Wall game resources - are there any?

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I know about "www.wallgames.com"
- cool site but not all that helpful.
Are there other places to get information and assistance with questions?
 
You actually HAVE one?

Weird - the topic of these games just came up yesterday at work. There was a local tavern in my home town that had a skeet shooting one. Wonder where it ever went?
 
I think if you ask your questions here you will be as likely to find your answer as anywhere? What do you have? Or what are you looking for?
 
I have a manual for my Tombstone if that helps. I also have access to the manuals for trapshoot and fowlplay.
 
I had one called Duck Hunt and sold it about 2 years ago. It worked and I have to say I don't miss it. It took up too much room and was boring easy game if you time it right which is what happens once you play ti for an hour.
 
I have an EM Midway "Table Tennis" that is fully working with its wireless remotes. They're around, but not much info on them out there as you found.

They are timing games. Once you get the timing down you can play forever or until the other player gets tired and throws the game.

Tom
 
Mine is Trapshoot Classic. You can never get the timing down on this one and I think it stays fun. Yes, it's repetitive. But it gets a LOT of play from guests and since it's head-to-head it fosters competition.

Plus it has major nostalgia for some of us who remember playing them at Pizza places back in the day.
 
Yeah... I have 2 of them... a Midway "Bulls Eye" (darts) and a Midway "Table Tennis".
Right now I am trying to figure out how I can get my hands on RF player controls. Mine are all wired. They work fine but I'd like to go cordless.
I see some remarks here and there about garage door openers and such but have no idea how to make the controllers if they are not available.
Those sorts of things...
... and yes, they are not exciting but they are cool. I like the variety they provide and they are on the wall, where nothing "useful" for recreation would be anyway so I don't have to give up "game space" to have them.
;-)
 
Yeah... I have 2 of them... a Midway "Bulls Eye" (darts) and a Midway "Table Tennis".
Right now I am trying to figure out how I can get my hands on RF player controls. Mine are all wired. They work fine but I'd like to go cordless.
I see some remarks here and there about garage door openers and such but have no idea how to make the controllers if they are not available.
Those sorts of things...
... and yes, they are not exciting but they are cool. I like the variety they provide and they are on the wall, where nothing "useful" for recreation would be anyway so I don't have to give up "game space" to have them.
;-)

Cool! Show us some pics. And yeah, you should be able to make those wireless I would think. Is it simply a single controller button for each player? Explain how it all works now and maybe we can figure it out. I just upgraded mine to a different garage door remote and it works great....but converting a wired unit may be a lot different, especially if there are multiple controls.
 
I had some issues with my wireless controls for the Table Tennis game... one got dropped one night - ouch - and of course it quit working.

The remotes actually use Citizen Band (CB radio) frequiencies. They have the channel crystals in them and they're on the receiver board inside the game. There is a small antenna wire that goes around about 1/2 of the inside edge of the game.

It is very suceptable to interference, but I'm not sure if it's noise on my AC wiring or the actual receiver. Once in a while a relay will begin tripping inside the game. If I turn off other things on the circuit it will stop so I don't know if it's over the power or another game or a juke box is putting something out.

I think I have a schematic for my Table Tennis. I could look for it and see if it shows the remotes.

Tom

Here it is:

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Cool! Show us some pics. And yeah, you should be able to make those wireless I would think. Is it simply a single controller button for each player? Explain how it all works now and maybe we can figure it out. I just upgraded mine to a different garage door remote and it works great....but converting a wired unit may be a lot different, especially if there are multiple controls.

Here they are. I would love to figure out how to make them wireless.
 

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Heh, very cool. Love the 70's attire! So what do the controls look like? Are they just single push buttons? 1 or 2 controllers?

Yeah... one per player, wired, single push button. You can see them, hanging on opposite sides of the game, in the pictures. Just pick one up, step back 5 - 10 feet, and play.
 
Yeah... one per player, wired, single push button. You can see them, hanging on opposite sides of the game, in the pictures. Just pick one up, step back 5 - 10 feet, and play.

Well since there's two of them, a garage door opener remote like I have won't work since it only has one channel. You will need a 2-channel receiver of some sort along with a separate remote for each player. It should just be a matter of wiring and mounting the receiver somewhere inside the cabinet so that each channel is operated by one remote.

The receiver basically just works as an on/off switch so you should be able to wire it directly to where the existing switches connect. I would be careful not to hack any wires so you can put it all back to original if you want later.

One thing to be careful of first though is that you need to know if it's just a short momentary switch or if it needs the capability to be held down for longer periods of time. Some of the wall games need the later feature and it's a little harder to find remotes that can do that. Not sure if yours needs that or not.
 
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