Hey There! While I have no idea how I managed to fit these into the house, I picked up 2 driving games this weekend:

They are currently a couple of feet off the back wall. When I have them working we should actually be able to walk by them.

I got each one for $50 at an auction. They were both DOA. One had no neck glow on the monitor. It has power to it, and I’m guessing either the flyback and/or the HOT is dead. I’m going to do a cap kit and replace both and see if it brings it back to life. I had that game powered up for awhile and then heard it play blind (very loudly). The other game had a working monitor but the game board wasn’t working. It had a code 88 showing on its test LEDs. I couldn’t find any info online about that, and I don’t have a manual to go by.

I tried the PCB from the one that plays blind and that also gave a code 88 when in the other cabinet. It turned out to be a bad power supply. It was putting out only 3 volts. I swapped power supplies and the one on the right booted up to a test screen. It wouldn’t come out of test mode, and had this on the screen:

At first, I wasn’t sure what test switch the error referred to. There is a momentary switch on the PCB labeled “Test SW” but pressing that did nothing. I then realized they must be talking about the switches inside the coin door:

Both of those switches are broken. When I got it, there was a red plastic button inside the top one and nothing in the bottom one. While trying to fix this, the red button fell out. I figured I better replace the buttons and I found matching ones at Radio Shack. There were 4 in one package, (2) red and (2) black for about $4.

Someone beat the hell out of the coin door and the box that the coin box goes inside in order to get access to the game without a key. The coin door box wasn’t even attached to the coin door anymore, it was just sitting inside the cabinet. I removed the coin door and pulled the box out. Here’s what I found around back:

They jammed the box up against the inside of the cabinet, bending over the leads on the buttons and shorting them out. I replaced the buttons, and the game works fine. Its a pretty fun game, but I suck at it. My wife is pretty good however.

The steering wheel for the one on the right is worn out and wobbly even though I tightened it. It is also extremely sticky from years of pizza grease and coke. I ordered 2 new matching steering wheels.

Both of these games had tokens from Chuck E Cheese inside. One had a picture of a kid and his (grand)father next to a giant plastic Chuck E Cheese head (scary!). Maybe its a picture of you?? If I figure out where the picture went I’ll post it. Maybe we can identify them.

The one on the left was missing a backdoor, so I made one out of 3/4″ plywood to keep the cats out:

I’m working on wiring up a computer power supply for this one, and will order the parts soon to work on the monitor. I have to fix these in a hurry as they are in the way big time.