Electra Avenger - a game lost to time?

I have a chance to pick up a non working avenger. The owner said he turned the game on, the screen went bright for a moment, heard some speaker hum, then nothing. The cabinet has pretty substantial water damage.

I am having trouble finding any info on this game. There's only 3 entries in vaps. I'm not even sure what the gameplay is like. There's one video on YouTube but it's not a fully functional game.

Is there any hope bringing this back to life or will it end up getting parted out? Am I wasting my time and money... ok don't answer that.

Thoughts?

Thanks for uploading this. The one at banning might have a fighting chance to be fixed and played with..
 
I guess I should update the status on mine. I took it to our local repair party last month and with the expertise and assistance of the very patient ToledoFlyer, we were able to get it working 100%. Half of the main plane was a black rectangle. The rom for that half only had half of the the legs in the socket. Oops! Reseating that fixed the problem. Now I have a complete, great working game with a very ugly oatmeal cab...
 
Oh there was one other issue. The explosion sound was not working. The issue was traced to a bad cap on the pcb for that sound.
This game is so ancient that I should really replace all the caps.
 
I love the kooky graphics on this game. :D
The enemy planes coming at you look like hypodermic needles falling from the sky.
 
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