picked up another exidy max-a-flex system.

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This one is also complete (4 marquees and carts), home owned, and mostly works(cart port probably dirty). The interesting thing about it was the guy knew its history. He said his boss was a plumbing disributor and he bought a few of them. He sold some of them his employees. I think that explains why I have found 3 of them in the south bay.

Got back too late to take pics(and now its raining). These are pics of one of the earlier ones I found. The new one is almost as nice.

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Its really just an atari 600xl on a timer. Put more coins in to add time. If it get to zero, it locks out controls until you die. It was sold with 4 games and marquees (Flip flop, bristles, astro chase and boulder dash). But you can plug most atari 8bit carts in it and they will work.

I have been meaning to fill up an 8bit mulitcart for it(atarimax did all the work). Then tie into the reset circuit so you can exit back to the top menu for game select.

The artwork is cool, but its too bad only some of it ties into exidy (or first stars) games.
 
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awesome!! I had one years ago, but it was missing the carts. Boulderdash (atari) is a super expensive cart ;(

Jon
 
awesome!! I had one years ago, but it was missing the carts. Boulderdash (atari) is a super expensive cart ;(

Jon

I had a boulder dash cart from my 8bit cart collecting days. So when tim brought his to cax like 10 years ago and it was missing it, I had one. I noticed that the cart alone was listed for $450 on ebay. I did not think it was THAT rare?

I just want to take a pic of all of them working in a row. Then I can get rid of two of them. Sucks that I have only 2 complete sets of marquees. But I can't complain as I have all the carts.
 
Wow..awesome find. Boulderdash is an amazing game. I played it a lot on the C64.. the type of game design where the graphics didn't even matter, the game was just that good.
 
here are some pics of the new one. I took a pic of the back of the game. You can see the 600xl computer and the ntsc to rgb board. There is a circuit board behind the monitor plexi that controls the timer and volume. These people were smart enough to figure out you could plug in regular 8bit carts. There was 4 extra games in it(pacman, ms pacman, facemaker and alphabet zoo).

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Thanks for posting pics of your second Max-a-flex. Boulder Dash was my dad's all-time favorite computer game (I loved it too). We played it on our Atari computer. When he died I remember going through his stuff and finding graph paper drawings of Boulder Dash levels with his strategies for beating them. Neither of us ever knew that an arcade version existed of this game. I know he would have loved to have played it, had we ever come across it.
 
Thanks for posting pics of your second Max-a-flex. Boulder Dash was my dad's all-time favorite computer game (I loved it too). We played it on our Atari computer. When he died I remember going through his stuff and finding graph paper drawings of Boulder Dash levels with his strategies for beating them. Neither of us ever knew that an arcade version existed of this game. I know he would have loved to have played it, had we ever come across it.


Its hard to call it an arcade game in that its just a 600xl running the cart on a timer. But it is a nostalgia keeper for me. My first computer was a 1200xl. I had boulder dash construction set back then. I had astrochase and flipflop too.
 
I saw this on CL and mentally put Bill's name on it...
 
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