Centipede is working

I received a working AR-II board from a KLOV member this week and had a chance to install it in my Centipede. I fired it up and it had some horizontal sync issues. After about 15 minutes of fine tuning it, Centipede now works! I am a bit concerned about the h-sync not staying as I had to re-adjust it about 2 hours later and it also has lost the color red. I keep troubleshooting it, but I'm guessing the monitor is due for a cap kit...

Traded the Red Tent

With regrets, I traded my Nintendo red tent. I kept hearing from one person in particular that it just took up too much space in the game room. So, instead of selling it outright, I traded it for an upright Nintendo vs. System cabinet. The upright is in nice shape with Excitebike installed. It's also much smaller than any of my other games, so it's a win-win for wifey and I. I'll dig around a bit and see what other chips I can buy to swap onto the board for more games. Here are some quick pics:

Finished my Time Pilot!

I got my new Time Pilot pcb in the mail that I bought from a forum member with his High Score Save Kit installed. I played a few games with the Gyruss control panel that I bought, since it had the correct "Monroe" joystick that Centuri games use. The Monroe stick felt a little "wonky" and wouldn't center correctly. I planned to take it apart and clean it, re-assemble it and re-install it but I became too impatient. I spent some time this past weekend installing the control panel overlay on my cleaned up Time Pilot control panel. It is a bootleg cpo, but I thought it was pretty cool looking, so I gave it a shot. Well, installation went smoothly and I just couldn't wait anymore. I had a yellow ball top Wico joystick handy, so I installed it. WOW- does it look cool! I still plan to clean up the Monroe stick, but this yellow Wico together with the color scheme of the cpo are really growing on me! Now it's a waiting game until the side and kickplate art are reproduced.