Can I RESTORE a BROKEN 1979 Electronic Soccer Game?

[@ConsoleRescue]

So great to see these old electronic games come back to life. I love the simple way things are represented and animated.

[@GaryAxe-gb2bv]

My parents bought me the game for Christmas 1979, I loved it (I was 9😊). The video brought back some memories, thank you 👍

[@zapawarrior]

i owned this game when i was 10/11 years old. it was a really enjoyable game and fiendishly difficult. played it often in two player mode with friends. really enjoyed seeing you bringing it back to life!

[@paulcallaghan196]

I actually got this game from my grandad for Christmas years ago and absolutely loved it this brought this memory back so vivid to the day i received thank you for bringing this memory back to me

[@w0wtertube]

Wow! This device has been buried in my mind until I saw this video, the memories :-D.. I can't describe really it's more of a feeling. I was very very young when I played this, but I can remember holding this, trying to figure out how to play this game and everything that was possible with it, thanks for the video!

[@eain9009]

That nostalgic feeling you had is somewhat priceless, our Vince has a habit of bringing back fond memories with some fixes. ☺️

[@shabear1000]

Greetings from the states Vince. Here's a tip that I have used in the past and may help you out in certain situations. The rear window defogger or defroster in your car technically has traces. (Those little black lines that run horizontally across the rear windscreen). Here in the states sometimes those traces will break and our window defoggers will not function properly. So here we sell a repair kit for those traces. I have used it in the past on bigger traces in electronics and seemed to work just fine. Thought I might throw that out there for you. Maybe it will help in a future trying to fix video. Have a great weekend and stay safe my friend.

[@StezStixFix]

An electronic game where Perms & Conditions apply. Love it! 🤣

[@eain9009]

Ahh Vince is at it again hitting the nostalgic button and taking us on trips down memory lane. Great fix another oldie revived and given life again, hopefully it will find a owner and live on for more decades!!

[@kevinoakes1171]

My younger brother had this for Christmas back in the day and I had a space invaders one, fantastic to see this again. I will never forget the sounds it made as he played it.

[@holleholl3057]

Kevin Keegan was very famous here in Germany, too. He was "Deutscher Meister" /German Football Champion with the Hamburger Sportverein (HSV) in 1979 and was a real big player in Bundesliga back in the day...Seems he is wearing the HSV Shirt on the front cover photo... Those were the days when Bundesliga was quite exciting as almost any team could win the championships. Nowadays you know that Bayern München will DEFINITELY win the next season´s title...

[@griswold67]

Your infectious enthusiasm for these projects really add to the video Vince. Love it!

[@charlesstauffer9831]

Those little soccer/football games were really quite fun. I spent many hours pushing those buttons and watching the little bulbs flash.

[@a1white]

I have very vague recollections of playing this, though I don’t think I owned it. Must have been one of my mates who owned it! What a hero Keegan was

[@virgildeklerk]

Cool video Vince, so amazing if you look at this and then look at how far we've come in 40 years. Keep up the great content and fixes

[@willmorici5765]

Wow, not only an extended Tea Break video but also an actual 'Vince' sighting! Nice! Can't get any better than 2 mugs of tea and to see Vince face-to-face....proverbially speaking, of course.

[@lotionmedia]

Brilliant video. I got one of these for Christmas 1979. I got very bored with it very quickly. I discovered (in 1 player mode) that if you go right, then quick left (up the broken led side) just past half way. You could shoot and score every single time. Never miss. Ah well I got Astro Wars the following year!

[@crogger1974]

Nice Keegan reference in there: "I'd love it if I could get this working" 👍

[@leewatts1570]

2 years later im watching this and wondered if anyone picked up on that. I dont think vince did😆

[@davebrooks993]

Awesome to see a PIC micro inside. The first pic I ever programmed was a PIC16f84 in assembly.

[@BuyitFixit]

I was thinking the same. I used to program 16f84s in assembly in MPLAB too!

[@dazzypops]

Outro was timed to perfection, brilliant!

[@andymouse]

Great fix, proper tea break...as long as it takes !...cheers.

[@davemunn73]

Had one of these when i was a kid before we moved to 🇿🇦. Also a space invaders. Would love to get them back again. Not something you see here ever. Brought back some good memories. Thanks Vince.

[@andrasszabo7386]

I had Astro Wars and some kind of a horizontal spaceship shooting game from Grandstand, and they were all super fun to play.

[@michaelmoore7975]

Guitar techs use _fret erasers_ to remove scratches and file marks on the frets as well as polish them. They're great for electronics and a whole lot more. Exactly as they sound, they look feel much like a regular eraser. I bought the set of 7 with grits from 220 to 8000. You can find them individually or as a set from a luthier supply store.

[@force4200]

My weekend is saved by your video great work!!!

[@bramvandenbroeck5060]

I have a tip for brittle plastics, you could try and warm it up with a hairdryer, that will soften up the plastic so it doesn't crack that easely, i've heard this trick from somebody who works a lot on those old macintoshes, and he said it worked great so i hope this helps :) great video Vince as usual

[@johnathanasiou9284]

🎯🎯

[@bunnylove273]

hey Vince this is why l love your channel as we never know what treasure you will find and hope to fix thanks for a great vid

[@markiew6355]

Another great video fix. You were correct on the American sports versions, i bought Coleco American Football Head to Head while over there in 1980, a very similar layout to Grandstand. There was Baseball as well, also single player handsets. You can find videos on KZbin by searching the brand Coleco. Keep up the perseverance and joy of a fix, it's why we all watch mate. 👍🏽

[@GadgetUK164]

Great job Vince! That was fun to watch!!!! A lot of work for a tea break =D One suggestion - maybe use braid to remove the solder added to the switch and button traces. It will be level and buttons and switch work more reliably over long term. Wnen you have a level surface (certainly on switches) the contacts wont get bent at specific points.

[@greenaum]

Yup I did worry about all that solder sticking up. The metal buttons were designed with a particular height in mind. Cheap as they are, they were made with some precision. Your advice to use solder braid sounds good, it'll leave just a trace, in fact by re-melting it as you take off more and more, it should settle down to a nice flat level. You'd have to be gentle with the heat.

[@daz41262010]

what an awesome repair video :) all them parts to solder/scrub and clean but in the end Vince fixed it :)

[@TheSkaldenmettrunk]

Yay! An "overtime" tea break fix. Nice one.

[@HavingFunRepairs]

Magnificent as always Vince!

[@chrisstyles4630]

Remember it well was lovely to watch another retro electronic game being fixed 👍👍👍

[@execation]

What an astounding find Vince! Awesome video - love how happy you get when you find a fault. Top drawer content mate 👍👍

[@kriswillems5661]

This one was nice, because it is in such good shape and complete. It has some collectors value.

[@sleepster9944]

I do mind this game back in the day great video mate 👍👍

[@spiders-tours]

Nice video Vince and a great fix. There were a slew of these LED games and most were a lot of fun. They typically cost around 15 quid from Argos about 50 quid in today's money.

[@michelk1445]

What an awesome computergame, Top repair👍

[@DumahBrazorf]

To re-tin contacts with a thin layer you can tin the contact, heat it up and pass a rag quicky. I saw this trick by Sean @ Classic Arcade Repairs channel.

[@eain9009]

This is a good tip when I tried trace repairs using this method it was a game changer and haven't looked back.

[@BuyitFixit]

Hi Vince, Funnily enough I was also repairing a Granstand game myself last night and just finished uploading the video. Also instead of adding solder to the pads, you could try spraying electrical contact cleaner on them and then using a flat piece of paper (A4 printer paper or such) which is slightly abrasive. It does a good job at cleaning and removing tarnish from the contacts, although the ones on the game looked quite corroded. I used to use the same method for cleaning computer memory dimms etc. Well done, and another great fix video!

[@lawrencemanning]

The controller is a PIC1655A 8 bit microcontroller, made in the 28th week of 1980. So I’m guessing this was bought in 81. Reading the data sheet these have 512 bytes of factory programmed ROM and 32 bytes of registers/RAM. So this was the ARM microcontroller of its day. It’s pretty cool that the game has an actual computer in it, albeit a very limited one, and not just a collection of simple logic. I suspect that controller contributed a lot to the relative cost of this game.

[@qwertykeyboard5901]

32 bytes of ram basically ensures you can only program simple finite state machines.

[@VintageTechFan]

Technically, its 768 "bytes". It's 512 instructions of 12bit each. I didn't know PICs were around that early.

[@lawrencemanning]

@@VintageTechFan I will weasel out of this by saying a byte is not necessarily 8 bits. ;) Yeah I was surprised too.

[@VintageTechFan]

@@lawrencemanning I see a byte defined as 8bits. A word however is whatever the architecture wants it to be.

[@lawrencemanning]

@@VintageTechFan that’s the up to date definition of byte yup. But there is also octet, used still in some contexts, because of an historical ambiguity with the term byte. In truth I was worming out my mistake. :) Check Wikipedia though on byte, the opening paragraph is quite interesting.

[@jlatirl4316]

Good on ya. That was a fun watch!!

[@RetroKrazy]

Hi Vince! I released my repair video on this on the 2nd March this year. It's a shame KZbins algorithm doesn't always pick things up... Keep up the good work as you and a few others are the reason I launched my channel!

[@Mymatevince]

Thanks RK, I've just subscribed. It never came up possibly because I was typing in Kevin Keegan. Enjoyed your vid, cheers for commenting👍

[@BuyitFixit]

I've just fixed a similar game too! Although a quite rare one and haven't seen another one being repaired on youtube.

[@lgcslyr]

Matel made an American Football LED game back in the 70's that was very similar to this game. I remember "playing" it a lot growing up. I had no idea what I was doing at the time.🤣

[@VintageTechFan]

I'm amazed that they managed to pack reversing 7 segment numbers in that little memory.

[@Abh_92]

Great video as always and welcome to Hakko club!

[@andrasszabo7386]

I have a similar football game from Tomy :) found it this weekend cleaning my workshop. Still works fine even though it is from the early eighties.

[@Rich77UK]

There is a product I've used since beginning to work. I used to design patch antennas and the best key for soldering was cleaning the copper with an abrasive block made by "garryflex" its a British made product and works wonders on corroded pads.

[@599miata]

Great repair when you have time to spare.😊😊

[@RedMorgan79]

I've been away awhile but it's good to be back.

[@AnonymousRepair]

Great video👍👍👍👍, Like the new solder iron, Let me guess Hakko ? This will change your soldering skills and make it whole lot easier, Those ones on the hot air station is no match

[@abucketofelves]

"I'd love it if I could get this working" couldn't help hearing that in Keegan's voice.

[@douglasjacobs3803]

too cool Vince,i used to have the American version of football when i was a kid. Nice job

[@mrjsv4935]

Nice looking game for 1979 :) Good to see it fixed and how it works.

[@coffeekatk4067]

Wow! Cool repair and I don't mind a bit about the length of a tea break! Just means more coffee for me! Lol! That hair right!! Nice job indeed!

[@leewatts1570]

28.38 am i the only one who noticed the kevin keegan reference. "I would LOVE it"

[@clivesilk3501]

I had the exact same game !! Loved it

[@djdrwatson]

Kevin Keegan is an England football legend. He is one of a total of four English men to have won the Ballon d’Or. As well as his "I'd love it!" outburst, another one of his most memorable TV moments was when he fell off and crashed his bike competing in 'Superstars'. It's on KZbin.

[@tsbeech]

Great video Vince!

[@eathenalexander2836]

Just by making this video, this item has now become a collectible lol nice repair Vince

[@JasonSetley]

Brilliant fix

[@andrasszabo7386]

Don't worry, Vince, if you ever break some of those LED's you can easily replace them with SMD red LED's like I did. I also think you should retrobrite the top case.

[@BuyitFixit]

That's pretty much what I was thinking too, that some SMD LED's would work if any of the original ones were dead.

[@BuyitFixit]

I've just fixed similar game, but 4 of the LED's had wires broken off, but I was quite amazed I managed to solder them back on. I've just done a video of the repair.

[@RedMorgan79]

Vince could you consider retro-brighting it? You can tell from the box it has yellowed

[@Graytail]

Oh hey I bought one of these last year to have a go at fixing! Mine is without box though. Generally good condition externally. I really should try putting batteries in it... I've only had the battery compartment open twice

[@willrobinson7599]

Cracking fix vince

[@francispalmer9737]

In 1979 I had a perm done just like Keegan's I was 15 years old and he was my hero, I thought I was the bees knees but I must have looked like a right berk, lol. 70's haircuts were pretty big and bad anyway. They were cool days back then with no mobiles, internet or pc crap, just good innocent fun.

[@autobotjazz1972]

Reminds me a bit of the Mattel electronic football game ( American football for clarity's sake) that had a similar red LED lighting set up for the game play.

[@ovalwingnut]

Vince. Always "gaming the system". GO V GO!

[@JohnJones-oy3md]

6:34 - Fun fact, GI (General Instrument) spun off into Microchip Technology, which still manufactures PIC microcontrollers.

[@greenaum]

The American / Japanese version of this will be well-known on KZbin and the Internet. Grandstand imported absolutely loads, at least 60 or so, of electronic games like these, more famously ones like Gakken's "Astro Wars", and re-labelled them. If you look, you'll probably be able to find what the foreign name is, you might have to look through the websites of people who collect this sort of thing, to find a picture that looks familiar, then go from there. Obviously they call it "soccer" over there for some reason... We had a Grandstand TV Tennis, or rather my dad did, when I was little. That had Kevin Keegan on the box as well, might be why my dad bought it. He'll have been disappointed when he switched it to "Football" and found just 2 bars and a square ball, no curly perm anywhere. Ol' Kev must have had a deal with Grandstand, among loads of other companies, he was on loads of products. Pretty much the god of football, up there with Pele, I can't recall anyone as famous since.

[@JohnJones-oy3md]

16:55 - It's not inexpensive, but this is a great application for brush plating/pen plating.

[@paulfreeman4900]

Nice to see your face!!

[@jutgamester5870]

great video....clever sod lol...havent seen one of those since i was a kid...

[@BuyitFixit]

​ @My Mate VINCE Hi Vince, remember on this game when you were talking about if the LED's had broken? I've just fixed a VERY RARE similar game which the wires had came off the LED's, but I managed to solder them back on. The wires are tiny gold bond wires thinner than a human hair, but somehow I managed to do it! Just finished the video, have a look if you get the chance!

[@maf2383]

Similar to Mattel Football and Basketball when I was in Jr High in the US. They re-issued them not too long ago.

[@billfranks6805]

I vaguely rember this game wow what good condition thet one you have there not being ever that interested 8n football i didn't take much notice of this game when it came out but it was a game fir those with better off parents at the time hope you range to fix it Bill

[@yoeribolderdijk1257]

If you want to see a trace break on the PCB try to shine a light behind it, you clearly can see the break then. :D

[@johnathanasiou9284]

I used to find PCB trace breaks like that all the time & still do although its more difficult on multilayer boards. It was an invaluable tip I had received when I was a newbie tech. Randy Fromm & Don Lancaster also had great tips

[@Vermilicious]

Nice. Oh, and cool outro.

[@LetsPlayKeldeo]

I have to say its like the first time I see you in a video Im not sure what I had in mind when it came to your face but its weird seeing somebody "New" with the voice you are familiar with haha

[@mark-andrews]

Great fix, or attempt, don't want my comment to offer a clue. Great video, thanks. Back of the Net! Played the American Football LED game, represented for PC , emulated, yeah plays great and is very popular, the Kevin Keegan game like you mention is possibly only UK based?

[@whodatdere1]

Looks like the main problem with corrosion on the buttons was in part due to foam deterioration, only to be accelerated with battery acid. I usually recommend using a good contact cleaner and let it soak for a hot minute then go after it with a cotton swab a couple times before hitting it with the burnishing brush. I always say, "you wouldn't just put the brush to your car in the carwash without spraying it first, right?"

[@logothaironsides2942]

Mr Keegan was very popular and skillful. I believe he was sold for the most money of any player of that era back in the day. My brother had bobby charlton soccer which was before this and was basically a twist knob game with an actual physical ball so I guess he was the popular endorsing player to go to before Mr Keegan. I think there were so many football games out there and probably the most popular in the mid to late 70s was subeteo which had loads of different teams to buy and was probably a huge money spinner. They did subeteo cricket too but I dont think that was as popular. Massively expensive. Course every consol seemed to come out with some form of football game after that so those older games kind of faded into obscurity.

[@karenharvey7197]

Wow, I found that game at a comic con in a bin of vintage things. It was broken, of course, but I thought it was cool. Paid 5.00. I kept it for a while and then got rid of it.

[@1up_Gaming]

I hope so... these things were great :)

[@PicaDelphon]

The Tarnish on the contacts is the TIN leaching out from the LEAD...

[@wanjockey]

Vince, those are silver plated contacts. Maybe some tarnex, as seen on tv for cleaning your grandmas silverware?

[@dwaynedibley1396]

lovely stuff

[@carlarichman6019]

Please go back to your original length of videos I love watching the whole process of figuring it and having the end result it was also like how your explaining of stuff and showing it on the multimeter. You have a great channel

[@ItalianRetroGuy]

I really liked this one

[@stereogrIm]

I’m inspired to try and service my one :)

[@kennethbarker852]

1st class video to watch thank you take care kind regards from me kenneth

[@Jdbye]

That oxidized layer looks like it's been stored somewhere humid. I've seen similar.

[@ww-sd9pz]

Enjoyed that except the magic eraser sound 👍

[@rfr653]

good job mate.

[@ItalianRetroGuy]

Was wondering, what camera and lense combo are you using?

[@ericbechler9903]

Nice 😃

[@dodgydruid]

My brother had one of these, it died in a complete and merciless act of revenge when said brother decided to wear my watch in the bath killing it so I flushed his KK game down the lavvy he then did something else and it became a war of sibling attrition hehe This all started when little brother one Xmas eve decided to jump all over my brand new Tri-ang Midland Pullman set, the big set too turning beautiful nanking blue coach glory into tiny shards of plastic and misery...

[@eain9009]

Me and my twin brother had a similar sibling attrition, but it teached me to keep things safe and in good condition, lessons get learned destroying items leaves you without when retaliation gets a treasured item destroyed. I'm sure these actions is what got me interested in how things operate and work, learning how to fix electronic devices that got broke or damaged by him. I hope you and your brothers rivalry came to a end without loosing too much. Your post took me down memory lane! 😂

[@ethanvilla4418]

There's a way to whiten yellowed plastic too, if you're ever interested in taking your restorations that far.

[@M1LAD81]

16:00 'Even when I go hard' 🤭 I really do need to get my mind out of the gutter! 😂 Would be brill if the finishing touch was to retrobright the white (now yellow) top casing. A nice enjoyable fix, Vince. I don't care that your tea break fix was long. I thoroughly enjoyed it! Thank you!

[@Lezmila]

Vince the game is called Match of the Day Kevin Keegan's Electronic Action Soccer Game we don't call Football Soccer in England or Europe so maybe it was meant to a global game manufactured in 1979, Keegan went to play in West Germany in 1977 for SV Hamburg an was voted European player of the year 1978 - 79 an won a 2nd Ballon D'Or in 1979 and Hamburg won the Bundesliga an played in the 1980 European Cup Final against Nottingham Forrest (Forrest won 1 - 0) Brian Clough's was Forrest's Manager so Boo.

[@TechGorilla1987]

Of course you can, you silly sausage! Let's go.