Weird Ms Pac Cocktail issue - picture color changing when opened

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Weird Ms Pac Cocktail issue - picture color changing when opened

I'm having a weird issue with my Ms Pacman cocktail. When I open the game and tilt the monitor out the picture is absolutely perfect. As I tilt the monitor back into the game the picture gets worse, loses a bit of focus, and the first board goes from being red to yellowish. Is this a monitor issue or is there some issue with the monitor coming closer to the transformer? On the cocktail the monitor neck sits pretty close to the transformer.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
 
Move the transformer and the speaker. Also check the video cable too. U could always cover them with a piece of lead bend too.
 
Get a degaussing coil.

This is the correct answer. Midway cocktails are especially bad about magnetic sensitivity to the earth's field and for some reason if they're powered on while open they seem to stick to that orientation.

Eventually they'll degause themselves but it will take a while since the built in coil only activates for a few seconds during power on, and it takes the thermistor 20 or so minutes to cool off enough to reactivate a second time. I use an old Radio Shack bulk tape eraser but degaussing coils are cheap enough online.
 
Got it! - thanks for the help. I had been powering it up with the game open the whole time. Just closed it up, powered it up that way and bingo! Thanks again for the help.
 
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