Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
Atari Dominos - SOLD
RayB:
Oh great. Is this thread going to degenerate into a pointless debate?
Here's what the next post likely would say:
Guy #1: "Pinballs used leaf-switches long before microswitches were ever invented!"
Guy #2: "Yeah but I am only talking about VIDEO games"
Guy #1: "Yeah ok I'd agree with you there"
Guy #3: "No you're wrong, here's proof <link to a page on KLOV>"
Guy #2: "Yeah but this game came out before that: <link to another page on KLOV>"
Guy #4: "That game uses a trackball, it doesn't even have buttons"
Guy #2: "Oops. My bad"
....etc...
Hopefully I've pre-empted about 5 or 6 pointless messages from being posted. ;D
ChadTower:
Solenoids.
Level42:
Uh....sorry RayB.....I just was curious. I consider computerspace as the first arcade videogame (I may be wrong but KLOV indicates it that way, just like most other sources)....don't care about it that much. I just _assumed_ that the leafs were used earlier than microswitches. It was not an opinion. :)
And I'm still kinda new here so I probably missed those kind of conversations earlier.
paigeoliver:
Both types of switches predate video arcade games altogether, thus both types were used from the very beginning (although the classic "cherry" microswitches did not see much use until the late 70s, but other microswitch buttons were used from the beginning).
Level42:
Finaly the straight-on marquee shot. The little light part top left is a lamp reflection.
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