Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
Centipede Restoration
RayB:
Nice "row" !
Level42:
--- Quote from: Spyridon on January 18, 2009, 10:23:39 pm ---How could anyone not love this game? Went downstairs and played a few games during halftime of the Steelers game. Boy, this is a fun game!
P.S. How 'bout them Steelers!!!!!
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In all honesty, I never loved Centipede. In fact, I hated it. It was the game for the 1983 (IIRC !) Atari World championships. So I rented (!) the cart, practiced like nuts for a week. I totally hated the controls on the Atari 2600, the joystick programming was so that when you moved, the archer moved slowly when you started the move, but increased in speed as long as you kept moving in that direction. A (poor) try to "emulate" the trackball feeling, but I didn't even know Centipede was originally a trackball game in the arcade then. I'd never even seen the arcade game then.
Anyway, I participated in the first Dutch round. Was placed 26 and only 25 (under 18's !) were invited but I was lucky as one guy got ill and they called if I could replaced him. So, like crazy, I again rented the cart and practiced like nuts.....
Became 4th in the Dutch finals. Not bad, but of course no prize :S
O well. it was fun to be in the finals that was in the Amsterdam Hilton and hosted by Ron Brandsteder (a famous Dutch TV host). I'm sure my parents must have some pics from them....gotta dig them up :)
Anyway, if there' s any game that proved to me that the arcade version can be SO much better than conversions, it was Centipede. I totally love the game now.
Spyridon:
Nice story Level42. Love to see some of those pictures if you find them. In 1983, I don't think there was any place around me that rented games. Of course, I didn't have a 2600 to play them on anyway. Had to go over a friends house to paly. :(
Spyridon:
--- Quote from: Spyridon on January 18, 2009, 03:01:28 pm ---
One thing I realized is missing is the test switch. I'll need to pick one up and install it so I can reset the high scores.
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I looked into the manual today to see what type of switch I needed to pick up. I was going to walk over to Radio Shack on my lunch to get on. I remembered from the manual (and Level42's picture) that the switch was located just below the volume control. Since I had an open hole in that space and two dangling wires with nothing to connect to, I just assumed that is where the missing switch goes. It wasn't until I looked at the manual that I found out about the European self test switch and the US self test switch.
The US one is located on the coin door. I don't remember seeing that on the door itself, but looking back at the picture of the coin door harness I picked up, it looks like it is there.
All I should need to do is plug in the coin door harness (I didn't hook it up becuase I have it on freeplay right now) and I should be good to go. I'll check it out tonight when I get home.
Spyridon:
--- Quote from: RayB on January 19, 2009, 01:44:49 pm ---Nice "row" !
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Thanks. Here's the other side:
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