The DT banks are fairly easy to find--I saw a marketplace ad today and a few listings on ebay. The in-line drop targets--those will be tought to find.

Put up WTB ads in the marketplace for the stuff you can't find. I've had good luck with that so far.

It wasn't the only game bally used them on (centaur, eight ball deluxe). Although, granted, I haven't done a side-by-side comparison to see if they are actually identical--they might be.

Plus, just use an altek boardset for the MPU, lamp, aux lamp, and solenoid driver boards, pick one of the producers of LED displays, a Rottendog rectifier board, and there's pretty much no software/hardware game development costs. Then it would just come down to BOM and labor costs.

[edit]: Almost forgot about the sound board:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/mypinballs-squawk-talk-sound-board-gordons-alive

ebay.com link: New Squawk Talk Sound Board by myPinballs In Stock

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Yeah, you're probably right about that.

I wonder if they would bother with licensing existing designs just for manufacturing or just redesign from scratch. Or, completely ditch the whole idea about compatibility with the original boardset and do something like WNBJM and drop their existing boardset into the game. It's not like recreating the rules and sounds would be too complicated for an early solid state game. The only thing would how the current boardest would handle LED displays, rather than a DMD/LCD.

For that one, I was mainly thinking about lighting display segments vs displaying dots/graphics. Someone did some work to come up with a custom add-on board for the P3-ROC boardset to drive an alphanumeric display, rather than a graphical display.

http://www.pinballcontrollers.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=sr0dqafe8h4m8l7kejmrsdmms2&topic=745.0