Gremlin FROGS!

SlikkNikk

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I bought this game recently after playing it at Grinkers. It was bought non working. I've decided to start going through it and cleaning it up.

Overall it's a fairly clean machine for it's age. Appears to be all original. About 17k plays on the counter unless it's rolled.

Here are the pics of when I received the game:







 
Got a chance to open it up last night. Plugged it in and got no lights (interior or marquee).



Decided to change bulbs for both.



Still didn't work - found the culprit:



After a new starter - Let there be light!





Still need to change the front bulb here - finally figured out how to get the bezel off to work on it. Here's a quick pic of what's showing up on screen:

 
Man, this thing needs some serious elbow grease.

Used a Scotch Brite sponge pad and Simple Green.

Before:





After:



 
I could hear attract mode sounds - started fiddling with the monitor controls and got the picture to come up! Seems to be something loose somewhere - when fired up game will make a white noise sound, or image will be frozen/jumbled on screen - then every once in a while it will boot up fine! After turning it on/off around 10 times, it comes up fine. Will have to figure out the issue, but for now I'm thrilled to be able to play a game - especially one that was bought non working!





My son got in a game too!





Figured out the rear bulb was supposed to be a black light - so switched it up.







 
only ever played this a million years ago in mame. had no idea how cool it looked with the overlay and everything. great looking game for sure!
 
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