Count Down

02/20/07

Home
Up
Arcade Games
Jukebox
Dart Game
Slot Machine
Misc Photos
RC Stuff
Feedback

 

Gottlieb Count Down page!

Purchased locally in March 2004.  It was non-working and in rough cosmetic shape.  The good thing is that it came with a spare populated playfield, a spare MPU, spare driverboard, and spare power supply, none of which worked however.  I was able to rebuild a good PS with all the parts. 

The edge connectors needed new pins, and the MPUs didn't work.  It took me about 40 hours of troubleshooting with a DMM, logic probe, and oscilloscope to get one of the MPUs running.  A lot of this time was spent soldering and de-soldering those darn spider-chips.  After I got it running I zapped (with 12 Volts) the displays to make them bright again and it worked great.  I swapped the playfields because the spare one was much nicer.

I shopped it, and tried the magic eraser on the playfield since it was in sad shape with hundreds of swirl marks.  Well the results were amazing.  Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures so the only pic I have is my test on the spare playfield (the last 3 pics down below).  I tried with water and alcohol and water is the way to go.  Alcohol pulls the paint off.

I bought the PI-1 MPU for it and it was amazing!  The new ruleset and high score table just makes the game so much better.. 

I sold the machine at the Allentown convention 2004.

 

Click on thumbnails for high res (1600 X 1200) pictures:

Copy of DSCF1640.JPG (286752 bytes)Copy of DSCF1642.JPG (274469 bytes)Copy of DSCF1643.JPG (277195 bytes)

 

face="Arial, Arial, Helvetica">