ascii.textfiles.com— This is over three gigabytes of manuals, schematics, and general information about arcade machines, scanned in by an anonymous army of dedicated people, and going back up to 30 years.
Aug 14, 2007View in Crawl 4
My brother & I used to "string" the hell out of a Robotron game near our house. Hours of good fun on a single quarter. Only difference is that we used Super Glue instead of tape.
For someone who grew up in the late 70s and early 80s when the Coin-operated Arcade Games really were brand new for everyone, this "library" of manuals gives a good glimpse of what went into develop and maintain these amazing machines. I thought I've seen everything Atari, but now there's a whole piece of history that I've never seen before. Long live Missle Command on the Atari Coin-Operated Arcade machine, the 2600, the 5200, and the Atari 8-bit computers! Have you played Atari today?
I used this resource a few years back when I bought an old Namco "Warp Warp" PCB board, it's a terrific site if you're at all interested in the hardware end of gaming. (I wasn't building a cabinet, just legalizing it for MAME use --I played it a lot as a kid, and Namco's museum collection releases have unjustly overlooked this Dig Dug forerunner. By which I mean, the player character dies and wilts in the same way as Dig Dug does -- this is a two-screen maze shooter.)
badwithcomputerAug 15, 2007
VERY cool...barely useful. But very very cool. Might wallpaper my room with some of these.
radianAug 15, 2007
My brother & I used to "string" the hell out of a Robotron game near our house. Hours of good fun on a single quarter. Only difference is that we used Super Glue instead of tape.
mattfugitiveAug 15, 2007
Heh! Total 100% geek.. gotta love it!
tirofibanAug 15, 2007
For someone who grew up in the late 70s and early 80s when the Coin-operated Arcade Games really were brand new for everyone, this "library" of manuals gives a good glimpse of what went into develop and maintain these amazing machines. I thought I've seen everything Atari, but now there's a whole piece of history that I've never seen before. Long live Missle Command on the Atari Coin-Operated Arcade machine, the 2600, the 5200, and the Atari 8-bit computers! Have you played Atari today?
oduskaAug 15, 2007
Where's "House of the Dead" or "Area 51" ?Or am I just thinking of the wrong "arcade" games?
ddobsonAug 15, 2007
I used this resource a few years back when I bought an old Namco "Warp Warp" PCB board, it's a terrific site if you're at all interested in the hardware end of gaming. (I wasn't building a cabinet, just legalizing it for MAME use --I played it a lot as a kid, and Namco's museum collection releases have unjustly overlooked this Dig Dug forerunner. By which I mean, the player character dies and wilts in the same way as Dig Dug does -- this is a two-screen maze shooter.)
zombi3cakeAug 15, 2007
No Crazy Taxi? No thanks.
cosequinFeb 13, 2009
Isn't this a copy of whats on <a class="user" href="http://arcarc.xmission.com/">http://arcarc.xmission.com/</a> ?
cosequinFeb 13, 2009
Isn't this a copy of whats on <a class="user" href="http://arcarc.xmission.com/">http://arcarc.xmission.com/</a> ? I believe they are, imho, higher quality, judging from the larger file sizes