[rescue] Arcade Machines

[Mike Hebel]

Rob Harhen wrote:

> I 'rescued' an atari systems I cabnet from the town dump a while back, has
> the game 'Road Blasters'.  With the lack of keys to open the thing, the
> universal key (slide hammer) came out. After getting the thing open,
> powersupply is dead, fortunatly it just needed a 5V supply so an old AT
> power supply worked great.  Only thing left broken is the gas pedal.. 
> kinda
> important as the gas pedal is the 'start' button for the game, so 
> currently
> its a 326 lb paper weight in the basement.

Seems to me that that's probably just a potentiometer of some sort. You 
can probably find some note on the web about repairing it.

Mike Hebel