Sinistar Original Serial # Board Set Question

heath

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I am nearing the completion of my Sinistar restoration and have a few questions for the boards. I put in a working non matching serial # board set and everything works great. The original matching serial # boards to my cabinet were pulled out as they had ROM issues. Should I spend the money to have them repaired and put back in? or sell to recoup money for the working set? Does it really matter value wise if the original boards are in place? What do you guys think? Am i just being anal?
 
I am nearing the completion of my Sinistar restoration and have a few questions for the boards. I put in a working non matching serial # board set and everything works great. The original matching serial # boards to my cabinet were pulled out as they had ROM issues. Should I spend the money to have them repaired and put back in? or sell to recoup money for the working set? Does it really matter value wise if the original boards are in place? What do you guys think? Am i just being anal?

I could care less if a game has matching serial numbers or not. That's more of a car collector thing, so to answer your question...no.

In rare cases like a low production number game like War of the Worlds or Quantum or a prototype game I could see this maybe being important to a high end collector but not for an average machine.
 
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Unless you have a prototype or a serial number of 0001 then the whole matching numbers thing doesn't really mean a thing.
 
I am not sure early williams games had matching serial numbers. I don't think until maybe star rider, turkey shoot, mystic marathon, joust II did the pcbs start having a unique serial numbers to match the cabinet. I think only atari tagged their early games with matching serial numbers..

As for game value, I can't imagine it would add much to it(especially on a common game). Still, I would try to fix the orignal board. Maybe buy a board and once its fixed swap it back.
 
Heh.. I've bought and sold dozens of Williams games over the last 15+ years. In that time, not one person asked if the game had all matching serial numbered parts..

These arent corvettes, just arcade games..

Just had a funny argument the other day about "keeping a game 100% original". Dude has a game that's got it's original monitor in it.. Bad burn, plus its kinda a shitty chassis. So I offer him a newer rebuilt wells chassis with remote pcb, new donor tube installed.. Amazing picture and it's pretty bulletproof.. He tells me how horrible it would be to remove the "original" monitor as its just the way it was made from the factory..

I argue, did the horrible joust burn come with it from the factory? How about the black crusty chassis that's held together with tape and glue? Heh.. I just don't get it.. As I've slowly replaced all the original monitors in my collection with more modern k7xxx's with remote pcbs and donor tubes.. Every game has an amazing picture and it's easy to adjust them from the coin door with the remote..

Oh, guess I'm ranting.. Heh
 
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