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This is one of the best games ever made - Atari ASSAULT! My wife even enjoys playing this one, and that is saying something because she rarely plays ANY game. I remember whenever one of these (rarely) came up at auction back in the 90s at the USAA auctions in Indy and Columbus, Bill would always pause and say, "Guys, this is a game that Atari just did not make enough of." I agree wholeheartedly. Such a great, fun game with tons of depth, incredible 3d effects, enrapturing music, and beautiful visuals. You just can't understand it until you play it and experience it yourself. It is almost hypnotic playing this game. I think it should be tried for psychotherapy...it might prove to be useful.
Anyway, this one is in pretty good condition...at least for an assault. The cabinet is decent and solid without any water damage that I can detect. It also has no busted corners or other major cabinet flaws. The artwork on the cabinet is not perfect, but better than just about any other Assault I've ever seen or owned.
The marquee is in great shape and lights up with a new bulb (mini fluorescent). The coin slots light up with new LED bulbs. The game has new keyed-alike locks and working quarter coin mechs, as well as an original atari coin box.
The back door is not original, but does the job. The game has new grey T-molding and looks pretty darn nice. The control panel is in good condition physically. The actual controllers are not the original ones - they are metal instead of the plastic that Atari used. Not sure where these came from. But they are the same functionally as the originals and actually feel just as good if not better being cold, hard, steel.
The only flaws with this game are this: 1) there is a graphic glitch that appears to only affect the title screen. It shows the title with some weird glitches in a square pattern across the screen. But the actual game play has no glitches and seems to work fine. I operated this game in this condition for about 15 years with no issues whatsoever.
2) The other flaw is that someone needs to replace the rubber bands around the inside of the joystick assemblies in order for them to work. If you haven't watched the video or any of my other videos when selling Atari games with this style joystick, I'll try to briefly explain. They designed this joystick to where there is a big round cylinder on the bottom end of the joystick shaft that pivots around a circle and actuates microswitches on the outside of the circle to read the movement of the joystick. The problem is that Atari designed this shaft to be covered with a rubber band like a black flipper rubber and that rubber is what rubs against the microswitches to actuate them. Well, when the game gets about 30+ years old, that rubber starts to deteriorate and doesn't work like it was designed. It gets sticky and gooey and just doesn't work right. So you just need to pull off those old black rubbers and put on new ones (which I will include for free). The problem is that the joystick needs to be partially disassembled in order to change them. I just don't have the time to do it because I'm trying to get 75 games working, cleaned, and ready for this auction single-handedly. So I just can't take the time to do a busy-work task like this that I know whoever buys the game can do and might even enjoy.
So these joysticks need that rubber replaced and then it will work swimmingly.
Please note: Sometimes in the pictures above (and even sometimes in the video), the monitor looks like it isn't displaying correctly. However, that is only because the shutter speed is too fast on my phone camera. So it captures the picture while the monitor is drawing the screen and looks like half the screen is missing. Usually this is not as bad in videos, so watch the video included above and you should be able to see that the monitor has a great picture (although sometimes it looks funny even in videos). You are just going to have to trust me that, unless I specifically mention it above, the picture is good on this monitor in real life.
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