Interesting surprise inside a "Test Your Memory".

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I picked up this generic "Test Your Memory" trade stim a while back. It was a low priority project, in unknown condition, so it sat around for, *check's watch*, a couple of years... Well, it was a slow weekend, with my wife out of town, so I figured I'd see what I could accomplish towards getting it clean and working (it was really filthy). Turned out to be mostly working, just needing some tweaking of the coin acceptor, several burned out bulbs, and the removal of copious amounts of soda residue. The funny thing was, when I opened it up to see what was what, I found that whoever made these silly things, used an ACTUAL PCB from the Pocket Simon game from Milton Bradley. It even still has the branding on it. They just soldered wires to the button pads. To be fair, there is a whole second board in there to handle credits and scoring, but make no mistake, the "game" is literally Simon.
 

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Well, that's one way to increase the value of a Simon game by 1,000 %.

Good detective work! Now you have to find a Simon in a thrift store so you have "spare parts?" :ROFLMAO:
 
It totally is! I cleaned the dried soda off, but left it otherwise.
 
It looks like crediting and scoring are handled by the other board. Not My guess is, after the coin mech indicates a con has been inserted, the larger board "presses" the start button on the Simon board.
 

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It looks like the coin counter wire may be cut.

If I'm seeing the board correctly, the game board is the green board. I can see the touch pads being soldered to. The light tan board is the coin counter and has the transformer to power the green board I believe.
 
It looks like the coin counter wire may be cut.

If I'm seeing the board correctly, the game board is the green board. I can see the touch pads being soldered to. The light tan board is the coin counter and has the transformer to power the green board I believe.

wow real sherlock holmes over here.
 
The cut wire you're seeing is actually for the light on top of the game. The play meter is working as expected. 20231007_164328(1).jpg
 
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