Another Asteroids Deluxe HELP PLEASE!

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ChadTower:

Very likely means you have a game playing blind with a video problem. Not quite isolated to monitor or boardset yet but you are a lot of the way there to a working game. Don't give up on this game. We can help you.

I will look around my basement. It's possible I have an extra AD background. If not, it's not super hard to make a new one, or even upgrade to something cooler. It's really just a posterboard with some black light reactive asteroids.

EDIT: I found it. I'll send it to you for the cost of shipping with one condition. This game does not get converted. If you don't get it working then you move it on to someone else who will. I might have some other AD parts as well if I look around. Let me know what you need.

Does this game have the mirror intact?

gargoyle73:
Holy WOW Chad, thank you for your offer man, very kind, and one must respect your fight for arcade purity:) And as I am a convert having worked today, I am totally onboard with keeping the purity of the vector cab, so if offer still stands I'd love the piece and swear not to destroy/alter my cab:) Digging through it and making it come back to life a bit has made me respect the engineering so much more.

Mirror - it IS in there, BUT so far I see no 'opaqueness', should I be able to see through it to the cab back? How did the asteroid black light piece show through? Is it possible someone put a regular mirror in? Or painted/altered the original mirror back once they snagged the cardboard insert? Or is there just something I'm not seeing yet?

Also, the blue film is missing to cover the monitor, easy to mimic I assume?

Werent there TWO different upright AD cab variations?

Thank you as always guys

Lee

Mike A:
ChadTower. Kudos to you.

chopperthedog:
It's known as a half silvered mirror or 2 way mirror.

Are you just missing the film or is the front inner art gone to? If the front inner art is missing, that is super easy to replicate with using some black foam core art board from hobby lobby. The cab I have came with a "recreation" with the foam care material and they did a good job with it. If yours is missing and as you move further along I can pull mine and snap pics to give you an idea. See here for info on film: http://www.biltronix.com/asteroids_dlx.html

The cab stayed the same throughout its production life, but there are 2 different versions of the background artwork. I have the more green version (pic attached) and there is a orange version (personally I dig the green version more).

good day.

gargoyle73:
chopper - thank you, yes I do still have the front cardboard art and monitor cover, just missing the film, I saw that page and will order some!

http://www.classicgaming.cc/classics/asteroids/graphics

In case someone stumbles on the thread, hi res backgrounds for printing

I actually think I prefer the orange BG but both are cool, I DO like how Phoenix raised the large asteroid off the BG for added 3D effect, I may copy that

Hope to check fuses tonight after work

Lee

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