Purchased locally in March 2004. It was non-working
and in rough cosmetic shape. The good thing is that it came with a
spare populated playfield, a spare MPU, spare driverboard, and spare power
supply, none of which worked however. I was able to rebuild a good PS
with all the parts.
The edge connectors needed new pins, and the MPUs didn't
work. It took me about 40 hours of troubleshooting with a DMM, logic
probe, and oscilloscope to get one of the MPUs running. A lot of this
time was spent soldering and de-soldering those darn spider-chips.
After I got it running I zapped (with 12 Volts) the displays to make them
bright again and it worked great. I swapped the playfields because the
spare one was much nicer.
I shopped it, and tried the magic eraser on the playfield
since it was in sad shape with hundreds of swirl marks. Well the
results were amazing. Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures so the
only pic I have is my test on the spare playfield (the last 3 pics down
below). I tried with water and alcohol and water is the way to go.
Alcohol pulls the paint off.
I bought the PI-1 MPU for it and it was amazing! The
new ruleset and high score table just makes the game so much better..
I sold the machine at the Allentown convention
2004.