No no no, you just need a new varistor. It's a $1.00 part and it's that flat red, round component you can see that's scorched in your pics. That is designed to blow out during a power spike to prevent damage to the game. It will also also take out that line fuse you mentioned so you have to replace both at the same time. You can get these at radio shack. I have done this repair a handful of times and fortunately the games worked 100% after that.

Brian

I have only seen one kind at Radio Shack and they were the right ones every time. That type seem to be common and widely used, but there may be other types out there. The only rating is for a 120VAC circuit.

I'm curious about this. One of these devices could compensate to make an outlet that was dipping to say 114v - 116v to an even 120vac? I get some power draw issues in the summer from the neighborhood running the a/c and nobody has ever mentioned this as a solution in threads about this.

Thanks! I'll have to look into that then. It would probably be worth it for my more finicky games.