Live Show – Episode 74 – The Police (Trainer) Ghosted On Me

This Live Show episode was broadcast live on Thursday, April 6, 2023. For more information on the show, please visit our YouTube page at http://youtube.arcaderepairtips.com/. All of our past episodes can be found there as well as the upcoming schedule for our future episodes. On this episode, Tim and Jonathan discussed the following topics…

• Question from Philip about his Arcade1Up Ms. Pac-Man Countercade that has joystick direction issues when a board with Ms. Pac-Man, Galaga, and Galaxian is installed in it.
• Question from Angelo who has a CART Fury Racing cabinet where the LED board behind the steering wheel is not working.
• Question from Marty who is trying to link his Cruis’n Exotica cabinets but several of the controls stopped working when dip switch 1 was switched off and back on.
  Cruis’n Exotica Manual (KLOV) –
• Question from Shawn who has a Police Trainer with a monitor that works fine until the gun trigger is pulled at which point the the picture goes “ghosted” white.
• Question from Greg (therexershow) who is building a Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga Class of 81 cabinet and wonders what type of joystick was originally installed in it from the factory.
  Midway Joystick Adapter (MikesArcade) – https://www.mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/store.pl?sku=MJOYA
  Red Ball 4-Way Joystick (Short) (MikesArcade) – https://www.mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/store.pl?sku=JOYRBMS4WH
  Namco 20 Year Reunion Joystick (Twisted Quarter) – https://bit.ly/tq-mspac-galaga-joystick
• Question from John who wonders if you can change the price on an arcade game from 25 cents.
• Question from TheLuisMan who wants to know if Super Pac-Man is included on the Game Elf 412-in-1 board.
• Question from Matt who is wiring up a kick harness and is trying to figure out if he needs to use the ground wires on the kick harness or if the one’s on the main harness will work as well.
• Tim’s Travels: Silverball Retro Arcade in Asbury Park, NJ – https://www.silverballmuseum.com/asbury-park/
• Do You Tip Game Techs? (Dave & Busters Reddit Page) – https://www.reddit.com/r/DaveAndBusters/comments/11au0oe/tipping_game_techs/
• Do Patrons Respect Arcade Games? (Dave & Busters Reddit Page) – https://www.reddit.com/r/DaveAndBusters/comments/11pv3zt/sad_how_db_has_to_tie_up_the_air_hockey_hitters/
• How The Last of Us re-created a 2003 arcade with the help of true enthusiasts (Ars Technica) – https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/03/how-the-last-of-us-recreated-a-2003-arcade-with-the-help-of-true-enthusiasts/
• Defender Arcade Rebuilt To Settle A Childhood Memory (Hackaday) – https://hackaday.com/2023/03/03/defender-arcade-rebuilt-to-settle-a-childhood-memory/
• Chuck E. Cheese Still Uses Floppy Disks to Control Its Nightmare Machines (Gizmodo) – https://gizmodo.com/chuck-e-cheese-floppy-disk-pizza-arcade-1850198498
• MORE New Pinball Releases – Pulp Fiction (Play Mechanix / Chicago Gaming Company) and Final Resistance (Multimorphic P3 Platform)
  Pulp Fiction (Play Mechanix / Chicago Gaming Company) Trailer – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzTXdlY14Lw
  Final Resistance (Multimorphic P3 Platform) Trailer – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPR3Mbqf-1g
• Movie Releases: Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game (On-Demand) and Tetris (Apple TV+)
  Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game (Amazon) – https://amzn.to/3JYj25N
  Tetris (Apple TV+) – https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/tetris/umc.cmc.4evmgcam356pzgxs2l7a18d7b

After Show Links:

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  Tim’s Webull Referral Link – https://act.webull.com/n/VDE77CPBbbmj/bkz/
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Live Show – Episode 74 – The Police (Trainer) Ghosted On Me

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