SO......I got an e-mail last sunday night from a very good friend in the hobby well......he's a pinball guy really (not on this forum) but we know each other for quite some years now.
He says he bought a "lot" of pinballs and took some "video's" (as they call them
) along the way. Three of them were generic cabs with various PCBs but one of them was an Asteroids. He sent two pictures and asked if I'd might know someone who would be interested, and if there still was some value for a machine like this.
He said right away the rectifier on the power "brick" was dead and that there was only a vertical, somewhat moving line on the screen.
From the pics, I immediately saw that it was an Italian Asteroids, a machine which I had very recently played near Milano Italy
SO yeah, I knew someone interested: ME !
What a chance to do a very quick by-pass on this mega-project that I still had waiting as project nr.X....
So we agreed on a price that we were both happy with and that I'd pick it up on tuesday afternoon.
Was working in Moerdijk, which was already a bit in the direction of Belgium from my home, so I decided to drive up directly from work (removed a bunch of work stuff from the car first...didn't need it that day anyway....)
Was working at a huge tyre trading company where they have more tires than anyone can imagine, and this is just one of their many large buildings around there...it makes you wonder where they all go....but then again millions of cars only in our little country...
The inside of the hall you see....that single building has 8 halls like that...it's crazy...
