rarest (non-proto) and/or most expensive classic arcade PCBs

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Really? How rare are we talking? I'm quasi curious here, as my family had one of those about 10 years back...with Burgertime I think (I thought we had Donkey Kong Junior...but thats not on the Klov list) and a Golf game.

 

Burgertime is actually the most common DECO Cassette game since it was the most popular. Bump n Jump is probably a close second followed by any other game from the library that you'd actually recognize (such as Lock n Chase or Mission X). The sports games are uncommon, but not all that rare. I've seen Golf (I think it was called Pro Golf) and the Soccer game come up on ebay now and then. The real trick is to find a cassette and dongle set that actually works! I went through 4 Burgertimes before I found a working set...

I have a handful of DECO Cassette items in my collection, but as usual, some of them aren't working. Usually it's the tape that gives out (or becomes demagnatized somehow), but lately I've been finding that the dongles themselves can also go bad. I assume this is because they have EPROMs in them, but I've never been able to crack one open and look.

I have a small DECO page up on my website here: http://www.atariprotos.com/deco/deco.htm


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