So I've had this Atari Major Havoc since 1995, when it was originally a Tempest. Everyone loves Tempest, but I eventually got tired of it and installed a factory Havoc conversion kit. MH is, after all, the best color vector game and one of the greatest classic video games of all time. Possessed of a rich gameplay unmatched by any other vectors (and few raster classics), it exemplifies all that was fantastic and special about the "golden age" (1977-84) games. It's fun, it's challenging and it clearly pointed to the way things could have gone if the video game industry hadn't unceremoniously crashed in '84.Mine worked swimmingly until a few years ago, when it suddenly, catastrophically didn't anymore.
Stumped, I sent the board to my learned and esteemed friend Jeff, world-renowned expert on "the bideo games" who bafflingly determined that nothing was wrong with the board after all. I'd already tested the power supply, so this left only one other possible culprit: The actual wiring harness in the cabinet. This seemed highly unlikely, as a harness actually going bad is pretty much unheard of, but Jeff supplied me with a known good harness anyway as an experiment. And after an unreasonably long (> one year) interval, I finally installed it, and wouldn't you know, IT WORKS. There was much rejoicing.
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