Greetings! I'm Kyle and live in Northern California. I grew up designing video games in the mid-70s. Been hauling some of them around my entire life -- telling myself I'd fix 'em up when I got old. I guess that time has come.
I have a Bazooka full-size arcade game, made by PSE in 1976. I actually helped design the electronics and wrote all of the "software" for it when I was 19. Went on to also design Desert Patrol and Game Tree for PSE. If anyone has questions about them, or needs any blanks filled in about PSE, just drop me a note. I'll see if any of those old brain cells are still working... I think the story of these games is interesting, as they're essentially run by a hand-made 16-bit microprocessor. Its "Board 1" basically makes a microprocessor from discrete chips, programmed using PROM memory ICs. Not an easy thing, back then. Display monitors did not exist, no keyboards, no hard drives... Wrote the software code a line at a time, using a panel with eight toggle switches to manually enter each 16-bit op-code.
The Bazooka has not been powered-on for 40 years. Gave it a try today -- not working --no surprise there. Initial autopsy results: Missing board 3, no 5V power (easy fix). Monitor does appear to work! Lights up with full raster. I find that quite amazing after 50 years.
I also have an 1983 Atari Centipede full size arcade. Looks like the monitor needs a cap kit, so I've got that coming in from e-bay. Otherwise, looks to be in good condition. I'll put this up for sale when cleaned-up (e-bay?)
One of the unusual games I have is a prototype of a full-size arcade game called "Genesis" made in 1983. This is a color, stereographic 3D display game. You look through a faceplate and it provides a different perspective image for each eye, that allows your brain to form a single 3D image. This lets the software create a game image that appears 3-dimensional (several feet of depth). This is a fully completed prototype made by my company at the time (a company you've never heard of) and never made it to production. We tried to sell it to Atari, back in the day, but they passed. Oddly enough, I powered it on today and it works, after 40 years. Minor problem with the character display, but that could be fixed. Not sure what to do with this one, as it's likely the only one in existence, unknown, and not related to any known game company.
Anyway, found this site and thought I would check-in. Looking for suggestions on what to do with all of this. Not really interested in storing them anymore.
Comments welcome!