that is weird. Try reseating the interconnects between the middle and back pcbs. If that doesn't do it, send it back to me and i'll see whats going on.
nope, you can see the copyright text at the bottom is still good.
you got yourself some kind of a memory glitch or something. I don't know the extent of what goes wrong if the ribbon cables go bad, I've only ever known of the game just not working at all if they are.
Spy Hunter is one of those games where in the past I've had other peoples games not work and I went through the painstaking task of pulling all the boards apart and just pulling every chip, cleaning if needed, and seating them back in thoroughly. there's a lot of socketed chips, so it'll be a fun weekend project.