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		<title>Sonic Fighter Capacitor / Transistor List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are my notes for identifying and replacing the electrolytic capacitors and transistors on ALI&#8217;s 1971 Sonic Fighter. As most of these electrolytic capacitors used non-standard values (well, compared to the past decade) it was difficult sometimes to find an equivalent (e.g. 2.2uF) so I tried to find a capacitor that was close in value [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://girasoli.org/arcade/?p=629</link>
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		<title>Allied Lesiure Sonic Fighter (Intro)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, ok, OK ROB! I&#8217;ll put up another post! Believe it or not, I have about eight (yes eight) posts that are sitting in the drafts bin. Some of them are about a year old! I have been getting side tracked a lot (and I&#8217;m not talking about the vapor cart [Side Trak] that we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://girasoli.org/arcade/?p=637</link>
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		<title>Williams Diamond Score Pool (Intro)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my quest for a 1950s &#8211; 1960s bowling ball game (where I always find shuffle alleys a dime a dozen it seems), I stumbled upon this gem. A Williams Diamond Score Pool game. I have never seen an electro-mechanical (EM) bumper pool game. I did some quick research and I discovered this game was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://girasoli.org/arcade/?p=603</link>
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		<title>Allied Leisure F-114 Documentation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I can&#8217;t find any documentation of Allied Leisure&#8217;s F-114 anywhere on the Internet (well, except for the marketing flyer), and I was lucky to find schematics and instructions with my F-114, here they are. Hopefully they&#8217;ll help you with your restoration of a F-114. I only have the Theory of Operation, Assembly Instructions, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://girasoli.org/arcade/?p=594</link>
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		<title>Allied Leisure&#8217;s F-114 (Intro)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each time I visited the arcade warehouse, I noticed a behemoth of a game lurking from under the boxes of 45s, NOS (New Old Stock) joysticks, and pinball score displays. It had this huge, half-circle wraparound projection screen and a black padded vinyl chair. The side of the game was stenciled with &#8220;F-114&#8243; in white. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://girasoli.org/arcade/?p=574</link>
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		<title>Yee-Haw!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Chicago Coin Rodeo Shooting Gallery is finally finished! This has probably been the most time consuming game I&#8217;ve worked on and yet the easiest. Rodeo was my first electro-mechanical (EM) game that I restored and was a lot of fun. Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8212; the restoration process had the requisite headaches that come [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://girasoli.org/arcade/?p=540</link>
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		<title>The Atari Track-Ball</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TRACK-BALL! (Or is it &#8220;trackball&#8221; or &#8220;trak-ball&#8221;?) From what I&#8217;ve read in various sources, Atari Football was the first arcade game to use a track-ball. At least it was the first Atari video game to use one. (A side note &#8212; Atari Football uses the same trackball that was used in Missile Command so this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://girasoli.org/arcade/?p=481</link>
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		<title>Rheingolds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that I had the Atari Football all cleaned up, it was time to install the Bob Roberts capacitor kit for a Wells Gardner V1000. Football has a huge 23&#8243; black and white picture tube and I wanted to make sure those Xs and Os looked their best. The monitor can be removed in one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://girasoli.org/arcade/?p=473</link>
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		<title>Atari Football (Intro)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This has got to be the nastiest game I have ever cleaned. I can only imagine how many Pabst Blue Ribbons and Rheingolds were accidentally knocked over and poured into Football&#8217;s trak-balls and offense/defense play charts. What makes me say this, you might ask? Well, my first tip off was the grime on the play [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://girasoli.org/arcade/?p=410</link>
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		<title>Pole Position II &#8211; Cockpit!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, ok, ok&#8230; I have been asked to provide some updates on the Warehouse Raid. Here we go&#8230; As part of the warehouse raid, I was able to get my hands on a game I first saw back in 2001. The Pole Position cockpit! In the last (and first) warehouse raid I participated in 2001, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://girasoli.org/arcade/?p=421</link>
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		<title>Warehouse Raid!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every arcade collector has read about or been lucky enough to participate in one of the best experiences in gaming geekdom &#8212; the arcade warehouse raid. I was fortunate enough to hear about a friend of a friend of a friend (of course) that was getting out of &#8220;the business&#8221; and had &#8220;some games to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://girasoli.org/arcade/?p=389</link>
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		<title>Rodeo Shooting Gallery (Intro)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1972. Back when 15 cents got you one credit and a quarter got you two! Ever since I got Future Spa up and running and hooked on pinballs, I began to get the itch for EM &#8212; electro-mechanical games. Before games that were completely solid state burst on the scene around 1976, arcade games were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://girasoli.org/arcade/?p=383</link>
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		<title>Space Encounters (Intro)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Bill, a fellow collector and the &#8220;Trainmaster&#8221;, I was able to bring one of the more interesting games from the Golden Age into Tony&#8217;s Arcade. He picked up the game and brought it to his garage in 1998, where it waited to be worked on among Bill&#8217;s other numerous arcade projects. Bill was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://girasoli.org/arcade/?p=377</link>
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		<title>Fixing Donkey Kong&#8217;s Monitor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Donkey Kong is in great shape &#8212; the only thing that&#8217;s unfortunate is it&#8217;s missing the side art. Not a problem as my games are mostly sandwiched together in the limited space of my arcade. When I first plugged in the Donkey Kong, it played and the image on the monitor was dim and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://girasoli.org/arcade/?p=376</link>
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		<title>Return to Gaslight Village</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was there. Towards the end of the 2007 Summer, I went to Lake George again. I decided I&#8217;d make sure to find Gaslight Village this time around. I dug deep into my childhood memories of where Gaslight Village was. I have memories of seeing Gaslight from the back seat of the car, looking out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://girasoli.org/arcade/?p=298</link>
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