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Anyone else remember this ? (Surely im not the only one)

OK thats the starter for 10....

Has anyone managed to find a emulator that will play this WITH SOUND !

Last time I tried it on Mame it played it ok - but minus sound. Loses all the effect without sound

Never really bothered with this in the arcade - though I do remember it. (And im pretty fond of pins these days - Infact I used to have a Mr & Ms Pac Man pintable.. wish I still had it )

Interesting stuff.

I did notice a PSP kit for sale on there too - same person also has one of those IIRC

Seems like you need one of these
https://www.funstockretro.co.uk/atari-tshirt-black-asteroids

(Gets coat as he realises its already finished and thus unlikely to get pulled )

Its most likely just a dry joint on the socket that the PSU plug goes into.

Should be a cheap and easy fix for anyone that can solder !

I was never that good at either version of Asteroids. I recall seeming people in the arcade on the original version - leaving that one rock and waiting for the spaceships. This tactic never ended well for me

On a similar note I recall back in the day when the local arcades were awash with Defender machines all the local arcades had the name of the same game on them. BOF. All 8 all time high scores we BOF on all the machines with a score of 999975

Since the score clocked past this point getting that score was somewhat of a black art I believe - because its really tricky to die in Defender without scoring - a bullet killing you scores 25 pts.

I actually came across the guy once - playing a Stargate.

I digress.. having read that article I am now compelled to do 2 things.
1. Fire up my robotron machine over the weekend - which ive not done for some time. Hope the thing still works.
2. Remove the "real" boards and look into refurbishing them.

I bought the boards many years ago and got a Joust cabinet to put them in. The I sanded the sides down to remove Joust decals with the intention of putting Robotron ones on there. Perhaps I might revisit that option

Be surprised if it doesnt get pulled from EB. Your generally not allowed to sell stuff like this because you dont actually own it as such.
(I do know someone with a Wii Dev Kit  - suspect Ninty be all over that if it popped up on flea bay )

Oooo - Arcade stick. I forgot about that. Some time ago I built an arcade stick for my 360.
Took a wired controller and connected real joystick and buttons and put it in a big box. (Will have to see if I still have it - might be in the loft).
It was pretty huge like - but it worked. IIRC I did it when Scramble came out on Xbox Live because it was a pita to play on a 360 controller - especially the penultimate stage !

Wish it could have been just a shade further north.. Newcastle maybe

I bought a lynx just to play robotron. Probably still got it somewhere...

This appears to tick a lot of boxes.. except the crucial one.. 2 years before its out (and this presupposes its not delayed - id love to think that this is why its 2 years away but my glass is generally 1/2 empty not 1/2 full )

Im game

Looks great. Must feel like walking through a time portal