Monitor issue or game board..picture shown ..please help

[taggsta]

This is a bootleg Pacman but some of the text is missing and the screen has vertical red blurr going down.

Any help would be great.

Thanks.

[SirPeale]

I'm thinking 'both.'  Looks like your red is turned up too high, and you have some gameboard problems.

[Ken Layton]

The 'warping' by the word credit indicates that your monitor is in need of a capkit. The "black level" (a.k.a. brightness) is set too high and needs to be turned down. Color adjustments on the neckboard are NOT the problem. Looks like you probably have a Wells-Gardner 4600 series monitor judging by the picture.

[taggsta]

The monitor has a SANYO lable on it.

Any idea where the machine has come? Japan ?

Some of the board chips are phillipines and Malaysia, are they the boot leg chips?

[Ken Layton]

Pictures of the machine and the back of the monitor please (small file size for us on dialup).

[taggsta]

Ive put up a lot of photos on my blog page www.taggsta.spaces.live.com

Thanks for the info so far, really interesting getting info on a machine thats been in someones garage for 10 years.

[SirPeale]

Still need pics of the back of the monitor.  The chassis.

[grantspain]

although there were many bootleg pacman copies many of them were perfectly reliable.
a machine of your age will without doubt need a full recap of the monitor chassis,a good clean of the game board edge connectors and prom legs and a very serious look at the power supply(dry joints,bad caps etc)
good luck