Thanks for all your help everyone it really is appreciated. Today I went and purchased a new ballast and a couple of starters. My only question is where is the ballast because the new one I purchased today looks nothing like anything I can see in the machine?? or am I missing something?? Is it in the backbox or cabinet? I know this must sound stupid to some but this is unchartered waters for me.

I have attached a pic of the fluro ballast in a sega starwars.
I hope its in the same place.
if its not just follow the wires comming from the fluro tube and it should go to a device with 2 wires attached.
1 wire goes to the fluro tube and the other goes to the power neutral (black wire)

F.Y.I. It should be a 13 watt ballast so you will need to replace it with a 13 watt 240v ballast