Game stupid moments

[lilshawn]

Anybody have absolutely stupid moments with arcade machines or pinballs where you swear you had an IQ of 10.

Just as an example, today I was out fixing route machines. I had to take the back off this machine and it was a tight squeeze back there between the machines, so i pull out the machine about 3 feet and squeeze my butt back there. I take off the service door and and lean it on the side of the machine next to the one i'm working on.

so i do my fixing and get out...check the monitor...do a few adjustments...reset the scores etc. I then go to push the machine back. I'm pushing and pushing but the machine won't go back. so i pull it out and look back behind the unit... cords not in the way or anything.  So i push it back again and it stops again. What the hell? look again...don't see anything.

so i decide to pull the machine all the way out. BANG! huh?!?!

I look, and the door had fallen over. I FORGOT TO PUT THE !@#$ING DOOR BACK ON THE CABINET. It was wedged between the wall and the cabinet. In the 4 some odd times i looked back there i hadn't noticed the HUGE GAPING HOLE in the back of the cabinet.

sometimes I wonder about myself.

[CheffoJeffo]

Anybody have Everybody has absolutely stupid moments with arcade machines or pinballs where you swear you had an IQ of 10.

FTFY

[Ansa89]

Don't worry: you are not alone .

[ChadTower]

One time I was moving a Sys7 pin from one building to another.  Easy enough job, pull the head, move the pieces, put the head back on, reconnect it, turn it on.  Except when I turned it back on I let the magic smoke out of everything on a game that had been just fine an hour ago.

Turns out on Sys3-7 games the high voltage playfield connector and the low voltage playfield connector are the same size and shape.  They are supposed to be color coded but frequently they messed that up at the factory or just made them all the same color.  I didn't match up the wire color.  Instead I fed the solenoid current into the logic boards and blew the top of half the chips on my driver board and some on the CPU board.

[yotsuya]

One time I was moving a Sys7 pin from one building to another.  Easy enough job, pull the head, move the pieces, put the head back on, reconnect it, turn it on.  Except when I turned it back on I let the magic smoke out of everything on a game that had been just fine an hour ago.

Turns out on Sys3-7 games the high voltage playfield connector and the low voltage playfield connector are the same size and shape.  They are supposed to be color coded but frequently they messed that up at the factory or just made them all the same color.  I didn't match up the wire color.  Instead I fed the solenoid current into the logic boards and blew the top of half the chips on my driver board and some on the CPU board.

Ugh! That one's rough because unless you knew what you were looking for, there's no way you'd know.

[ChadTower]

Yep.  I learned that day to always match the wire colors and not the connector sizes.