morbidboy
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Price Check: Tempest with problems for sale or trade. Please read.
So after having this expensive paperweight here at Rusty Quarters, alejandromad and I have been trying to make this POS work. The screen would turn off and on (power throughout the cabinet). Sometimes the game would work but the monitor wouldn't turn on. So we put in a new power supply and a fixed board and BOOM! Tempest worked... for two days.
Today, at 7 the screen was fluctuating when the spinner was spun around (thought the vibration was wiggling a loose wire in the cabinet). Later around 11pm, you could hear and see the screen click on and off. Now all I got is power to everything but the screen won't turn on and the game will not play... and for some reason the 1 & 2 player buttons are lite up.
So I emailed alejandromad (I'm still learning but I am still a novice at fixing big problems) hoping to fix it, but I'm to the point if it's not a Quick fix, I'm got to have to get rid of it.
Ok so now you guys know the back story, I would like to know how much should I be able to get for it? I would say the cabinet is probably in a 6.5-7.0 condition? The cabinet wood is solid but artwork and speaker and control overlays are faded and cracked at corners. Since the power brick isn't mine (alejandromad let me borrow his), I would have to sell it with one that needs repairs. I was hoping instead of cash, I would like to do a trade for a working upright game with no repair issues. I would like to entertain any offers of cash or trade.
I love tempest but it's been nothing but a headache and since I'm running an arcade I need a working machine that will make me money, not an very expensive paperweight just wasting space.
Thanks for reading,
Sage James Spirtos
Rusty Quarters Retro Arcade & Museum
Minneapolis, MN
So after having this expensive paperweight here at Rusty Quarters, alejandromad and I have been trying to make this POS work. The screen would turn off and on (power throughout the cabinet). Sometimes the game would work but the monitor wouldn't turn on. So we put in a new power supply and a fixed board and BOOM! Tempest worked... for two days.
Today, at 7 the screen was fluctuating when the spinner was spun around (thought the vibration was wiggling a loose wire in the cabinet). Later around 11pm, you could hear and see the screen click on and off. Now all I got is power to everything but the screen won't turn on and the game will not play... and for some reason the 1 & 2 player buttons are lite up.
So I emailed alejandromad (I'm still learning but I am still a novice at fixing big problems) hoping to fix it, but I'm to the point if it's not a Quick fix, I'm got to have to get rid of it.
Ok so now you guys know the back story, I would like to know how much should I be able to get for it? I would say the cabinet is probably in a 6.5-7.0 condition? The cabinet wood is solid but artwork and speaker and control overlays are faded and cracked at corners. Since the power brick isn't mine (alejandromad let me borrow his), I would have to sell it with one that needs repairs. I was hoping instead of cash, I would like to do a trade for a working upright game with no repair issues. I would like to entertain any offers of cash or trade.
I love tempest but it's been nothing but a headache and since I'm running an arcade I need a working machine that will make me money, not an very expensive paperweight just wasting space.
Thanks for reading,
Sage James Spirtos
Rusty Quarters Retro Arcade & Museum
Minneapolis, MN

