Price Check: Exidy Side Trak

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good find very nice & clean, looks like some one installed a midway coin door on it - i think i see the rivets that hold the logo plate
 
Oops I guess you can do more than two, just not simultaneously.
 

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The game boards and sound fully work from what I can tell. I did shoot a video of it running but will need to post a link later. The monitor is bright but needs at minimum a cap kit as it gets a little jittery at times.

The owners would like offers on it and have asked me to handle the sale. They can't pallet the game so a transport company would have to handle all of that for the buyer. They said they are not in a hurry to sell it but they have decided it is probably time to part with it. If you all pm offers to me I will run them by them. They are hoping to be over the thousand mark but whatever it ends up being is what it is.

Thanks, I will get a video link later.
 
I'd sooooo be all over this if I had the money, it's a personal grail.

Any chance of getting pictures of the side art squared off and centered in the photos so one could perhaps reproduce it? Sorry to be a pain, but these still up soooo rarely.

Also is there any kind of mechanical bell in it? I'm thinking that might just be an urban legend.
 
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good find very nice & clean, looks like some one installed a midway coin door on it - i think i see the rivets that hold the logo plate

Yeah, looks like the CP and coin door have been painted over.
Heres a picture of one from that past for sale thread.
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Other than that, the game looks super clean to me.
Pretty interesting find and no doubt rare.
 
Here's another of how to control panel is supposed to look taken from KLOV, it seems to me I've seen another picture somewhere that showed it had "fast" written under the button too:
 

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I'd sooooo be all over this if I had the money, it's a personal grail.

Any chance of getting pictures of the side art squared off and centered in the photos so one could perhaps reproduce it? Sorry to be a pain, but these still up soooo rarely.

Also is there any kind of mechanical bell in it? I'm thinking that might just be an urban legend.

It is possible. When it gets sold I will see it one more time and snap shots at that point. I didn't see a mechanical bell inside. 😢
 
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I think based on watching the mame video and this video that there may be some sounds missing. When I got on location I did have to remove the audio board harness and plug it back in due to having one audio glitch and that went away to what you see now with the machine cycled on and off about 5 times. I would bet that the voltages haven't been adjusted since she has owned this thing and I didn't want to mess with it too much since I didn't have a schematic or meter with me. Anyways, here is what I got for video.

https://youtu.be/gcOs12FG_0U
 
good find very nice & clean, looks like some one installed a midway coin door on it - i think i see the rivets that hold the logo plate

That's the original coin door, those were used on more games than just Midway's. Even Atari has at least one game that used them.

I suppose they could have been manufactured by Midway and sold to Atari and Exidy, but it's more likely that they were made by a third party and sold to whomever called them up for a batch.

Side Trak is cool, it's one that's rare, but probably not very valuable. I call these games "rare because they suck" -- not many survived from the production run, because earnings tailed off and they got junked or converted. This is in opposition to games which are rare because not many were made, like Quantum, dedicated Havoc, etc.

I say "they suck" with love here. I just mean, they're not A-list titles, most people outside the collector community has never heard of them, etc. These are some of my favorite games, and there are several in my collection.

As to that example, I don't think it's worth $1000 due to condition. Maybe $500.
 
The reason Side Trak failed commercial is probably because the game is sooooo damn hard, it has quite a learning curve, I've barely made it to the second level myself.

I've got two boards, one I found original and another I stumbled that oddly enough was severely hacked to be Targ, at some point I'm going to deconvert it. You can easily spot a Side Trak board as it has an IC location that's populated which is left empty on all other games, it's used to produce the black and white composite signal while all other games that use that board are RGB and don't need it, what the location number/letter is offhand I can't remember. By the way the picture KLOV has in the database for the PCB is WRONG, I think I might have been the dingbat that submitted it too, it doesn't have that spot populated.

I'm trying to write a novel right now, I have no idea if anything will become of it but I named the restaurant the story centers around "The Side Track" as it was a former train depot, the depot idea came from a place nearby to where I live (now demolished :( ) and the name I took from the Exidy game. I may have the characters find an actual game somewhere too, but I'm wondering about copyright issues in using the actual name so I might rename it, but it will be Side Trak and I think I'll have my male protagonist salvage it and take it home.

If the novel by some miracle gets published some day I'm going to hunt down a full Side Trak game for myself just on general principles even if I've got to save up for it and have it shipped freight.
 
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