I was thinking the same thing yesterday, when I was granted the day to go out and work on my games to get them ready for a New Year's Eve gathering..
My TRON spinner has officially stopped working altogether. I checked all of the wires and molex connectors, nothing brought it back. So, I'm guessing it's the optical sensor board that is shot. While checking everything, I figured I would test my "backup board set" that I'd bought in supposed working condition... Well, it doesn't work. The boardset powers up, but you just get a garbled screen. So, I removed those boards and put the original working boardset back in. Well now that boardset isn't booting up. !@#$)(#$)@#$()@#$
I put everything back together and moved to my Omega Race game- I knew it didn't have working boards, but the light in the lower marquee was only partially lighting up. I opened up the front so I could swap out the bulb and, the the bulb fixture in that lower marquee is a nightmare. I had to remove the marquee AND the lighting assembly, just to get the bulb swap done! It was actually the starter in the fixture that was the problem, but I figured since I had it apart I would do both at once. But, while working on that, my Sorcerer pin was going psycho!!! In attract mode it makes some noises to tempt you to come play, but the volume when in attract mode sounds like it's going to blow out the speaker. I went over and turned down the volume pot, but it made no difference. I played one game of pinball, and for whatever reason that managed to temporarily correct the sound problem and put everything back to normal. But hearing that deafening attract mode, after the dying TRON issue, and the Omega Race light bulb fixture fiasco, I wasn't feeling like I was having much good luck out in the Garcade!
The only good twist of luck I had was I managed to get the 906 bulbs that I needed for my T2 machine, and found where they were located in the machine and swapped them out. I LOVE the game with the "hit" effects working! All 8 bulbs were shot and needed to be replaced. I was terrified when having to pull out the upper mirrored glass, so I can see why the techs never replaced those! But that was the one piece of good luck I had.
I'm so happy that my TRON decided to take a dump just before the year that the new movie comes out.
