I was finally able to go pick up my old arcade game. My mom bought this for my brother and I back in 91 I believe for $700. We played the heck out of it. I wish we’d taken care of it more now that I’m what you’d call an adult. Its been under some sheets in a building for around 20 years untouched. Now in my 40’s and with a home with the room for such a beast, I’m going to restore this. I am in no way electrically proficient. I am sure I will need lots of help and have lots of questions. I will take more pictures as the tear down begins. For now, here are a few to start with.

As you can see, i have two errors that were not there when we turned it off years ago. The crosshairs are in the lower left and won't come up much at all. The handle assembly is sticky and may have some rust. I want to keep the scores if possible as they are representative of my brother and i 20+ years ago.

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I believe its all original. No changes or updates that i'm aware of.

As for the touch up vs restore, I agree. I do not think I will do full restore with new decals etc. Its going to stay in the family and all i really want is to have it cleaned up, fill the holes, touch up the paint and have it working as intended.

Right now my plan is to take everything out, keeping electronics intact to minimize confusion, open up the handle assembly and just get everything as clean as i can.. Once i have it back together, i'll start asking for help with the errors and how to fine tune it etc.

How do I tell on a monitor? Simply measure? Here's a picture of the sticker.

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I decided to take a few more pictures of the current condition. Pretty cool looking at some of these old stickers.
Now that I'm older and appreciate this more, I really like that the back glass is in great shape and that the younger version of myself in my brother did not totally kill this thing

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I guess that's a good ?

Now that I'm beginning the teardown, is there any advice on what not to do? I do not think that I'm going to do a full restore and I do not think that I'm going to replace any of the wood with lighter wood so that it's easier to maneuver because I'd like to keep it honestly is original as I can even with some of the Dinksand minor scratches. I would like to patch and paint some of the spots like these attached but other than that is mainly a cleanup job.

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I appreciate the offer. I'm in Springfield Missouri. And I'm sure I will need some help on the errors and the chips you mentioned. Question, how much cleaning should I do to the monitor? I don't know how sturdy these guys are and since you guys are telling me that it's a pretty rare version I obviously want to take it easy

Sorry if too many post. I just figured I'd take pictures post questions and comments as I'm tearing this thing down. Just took the back glass off and it's in almost perfect shape and I found my first disconnected wire probably been disconnected for 25 years on the left speaker. Always wondered why we had a little crackle when we turn the volume up or down and I never took his party as a kid of course

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What's the consensus on something like speakers, if they're working leave original or do you most upgrade?

I think I'm down to the point where I just plan on blowing out everything wiping it down and cleaning it up. On the outside I'll do some touch-up paint. Regarding my errors, do I just go by a couple 6116 chips replace the two?

For math ram 5f and 5h is this what I need?

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After work tonight i plan on working on it more. I'll pull the board and see what's there in the two spots and look for loose or broken parts. I agree on China, almost never worth it...

Some updates on the teardown and rat findings...

I'm going to try to find something to replace these rubber rings in between the handle assembly. Are they just for cushion and as a stopper? They're deteriorated at this point so I don't know how hard they were in the beginning.

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Also, when cleaning areas like the assembly for the handle should I use degreaser? And when I put this back together should there be any lubricant around this white ring?

So I've been looking and it seems there's a bunch of different options on cleaning. I see people putting wire harnesses in the dishwasher and washing boards with alcohol. I'm left feeling pretty unsure.. Especially for this piece. It obviously needs a good cleaning do I just take isopropyl alcohol and a toothbrush and do my best replacing the fuses as well?

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How you know?

Agreed. I've reached out to a locale retro arcade that do their own repairs i was told.

So I replaced the bumpers and painted these two sides. Should I use any grease or any type of lubricant on this plastic wheel where it hits up against the plates?

Also inside it appears that the only place there was lubricant was on the large Springs there's a bit of Grease. Is that the only place that I should lubricate and if so just general grease or something specific?

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Just posting a few new pics to keep up with my post on the other forum. Installed the cross member and did some painting today

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Thanks, I did reach out to them and they put me in touch with John at Eldorado. I'm going next week out there to drop off the mainboard along with the audio regulator. He said he wants to look at those two and also get me a new Big Blue

Short update with a little heartbreak. I dropped off the main board and regulator/audio at El Dorado Games this week. Pretty cool that they’re just 30 min away. Saw some amazing games in their shop too. They said the boards look good and are going to just check out the two errors I have. I'll also replace big blue. I'll be doing a few things to the inside of the cabinet too on their suggestion, more on later. For now, my heartbreak. I began the touch up paint on the main outside panels and the black trim. I masked off one section, painted it and then painted the next by hand. After seeing that I was able to do without the masking I continued by hand for the other side of the cabinet. Then, I removed the masking only to have a big section tear away. So dumb. I had no idea that this might happen, just wasn’t thinking. The trim looks pretty good after my fillers and paint but check out the end side of the death star....

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Oh and before i forget, John and El Dorado showed me that all but two of my parts are original to this cabinet. The Reg/Aud and the ampliphone board are from an upright but the rest all have the same serial number. I did not know that the "SD" and "UR" meant anything particular.

I am still waiting on my boards back from El Dorado. He said maybe later this week. In the meantime I have been working on the cabinet. I'll share an updates. At the suggestion of John at ED I bought two new fans for the cabinet. I spliced the original wires and made a Y with new plugs and all. I placed the second fan under the top vent to be an exhaust for the heat that rises in the cabinet. Hopefully the sounds are not bad. These were rated pretty quiet.

I also spent much of my time trying to figure out a new shroud. I bought, cut and was ready to install a black paper I bought at Michaels, but didn’t like it. So, I decided to use a material from Walmart, cost $5 total, and seems to be very durable. But, I struggled with how I would keep it taut. So then I thought about a frame around the monitor. I built the frame, used 4 L brackets so I could really pull on it and it ended up ok. Here are some pics.

I also bought a new power cord and got that ready. I plan on installing the monitor cover, yoke and overhead glass tonight. Then I’ll just be waiting on the boards to be ready.

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