The System 80 sound board generations by game number
Games #653 (Spider-Man) to #664 (Pink Panther) have a sound-effects-only board. Games #666 (Mars God of War) to #695 (Ice Fever) have a sound board with optional speech. All 80B games (#696 to #719) have a newer sound and speech board with a diagnostic LED in the middle.
Systems
Related tips
- Some or all sounds missing
- Replace C33 on the speech and sound board
- Haunted House and Black Hole sound board DIP switches
- No sound and a burning smell from the sound board: diodes, then the board
- Sound supply fuse F8 blows after the game runs a while
- No sound though the sound board boots: 5 V reaching it is low, adjust the trim pot
- Sound aux supply keeps blowing its 2N6059: shorted capacitor on the 30 V rail
- How the original System 80 sound board makes sound
Source: Repairing & Upgrading Gottlieb System 80 Pinballs from 1980 to 1989, Part One, Clay Harrell (pinrepair.com)