Arctic retro | Atari 2600 jr with no audio, faulty paddles and joystick. Restoration and testing games @Arcticretro | Uploaded March 2022 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
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In this video I got an Atari 2600 jr games console to check out. It initially had no audio, and the paddles was terrible. Also a broken joystick had to be looked at.
Restoration of the console and the paddles and joysticks. Can I make this console shine again?

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Contents:
0:00 Introduction
2:27 Testing the Atari
5:22 Disassembling
10:00 Cleaning
11:57 Testing the motherboard
16:04 Recapping
19:55 Fixing the paddles
23:15 Fixing the joysticks
28:51 Assembling
31:07 Testing controllers and games
35:03 Conclusion

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