Last week I picked up a decent Frogger upright from Craigslist. I purchased it not working. The screen did come up solid green when I first turned it on, but now it is dead.  The cabinet is a little odd, because it is not the dedicated factory woodgrain. It has a light grey laminate surface. [...]

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Started working on the Tron cabinet today. I needed to disassemble it so I could paint it. Taking this thing apart will also make it much easier to clean thoroughly. This cabinet is probably the most complicated cabinet I’ve ever worked on. I took a few pictures along the way: Here is the art that [...]

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After working so much on my Tron lately, and not quite getting to 100% working status, I decided to take a break and work on something else. I have a Pole Position 2 that I want to get working, so I can either trade it or sell it to make room for my Donkey Kong [...]

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I wanted to provide a bit more detail on the switching power supply adapter that I purchased and installed. Tron and other Midway MCR platform games used similar power supplies. Twenty years later the problems like I have are the result of batteries being mounted on those power supplies. That problem in combination with the [...]

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Started working on my Tron a couple weeks ago. The first thing I needed to do is to make sure the board worked. I ran over to jsquared’s house (another collector in South Bend) to try it out in his cabinet. The board powered up to the Tron logo, but locked up when selecting a [...]

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