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Zoodles95
Tomy Blip
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Location: Guelph, ON Canada
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 Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 12:33 pm Post subject: Q-Bert... What is the deal? Are they all tempermental? |
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So... I have two Qberts. One does work but the batteries have to be a certain way. In fact I swear that the temperature, humidity, and position of the moon have something to do with this. I jest of course but I find it weird that I can fire up any of my Coleco handhelds and they all just... Well, they work.
Is there a trick to how you put the batteries in these old games?
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blanka
Atari Cosmos
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Location: Eindhoven, the Netherlands
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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| The Q*berts are having very tight battery compartments. I have 2: one to be just pretty, the other is a heavily played game with a very ugly added adapter socket I got for a few bucks. For playing off course! The people at Coleco/Parker must have been very skimpy. All other VFD games come with power sockets. |
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Zoodles95
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Location: Guelph, ON Canada
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 8:58 am Post subject: |
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| blanka wrote: | | The Q*berts are having very tight battery compartments. I have 2: one to be just pretty, the other is a heavily played game with a very ugly added adapter socket I got for a few bucks. For playing off course! The people at Coleco/Parker must have been very skimpy. All other VFD games come with power sockets. |
Thanks for the response.
At least the Colecos are easy to put batteries into and also have the perma power solution (what a profit maker for Coleco on that one).
Is there a way to gently modify the Qbert to make it easier to put batteries in it? Both of mine are so tricky to keep running. Move them a little bit or if the table you are playing on gets bumped and... Well... There goes the game you were playing...  |
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blanka
Atari Cosmos
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Location: Eindhoven, the Netherlands
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 9:50 am Post subject: |
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| Just twist a wire on the contacts, and hook ik up to an adapter. |
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