I recently struck a deal with Jeremy Smith (g3n3r1c) to trade my Joust UR for his “extra” Mad Planets UR.  The Joust just wasn’t getting a lot of play in my gameroom and while I had only played Mad Planets once or twice at a friends gameroom, I was excited to add it to my collection.

We decided to meet about half way as Jeremy is in Michigan and I’m in Illinois.  It was about 160 miles one way for me and we both forgot about the time change, but luckily it all worked out.  Here are a few pictures of the game that Jeremy sent before the deal.  I’ll post more after I add it to the collection page.

Overall I am very happy with the trade. The game is in fantastic shape and working 100%. It has a beautiful, bright picture and fantastic attract mode sounds. At some point I will install the repro cpo that he included in the deal (from Quarterarcade) and I’ll install the correct joystick insert that I picked up online (from videogameparts). The correct insert says Gottlieb in raised letters vs the Gorf insert that’s in there now. Mad Planets is a very fun and challenging game, trying to coordinate the flight stick and spinner can be very tricky! If you get a chance to play this game, you should, it is an underrated classic IMHO.

Tags: Mad Planets

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