Hello all. I am looking at a Williams Phoenix. Guy wants a fair amount for the game and it won’t boot. He is telling me that it worked he moved it now it doesn’t work. You turn the game on and the displays light up. Player one scrolls thru some numbers with all other displays showing zeros. When it’s done it sits there and then starts the same sequence. Ideas on what is up with this?

Yea. He couldn’t get into the head tonight. I am going to see inside tomorrow. Do the batteries have to be good for game just too boot or for game to maintain high scores?

Thanks all! I didn’t get a chance to look at the game today. I have been looking into similar issues. All displays on this have zeros except p1. It has the scrolling number sequence. I’ll try to look at the game tomorrow and see if it has good batteries and or alkaline damage the cpu. Guess that will narrow it down. Guy wants 800 for the game. It’s complete and playfield looks nice. But cabinet needs some work. Game isn’t my thing, but if he comes down some and it’s not to bad to get running. Maybe I can get running and make a few bucks to get another project and save another game from being parted.

Finally got a chance to look at the Phoenix. Does not appear to have any corrosion from alkaline. Did not have a battery tester or meter with me but we changed the batteries and it still boots with the same weird sequence of numbers on P1. All other displays show 0000000. I am leaning twoards some sort of bad chip on the MPU. Turning on it on and off did not seem to make a difference. There is a socket under the battery box that looks like someone took it off with a crow bar. But looks like that socket is unpopulated anyway...

When we turned it on. Yes