Recent content by mevans

Hello, I'm looking for a replacement control panel overlay and monitor bezel for my upright Defender game. I know there's a zillion places on the Internet that sell them..are there any particular good or bad places?

Hello, I replaced all boards in my Defender except for the sound board, and it played perfectly......for about a week. I went away for the weekend, and I returned to find that there is no longer any image whatsoever on the monitor. Help! Thanks, Mike Evans Richland, MI

I have not, but I will try so tonight. Is there any trick to that, other than going slowly so as to not crumble 25 year old parts?

Here's the deal with my new Defender game today: I replaced the ROM board that had never brought any screens up at all with the one that I just bought. It now cycles through all of the ROM/RAM/Video test stuff and everything checks out fine EXCEPT "Initial tests indicate ROM failure." I'm...

I've already done that: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6227238044 Frankly, I wasn't sure if that would be the cause of the problem, but thought I'd rather be safe than sorry. I haven't yet received these boards to try, and I just today got the game back to my house so I'm...

Hello, I've just acquired a Defender upright game that's been in my family for about ten years. It worked fine for a long time, but currently needs some first aid. When I turn it on, the screen only comes up as a series of vertical stripes and doesn't move past that. Occasionally, I get the...