Comments on: I bought an awesome Mad Planets for $50!

By: Jeff Rothe

Jeff Rothe — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:46:37 +0000

True James, always firing, it’s the equivalent of a button masher classic-style. I fired it up today, got a new high score of 263K. Pretty pumped, but would like to break the 300K barrier sooner than later.

By: James Russell

James Russell — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:19:33 +0000

There were only around 1500 of this machine produced. This is a nice find! ESPECIALLY in this condition! I am sure you could get the same effects from a TRON or similar joystick setup. Shit, to get just about any arcade machine working for 50 bucks is awesome! Good question on that joystick though. LOL You really have no reason to stop firing in Mad Planets anyway, so making it autofire was a good idea anyway. LOLOL

By: Mad Planets control panel rebuild | Tokens Only

Mad Planets control panel rebuild | Tokens Only — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:03:07 +0000

[...] forced my hand. I helped Jeff Rothe rebuild the beautiful example of the game he found. (see rotheblog) Then Bill Karkula asked to use my MP spinner and joystick to test out some MP board repair, so the [...]

By: Bill K

Bill K — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:52:33 +0000

Great score for the new Daddy!!! Congratulations!!

Bill

By: Bill Jr.

Bill Jr. — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:56:50 +0000

Jeff, now look for a nice Gotlieb logo coin door.

By: Kent Murphy

Kent Murphy — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:21:28 +0000

Nice score Jeff. Welcome to the club. Does the sound work? If it does, consider yourself lucky.

Kent

By: Jeff's Arcade

Jeff's Arcade — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 04:36:09 +0000

Maybe it just seems like you’ve been looking for one for a while.

I had thoughts of flipping the Centipede but don’t think I’m going to be able to make a profit on it. The cabinet is in terrible shape, it needs a new PCB, a new trackball, a new marquee and I don’t even know about the monitor yet. I’m going to throw a new board in it and see what kind of luck I have. I won’t even consider working on the cabinet repairs until the game is working. Hopefully the monitor works, at least I can keep it around as a spare. I’ll probably have some pictures of it on my site early next week.

By: Jeff Rothe

Jeff Rothe — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:24:44 +0000

I honestly haven’t been looking very long for a Mad Planets, I kind of feel weird about getting it. Almost, doubting myself like “Am I sure I love this game as much as I remember?” Because of my policy of not buying a game until I am sure I will not get rid of it unless some extreme circumstance….

What are you doing with the Centipede? Flip?

By: Jeff's Arcade

Jeff's Arcade — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:21:58 +0000

$50….nice deal. I know you’ve been looking for one of these for quite a while. Sure beats the $50 I just spent on a mouse infected, non working Centipede.

By: Scott Posch

Scott Posch — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:08:41 +0000

It was played… In fact I played it quite a lot. I wired up the joystick to just fire all the time. Not optimal, but it certainly allowed me to enjoy the game while constantly putting off wiring up the ‘real’ joystick

The story of where this game came from is kinda funny, but Ill tell it to Jeff so he can write about it.