I bought an Entex Football3 electronic game made in 1980 on eBay. According to the pictures, it was in very nice shape, but when it arrived at my house it was not. The package had been slashed with a knife, slicing the vintage box in two, then dumped in an oversized box without packing material to bang around within for the rest of the journey. I examine the results, play (very) amateur detective, and then go through the process of complaining to eBay to request my money back. I then discover more things wrong with the game itself and go about fixing them with my meagre repair skills. And I also show how little I know about football, even the electronic kind.
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Index:
0:00 Examining the eBay parcel
6:40 The Entex Football3 damage
10:13 Turning on the game
13:30 Filing item return with eBay
16:34 Answering a couple questions/comments
17:55 Opening up the game to determine damage
25:20 Kind of working now: gameplay
31:15 Examining my half fix
35:53 Source of spare parts: PSX Controller
40:39 Fixing other set of controls
47:25 Testing the fix – partial fail
49:55 What the problem is, and potential fixes
53:15 Gameplay again – working better!
54:15 Conclusion and thanks
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