Snagged an Asteroids Today!

Nephasth

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Picked this up from a CL ad that was listed Saturday. The lady was nice enough to hold it until today (she said she was "old school" :)). "Not working" from the ad turned into "turns on, but only half the screen shows up" on the phone. Haven't even had time to plug it in yet, had to go to work as soon as I got back in town. Some of you Denver locals might have seen the ad up on Saturday.

My first vector! The old lady already wants me to sell it, but I might try sneeking it into the gameroom when she's not looking.

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Nice, that's likely an easy monitor fix. Vector games get a lot of shit for poor reliability, but I haven't had trouble with the B&W vectors once the monitors get rebuilt.
 
Reflowed the solder joints on all the headers. Game works great now, no fading or fold over anymore. Just need to do a little light clean up and swap out a few parts like buttons and she'll be good to go.
 
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