bye tomorrow.
 
Not to mention would lower the value of a Paperboy significantly.

However, he can't be using a 25" LCD in 4:3 format, since there is no such animal.
No its a 25 inch med rez monitor just like the 19 inch rez that came with it.Its not flat its just a bigger monitor plain and simple.
 
killer deal. But that sceen looks very flat in there. does it really have a crt or does it have an lcd in there? If its using an adapter, then its not a medium rez monitor.

Its a 25 inch mid rez CRT monitor the dude its goner show me how switch out my champion sprint with a 25 inch.Pictures will be coming tomorrow the dude I bought the game from figure it plain and simple.
 
Wow great deal.

The panel alone is worth $700.

Nice pickup.

Just curious, what other games did you see?
 
Recent bubble, we need to wait a while and see if that price sticks.

As soon as someone mass produces the control panel, board set and monitor for sale at about $200 each, I bet that bubble bursts! Seriously, get comfy while waiting on the price drop.
 
As soon as someone mass produces the control panel, board set and monitor for sale at about $200 each, I bet that bubble bursts! Seriously, get comfy while waiting on the price drop.

Someone start an interest thread if Takeman is capable of getting the control panel and control metal parts made.

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Not many people are going to pay $500+ for a control panel.

That's my take on the matter.

Maybe we can give the guy from RAM controls another chance and see if he can produce a few....
 
As soon as someone mass produces the control panel, board set and monitor for sale at about $200 each, I bet that bubble bursts! Seriously, get comfy while waiting on the price drop.

The cost of making a repro controller will be way more than $200. There have been numerous threads about this. A number of people have indicated that It's cost prohibitive.

And no one is going to make new 19 inch medium res monitors.
 
As soon as someone mass produces the control panel, board set and monitor for sale at about $200 each, I bet that bubble bursts! Seriously, get comfy while waiting on the price drop.

There used to be a time when every part relating to Assault was made out of solid gold. Trends come and go.

While Paperboy panels are very rare loose, there also can't be that many cabinets missing them in the first place, it isn't like Paperboys ever got converted to anything else. People are sitting on spare panels already, those will come to market and drive the price down. The actual real need for paperboy panels (not for spares or upgrades, but actual cabinets missing panels), is probably less than 20 worldwide.
 
There used to be a time when every part relating to Assault was made out of solid gold. Trends come and go.

While Paperboy panels are very rare loose, there also can't be that many cabinets missing them in the first place, it isn't like Paperboys ever got converted to anything else. People are sitting on spare panels already, those will come to market and drive the price down. The actual real need for paperboy panels (not for spares or upgrades, but actual cabinets missing panels), is probably less than 20 worldwide.

Oddly enough I have a paperboy that was converted to a fighting game and the panel has a bunch of extra holes from that.

The panel would not be that hard to repo - the other stuff is a different story.

Fortunately I have another control panel to replace it with and a spare controller. I guess that leaves one hacked up PB panel available for someone who really needs it and is willing to patch it up. I made the mistake of throwing out an original quantum panel that had the same thing done to it, only to have people ask me about it after the repos had sold out.
 
Oddly enough I have a paperboy that was converted to a fighting game and the panel has a bunch of extra holes from that.

The panel would not be that hard to repo - the other stuff is a different story.

Fortunately I have another control panel to replace it with and a spare controller. I guess that leaves one hacked up PB panel available for someone who really needs it and is willing to patch it up. I made the mistake of throwing out an original quantum panel that had the same thing done to it, only to have people ask me about it after the repos had sold out.

Selling a whole controller isn't reasonable. I see it like this - it's easy for us to buy a $50 thing here, and another piece later, etc.. rather than $400 up front.

Most all of the Paperboy controller parts, other than the actual housing, so all the stuff to rebuild, has been available from videogameparts at some point. Many parts are shared with the SW yoke controller - these 2 controllers work nearly the same.

What I think might work is - make the
-control panel
-upper metal housing
-lower metal housing
-handlebars
-cover pair

and people can repurpose slightly worn SW or Paperboy controller parts, use repro/NOS stuff, etc.

You'd need
-pair of shafts
-pair of threaded stop pin thing
-springs
-pair of pots
-gears
-harness
-button assys
-roll pins

I'd be curious if enough people would express interest to have the metal parts made. I think yes, partially because
a) People with a set of handlebars often need to have them replated, and there's often pitting to deal with at the platers
b) There's a weld that breaks - I had to have it rewelded on the one I restored
c) The tab that stops the controller from rotating is sometimes bent

so, it's not like some metal housing parts that never wear or have issues.

Another thing - creating new/additional Paperboy cabinets isn't entirely dependent on restoring old Paperboys and finding medium res monitors. I actually have a Championship Sprint with a medium res monitor, that used to be a Paperboy. If I built a Paperboy panel, it would be to use the one cabinet and switch it out.
 
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these thing got pimped just as much as any other game....

No, they didn't, they had medium resolution monitors and all the kit games out there wanted standard res. To convert it you had to replace the monitor, at that point most ops would just pick something else to convert.

Paperboy would be getting converted at roughly the same rate a vector games. While we have all seen Tempest and Space Duel conversions they were anything but common.

Also, I might be remembering things wrong, but it seems to me like every arcade in town was still running Paperboy a few years past when everything in the world got converted to SF2. Although that could be faulty memory on my part.

I wonder if the operator who did the Paperboy to Arch Rival conversion ever broke even on the machine.
 
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