Halex 69805-MAP Cricket View 5000 Dartboard in Wood Cabinet (Maple Finish)

by Halex

Product Features

• 18 inch pro size Bristletech target that plays steel tip and soft tip darts
• Enjoy easy to read large cricket score characters 1.5 inch each LED window.
• Vertical pub-style cricket scoreboard layout
• Dart Board and Cabinet
• 1 Year Warranty

Product Description

Halex CricketView 5000 Dartboard in Wood Cabinet includes a 5 LED scoring displays, traditional style cricket-view scoring display and enclosed in a maple wood cabinet.

Product Details

• Item Weight: 29.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 42.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B000A1FEOG
• Item model number: 69805-MAP
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #106,520 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors)
  • #60 in Toys & Games > Games > Game Room Games > Darts
  • #71 in Sports & Outdoors > Leisure Sports & Games > Game Room > Darts & Dartboards > Dartboards

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

51 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good idea, bad execution, November 18, 2005

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R. Schell - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Halex 69805-MAP Cricket View 5000 Dartboard in Wood Cabinet (Maple Finish) (Sports)

First off, I didn't purchase this from Amazon, rather a local retailer. I just felt I should get my experience out there for some to read.
What a great idea, huh? An electronic scoring steel tip board, with soft tip capability. It seems that these surfaces are double layered. A softer layer on the top (soft tip) and a harder layer under that one (steel tip). I've gone through 2 of these boards before giving up on the Bristle Tech material. What seems to happen is that it works great for the first couple of weeks. But then the darts start not staying in the material.

Using the supplied soft tips:
I had areas of the outer layer that had a lot of penetration time after time. Eventually, you couldn't get a soft tip to stick in those spots at all, you couldn't push it in with your hand, it would just fall out. This happened on 3 quadrants on the first board, particularly near the bull's eye. Then the second board's darts started bouncing out, like every other shot. It turns out that I was penetrating the outer layer to the inner layer and the dart would shoot out from the board like it hit a spring. Soft tips can't penetrate the inner layer, and the outer layer isn't dense enough to hold it snuggly after repeated use. And again, I had 'dead' areas develope on this board as well.

Using the supplied steel tips:
Started playing with these thinking, it's a steel tip board with electronic scoring, I can handle that..it is cool after all. 2 days of playing with the steel tips and they started sagging. Dart would hit the board and then fall like it was going to pull out of the board. This started happening over and over until 2 of 3 shots did this regularly. It was as if the material wasn't strong enough to hold the darts after repeated use. I didn't wait to find out if they would also start hitting the ground. Just returned it.

The menu/scoring system was fine, the sounds were pretty good. Voices were good. Didn't have any problems with that part of it at all, good selection of games.

Self healing? No memory? Needs some work guys, great idea though. I would say this material in ANY board is first off for very occasional use. Primarily for steel tip, or very light soft tip, lighter than supplied in fact.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for entertainment value only, September 29, 2005

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Sean P. Ohara - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Halex 69805-MAP Cricket View 5000 Dartboard in Wood Cabinet (Maple Finish) (Sports)

Warning! Do not buy this board if expect it to improve your standings in steel tip league play. Do buy it for family entertainment value, and to introduce the game to newbe's.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I LOVED this thing..while it worked., February 24, 2006

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Mark Hanes (Honolulu, HI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Halex 69805-MAP Cricket View 5000 Dartboard in Wood Cabinet (Maple Finish) (Sports)

This is a really great looking device. I was so much fun until the board started getting stuck. I returned it and the next one lasted only two weeks. I really want one of these boards as soon as this problem is fixed. Seriously!!! Make the changes and this will be a great product. All it needs really is a way to loosen the panels inside without having to take it down.