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Good old Gorf, I don't think anyone can argue the fact that Gorf is a classic. This was one of my favorite game's because it had a combination of several popular games in one and not only great sound effects but the robot voice taunting you, made you want to beat him. I found this game in the Tidewater Trading Post which is a weekly paper where you can advertise anything for sale for free and only pay a fee if and when the item sells. The add was for a Gorf Video Game in great condition for $250.00. I called the guy and asked what condition it was in, he said Mint. I thought to my self yea right, I have heard this before. He had it for 3 years and needed to get rid of it to remodel his game room, he also had a footsball table and that was it. One note that almost made me sick, he said he had a Pac-man cocktail that blew up and he gave it to someone who use to work with him and this guy was gonna turn it into a coffee Table. :-O well getting back to the Gorf, When I saw it I thought Dam almost Mint, if there is such a thing for a 20 year old game. All original, few small scratches on the side art but not bad, cabinet perfect, nothing ever touched up or painted, coin door looked like it was just installed. Marquee and control panel perfect with little wear. The only problem it had was it needed a monitor cap kit, picture is a little out of square and a little wrap over on the left side. The game seemed to play fine. I brought it home took off the back to make sure nothing had come loose and then fired it up. It worked the same as it did when I first saw it. I played it for at least one hour and let it run another 3 to see if any problems developed and everything was fine. The next day I tuned it back on and there were yellow horizontal lines running across the screen about 1/2 inch apart from top to bottom. The game would coin up and start but your ship will blow up one after the other and game over.  After it has been on for 15 or 20 minutes the lines go away and the game plays fine. I still think I got a good deal but there seems to be something about transporting these old games. Always work till you get them home :-)    

I once again turned to the News Group for help and most all agreed it was a bad Ram board. These are the 2 smaller boards in the left side of the card cage. I swapped the two boards and my problem changed but was still there. I did notice that if I twisted the one board the problem would go away. I looked the board over for bad solder joints and soldered many bad spots but still did not find the right one. I finally got a spare board set off Ebay and swapped the bad board and it works fine. I also installed a cap kit in the monitor and it too looks great. Truly a great game and another fine addition to my collection.
The only thing left to do is restore the missing coin shoots and rewire the coin door as someone with a bright idea striped the coin door of all its mechanics and wired in a push button for free play. I hate it when they butcher up a game like that but at least the button is hidden under the lighted panel under the control panel. Better than a hole in the near perfect control panel :-)

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