So this is what a $50 Zaxxon looks like

sandmanx

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I saw this Zaxxon cab when I picked up my Centipede about 3 weeks ago, and he had it for either $100 or $75 at the time and I passed as it's not one of my favorite games. I noticed the owner had marked it down to $50 now so I picked it up today. Pretty solid cab for $50, and it even powers up, and the light on the joystick blinks when you fire, but it's not coining up(or the sound amp might be dead). The monitor doesn't work, the AC line is cut, and the HOT is completely missing, but overall it's clean.

The EEPROMs are missing the sticker over them, so I'm thinking they might need to be reprogrammed, but I'll figure that out after I get a working monitor in it and check it out.

I'm happy I finally picked up a cab cheap and got to post one of these threads myself!
 

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I'm amazed how good of shape it is in, and I guess I paid market price. :)

Next up is to decide if it's worth the hassle to try and get the sampo working or just try and find another monitor. I figure it's probably worth the ~$10 for a HOT to try it out, as the tube has almost no burn in. Only thing that sucks is it looks like someone along the way had no idea what they were doing with monitor repair since the HOT is missing, the RGB connector was pinned under the front of the chassis, and the power cord connector was cut off. I'm also 1 for 3 in the monitor repair department, and of course the 2 that don't work are the ones that are in the garage hanging out with Zaxxon, so I can't even do a quick monitor swap to see if I got a picture.

More reminders that I need to get my project car sold and get one bay of the garage converted to a game room ASAP.
 
we've got a $125 working zaxxon on CL here right now. i'd grab it if i had the space. fun game, but they are honestly all over the denver CL. there's always at least one zaxxon on there at any given time, generally for $200 or less.
 
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