QA Podcast – Episode 42
This episode of the podcast was recorded on Friday, July 11, 2014. For more information on our podcast, please visit our iTunes page at http://itunes.arcaderepairtips.com or our Stitcher page at http://stitcher.arcaderepairtips.com. All of our past episodes can be found at these locations along with review sections where you can leave us a comment on how we’re doing. On this episode, Tim and Jonathan answered your questions regarding…
- A Bally slot machine with coin acceptor issues
- A Virtua Tennis with voltage issues
- A Bad Dudes with coin mech and sound problems
- A Kick Man that lost it’s picture
- A Virtua Fighter with a monitor that won’t light up
- A Ms. Pac Man/Galaga with a screen that’s pushed together on the left side
- An arcade game with a monitor that shuts down every 45 seconds
- A Rolling Thunder with a broken neck board and other issues
- A Frogger with motherboard/daughterboard issues
- A Silver Strike Bowling with a greenish hue on the monitor
- An Area 51 with some sound problems
- A Tekken 2 with green lines across the screen
- A Golden Tee with monitor issues
- A Golden Tee Classic with no sound and no picture
- Converting an arcade cabinet to a multicade
- Replacing coin door lights and control panel wiring
- A Gauntlet Legends with no signal on the screen
- A Ms. Pac Man with coin door light issues
- An arcade monitor that went out overnight
- A Carnival King Big Tom with no signal displayed on the screen
- And a Space Invaders cocktail with some general issues
We also give an update on Chuck E. Cheese’s using the Oculus Rift in some of their stores and discuss a story out of Australia involving guns being stored in a pinball machine. In the interview section, we talk to Erich Stinson about the Southern Fried Gameroom Expo which took place June 20-22 in Atlanta, GA. Please feel free to leave any comments, questions or suggestions below. As always, you can contact us when we are off the air by email at questions@arcaderepairtips.com or by calling our voicemail line at (972) 8AR-TIPS or (972) 827-8477. Enjoy!
Show Links:
- What’s My Monitor by Bob Roberts – http://www.therealbobroberts.net/monitor.html
- Donor TVs for Arcade Monitor Picture Tubes – http://junknet.net/donor-tvs
- Video Converter Board CGA/EGA/YUV to VGA – http://www.hollandcomputers.com/store/pc/Arcade-Game-RGB-CGA-EGA-YUV-to-VGA-Arcade-HD-Converter-PCB-GBS-8220-Converts-older-arcade-systems-to-LCD-monitors-2917p6337.htm?idaffiliate=38
- Monitor Tech Information from 8liners.com – https://web.archive.org/web/20080705201439/http://www.8liners.com/datatech/monitor.html
- Flippers.com (John) – http://www.flippers.com/
- Oculus Rift coming to Chuck E. Cheese’s (GameSpot) – http://www.gamespot.com/articles/oculus-rift-coming-to-chuck-e-cheese-s/1100-6419752/
- Guns, pipe bomb, crossbow, found inside pinball machine at Conder home (ABC) – http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-07/pipe-bomb-shotguns-uncovered-by-police-at-home-in-conder/5576714
- Southern Fried Gameroom Expo 2014 – http://www.southernfriedgameroomexpo.com/
- Gameroom Junkies Podcast (Preston & Patrick) – http://www.gameroomjunkies.com/
- Brokentoken Classic Arcade & Pinball Podcast (Brent & Whitney) – http://www.brokentoken.com/
- Arcade Legends Panel At The Southern Fried Gameroom Expo – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWlTLuFHji8
- Barry Oursler – The Internet Pinball Machine Database – http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?searchtype=advanced&ppl=Barry%20Oursler
- The King Of Arcades Movie – http://www.thekingofarcades.com/
- VIP Party Video (Nate from the Coast2Coast Pinball Podcast) – https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=736394299757587&fref=nf
- Southern Fried Gameroom Expo Flickr Page (Juan) – https://www.flickr.com/photos/117416433@N05/sets/72157644912631699/
- American Amusement Auctions (David & Shawn) – http://www.americanamusementauctions.com/
- Pinball Expo 2014 – http://www.pinballexpo.net/
- Houston Area Arcade Group (HAAG) Expo – http://www.www.arcadecenter.com/
Special thanks goes to David Vaughan for composing all of the great chiptunes music that we use in our content and Nathan Knight for providing our excellent voiceovers. Please check out their websites for information on the services they provide.
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