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Grandstand Pocket & Handheld Games

I had a puck monster which was defo the best pac-man copy, Kevin Keegan soccer and a load of the ninty dual screen G&W games - still got a few of them in the loft including Nintendo Pinball!

the downside of these games for me is that they haven't aged well; they may have got us through the 80's but now they are all terrible. although Nintendo's release of SMB on game and watch is epic.
 

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Neil McRae said:
I had a puck monster which was defo the best pac-man copy, Kevin Keegan soccer and a load of the ninty dual screen G&W games - still got a few of them in the loft including Nintendo Pinball!

the downside of these games for me is that they haven't aged well; they may have got us through the 80's but now they are all terrible. although Nintendo's release of SMB on game and watch is epic.
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Not sure i agree that they are all terrible now. Astro Blaster (Scramble) by tomy still stands up pretty well i think and the multi colour VFD displays are still pretty cool in my eyes.
 
Yeah maybe terrible too strong a word but not great.

They are all cool for sure though and value wise are going thru the roof!


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Smooth stick smooth stick ????? Only posh kids had smooth sticks. The rest of us used any damn stick we could find.
 
stoptap said:
Yeah it is. I’ve just been looking on the interweb. There is a guy who fixed one recently on YouTube. I also found out that there is a component in it that nobody seems to be able to identify.
I might get mine out of the loft and have a looksee.
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I’m trying to remember what was up with the ones I fixed a few years back. Can’t remember. I think as long as the vacuum display is ok still you should be able to fix it. I need to get another Astro blaster I think. End of level baddies on an 80s lcd!
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Success !

I did some more digging and managed to find out what the mystery component is. When these games fail it is usually the D882 transistor at S02. I changed this on mine and it still didn’t work. So after the probing and digging I found out that the mystery component at S06 is in fact a 1N5382B 140v zener diode. I replaced it and bingo !

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stoptap said:
Success !

I did some more digging and managed to find out what the mystery component is. When these games fail it is usually the D882 transistor at S02. I changed this on mine and it still didn’t work. So after the probing and digging I found out that the mystery component at S06 is in fact a 1N5382B 140v zener diode. I replaced it and bingo !

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Nice one, the screens on these are great
 
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