I received yet another Dig Dug board in the mail on Friday. I plugged the board into the cabinet and Dig Dug has been resurrected. The game plays flawlessly and with all of the new components it will hopefully continue to play flawlessly for some time to come!
December 2008
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Hyper Sports Added To Collection
Well, after my recent woes with Dig Dug, it’s about time for some good news. I recently added a Hyper Sports board to my collection. For those of you not familiar with the game, it is essentially the sequel to Track & Field. The board is playable in the Track & Field cabinet, uses the [...]
In The Words Of Q*Bert, “@!#?@!”
I’ve spent a significant amount of time with Dig Dug over the last few days trying to get it working again. Monday night, at the suggestion of a fellow collector, I spent about an hour swapping out the old edge connector with a new one to insure that it was making good contact with [...]
Dig Dug Troubles Continue
Yesterday, I received a Dig Dug board in the mail. The board was supposed to be tested and working. I fixed the burnt resistor on the A/R II board and plugged the new board into the cabinet. The good news…nothing smoked. The bad news…poor Dig Dug still doesn’t work. Instead, I’m greeted by a 3 [...]
Dig Dug Is Dead
Unfortunately, one of the problems with owning classic arcade games is the fact that they will eventually quit working and need repair. Such is the case with poor Dig Dug. For the last few weeks, the game has been playing fine and then suddenly going to a scrambled screen of graphics. It became progressively worse [...]
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