Can somebody give me a short summary of what this is all about? I missed the ENTIRE thing.

Also, are these games just super prone to breaking and going extinct? Struggling to think why multiple groups of people are restoring 4 games at once each. What's the benefit to doing more than 1? Preservation? Or you need to piece them together to use parts - like 1 good one for every two?

I left when these games were just coming out so this is all super confusing. I snooped around Pinside and got the general idea but there's no big announcement or anything so it's been hard to figure out.

Yes, but the thread obviously appeared before whatever happened happened and turned from usual troubleshooting of games from any manufacturer into the a desperate scavenge for info and parts from the looks of it.

As I said, the info was so scattered out it's not easy to figure out what's going on - and I've never heard of that site.

Thanks everybody else for the warm welcome back!