Category:Grandstand
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| Adam Imports' Grandstand TV games, programmable consoles and tabletop electronic games |
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Welcome to the Grandstand category! Grandstand was the brand of Adam Imports Ltd of Harrogate, which by the early 1980s was part of the Adam Leisure Group. Under the Grandstand name it sold TV games and electronic games made by Epoch, Tomy, VTech, Fairchild and other makers in the UK from the late 1970s. The pages below cover the hardware inside each product, the maker it came from, and how to maintain and repair it. Greyed entries have no page yet.
Pong-type TV games
[edit | edit source]The TV games share one set of repair guides, with a section for each model.
Programmable and cartridge consoles
[edit | edit source]| Model | Maintenance | Troubleshooting |
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| Grandstand Colour Programmable SD070 | Grandstand Colour Programmable SD070 General Maintenance | Grandstand Colour Programmable SD070 Troubleshooting Guide |
| Grandstand Programmable Cartridges | Cartridges for the Colour Programmable consoles | |
| Grandstand Video Entertainment Computer | Grandstand Video Entertainment Computer General Maintenance | Grandstand Video Entertainment Computer Troubleshooting Guide |
Tabletop games
[edit | edit source]The tabletop games are near-identical in construction, so they share one set of repair guides, with a section for each title.
| Title | Original maker's version | Maintenance | Troubleshooting | Display repair |
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| Grandstand Invader From Space | Epoch Invader From Space | Maintenance | Troubleshooting | VFD repair |
| Grandstand Astro Wars | Epoch Galaxy II | Maintenance | Troubleshooting | VFD repair |
| Grandstand Munchman | Tomy Puck Man | Maintenance | Troubleshooting | VFD repair |
| Grandstand Tron | Tomy Tron | Maintenance | Troubleshooting | VFD repair |
| Grandstand The Big Game Soccer | Epoch soccer game | Maintenance | Troubleshooting | VFD repair |
| Grandstand Cosmic Invader | VTech Invaders | Maintenance | Troubleshooting | VFD repair |
| Grandstand Caveman | Tomy Caveman | Maintenance | Troubleshooting | VFD repair |
| Grandstand Scramble | Epoch Astro Command | Maintenance | Troubleshooting | VFD repair |
| Grandstand Crazy Monster | Epoch Zig-Zag Monster | Maintenance | Troubleshooting | VFD repair |
| Grandstand Firefox F-7 | Epoch Astro Thunder 7 | Maintenance | Troubleshooting | VFD repair |
| Grandstand Star Force | Epoch Star Force | Maintenance | Troubleshooting | VFD repair |
Handheld and pocket games
[edit | edit source]Grandstand also sold several dozen LED and LCD handheld games from 1979 into the late 1980s. They are listed, with their makers and batteries, on Grandstand Handheld and Pocket Games.
Accessories
[edit | edit source]- Grandstand Universal Mains Adaptor: the switchable mains adaptor sold for the tabletop games, and why its polarity setting matters.
All Grandstand pages
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Tools and procedures
[edit | edit source]- Recommended Tools: tools for repairing these games.
- Capacitor Failure Symptoms: identifying failed capacitors.
- Battery Explosion, Capacitor or Corrosion Damage: cleaning up after leaking batteries, the commonest damage in battery-powered tabletop games.
See also
[edit | edit source]- Coleco: the Coleco Mini-Arcade tabletop games, built the same way.
- Vintage Computers
Pages in category "Grandstand"
The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
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- Grandstand Astro Wars
- Grandstand Caveman
- Grandstand Colour Programmable SD070
- Grandstand Colour Programmable SD070 General Maintenance
- Grandstand Colour Programmable SD070 Troubleshooting Guide
- Grandstand Cosmic Invader
- Grandstand Crazy Monster
- Grandstand Firefox F-7
- Grandstand Handheld and Pocket Games
- Grandstand Invader From Space
- Grandstand Model 4600
- Grandstand Model 5000
- Grandstand Model 6000
- Grandstand Munchman
- Grandstand Programmable Cartridges
- Grandstand Scramble
- Grandstand Star Force
- Grandstand Tabletop Maintenance
- Grandstand Tabletop Troubleshooting
- Grandstand Tabletop VFD Repair
- Grandstand The Big Game Soccer
- Grandstand Tron
- Grandstand TV Game 2000
- Grandstand TV Game 2600 Mk II
- Grandstand TV Game 3000
- Grandstand TV Game 3600 Mk II
- Grandstand TV Game 3600 Mk III
- Grandstand TV Games Capacitor Replacement Guide
- Grandstand TV Games General Maintenance
- Grandstand TV Games Troubleshooting Guide
- Grandstand Universal Mains Adaptor
- Grandstand Video Entertainment Computer
- Grandstand Video Entertainment Computer General Maintenance
- Grandstand Video Entertainment Computer Troubleshooting Guide
Media in category "Grandstand"
The following 66 files are in this category, out of 66 total.
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Adman Grandstand 3600 MK II Colour (13).jpg 1,920 × 1,537; 918 KB
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Adman Grandstand 3600 MK II Colour (14).jpg 1,920 × 865; 524 KB
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Adman Grandstand 3600 MK II Colour (15).jpg 1,920 × 1,558; 554 KB
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Adman Grandstand 3600 MK II Colour (9).jpg 1,869 × 1,435; 829 KB
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Adman Grandstand Fairchild.jpg 850 × 609; 125 KB
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Astro wars front view.JPG 1,920 × 2,322; 389 KB
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Astro wars.JPG 640 × 480; 59 KB
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Caveman handheld game.jpg 1,920 × 1,440; 567 KB
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Epoch Astro Command, Made In Japan, Copyright 1982 (VFD Electronic Handheld Game).jpg 1,920 × 1,894; 676 KB
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Epoch Galaxy II Instructions.pdf 0 × 0; 289 KB
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Epoch Invader From Space Instructions.pdf 0 × 0; 781 KB
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Epoch Invader From Space, Made In Japan, Copyright 1980 (Electronic Handheld Game).jpg 1,920 × 1,991; 619 KB
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Fairchild Channel F System II Built-in Games Instructions.pdf 0 × 0; 12.25 MB
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Fairchild Video Entertainment System Service Manual.pdf 0 × 0; 271 KB
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Grandstand 4600 colour (above).jpg 1,920 × 1,154; 276 KB
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Grandstand 4600 colour - Back.jpg 1,920 × 1,279; 296 KB
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Grandstand 4600 colour - Connectors.jpg 1,920 × 990; 271 KB
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Grandstand 4600 colour - Internals.jpg 1,920 × 1,269; 554 KB
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Grandstand 4600 colour - PCB.jpg 1,789 × 1,907; 1.67 MB
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Grandstand 4600 colour - Screen.jpg 1,802 × 1,192; 794 KB
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Grandstand 4600 colour - With detached controllers.jpg 1,920 × 1,440; 433 KB
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GrandStand 5000 Colour 20170413 124245.jpg 1,920 × 2,560; 959 KB
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Grandstand Admam 3000.jpg 894 × 384; 91 KB
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Grandstand Adman TV Game 2000 (1).jpg 1,920 × 481; 163 KB
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Grandstand Adman TV Game 2000 (8).jpg 1,920 × 1,039; 349 KB
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Grandstand Astro Wars Instructions.pdf 0 × 0; 694 KB
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Grandstand BMX Burner Instructions.pdf 0 × 0; 866 KB
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Grandstand BMX Flyer Instructions.pdf 0 × 0; 804 KB
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Grandstand Colour Programmable SD070 (1).jpg 1,920 × 1,650; 681 KB
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Grandstand Colour Programmable SD070 (9).jpg 1,920 × 1,101; 398 KB
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Grandstand Crazy Monster Instructions.pdf 0 × 0; 242 KB
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Grandstand Firefox F-7 Instructions cover.png 937 × 930; 41 KB
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Grandstand Firefox F-7 Instructions.pdf 0 × 0; 1.1 MB
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Grandstand logo.svg 151 × 55; 85 KB
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Grandstand Solitaire Instructions.pdf 0 × 0; 90 KB
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Grandstand Star Force Instructions cover.png 910 × 1,155; 33 KB
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Grandstand Star Force Instructions.pdf 0 × 0; 585 KB
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Grandstand Thomas the Tank Engine Instructions.pdf 0 × 0; 380 KB
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Grandstand-video-entertainment-computer-pcb.jpg 1,920 × 1,077; 521 KB
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Luxor TV Computer Game 1909574 Service Manual.pdf 0 × 0; 12.43 MB
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Luxor TV Computer Game 1909583 Service Manual.pdf 0 × 0; 8.63 MB
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Radio Shack Astro Thunder Manual.pdf 0 × 0; 310 KB
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Tomy Caveman Instructions.pdf 0 × 0; 635 KB
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TOMY LSI PACMAN handheld electronic game.jpg 1,920 × 1,560; 364 KB
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Tomy Pac Man Instructions.pdf 0 × 0; 512 KB
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Tomy Tron Instructions.pdf 0 × 0; 367 KB
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Tomytronic TRON (1981) VFD LSI Game.jpg 1,920 × 1,440; 341 KB
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