This week's project- No Nintendo Content

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Here is this week's project. Just got it working for California Extreme. No barrels, no monkeys, no gay plumber....just 8 player head-to-head racing action (at least as much racing action as you can get in a mid 70's driving game).

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Very nice Scott. If there is a ranking of "classicness" amongst these games, that one's near the top of the list. Can't wait to give it a try at Caex.

It looks like it'll be a bitch to move around. It's got four fronts and no back to dolly from.
 
Great job scott

After working on so many games all the time, i get bored with redoing the typical easy to sell games. I wish that i had the time to do a game like the 8. I have a four in the back of one of the buildings that will be done sometime, but i doubt anytime soon

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I can't believe more people have not posted here! This is absolutely amazing!

Congrats on getting such a rare gem up and running. I just have one random question: What size monitor does the machine use? I would assume it is 25 inch.
 
Awesome! I can't wait to try it out. I wonder how an 8-player Championship Sprint would have turned out.

Man, you really don't like Nintendo. :)
 
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Nobody posted because they are offended to the "GAY" Mario joke. haa ha.

This is very very cool and look forward to checking it out at CAX!

'Gay' means 'happy'.......


cheery: bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer; "a cheery hello"; "a gay sunny room"; "a sunny smile"
full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry laughter"; "a mirthful ...
given to social pleasures often including dissipation; "led a gay Bohemian life"; "a gay old rogue with an eye for the ladies"
brave: brightly colored and showy; "girls decked out in brave new dresses"; "brave banners flying"; "`braw' is a Scottish word"; "a dress a bit too gay for her years"; "birds with gay plumage"
offering fun and gaiety; "a festive (or festal) occasion"; "gay and exciting night life"; "a merry evening"
 
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I can't believe more people have not posted here! This is absolutely amazing!

Congrats on getting such a rare gem up and running. I just have one random question: What size monitor does the machine use? I would assume it is 25 inch.

25 inch color monitor. It's some sort of television with a custom chroma board. An ex-Atari employee called me a couple weeks ago and game me an NOS monitor for this, so now I have a spare too for this and the Tank 8.
 
Thanks for sharing, I look forward to playing it at CAX.

One question. How do you tell the cars apart during the game?

The drones (cars that are not coined up) are all white. When a player coins up at their station, their car changes from white to one of 8 colors.
 
My son and I played, and it was fun. I'm sure the fun factor goes up, as you add more players, just like Tank 8. It's basically like Sprint 2 with 8 cars.
 
25 inch color monitor. It's some sort of television with a custom chroma board. An ex-Atari employee called me a couple weeks ago and game me an NOS monitor for this, so now I have a spare too for this and the Tank 8.

So were Tank 8 and Sprint 8 the first games using a color monitor?
 
I'm not sure, but they were the first Atari games.

Indy 800 was '75 and predated these, but it sounds like they use similar hardware? IIRC, Sprint 4 used a microprocessor so it's probably the first of these games that actually "thinks" in color, along the lines of Galaxian.

If the Sprint 8 & Tank 8 monitor is anything like Indy's it uses a hacked-up 25" General Electric television set with a triad-spot picture tube, like the Electrohome GO2 uses (WG 4500 might use one as well). Sprint 4 used a G02 (also found in Galaxian 25", Eagle 25", MC cockpit, Sea Wolf II, etc).

Indy's boards output 8 separate mono video signals which are mixed into color using resistors (voltage dividers) on a special board mounted on the monitor; it can be seen in the pic below and has 9 or 10 wires running to it. The yellow & cyan boards are not installed so there are only 6 cars on the screen.

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very cool Scott, I wasn't sure I'd ever see one!
 
I can't believe more people have not posted here!

People would be much more excited to see a Popeye cab that they never played BITD than a truly rare classic like this. Meh the Nintendo obsession around here is what it is...

You just have to love that Kee Games logo though :cool:. Awesome pics atariscott & pat9000. Thanks for sharing guys :D!
 
25 inch color monitor. It's some sort of television with a custom chroma board. An ex-Atari employee called me a couple weeks ago and game me an NOS monitor for this, so now I have a spare too for this and the Tank 8.

Awesome. Must have been a very early color game then. I always assumed Sprint/Tank 8 used color overlays.
 
Indy 800 and Sprint 8 are basically the same inside. The Indy 800 cabinet used a lot more wood. It was heavier, and the cabinet tends to fall apart when moved too much. The two Indy 800's in my neighborhood are both in need of lots of cabinet repair. Now that the Sprint 8 is working, I don't have much motivation to work on the Indy 800.

Sprint 8 is based on a modular metal frame, that is common amongst Tank 8, Indy 4 and Sprint 8. The main differences between these cabinets is the fiberglass top, that holds the controls. Sprint 8 adds a high/low shifter, but the gameplay is basically like Indy 800.

I'm too lazy to take all the doors off the Sprint 8, but it looks very much like the Indy 8 inside.

Here is a trouble shooting tip- If you don't have all 4 coin doors hooked up, the game will autostart and not allow you to change tracks. After the game ends, it will automatically start again. You never get to see the attract mode or select tracks when this happens. I guess all the switches are normally closed, instead of normally open.
 
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