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Refurb weekend: Gremlin Blasto arcade board
Because my sisters were taking rollerskating lessons and my own rink skills mostly consisted of pratfalling, my mother would occasionally ...
At the end of this article, we'll have it fully playable and wired up to a standard ATX power supply, a composite monitor and off-the-shelf Atari joysticks, and because this board was used for other related games from that era, the process should work with only minor changes on other contemporary Gremlin arcade classics like Blockade, Hustle and Comotion [sic]. Initially Fogleman, officially president, produced more utilitarian industrial and nautical equipment similar to what he built previously, even winning a contract to build French fry cooker timers for nearby San Diego company Jack in the Box. Built using a simple cabinet and a consumer TV set, the prototype was deployed to an arcade at what I think was still the Family Fun Center back then (it later became a Boomers!, and is now closed), at Clairemont Mesa Blvd and Interstate 805, and made enough money in its first night to convince Fogleman it should go into production as soon as possible.
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