Hi arcade guys,

let me show you my newest pickup.
But first, how did I find it? Well to be honest, 99% of the time, I just look at our local online portal like "willhaben" or at the german "kleinanzeigen" beside offers from specialized vendors like "blackforest warehouse" and others. But a few weeks ago, I thought to myself, why dont you have a look at... "le bon coin".
So I scrolled down the offers and then I saw a newer laser pistol game in an almost known cab. The seller was from southern france and he had 2 pictures with his offer, and on the sideart, I saw THATS one of the games im looking for!


( sorry, I didnt make pictures from the offer, this is a small picture I have found and I upsized it )

The biggest struggle is, well I dont speak french, but I want to buy from an french operator - he runs a business in Tohubohu fun park in Montauban and he is selling off stuff.
Luckily in the age of AI, I just used and online translator. Well, even with an translator, there were misunderstandings - the seller thought I will accept the money transfer from le boin coin AFTER the pickup of the game, which was never my goal.
So after clearing all misunderstandings, I have asked the AI about costs for a roadtrip single way, and with all the tall stations on the highways, but that wasnt an option ( 350 or so + renting a van! ).

By the way, I have asked my local transport company, they gave me an offer for 500,-  . Again, I had a chat with the AI, asking for european based transport platforms and one of them was "clicktrans.de". I registrated myself there and wow, I was surprised how easy it went. You literarely fill up what type, size and weight you want to move from point A to point B and then you just wait. It didnt take long and the first offers came in: 600, 625, 570...  :'( then after 2-3 hours, I got one for 377 - yeah, thats cheaper than my local company. I thought thats an nice offer but the next offer was about 350. And suddenly, the company which offered me 370 went down to about 325!! 
So I selected him ( every other offer will then get canceled ) and then, the only thing was left is to made a pickup date.

One sidenote, I told the transport company we have to set a delivery date since I spent a lot of hours this week at the office. Yeah no problem, they will call me. Guess what happened? Yesterday, my neighbour called me, there is a truckdriver on their access road, and he wants to deliver a huge crate ( where is the facepalm smiley? ). Luckily, the druck driver loaded the pallet into my driveway and the neighbours signed it for me.

So after the huge textwall, finally I can show you some pictures:



And after unpacking it, here it is:



It is egg venture!! 
Nobody else has this game listed on vaps on klov, maybe because it isnt that good? And yes, off course I bought it because of Dragons Lair 2!

So what are the future plans for that "non stonehenge version"?
Putting all that egg venture stuff out of the cab, redoing the cab artwork and since there is no laser disc player and original hardware inside, I will put that miniboard in it, where I can play DL1, 2 and other laser disc games. So finally, I have found an dragons lair cab and I am fine with one cab ( space, you know? ) playing all these games.

non roadtrip:

france - germany - austria, 0 km for me ( 1500 or more for the transport company )

to be continued...

As of March 18th, 2026, the sound issues still remain. I'm unsure when Phil and the rest of the volunteer techs are returning, but after talking to one of them recently they stated they would relay this info to the others volunteer, so there IS progress being made 

Also, here is a video I uploaded showing said issues with the game (no music, etc): https://youtu.be/u8hhREjxCeo?si=g1QJM7IndGzCBuq5

It’s great to see such a successful restoration again, with so many photos documenting it. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks to you for sharing this here.

Wait… Gorf? Jochen?  Could it be the cabinet I faced him on at Eurocade 2014?   



I don’t remember spotting any damage - though to be honest, it was dark enough that I could’ve missed it… 

... or in short: GORF!

I have bought this cab and Asteroids from Jochen in may 2025. Both cabs worked so far, they just need a bit of touch up. I dont have a problem at all with that, these are old games and people have played a lot of games on then.

Last year, I had a lot of caretaking about my father, so I put the cabs into the garage and well, time go´es on. I tried asteroids and it still worked nicely ( even after my garage/cellar flood from a rain storm ), but Gorf didnt do anything.
So I knew Gorf did work before shipping, but maybe he had a rough journey to austria, who knows

At the end of 2025, I finally had some time to take a closer look at Gorf. I disconnected the pcb and checked all the voltages. 5, 12 and -5v were there. MrDo from another forum mentioned I should put a light bulb as a load. So I took an 12v car-bulb, I saw the light for a short second and it was off again - but in the corner of my eye, I saw some smoke, not great.

A resistor on the power supply went to heaven. Luckily, I had a box with new resistors and diodes, so I changed the broken one.
Here a closer look at the scene, you can see the heat marks from the diode too.


I have changed a few more diodes, and I have changed a few of the caps - not everyone. Funny how small the new caps are versus the old one.



I also want to test the LM339, but when I desoldered him, he already lost a leg. So I ordered an replacement and installed it on a IC socket ( on the picture, you see the old original one )



Ok, time for a new test. The bulb lit up at the beginning for a short time, but the brightness decreased until it was off again. Ah yeah and smoke... again.

The same resistor burnt up again. I replaced it again with an 10 Ohm and continued searching for the problem. I already read that people are not that happy with the original midway PSU, a lot of them replace it with an universal one ( they offer this mini pcb for the universal psu and the original wiring harness ). But I didnt want to give up that quick, I continued to search for the problem.

Next, lets check the 2N3055, I desoldered it and with the help of AI, I got an instruction how to test it with my multimeter.

I own an old Voltcraft MM ( about 25y old ) and when I used it for some tests at the cab, I wasnt sure if I can rely on it. Sometimes the test showed me normal reading, the OL. Maybe the pins on the measuring tips are dirty? 5 out of the 6 tests were successfully, at the 6th test, I should get a reading about 0,5v. I got it for 2-3 seconds, then OL again, then the correct voltage again.
So I wasnt sure and in doubt, I just changed the 2N3055 ( I mean the expensive one is about 4,- ), I did another test with the 12v bulb and... successs - the light were shining like it should! Problem found and eliminated!

Between all these steps, I had time to clean the pcb cage ( before and after ):





Next step - the troublemaker caps!
Thx to MrDo, I know these are the tantal elkos ( they tend to blow up ). Jochen already replaced most of them, but on the 3rd pcb there were 6 old caps installed, so lets get rid of them:



Thanks to samwhiskey, he told me I can use normal caps as an replacement. I did order new caps with the other replacement parts, but I ordered a 100v version. I didnt know or think about, that the 100v version cap is much bigger than lets say an 20v cap. So yeah, I could solder them in, but it would look horrible and space would have been a problem, so i took the normal caps with 22 uF and 25V ( luckily, in my storage were six of them, the exact number I needed  ).

And I had a chat with Alex and when we talked about Gorf, he told me I should check the soundamp too. There are tantal caps on that mini pcb and there are pictures on klov about exploded ones - who blew a hole into the pcb!
But Jochen already changed these too, and on the picture you can see why he did that



I cleaned the pcb and all the connections with an fiber optic pen. Then it was time for my first real test...



Its working!!!!

Ok, next step - cleaning and touch up for the cab.
My plan was to derust the coindoor because rust is a thing i dont want on my cabs.






The sideart has also some scratches, but I can live with that.