The story behind this one is great. I've been in contact with one of our local vendors for a little while now and have been working on helping him clear out his old games. He mentioned that this recreation center was selling a non-working Joust for $100. I drove directly over to find exactly that, a non-working Joust. I offered the guy $100 but he felt guilty because of it not working, all he'd take was $50. I even tried the "I only have $20's, if you don't have a $10, don't worry about it" and that didn't work. I got a buddies truck and the game was at my house about 2 hours after I found out it was for sale. I opened up the game, made sure all the harnesses were making good contact, and bam! It worked!!! Well, for the most part, there still is some crappy connections that make the game freak a little, but I ordered replacements from Bob Roberts so it'll be good as new. UPDATE: 08-22-1999 Finally found the problem that was causing RAM errors and distorted screen. The +5V of the power supply was not able to supply enough voltage. Without load and with most of the boards connected, +5V was supplied, but when every board was connected, it'd drop to +3.8V. Installed a cap-kit provided by Bob Roberts and also installed his William's power supply connector repair kit. Believe it or not, these fixes led to a brighter screen, kinda weird. UPDATE: 11-19-1999 Got my new high score today... 713,500!!! For some reason, the Shadow Lord's are starting to finally get a little easier. That, and I found a strategy that works pretty darn good. It basically involves staying on the bottom level and slowly picking them off. But if I die on a board, then I found it easiest to try to stay all the way at the top of the screen. I'll get some pictures here soon. UPDATE: 01-03-2000 Finally order my replacement overlay from Steven Gregory. He's got some really nice replacement parts, some new, some old, some NOS. I'll update the page with pictures after I apply it... I can't wait. :o) UPDATE: 07-31-2009 We sold this game 5 or 6 years ago and now the wifey and kiddos would like to have one again... if you have a cheap one for sale near the Binghamton, NY area, shoot me an email. Thanks. UPDATE: 05-09-2011 Ended up trading our Sinistar for a Joust with a local wacko named Casey. He's a pretty good egg and even owns a classic video game shop down in Binghamton. He basically strong-armed me into the trade since he knew how much I liked Joust. (just kidding Casey... you really aren't that good an egg...) I'll update this page with picture of our 2nd Joust soon... REPAIRS TO DATE: (AS OF: 05-09-2011) replaced multiple connectors. modified board to accept a button battery. (Bob Roberts) replaced all RAMs. adjusted power supply for correct +5V. installed *NEW* monitor that didn't work with Franken-Pac. installed cap-kit to power supply. replaced connectors associated with power supply. ordered replacement overlay from Steven Gregory. TO BE DONE: not sure. Site maintained by: Jeff Page Created: 08-??-1999 Last update: 05-09-2011