RipOff Lives!!!!!! (plus a stupid story)

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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.
 
Followup to my own post....

Oh yea, I left out a stupid part.

Trying to figure out if it was CCPU/monitor, I couldn't get the game to "play blind". Found out the hard way that I have a bad coin switch! So I couldn't credit the stupid thing to get it to play blindly.

So, my PS is good and apparently so is my original monitor.
 
Not a stupid story at all.

Congrats on getting another game working again!
 
Even though you're not done fixing it up yet, post up a couple of pics for us to feed our curiousity....

I will - I stripped the coin door and CP/bezel metal pieces. I've got some more stripping to do and then first attempt at painting.

I was shocked at the amount of rust on the pieces (underneath) where the paint appeared fine.

Hopefully have them fully prepped tomorrow.
 
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