Scored a free game that would make baby Jesus cry

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And not for the right reasons......
I responded to an ad that popped up on my phone yesterday for a free arcade game one town over that the guy needed gone. From the pics I could tell it was a Sky Soldiers conversion and he said it did not work, but I did not know what it originally was. I knew it was a Midway cab and the shape was familiar.
I got there and the game was on his back deck. He said he had moved into his house a few months ago and he moved the game onto his back deck with no protection. The elements had really taken a toll, the cabinet is toast but I had hope for scavenging parts like the Midway coin door, and I had hopes that the board was still good.

This is what it looked like when I started the tear down today:

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I got to work on it today and the rotted back door assembly broke right off with minimal force. I took a peek inside and nearly got sick when I saw the following:

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Make that one less Tron that will ever be available in the world. Had he not left it outside for months it looked like it would have been a good restorable cab.

The only good things is that the Sky Soldiers PCB worked like a charm in one of my other cabs:

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The original wiring harness is still there though they did splice a switching power supply into it and rewired the control panel. I don't know if the monitor works or not. Hopefully the water did not damage it as I see no burn in. The power brick looks to have water damage unfortunately, but the coin bucket and door are still there which I will salvage.
 
I got to work on it today and the rotted back door assembly broke right off with minimal force. I took a peek inside and nearly got sick when I saw the following:

Well, now you'll be able to identify a converted Tron way before you find that tag, and get to be sick a lot sooner. Isn't that great? :D
 
Why would anyone convert a tron to anything else? I'm so confused...

As for the guy that you got it from the put this cab outside, he really needs one of these:

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I saw this ad, too. I thought about it just for the monitor, but even in that condition I wouldn't have the heart to take it to the dump.
Good luck with it.
 
I have seen this conversion before.
I say turn it in to a phone booth or a chair, or a phone booth chair.
 
I saw this ad, too. I thought about it just for the monitor, but even in that condition I wouldn't have the heart to take it to the dump.
Good luck with it.

Trust me, the entire cab is shot. What wasn't water logged had Carpenter ants and the game was full of Spiders. I discovered yesterday that the part below the control panel is still the Tron piece, they just put a sticker on top of it. I will salvage everything I can that is Tron that anyone can use.
 
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I have seen this conversion before.
I say turn it in to a phone booth or a chair, or a phone booth chair.

How about one pile of broken wood, one pile of metal and one pile of plastic and recycle appropriately? Had the thing not been left outside, there might be hope. Maybe not hope of being restored as a Tron but hope of being left intact or maybe multicaded.
 
That sticker (and lack of light hopefully) may have saved the lower marquee from fading. If that's the case you have a good part there, I might even be interested.
 
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