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We have a nice, working Atari Road Blasters here. The monitor has been rebuilt and it has a nice, vibrant, colorful picture (it's a wells gardner k7000 19 inch). There seem to be some minor graphic anomalies like in the background when playing. Nothing constant or that affects game play. I'm not sure what is causing it. Seems to come and go a little bit on different screens. My guess is that it is due to a dirty connection on some chip on one fo the boards. If I had the time I would carefully re-seat all of the socketed chips, and maybe even carefully clean the legs on any dirty one. I'm 99% sure that would make the problem go away. I just don't have the time - and there are a LOT of socketed chips on an Atari System 1. Like maybe a hundred?
But anyway, you can play the game just fine like I said - it doesn't affect game play at all and might just go away with time. It's not been plugged in for like 20 years so that might have something to do with it. All the sound effects and controls and everything seems to work just fine.
The cabinet is nice and solid and doesn't seem to have any major flaws. Someone did paint it with some kind of textured paint, not sure why but I often don't understand other peoples' thinking. It looks ok, but I personally would have preferred the original Atari sideart. There are plenty of people out there selling sideart for this game though so you can fix that easily. In fact, I've seen some custom new art for this that is way better than even what atari used.
Anyway, this is a great, classic game from the mid 1980s. And one of the best things about this particular game / cabinet is that it is part of a series of games that are really easy to convert in and out of in the cabinet. The games include:
Marble Madness
Peter Pack Rat
Road Runner
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Road Blasters
I may have forgotten some. But anyway, the kits include a PCB that just plugs into the motherboard in the cabinet, a control panel (some are interchangeable) and a marquee translite.
Every game in the series is worth owning and super fun. If you buy this cabinet, it can be your first step in acquiring all 5 titles and using them only taking up one space in your arcade.
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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