Red Baron DescriptionA black and white vector game. First-person perspective flight simulator. Single, analog "gimble-type" joystick with fire button. Engage enemy biplanes during a WWI dogfight. Long range kills score big, accompanied by "Charge" tune.Cabinet InformationCool marquee and great cabinet artwork with German, WWI era Iron Cross motif. Mainly red and white side panels with yellow, grey, pink and black accents. Three dimensional monitor bezel simulates machine guns.Game Play(From the original manual), "Atari's Red Baron (TM) game is a one-player game with an X-Y or vector-generator monitor. The game depicts a first-person's view from a World War I biplane cockpit. The player's goal is to destroy as many biplanes, blimps, tanks, pillboxes, pyramids and buildings as possible." "Players can maneuver their airplanes with the joystick control. Moving the joystick in its four directions creates a sensation of diving, climbing, or banking to the left or right."MiscellaneousSelf adjusting game difficulty strives to maintain a consistent average game time from the last 32 games played. NVRAM stores top three scores as well as average game times.VAPS Arcade CensusThere are 6,993 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 4,022 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 65,237 machines (3,799 unique titles).Very Common - There are 52 known instances of this machine owned by Red Baron collectors who are members. Of these, 43 of them are original dedicated machines, 5 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 4 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There are 2 VAPS members with Red Baron machines for sale. VAPS members are totally independent of VAPS and the International Arcade Museum, and we are unable to recommend, endorce, or guarantee any person or company selling games or game parts. Wanted - Popular - There are 18 VAPS members currently looking for Red Baron. This game ranks a 32 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. This game ranks a 44 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records. TechnicalExcept for the controller inputs, the wiring harness is nearly pin-for-pin compatible with Battlezone. Red Baron requires just two additional wires: Aux. PCB pin W to Vec/Gen PCB pin W (-22VDC) and Vec/Gen PCB pin L to Vec/Gen PCB pin P (Ties X-invert to GND). It is possible to power up a Red Baron board in a Battlezone and vice versa, but playing the game is nearly impossible without proper controls.There are several differences in the boardsets, particularly the auxiliary board. Converting a Battlezone vector-generator board for use with Red Baron, is accomplished by lifting pin 18 of IC H1 (ROM 037587-01) and pin 13 of IC M2 (74LS139N). Connect a wire between the two. Next, swap out the Battlezone ROM's for Red Baron and you are set. Converting a Battlezone auxiliary board for use with Red Baron is a different matter since the two boards are quite different. The first thing you will notice is that the Red Baron auxiliary board is nearly two inches longer than the Battlezone. Simplified, the Red Baron auxiliary board is more or less populated with one extra column and one extra row of IC's; whereas the Battlezone auxiliary board leaves many of the IC pads blank. A Wells-Gardner 19V2000 monitor may be used in place of the Electrohome G05-802. TriviaIf you look at the side panel closely, you might see a familiar pattern beneath the Red Baron artwork. Peel it back and you may discover a Battlezone cabinet in disguise. Most, if not all, Red Baron machines appear to be factory conversions of Battlezone. A number of Red Baron cockpits were also manufactured.FixesThe rubber centering bellows used on the joystick has most likely cracked with age and will need to be replaced. These are the same bellows used on Battlezone joysticks. Replacements may cost up to $30 if you can find them. The B&W vector monitor may be bad. This can usually be repaired with a Zanen "Get-Well Kit", new deflection transistors and maybe a high voltage diode. Less than $25 in parts total.As an alternative to replacing the rubber ring, a person could buy one Ultimate Joystick and one Ultimate Pushbutton from Happ Controls (http://www.happcontrols.com/). Foto-Finder™ (books)- The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 101; Color photo;
- Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 101; Color photo; Price guide:
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