News Update History
Welcome to the site news update history page, any updates to the site or its content will be posted here.
The site started from humble beginnings and launched on 13th Feb 2000.
Highlights from the site history:
13 Feb 2000: Site v1.0 launched (remember Netscape?!)
18 Nov 2001: Site v2.0 launched with improved navigation.
30 Jun 2005: Site v3.0 launched with new layout.
13 Oct 2024: Site v4.0 launched, an all new site with high resolution manual scans and expanded hardware identification section.
Feel free to search, filter or just browse the history, sometimes there were long periods between updates and I cannot promise that will not happen again!
(Note: Not all previous site history has been migrated)
News Update History
Added images of a prototype/sample game Defender boardset that I recently fixed. There are some differences between this and production games:
The CPU board has no green solder mask and the decoder PROM was previously undumped.
The ROM board has wire modifications that are incorporated into the production version
The Interface board has the normally omitted 4-pin molex connector populated.
More Manuals Added
I have just uploaded another batch of rescanned manuals mostly comprising Space Invaders and Lunar Rescue. This completes the scanning of all my space invaders manuals apart from the Midway schematics which I will do in due course. I also need to go through all the misc taito loose schematic sheets I have scanned to see if I can fill in any missing items.
Finally, I also uploaded the Taito Change-a-game flyer, this is a unique flyer where you slide an insert up to reveal different conversion games. The PDF has is scanned in all positions.
New Taito Manuals Added
New Taito Manuals Added
I was lucky enough to be loaned a large collection of original Taito manuals recently, combined with my own manuals I am gradually scanning them and post processing the scans in high resolution to give the best possible documents for download. Many thanks to Steve Larkins for loading me his manual collection.
This first batch comprises of Space Chaser (Upright and Tabletop), Space Invaders Part II (Upright, Japanese) and improved Space Invaders Part II schematics.
These can all be found on the Documents page.
Finally, the new website is here!
After 10 years of inaction and starting then abandoning development multiple times, the new website is finally here!
For the new site I have decided to concentrate on resources so the documents and hardware sections will now be my main focus.
The new site has been built from the ground up using Laravel v11.
