Asteroids Deluxe - Atari 1980

Asteroids Deluxe by Atari 1980. This is game #11 in my collection. I picked this up in Puyallup on 2/14/2010. The game is serial number 14,950 and has about 12,000 plays on the coin counter (depending on which one you're reading, there are two). When I picked the game up, it looked to be in really good shape. The only thing that stuck out was the front edges of the cabinet about midpoint on the monitor has dents on both sides that looked to have been partially repaired at some point. That shouldn't take too much to bondo, sand, and paint to look like new again. The G05-802 monitor has a slight 'breathing' issue, possibly cold solder joints on the header pins, but I'll do a full rebuild of the monitor, as well as the AR board and power supply.

SEE ALSO MY G05-802 PAGE.

Here's the front view once I got it home in the garage.

Serial plate shows #14950.

This is what the inside of the cabinet looks like.

And the dual coin cointers. One at 10,698 and the other at 12,118.

I took apart the machine to clean the mirror and inside of cabinet. Here is the blue film that is part of the monitor bezel. It was falling apart at the seams and not sitting flat in the cab, so I reinforced the seams with clear packing tape.

Repair Log:

2/20/2010

Rebuilt the power supply by replacing the 'Big Blue' filter cap, replaced bridge rectifier, replaced fuse block and all fuses. Cleaned entire unit and reinstalled. This fixed the slow warmup problem and the game now consistently starts up right away.

2/21/2010

Rebuilt the audio/regulator (AR-rev3) board which included replacing all the capacitors and transistors. Also replaced 2 diodes that were burnt and repaired a couple of burnt traces on the AR pcb.

2/22/2010

Installed a Bob Roberts cap kit on the G05-802 monitor including replaced the 4 chassis mount transistors.

When I reinstalled the monitor and fired it up, the screen did not come up. I double checked all my work and everything looks fine. No burning smell or visible signs of component failure. Both of the 5 amp slow blow fuses were blown (F100, F101). I replaced them and fired it up again and F101 blew, but the screen did come up and looked fine. Still a little bit of 'breathing' on the monitor and the F101 circuit has a short which blew the fuse. I suspect the bridge rectifier and/or the HV diode need replacing. Other than that, the monitor looked really crisp and clear. See my G05 page for more details on the monitor.

2/26/2010

I replaced the bridge rectifier on the deflection PCB (DB100), replaced D100 rectifier diode and replaced all fuses. Game works fine now and does not blow fuses.

2/27/2010

There was still some distortion on the monitor that changed depending on where the objects were. They got longer in the center of the screen and narrower when closer to the top and bottom. Adjusted the linearity pots on the pcb and it took the distortion right out.

3/20/2010

I turned the game on today and got beep error codes with no image on the screen. Looked up the error code in the manual and it states M3 ram error. M3 is part #90-7033 Random-Access-Memory according to the manual. Cross reference shows NTE#2114 as a suitable replacement. The board takes 6 of them, so I may replace all 6 for preventive maintenance.

4/8/2010

Replaced all 6 pots on the G05-802 monitor deflection board. Cleaned HV diode. Socketed and replaced the 2114 ram chip at M3. Games now works great and picture linearity is much better after changing out the pots.

Late 2010

New cabinet and monitor, all other parts (power supply, a/r board, game pcb) were swapped into the new cabinet. The monitor is now a 19V2000 and looks great but has blooming after a warm up period (10-20 minutes).

2/26/2011

Installed new HV diode and it fixed the blooming problem.

8/25/2011

Replaced the 2 sizing pots on the 19V2000 monitor.

8/12/2013

Sounds started going out. The fire sound was garbled at times and the asteroids started bunching up, even after being fired on. Replaced -15V regulator and POKEY. Problem fixed.