Arcade games-lover gives broken machines a new life

The passion started as a way to save money and has evolved.

[@ktcochran35620]

ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO GAME TECH. MUCH RESPECT.

[@The_Lord_has_it]

Back in the 90's I worked for an elections repair shop while going to college for electrical engineering and rebuilt hundreds of these along with poker machines. They're virtually identical inside. (Come to think of it, old bowling alley monitors are the same too.) Usually replacing all the electrolytic capacitors fixes em with occasional horizontal outputs/drivers and voltage regulators. Easy fixes.

[@PatrickScottPatterson]

Not quite. Something like Williams Defender is way different than Pac-Man inside, which is way different than Donkey Kong or Frogger is. The 1990s stuff tends to align a bit more, and what you say is somewhat accurate as it pertains to monitors, but not the mother boards, early power supplies, vector games, etc.

[@samamir8765]

They break over and over that’s why I don’t buy these arcade machines anymore your better off buying the new arcade machines made in 2004 last or Ks Pac-Man galaga 20th anniversary or a Pac-Man pixel or buy arcade 1 ups