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Re: Ric-o-chet
« Reply #15 on: September 26, 2014, 02:31:35 PM »
Thanks Ully! If I had a way to rename this topic I'd add "of the century" for sure :)

even if you could, that title is already taken :D

of the Millennium?

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Re: Ric-o-chet
« Reply #16 on: September 26, 2014, 06:24:24 PM »
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Nice game I'm glad it's saved and going to a nice home.
The only thing I'm officially asking is to be the first one to have an option if you ever decide to sell it one day. Deal?

Sure thing,  Chris,  you rock.   :) Thanks for the report and additional pictures,  great.  I'll contact you soon about collecting it.

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Re: Ric-o-chet
« Reply #17 on: September 26, 2014, 06:40:27 PM »
Cool!
You know that there is a empty van that goes from my place to The Netherlands in October, don't you?
I already talked with Pieter about it.

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Re: Ric-o-chet
« Reply #18 on: September 26, 2014, 07:09:46 PM »
erik, i thought your gameroom was already full, but you've been buying quite a few games lately. please tell me that you have decided to sell me your BLACK WIDOW8)
all i need is ... PONG - and a select few others: TOUCH ME, DRAGON'S LAIR, JOUST, ROBOTRON, MR DO, SAN FRANCISCO RUSH THE ROCK!!!

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« Reply #19 on: September 26, 2014, 07:38:59 PM »
Cool!
You know that there is a empty van that goes from my place to The Netherlands in October, don't you?
I already talked with Pieter about it.

yep, it can hike along I guess, well packed, please.  :) :) :spaceace:

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Re: Ric-o-chet
« Reply #20 on: September 26, 2014, 07:41:34 PM »
erik, i thought your gameroom was already full, but you've been buying quite a few games lately. please tell me that you have decided to sell me your BLACK WIDOW8)

Nope.  ;D

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Re: Ric-o-chet
« Reply #21 on: October 16, 2014, 07:57:17 PM »
Allright, the game has been a guest at Chrischris' place for a weeks (thanks Chris) and yesterday it arrived in Hilversum (thanks Sound & Vision for collecting it in Belgium). I picked it up today and brought it home.  :)

And to start of, this particular machine is in superb condition, you really can't tell his age of almost 40 year!  :-*  It was dirty though,




so I first did a good clean. The following picture is only the dirt after one swipe on the woodden frontpanel!





It looks like brown nicotine dirt of years and years of smokers playing the game.

The game has been permitted  in 1978 in Charleroi:







Anyway, after the first round of cleaning, this is the result:


















Nice, isn't it?  ;D

Serial number?




And although I suppose that lots of smokers have been playing the game a long time ago, the only burn spots are on a small part of the T-molding left and right, which is so little that I will not replace it. It is part of the history of the game






An inside view of the cab, game board and back of the monitor.






Inside is a regular B&W TV from the seventies, with a woodgrain front panel!  :D :D




So, does the game work?  I don't know yet. I first want to clean the game from the outside and inside, then I will check the wiring, voltages and other electronical stuff. And then I will do an attempt to power the game with the board connected.

Expect more pictures of this strange looking (it has pinball legs!  ::) ) yet beautiful machine in the next days.



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Re: Ric-o-chet
« Reply #22 on: October 16, 2014, 08:03:39 PM »
That................looks horny !

What a brilliant bar-top ! ;);)

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Re: Ric-o-chet
« Reply #23 on: October 16, 2014, 08:41:22 PM »
Love it!
I'm looking forward for this resto and also glad I could help this game landing in the best hands possible!

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Re: Ric-o-chet
« Reply #24 on: October 16, 2014, 09:05:55 PM »
Something I noticed (and forgot): The instructions say first side to score 15 points wins. Is that the same with the original Pong ?

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Re: Ric-o-chet
« Reply #25 on: October 16, 2014, 11:09:11 PM »
Some company info: http://www.centuri.net/allied.htm

And this one might be the predecessor of ric-o-chet:

 http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=2448&image=1

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Re: Ric-o-chet
« Reply #26 on: October 17, 2014, 12:31:23 AM »
Wow, some pretty interesting titles I've never heard of by that company. So they were the predecessor of Centuri, never knew that. So you kinda' got two games from them now ;)

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Re: Ric-o-chet
« Reply #27 on: October 17, 2014, 02:17:25 AM »
Love it!!

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Re: Ric-o-chet
« Reply #28 on: October 17, 2014, 07:13:57 AM »
Yes, they have pretty cool cabs indeed!!
I still have a few Paddle Battle PCB from a retired operator so I guess they were common in Belgium.

Maybe their weak point was their marketing team: naming a cab "hesitation"... really, guys?
Well I might hesitate to pour my money in it too, then  ;)

.... and the baseline of "Robot" is "the robot plays against itself"...
I guess this means they don't need me so I won't disturb them by coining that machine  ;)

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Re: Ric-o-chet
« Reply #29 on: October 17, 2014, 07:20:18 AM »
Wow, it really looks great  :-*  :arrow:



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