Games bought non-working

Zinfer

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Well I finally got around to pulling the Gyruss cabinet out of the storage unit. Had to exchange it with the Warlords cabinet as I'm completely out of garage space. Need to collect parts for Warlords anyways.
I purchased this from 'Games people Play' a couple months back and it went directly to storage. The cord had the receptacle ripped off. I spent like 150 bucks on buying it non-working.
So the first thing I did was to trim the wires and install a new receptacle. Stood by the power button and crossed fingers on power up. Not expecting anything to work, just no fires or smoke or frying pcb's.
I looked everything over pretty good. Plugged in, powered on and heard the monitor static power up from behind. Still kept a watch on back, then I was stunned to hear Bach's Tocotta and Fugue. I was like what? I looked up front to find the monitor up and running and the game playing.
Wow. Never bought a game as non-working and it came right up. As I worked on a few things (the left speaker wasn't working) and cleaned I'm sure my entire neighborhood got it's earfull of disco-Bach.
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Great job -- my first fix was a big boost to my confidence. It is a LOT cheaper getting the broken games if you can get 'em going!
 
A long while back, well a couple months. I did take a look at the monitor in it, a 4900 before I stowed it away. So I placed an order for a cap kit for it, thinking that's pretty much a standard thing I do with new acquisitions.
Probably wouldn't hurt to install it. Yea the brightness is probably a bit up although I hadn't touched any monitor controls yet.
At the moment I'm tearing down a Star Wars yoke, but that's for another thread. Too many projects, not enough space!!
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Very cool! Gyruss is a great game. I got mine from a fellow klov member more than 10 years ago. I had to turn off the attract mode music, though. It gets to you after a while...
 
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