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Anonymous
August 23, 2005 11:10:17 AM

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I am looking for someone who does game repair in NJ, preferrably
central Jersey. I purchased a game online and it arrived in much worse
shape than described and doesn't work properly. I need to get a
written estimate for the repair from someone in the biz. Will pay for
the estimate, of course, and am looking to have the work done. Machine
is a Major Havoc tempest conversion.

TIA
Dan

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Anonymous
August 23, 2005 3:57:05 PM

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The seller misrepresented the condition of the machine. The Marquee
has a long tear in it that is covered by electrical tape. He said the
Marquee was in great condition. He said the CPO had no rips or tears,
but it does. I haven't mentioned the sellers name once in all my
posts, so I haven't dragged anyone's name thru the mud. He claimed it
to be 100% but never ran the self test. I did try reseating the chips
but that didn't make any difference. Lets face it, the guy over sold
the machine to get some extra $$ off the buyer and figured since it was
on ebay he wouldn't have to make good on what he did. If he had been
more honest none of this would be an issue.
Anonymous
August 23, 2005 5:48:45 PM

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To add to this, I too have had games go bad during shipping. One was a
Xmen Vs. Street Fighter that I sold to a guy on eBay. This game was
rock solid when I had it, I capped it, cleaned it, etc. etc. Took some
additional pictures of it working immediately before it got taken away
for shipment. When it showed up in Chicago, it had problems. Oh,
well, not my problem, since I clearly stated in the auction that I'm
not responsible for damage incurred during shipping... nevertheless, I
tried to help this guy out. I sent him many an email asking him to try
very simple diagnostic stuff (reseat the CPS cart, etc.), and to send
me a picture of the screen. Eventually he just stopped responding, but
I got the feeling he thought he'd been given a raw deal. *sigh*

My point there is that you can't assume the game was faulty when he
sold it to you. How is the seller's feedback? Any similar complaints?

Anyways, all that aside... "2 guys instead of 3" is not a fault, it's a
setting. You can change that in less time that it took you to add that
"problem" to your post. Did you happen to read any documentation on
the game at all? Not trying to be snide or elitist, but is this your
first game? Maybe you just didn't know that stuff like pricing,
difficulty, etc. is usually configured via DIP switch or sometimes in
test mode.

Also, where were you looking for the test switch for the game? On the
little panel on top of the coin box, next to the volume control? Well,
that would explain it. There isn't one there, even though there's a
spot for it. The test switch for a Tempest->MH conversion is actually
ON the coin door itself... and you need to flip the tilt switch to
advance through the tests. If you didn't know that, then perhaps you
were wrong about the seller never running it through the self test.
Hell, even if there is no actual switch there, he could still have
shorted the TEST line to GND. How many times have I done that?

prOk is correct about vector games having their own little
idiosyncracies and such... if you're looking for a game that's not
going to break, then you're in the wrong hobby, and you definitely
shouldn't own an XY or a laser game. Realistically, you should never
buy any game with the expectation that it will just work forever. I
don't think I've owned a single game yet that hasn't required work on
more than one occasion. I've owned games made as recently as the
mid-to-late 90's that still needed repairs. Take into consideration
that these are games that've been left on for 18+ hours a day over the
course of 10, 15, 20, or even 25 years.

I'm really not trying to piss all over you or anything, but levelling
accusations without really knowing how these things work is a good way
to get yourself labelled a twitchy buyer and shunned. Seen it happen
before.

Can somebody link me to the auction? I'd be interested to see the
description and whatnot.

Later,
Rob
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Anonymous
August 23, 2005 6:36:35 PM

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prOk wrote:


Is this the $500 Major Havoc in New York state that was on Ebay a few
weeks ago? I was second high bidder on that one and was willing to go
higher on it but the seller couldn't get me the photos that I was
asking for in time.

>From the limited description that I read, it sounds like a minor repair
- I'd pull the boards, reseat everything, clean the connectors, etc.

Steve P.
August 23, 2005 7:18:19 PM

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Come on guy.. do you not know that everyone here looked up the auction and
many of us know who the seller is? You need to think a little more about
what your expectations are.. these games are 20+ years old and will have
bumps and bruises. The best you can hope for is condition better than the
average one out there, and if you've seen a number of MH's out there you'd
know what you got is above average by far. You also make quite an
assumption that the board issues were there before he shipped it which with
vector games it is quite possible the game was fine before shipping and got
rattled during and something went wrong. You can't hold the seller
responsible for stuff like that. When games get shipped things happen, i've
had it happen myself. Just be more realistic, look at what you paid for
it.. you got it cheap and in far better condition than typical examples of
the same machine. I'd have loved to pay 600 bucks for my Tempest
conversion. Stop making the seller look like a scumbag and be reasonable,
issues with vector games come with owning them.. if you're not prepared to
deal with those kinds of things then don't own those kinds of games. I
certainly hope you're not challenging payment or some other asinine thing.

/b

"danthepup" <danthepup@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1124823425.889839.24400@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> The seller misrepresented the condition of the machine. The Marquee
> has a long tear in it that is covered by electrical tape. He said the
> Marquee was in great condition. He said the CPO had no rips or tears,
> but it does. I haven't mentioned the sellers name once in all my
> posts, so I haven't dragged anyone's name thru the mud. He claimed it
> to be 100% but never ran the self test. I did try reseating the chips
> but that didn't make any difference. Lets face it, the guy over sold
> the machine to get some extra $$ off the buyer and figured since it was
> on ebay he wouldn't have to make good on what he did. If he had been
> more honest none of this would be an issue.
>
Anonymous
August 23, 2005 9:16:30 PM

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I had someone haul a pacman for me and it made the 200+ mile trip to my
back porch, I tested it and it worked just fine, then moved it 10 feet
inside my house and it stopped working. I love all my games, but
sometimes things like that just make me want to sell the whole damn
bunch of them. Unfortunately, all of that comes with this hobby. The
other side of that is that it has been enjoyable learning how to repair
these (and I've been enjoying the hell out of a couple of tempests
for a while now *sarcasm*).

You obviously think you got shafted on this, but the nature of the
auction is that it sells for what the highest bidder thinks it is
worth. Not sure what your correspondence was with the seller, but some
of the responsibility is on the buyer too. I've asked for more pics
and more info on things that aren't clear in the auction, especially
since my definition of "good" is usually different from what I have
seen in lots of cases. So whether the seller "...over sold the
machine to get some extra $$" or had a different standard for what is
good, or if your expectations were too high, at this point it's a
done deal.

My opinion is that I probably would be disappointed with the game not
working, but since the monitor arrived working, and I knew I could send
the boards to get repaired pretty cheap (electronforge maybe?) I would
be fine with that and call it a day. In all the games I've bought and
sold, some deals I've come out ahead, and some behind, but overall in
a pretty good position. You got a cool game at a good price, I'd
invite some collector friends over for beer, games, and MH trouble
shooting session.
Anonymous
August 23, 2005 11:10:57 PM

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Nah, I am not challanging payment. If the board got squirly from being
bounced around in shipping that is beyond the sellers control and I
don't have an issue with that. Saying that the CPO has no rips or
tears when its has chips and breaks and pieces missing is another
issue. If the marquee has a big tear thats been covered with
electrical tape then you don't go out of your way to say that its in
nice condition. I'd have loved to pay $600 to but I paid more. I saw
the $500 one but I went for this one because of the supposedly nicer
condition. I know what it costs to replace the cpo and marquee and I
didn't want to have to. If the seller was willing to offer a few bucks
to make it all good then I would go and buy a replacement CPO and
Marquee and all would be right with the world. I am not saying the
seller is a bad guy cause we talked and he isn't, we just disagree.
But he got exactly what he expected from me and I feel I didn't get
what was described.
Anonymous
August 25, 2005 6:40:37 PM

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Dan

Are you close to 08691? I can probably repair it lets talk.

Kevin
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