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A follow up question...
I am kind of leaning towards making the control panel look like a giant old Atari 2600. I was thinking of seeing if someone makes a modern version of the 'reset switch' from the Atari 2600.
They look like a toggle switch, but act like a button - thinking of using something like that in place of 'coin' and 'player' buttons. Sorry, but I am not versed on the technical term for this.

The original switches and anything you'll find off-the-shelf will look really tiny on a 4P control panel.

A scaled-up replica would probably work.

Just spitballing here, but you might be able to combine some (3/8" or 1/2"?) aluminum round stock, a 3d printed sled to hold the round stock, a 3d printed frame for the sled to slide in, a bunch of small bearings (8-10 of them?) like these so the sled glides smoothly in the frame, an extension spring to pull the sled back when the lever is released, and a roller lever arm microswitch that the sled activates when it is full-forward.

Another option would be to use some 4" drawer slides like these for the sled/frame/bearings.


Scott
EDIT: Found some 2.75" slides here.

A follow up question...
I am kind of leaning towards making the control panel look like a giant old Atari 2600. I was thinking of seeing if someone makes a modern version of the 'reset switch' from the Atari 2600.
They look like a toggle switch, but act like a button - thinking of using something like that in place of 'coin' and 'player' buttons. Sorry, but I am not versed on the technical term for this.

You'll want to look for a "momentary slide switch" or "momentary spring-return slide switch".  Good luck on finding a stock one with the same appearance, however. 

Probably already been mentioned, but the joysticks are oriented wrong on all those.
See pic in my signature and almost all original 4 player arcade panels.
It's counterintuitive, but people will naturally move the joystick in the same physical direction they want the character on screen to go.
Everything on old arcade cabinets was to make money.  If people had a better experience and dropped more quarters in machines with angled joysticks you can be assured they would have been made that way.
People can adjust to it being angled if they use it regularly, but THEY HAVE TO ADJUST.  They don't have to adjust if the joystick is parallel with the screen.

Notice on Gauntlet that "UP" is labeled.

Try uninstall driver in safe mode.

A follow up question...
I am kind of leaning towards making the control panel look like a giant old Atari 2600. I was thinking of seeing if someone makes a modern version of the 'reset switch' from the Atari 2600.
They look like a toggle switch, but act like a button - thinking of using something like that in place of 'coin' and 'player' buttons. Sorry, but I am not versed on the technical term for this.

Try a factory reset

Bingo! That worked like a charm, thanks Megatouchmike!

Oh, and the reason the original quote looked retarded?.turns out there was some sort of translational problem between their PC and my android phone. The original artwork was fine 😄

Inspection is happening in a week or so, then if all goes well, test flying.
Before the inspection, I had to have a stainless steel identity plate made. I hunted around for someone to make one. Oh cool, there's a place only a few hundred metres from work. I go there and and am immediately treated like I'm a door to door salesman or summink. I tell them what I need. Oh, you'll need to email us the details. But I'm right here! No mind, I go outside and then email them 🙄

They send me back a quote and a PDF mockup. $89. It looks ---smurfing--- RETARDED. Faaark, how hard could it be? I email them back to say the C's look like G's, can we just go with a simple sans serif? Next sample almost looked worse! I get the picture, I thought to myself. They don't want to do business with me. If it were me I would say so, or st least say there's a minimum order.

So I hunt around online. Find a place, $55. But it's a long way away so I'd miss a weekend. Then I think hey, I deliver mail to a sign writer, maybe they can help? I go see them. They say they've got a guy. She opens an email from them . It's my --missioncontrols-- from before! We agree it would be funny if I ordered through the sign writer. They would know it's me. Sign writer would play dumb. We go ahead. Then I get a quote from the sign writer. $150! Too late now, I don't want to reneg on them since they helped me with other stuff on the plane. But THEN they say it won't be ready until next Monday. I tell them Monday might as well be Friday since I can get it express post from the other guys for half the price. Suddenly it is possible. But can I go pick it up.

Sigh... So I swallow my pride and pick it up. We don't say a word to each other

These are the sorts of fun times I've had over the years with this stupid plane.

I tell people now, if they want to take up project management as a hobby, build a kit plane 😄

I like how the CAP KIT pic is of resistors 😄

I'm very jealous of your skills fixing this stuff 🧐

You'll have everything you need here: https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/os.html#rpi-update