Re: How rare is early Asteroids board marked "Asteroid"?

Also, the 'asteroid' board from about 1973 looks like a Pong board - ie.
noticably smaller than Asteroids. And yes, the flakey sockets are a
nightmare.

But dont sit around fixing all 30 for in one sitting, else you'll get
hemoroids and theyre far worse to fix :)

(sorry, couldnt resist !)

>From: Rodger Boots <rlboots@cedar-rapids.net>
>Reply-To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
>To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
>Subject: Re: VECTOR: How rare is early Asteroids board marked "Asteroid"?
>Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 03:06:59 -0600
>
>Long before Asteroids there was a B&W raster game (modified TV set) called
>Asteroid put out by Midway. It was similar to another game called Space
>Race. If that's what it is you'll see one or two groups of diodes that are
>used as primitive ROMs to draw the spaceships. The one I had had all the
>chips in extremely intermittent sockets. Took two people to play it, one
>on each joystick (joysticks let you make your rocket go either up or down).
> There were "asteroids" (like the background of Galaxian) crossing the
>screen horizontally in both directions. You got one point each time you
>managed to get from the bottom to the top of the screen without getting hit
>by an "asteroid".
>
>Was fun when you could get the sockets to work.
>
>Anywho, if this is what you have there won't be any DACs, just a LOT of
>7400 series TTL logic.
>
>
>Electronicamuse@aol.com wrote:
>
>>Not talking about the B&W version, but the early Asteroids. I am finally
>>going through a stack of 30 Asteroids boards that I have accumulated.
>>There are a few different layouts, but one single board is masked
>>Asteroid. Is that simply from the first run?
>> Dave
>> +++++Ask me about Retrocade 30-in-1 MultiPac kits for Midway Pac Man and
>>Ms Pac Man boards and same kit already attached to a new JAMMA PCB. Also
>>we now have purchased the rights to WG6100 (Tempest, etc) new deflection
>>boards and HVU boards. Also HVU boards for Amplifone (Star Wars). These
>>are version 2 with no extra wiring or mods necessary. Ask about Star Wars
>>overlays and new cabinets for Midway cocktail, upright, mini, Dragon's
>>Lair, Williams, Golden Tee Fore, and Ultra-MAME++++
>
>
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