Tag: Defender

These posts have to do with my partial restoration of a 80’s Defender cocktail table.

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Houston we have a problem

Ok. First snag. These games come with four boards: CPU (left), ROM (right), Sound, and Hook-Up. The CPU board that came with my game is actually for Stargate, Joust or Robotron. The CPU for the …

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Opening it up

I’ve opened it and have checked out the insides, to see just what I’ve gotten myself into. This is the coin mechanism. I have no idea what all this mess does. I’ll deal with it …

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Meet the Defender

This is my Defender Cocktail table the way I got it. It’s not in bad shape, but it could be cleaned quite a bit and it’s not running. I think it was a deal at …