Howdy folks!
Another lengthy, pic-intensive restoration project of Sega's Turbo. A lot of people think this is a terrible game, but I played it many times at my local ice cream parlor growing up…and can still smell the ice cream even playing it now! The tough part about this restoration was the fact that there aren't any repro parts out there. This might be old hat to most of you, but it was a new to me after restoring Tron, 720, Discs of Tron and Pac-Man. I started off with a decent non-working cab with the 16" monitor that was given to me for free from a local member! Well, I gave him $40 for his trouble and gas for delivering it to me. This is what I received:
Not in terrible shape, but it was missing the gauges, shift knob, and lower coin door. The wheel was bent, had a melted control panel, non-working "marquee" light, plywood/artwork was peeling and had graffiti, and the inside was a total rust fest with few of the other little lights working. I had no clue if it even played blind because the subwoofer cone was torn and when I tested the power supply it was all sorts of whacked out. And since everything runs off this weird 100V stuff, it wasn't going to be an easy fix.
Another lengthy, pic-intensive restoration project of Sega's Turbo. A lot of people think this is a terrible game, but I played it many times at my local ice cream parlor growing up…and can still smell the ice cream even playing it now! The tough part about this restoration was the fact that there aren't any repro parts out there. This might be old hat to most of you, but it was a new to me after restoring Tron, 720, Discs of Tron and Pac-Man. I started off with a decent non-working cab with the 16" monitor that was given to me for free from a local member! Well, I gave him $40 for his trouble and gas for delivering it to me. This is what I received:
Not in terrible shape, but it was missing the gauges, shift knob, and lower coin door. The wheel was bent, had a melted control panel, non-working "marquee" light, plywood/artwork was peeling and had graffiti, and the inside was a total rust fest with few of the other little lights working. I had no clue if it even played blind because the subwoofer cone was torn and when I tested the power supply it was all sorts of whacked out. And since everything runs off this weird 100V stuff, it wasn't going to be an easy fix.

