Most of the cabinets on our floor arrived in the back of a van, dusty, silent and missing at least one button. Each spends two to six weeks on the bench by the bar before it earns its place.
The screen
Old tube screens burn the game's score into the glass after years of the same picture. Where the tube is sound we rebuild the board behind it; where it is not, we fit a modern screen of the same shape so the game still looks the way it did.
The controls
Joysticks and buttons take the hardest beating. We fit new microswitches, new springs and new buttons in the original colours, and we test every one a hundred times before the cabinet goes back on the floor.
If a button feels mushy, tell the counter. Danny would rather hear about it today than read about it in a review.
The board
The board is the game itself. We clean it, replace the tired capacitors and check every chip. Some boards come back in an afternoon; one took us four months and a part from Osaka.
The artwork
We keep the original side art wherever it has survived, cleaned and sealed. Where it has not, we paint the cabinet in a single colour rather than print a copy.
