2013-06-19, 07:30 PM
That really classy- reminds me of the local dough-nut shop when I was a kid where they had a cocktail machine with Frogger. Spent more quarter there than I care to admit :sick[1]:
Tim Lindquist (KF2 artist) is really into arcade cabinet games too. He has a site dedicated to preserving and restoring cabinets and their motherboards. I learned an interesting thing on his site. Evidently, some game board makers back then stored part of the game's programming in a battery-powered RAM chip, so when the battery died, the code was lost and machine was dead for good unless you sent it to the manufacturer for repair. Enthusiasts have tried to find and preserve copies of those lost chunks so that the dead motherboards aren't gone for good. 
Tim Lindquist (KF2 artist) is really into arcade cabinet games too. He has a site dedicated to preserving and restoring cabinets and their motherboards. I learned an interesting thing on his site. Evidently, some game board makers back then stored part of the game's programming in a battery-powered RAM chip, so when the battery died, the code was lost and machine was dead for good unless you sent it to the manufacturer for repair. Enthusiasts have tried to find and preserve copies of those lost chunks so that the dead motherboards aren't gone for good.