Finally, after sitting and sulking for 15ish years, RipOff once again lives! Thanks mostly to Bill Boucher, and to this site.
RipOff was one of my grails (I like two-player cooperative games, and add in vector-goodness and you have RipOff, and well, SpaceDuel which I also have).
I searched an OPs warehouse of mostly overpriced games ~15 years ago and I was thanking him as I was leaving he asked me what I was looking for and I told him "an old vector game named RipOff". His reply was "oh I have one of those over there". And sure enough, sandwiched so you couldn't see, was a RipOff surrounded by 8 other games. He said he couldn't take less than $125, and I happily paid.
My friend and I played a half-dozen games before it crapped out. Reading on the vector list all the problems, it seemed it was the monitor. Apparently I was wrong. I picked up a spare monitor and power supply (from r5g?) on here figuring I would need them. I stripped everything out of the cabinet to clean it and get the wiring harness on the test bench. Long story sorry, but it was basically the CCPU board.
So, tomorrow I start stripping rust and old paint off the coin door/control panel and clean it all up and put it back together (I even fixed the original marquee light a few weeks ago)! It was fun just playing a game on the bench tonight though after all these years.
Ok, sorry for the long sappy story.
RipOff was one of my grails (I like two-player cooperative games, and add in vector-goodness and you have RipOff, and well, SpaceDuel which I also have).
I searched an OPs warehouse of mostly overpriced games ~15 years ago and I was thanking him as I was leaving he asked me what I was looking for and I told him "an old vector game named RipOff". His reply was "oh I have one of those over there". And sure enough, sandwiched so you couldn't see, was a RipOff surrounded by 8 other games. He said he couldn't take less than $125, and I happily paid.
My friend and I played a half-dozen games before it crapped out. Reading on the vector list all the problems, it seemed it was the monitor. Apparently I was wrong. I picked up a spare monitor and power supply (from r5g?) on here figuring I would need them. I stripped everything out of the cabinet to clean it and get the wiring harness on the test bench. Long story sorry, but it was basically the CCPU board.
So, tomorrow I start stripping rust and old paint off the coin door/control panel and clean it all up and put it back together (I even fixed the original marquee light a few weeks ago)! It was fun just playing a game on the bench tonight though after all these years.
Ok, sorry for the long sappy story.


