Evel Knievel
Bally, 1977
Fireball II
Bally, 1981
Flipper Clown
Gottlieb, 1962
High Speed
Williams, 1986
Revenge From Mars
Bally, 1999
Royal Flush
Gottlieb, 1976
Space Station
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Quoted from Arcade:So true.
We just moved a Xenon we are working on. It was booting perfectly.
We moved the machine from one side of the room to another on pinball skates, so it was smooth ride.
Now all I get is a loud hum from the speaker and the main board no longer boots up. Arrrrrrgh.
Are you sure that the outlet is grounded?
Quoted from Arcade:Funny you should mention that.
The section of the room that we moved it to still has wall outlets with no ground. So I had to use one of those little adapters to plug it in.
Did not realize that it would effect a 80's Bally that way so maybe that is it.
I have had other games plugged into that outlet with no issues in the past.
But I will run a cord to a properly grounded outlet tomorrow and see what happens before I start messing with the boards.
Yep, an adapter won't ground anything. And yep, see what happens with an actual grounded outlet.
Quoted from xTheBlackKnightx:Full suit of medieval armor.
There is more truth to that statement which some people know.
A lot of it.
Whenever I go outside, I make sure to use my human-sized gerbil ball. Then I am invincible.
Quoted from chuckwurt:Unless of course you have to go up a flight of stairs.
Go go gadget rocket boots. 
Quoted from SealClubber:Gameplan's connectors are use .084 pins and not .093.
As far as I can tell, they used the mate-n-lock connectors instead of molex.
Did someone convert the connectors over to molex, or did gameplan make a change with their later games?
Quoted from WJxxxx:You'll never learn to repair anything yourself if your first reaction is always to call for help
Well, there's a difference between asking for advice/guidance and asking someone to do it for you.
Quoted from anthony691:Lessons from my last project so far:
1) just because a game is working 90% doesn't mean the last 10% won't be a real pain
The last 10% is usually 90% of the work 
Switching the bulbs in my clip-on work lamps was the best thing I've done all week.
I had been using florescent bulbs, but was getting frustrated with the amount of time I had to take to determine wire colors. And since I have been tracing a considerable number of wires in a particular game to troubleshoot a problem, it was taking an excessive amount of time to do that.
So, I switched to a natural light LED bulb for one of the lamps. The light temperature made quite a difference (5000k and 1250 lumens). I can now tell what the wire colors are much more easily.
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