Hey all - after months and months of scouring my local used market I have finally managed to pick up an old arcade cabinet and am very excited !!
The marque lights up and the coin mechanism works but the monitor is not working at the moment. When you start it up you can hear the gameplay sounds and you can hear it when you insert a coin but there is no picture. The guy I bought it off of said it was working last week when it was at his friends place but it stopped working when they moved it to his place.
Regardless I am excited about getting this thing back to a good working condition as the cabinet is in okay shape but is beat up a little around the edges.
Now my questions are :
1) what cabinet do you think this was originally for ? I know the game inside is P-47 but I don't think the cabinet is a P-47 original. At least I don't think so from the pictures I found online.
2) is there anything I can look for specifically with the monitor to try and get it working ? My GF's son likes to tinker with electronics and has picked up a few old TV's in the past and fixed them up so this would be right up his alley. The guy I bought it off of mentioned something about it holding a charge even though its not plugged in, is there something I need to do before we can work on it ?
3) if I don't get the monitor working I would try and sell off the motherboard and supply as I will probably put my own guts inside - would these be worth something on the used market ?
Thanks for any help you can offer - here are the pics !
https://imgur.com/a/ciNV7b4Sorry I cant seem to insert the pics but here is a link to Imgur.