Well, the repairs that Area Amusement did to my Joust system have lasted just about 2 months. Once again, the power supply appears to not be properly powering the game boards. Marquee, coin doors, and monitor are all powered up properly, but the rom board appears to be getting no power because the numeric...

Scanning the San Diego Craigslist ads was not providing too many opportunities for picking up additional systems. I expanded the search to include the Palm Springs area (where we are looking for a new “Escape” vacation rental to replace the one we sold in Tahoe) as well as the Orange County and...

Purchased my first new system in about ten years: Sega Zaxxon. I had been monitoring Craigslist here in the San Diego area for about two months and had seen quite a few games on my want list come up, but all were significantly over my price range. $2,000 & $2,500 for a Star Wars, both of which appeared...

Tempest’s monitor no longer displays an image. This occurred at one point, but opening the unit and making sure all connectors were properly seated appeared to solve it. That is no longer the case.

Joust had been experiencing intermitten re-boot issues while playing the game. This was most likely due to a faltering power supply. Finally, the system gave out and no longer boots into game play at all. Marquee and coin slots light up, but no monitor or game play. Dropped off at Area Amusements in San...