
The objective of the game is to conquer the blocks in every round by changing its color by jumping on them as you avoid enemies and obstacles. Q-Bert is a two-dimensional arcade-puzzle game developed by Gottlieb and was first released in the arcade in October 1982. Conquer blocks while avoiding enemies in order to advance to the next round in Q-Bert. If I would have sat down and studied the wiring diagram (like I finally did, determining my problem) I would have saved myself lots of aggravation! If this connector is flipped sticker side up, making a match too all the the other plugs), the main CPU board in will short out the 5 volt line right to ground and pop the fuse.Play one of the most widely recognized classic game that still brings you fun and excitement. But connector P4 off the Power supply board gets flipped over.

Common practice would be to place all the connector with the stickers the same side up. This is a shot of of the wiring on the Q*bert boards. In hopes that someone reading this will not repeat the mistake I made. Now, This is a simplified version of 3 weeks of electrical torture troubleshooting. but as luck would have it, both boards would be found working after the power supplies were rebuilt. The Operator that sold me these machines was nice enough to toss in a spare CPU board. With another trip out to the electronics store, I came back with everything to replace all the burnt looking components as well as the transistors and electrolytic caps which should replaced anyway due to their age. With the manual spread across the workbench, (yes, one manual was still in the machine) and a volt meter in my hand, It was quick to see that the power supply on both machines was not giving out all the voltages the game needed.


First job was to get these babies working again. With both machines tucked into the shop the work began.
