Gremlin Tenpin wall game

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Picked this up. Came with one remote, an extra set of PCBs and the manual/schematics. Doesn't play yet, haven't looked at anything yet. Sound is out, power switch toggle broken but it powers on as soon as you plug it in, controller in unknown state, I heard it didn't work. Game turns on but I don't think it goes into a proper attract mode, I think it just lights up and isn't actually operational. There's very little info about these that I've found so far so if there's interest I'll post pictures as I clean and restore it. If any experts want to explain anything to me, I know nothing about this and want to know everything. Is the styrofoam under the main screen that surrounds the lights supposed to be glued to the underside of the screen printing? Because it is, is that correct? Seems wrong.
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The Gremlin is more complex than an earlier Midway version. The Styrofoam focuses the light beam and did not originally stick to the lid. My history is on the Midway version buy I can help where I can.
 
Thanks, it's weird to me that it's so obscure. And when I look up the Gremlin games, it seems like the other titles pop up in results or videos, but not so much this one.
 

This site above looks like the only online resource for this game genre and it looks like no one has really preserved any info on Tenpin in particular. They only wrote like 3 or 4 sentences about it with one stock photo ~20 years ago and that pretty much makes up the entire library of info on this title online. I'll probably try to document what I can here.

It said somewhere that these games over time were mostly being tossed out once the remote control box was lost, broken, or stolen, which must have happened easily, so that's supposedly the fate of all the wall games? VAPS says I'm the only person claiming to own a Tenpin, I found some forums from years ago where people mention they might have one on a warehouse shelf maybe, but no one is working on them or sharing photos, so I'll try to do that here.

I don't have a coin box for it, if anyone has any parts at all let me know. This thing is literally just one huge 5'x3' PCB on back, it's amazing, I'll document when I can to show it off to the disinterested hordes but I'm battling a busy schedule these days and there's really no time for obscure BS like this but I'll force it eventually.
 

This site above looks like the only online resource for this game genre and it looks like no one has really preserved any info on Tenpin in particular. They only wrote like 3 or 4 sentences about it with one stock photo ~20 years ago and that pretty much makes up the entire library of info on this title online. I'll probably try to document what I can here.

It said somewhere that these games over time were mostly being tossed out once the remote control box was lost, broken, or stolen, which must have happened easily, so that's supposedly the fate of all the wall games? VAPS says I'm the only person claiming to own a Tenpin, I found some forums from years ago where people mention they might have one on a warehouse shelf maybe, but no one is working on them or sharing photos, so I'll try to do that here.

I don't have a coin box for it, if anyone has any parts at all let me know. This thing is literally just one huge 5'x3' PCB on back, it's amazing, I'll document when I can to show it off to the disinterested hordes but I'm battling a busy schedule these days and there's really no time for obscure BS like this but I'll force it eventually.
PCB is pretty big, I have a Trapshoot wall game. Windex bottle for scale:

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Nice! I love how the regular full size game PCBs are just treated like daughter cards for the main light board, it dwarfs them.
 
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