Originally Posted by
98PaceCar
I just can't remember seeing anybody in the back of any of the games, other than the Computer Space. I'm sure a couple of those could have been made working with a little bit of effort and maybe having some common parts (power supplies and what not).
I probably spent more time in the back of Jerry's Pong than anything else (getting or returning his tools)
Believe me, I wish the ones that were broke were simple fixes, but as I said they weren't. Space Duel has a bad flyback, Warlords has a bad pcb - same with Wheels (we even have 2 spare pcbs for it - all shot). The other Drag Race has at least a bad pcb, possibly more. Q*bert's Qubes had a bad power supply (a replacement was in-route to the show, but never arrived in time). Quadra Pong needs either monitor or pcb work (or both), plus the cab is in dire need of repair. Bonanza Bros and Mousetrap I didn't even get to look at.
How about this.. Next year, I will volunteer my services to work on the coin ops and help keep them running. I would have been willing to do it this year, but not having permission to be in the backs of games that aren't mine kept me from even considering it. If I know up front, I can even bring the necessary tools (provided TSA doesn't throw a fit about them!!
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Cool! Consider yourself on the team
I took some parts back with me to fix (I thought for sure TSA would question me about the Space Duel HV cage, but they didn't...), but I didn't have time to bring everything that was bad, or even to diagnose what what wrong with every game :/