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Title: Hi from PA / NJ, young enthusiast with new old machine Post by: Otaku on September 29, 2014, 08:04:27 am Hey guys! I'm from Pennsylvania and I frequently travel to New Jersey where I care for a family member and visit other family over there. I'm 16 and I have been dreaming about arcade / pinball machines for years now, the hobby recently sparked up again and I started searching through Craigslist and I pretty much struck a miracle, at least in my eyes. I picked up a Taito Continential Circuit (also mis-translated as "Circus", in some cases) upright machine without a monitor for $40. No monitor, but the glass is there and in good condition, along with the beautiful glass up on top. Nearly perfect sideart, cabinet could use some work but other than it's in pretty good condition, there's a piece of wood on the bottom which seems to have been a repair done as force around the area where the gas pedal is ended up cracking it a bit, since it sticks out and possible it was un-even. Very solid cabinet. He said it should be about a 19" screen, I'm figuring I'll look around Craigslist or something of the sort for a CRT television in here. Bringing it in to a repair shop would probably be pricey so let's hope I don't get shocked by the lovely CRT goodness. :D I'll definitely ask for some help around here, particularly now. Here's what the insides look like, if you have any idea where I should start once I get the monitor (besides discharging), let me know. I'm hoping the hook-ups for the monitor are still in there as it seems like it should be, didn't bother asking whatever happened to the original (or recent) monitor but I assume it was used for another machine or something of that sort, maybe it was just junked and never bothered to be replaced.
Videos (and other things) of these machines are like impossible to find on the internet, I just searched extremely hard and I managed to find two, one of just gameplay on the screen from a tripod, or something, maybe it was just a television, I'm not sure. This is under both names, as well, rough to find. Here's a video and some pictures, the part where I explained the shirt and rag on it to cover it probably seemed kind of comical, but I ended up covering it with a large table cloth before I left back home to PA for the weekdays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVMuavlr85A Insides: http://i.imgur.com/gnTETTe.jpg http://i.imgur.com/x8tAK05.jpg (The picture makes it look like it is attached to the board, it is not, and the black "wire-looking" thing behind it is a dark shadow) http://i.imgur.com/uWhzSJl.jpg I think that's another empty clip on the bottom now that I look at it http://i.imgur.com/4f1zMq5.jpg Took this for the hell of it, but another un-used clip, maybe? Also those yellow wires, they appear snipped from the picture but AFAIK they're not. I'll see the machine again on Friday afternoon. :) |