3.5 years later, same segment went dead again and took its friend top segment with it.
Replaced the resistor again and that segment was resolved.
Top segment was a little weird, resistor looked and tested okay. Reflow of everything did nothing.
I looked at the schematics and saw there are two chips that player 1, 2, and ball/credit have in common. I looked over a data sheet and noticed this game only uses 6 lines of the 7 segment driver. (No commas) so I jumped the dead input and output to the respective unused pins.
Replaced the resistor because why not.
Lasted about five hours before an entire digit on player 2 and 4 disappeared.
More drama, next post.