Repairing a Bally Midway SPY HUNTER Arcade Game from 1983 - 1

Repairing a Bally Midway SPY HUNTER Arcade Game from 1983 - 1 - Tracking through the Power Flow

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@LyonsArcade 4 жыл бұрын

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@kellingc 10 ай бұрын

Thanks! Spy hunter has to be one of my top five games from my childhood in the 80's Thank you you for posting this.

@mangosweet4971 3 жыл бұрын

The arcade in my location had an enclosed sit down version of the game which made playing/driving abit more realistic and possibly helped to achieve higher scores. Great old game and great video, thank you.

@LyonsArcade 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks mango, we appreciate you watching!

@pcachu 4 жыл бұрын

Spy Hunter was my absolute fave back in college. One of the arcades down by campus had one that spent no small amount of time with the dreaded Out Of Order sign on it. The manager was able to mitigate the problem by moving the machine closer to his office; according to him, there was some jackhole who would just lean his full weight on one side of the steering wheel until the pin snapped. This has been another chapter in the ongoing saga of Why We Can't Have Nice Things.

@LyonsArcade 4 жыл бұрын

People breaking things just for the hell of it , that's horrible!

@diamondstar1200 3 жыл бұрын

I love this game. When I was a child my heart would skip a beat when I saw that an arcade had Spy Hunter. Great video! Thank you.

@LyonsArcade 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Mark!

@tommyhatcher3399 3 жыл бұрын

That replacement sign is historical in its own way. One of a kind. If I was a collector I'd leave it.

@LyonsArcade 3 жыл бұрын

It's pretty cool, definitely!

@tommyhatcher3399 3 жыл бұрын

@@LyonsArcade I mean, they call the arcade a "coin video." That's "Atari program cartridge" levels of awesome.

@johnfosteriii5792 4 жыл бұрын

I've worked on this game many times when I worked in any arcade, both the stand up and sit down version. Loved playing this game

@LyonsArcade 4 жыл бұрын

I haven't had one of the sitdowns yet!

@johnfosteriii5792 4 жыл бұрын

@@LyonsArcade I worked in an Aladdin's castle in the mid 80's. I was the sole tech for three different stores and well over 350 games. Didn't mind going into work early or sticking around a bit afterwards. lol

@melanatedprose9134 4 жыл бұрын

Great video and I enjoyed playing this game back in the day. This seems among your most difficult repair jobs. But watching these video are educational and fascinating. I know what sprites means now besides sodas. On to part 2, you can do it-lol!

@LyonsArcade 4 жыл бұрын

You can do it! :) Thanks for watching Melanated prose, we appreciate it. On to part 2!

@danijelcar5184 6 жыл бұрын

Nice Spy Hunter game, in the past I had a old Italian Tecnoplay X Force pinball machine that have theme from Spy Hunter also ...

@LyonsArcade 6 жыл бұрын

Wow that is a really cool game, I've never heard of it, or the company before. Looks really fun.

@danijelcar5184 6 жыл бұрын

Joe's Classic Video Games Yes nice game , this company was owner of Italian Pinball company Zaccaria 😀

@danijelcar5184 6 жыл бұрын

Joe's Classic Video Games en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaccaria_(company)

@LyonsArcade 6 жыл бұрын

I've heard of Zaccaria but never heard of Tecnoplay before, pretty cool.

@Blutnase 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to share this essential information. It is clear and informative. Looking forward to further progress on your restoration of this.

@LyonsArcade 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Blutnase!

@Kirkland-rv5jf 4 жыл бұрын

Spy hunter must be the hardest arcade game ever!

@LyonsArcade 4 жыл бұрын

If it isn't it's damn close :)

@FunBubble 6 жыл бұрын

awesome! theres a power supply conversion kit for spyhunter that costs 45 bucks. the kit lets u use a modern switching power supply. it eliminates the old suitcase and secondary power board. i have a dead spyhunter cab thats been sitting for a decade and sometime soon i plan to get it working so i really like the videos you are making here. thanks.

@LyonsArcade 6 жыл бұрын

I've never had any luck with those switcher kits on MCR games.... the MCR stuff has a weird issue where static throws up on the screen when the screens change, and lots of buzzing in the audio.... with the switcher kit, sometimes you get a problem where when the lights on spy hunter light up on the bezel, it makes the audio buzz. I just rebuild the original stuff which is fairly reliable (for instance, this power supply is still working from 1983!) and it seems to work much better.

@rickfisher8974 6 жыл бұрын

Please light the inside of your cabinets up for us. Still an extraordinary video as always.

@LyonsArcade 6 жыл бұрын

I'll try Rick to get it more lighted, production value is not my strong suit :)

@ed150arcade2 6 жыл бұрын

I've gotta a Spy Hunter pin. Would love to have that baby next to it 😎

@LyonsArcade 6 жыл бұрын

Start saving, and rent that uhaul :)

@markchenery7837 6 жыл бұрын

Great! Thank for this vid. I’m trouble shooting my SH which has no sound effects from the SSIO board. Looking fwd to the next episode...

@LyonsArcade 6 жыл бұрын

Coming soon :)

@georgeshelton6281 Жыл бұрын

Like I've said it before: Spy Hunter is sure to certainly much better than Rally X. Knowing that it's more sophisticated. The video arcade game machines side art is a little more realistic looking.

@Jamesamong007 6 жыл бұрын

that buzzing sound always scares me, you never know if the power is going pop off or not. I had a TV once that after a year or so it began making that noise, then one day after a few minutes of being on there was a loud POP like a small light bulb breaking and it instantly turned off.

@LyonsArcade 6 жыл бұрын

Probably blew up a capacitor or something :) With me It doesn't bother me too much because i'm pretty confident I can fix it if it breaks... and like you see, I'd already looked everything over one at a time so I was pretty confident it wouldn't break anything. In this case the hum was because the cap in the power supply was so old that it was allowing ac voltage through the dc circuit, makes everything hum.

@thekingflatland 6 жыл бұрын

Great video! Im anxious to see the rest of the repairs

@LyonsArcade 6 жыл бұрын

Coming soon :)

@bobbyjack8033 6 жыл бұрын

WANT!! Yea without the batt on ps sometimes they won't boot or will but very weird. You can run a 5v jumper over to the + batt connection without the batt tho. Got a little AC ripple there but hey SHE BOOTED UP!! Replaced caps on the isso board if you have some audio popping going on later. Caps on audio amp not a bad idea either.

@LyonsArcade 6 жыл бұрын

There's something about the reset line and the battery line, the game will run fine without the battery but won't if the reset line is messed up. If the reset line is messed up, it will run fine if the battery line is fine. That's why a lot of people cut the reset line, if your battery is still installed (and working) it will boot the board. If the battery is dead, AND the reset section doesn't work, the board won't boot. Crazy. They're connected somehow on the gameboard, I tried to figure it out on the schematics one time but couldn't track it down.

@bobbyjack8033 6 жыл бұрын

Joe's Classic Video Games yea my Tron I cut battery out cause I had a replacement but took couple weeks to get to it. Every time I'd turn it on it would lock up with a blocky white screen but you coin up it would boot. Others it might act weird but still boot up. I put the battery in finally and has not done it since or last 50 start ups anyways

@tourstagez101 4 жыл бұрын

Rust on an arcade game?? Must have been down at that massive arcade down on Daytona Beach!

@LyonsArcade 4 жыл бұрын

Possibly! That arcade was so damn cool, they had everything. I remember they had a Dragon's Lair as late as 94 or so, and had a Nintendo Arm Wrestling, all kinds of stuff!

@hauntedspaceship4175 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome , I’m about to buy one in almost perfect condition in a couple weeks. What is a price range you think a nicely kept SH is worth? Also it has the piece that takes away the hum noise.

@LyonsArcade 4 жыл бұрын

We sold our last one for $1899 in our store, so you'd have to figure out from that price...

@Kevin-tz2lv 4 жыл бұрын

I want to buy s couple old games for my next house but if they break down, I have no idea who to call lol

@evilash570 6 жыл бұрын

Holy crap this looks like a nightmare to work on, but cool game nonetheless!

@LyonsArcade 6 жыл бұрын

It's not that bad, you just have to break it down into smaller bites....

@johanlaurasia 4 жыл бұрын

That's called color halftone printing

@SwedishEmpire1700 6 жыл бұрын

Man, do you have some projects to be done :P

@LyonsArcade 6 жыл бұрын

The ones you can see on camera are just a small, small, small portion of the ones we have, lol. Wait till you see the next one we're working on, talking about OLD!

@jasonbrindamour903 4 жыл бұрын

@@LyonsArcade Really cool... the business you created. Once people find out they "have a guy to call" then you get busy. How long have you been doing game repair and why did you start?