That game took a lot of my lawn mowing quarters back in the day. I saved a ton of money when my parents bought me a C64! I know one complainer that must be sooo happy right now.
Back in the 80s when I was a kid, there was only 1 location I knew where this arcade game existed. I only ever got to play it on our yearly summer vacation upstate. The place our family vacationed every year had it in their game room. I absolutely loved it! Today I play it with an arcade emulator on my raspberry pi. I last played about a month ago. It brings back great memories.
That is a top ten most iconic vintage arcade game! I just have to bow down a little when I hear that iconic voice and music. The 4600 is awesome too. Some would say the best monitor WG ever made. They are a bit of a pain in the tail to work on and adjust but they are awesome and built to last. Very satisfying seeing any vintage machine come back and live in awesomeness again! It is one of the few things that makes me happy!
I worked security in and arcade years back, and at closing they counted the money from the machines. I would play this for hours till 3am when we completed the close. You brought back allot of memories for me! Beautiful restoration. Kudos to you! 😊
Thank you for watching Andy! I used to work for an operator and had a route I went around and collected from, and did location repairs on the games so I was in that world a little bit too... .
Howdy my Friend, That is a Cool game indeed, in my top ten all time favorite games, and still on my list for games I want to aquire, but a hard game to find, oh Man, GORF !? Another game in my top 5 all time favorite games, still looking for that one too, Another very hard game to find, that is so Cool, two of my all time most favorite games !! Thank you for posting this video on them, Very Cool indeed !! Stay safe, Stay Calm and game on, Peace
Thank you for restoring this gem; Wizard of Wor is hands down my favorite classic arcade game. It has it all! Co-op or deathmatch play, a fantastic "story" or "setting" for lack of a better term, strategy, gameplay...oh and the SOUND! I don't think the COVOX audio system has ever been used better than it is here. If I had the room for a classic arcade cabinet (and the money!) I would track down a WoW machine.
Mrshoujo is correct. It used a chip called the Votrax SC-01. The Commodore 64 version supported Commodore's "Magic Voice" cartridge, which uses a Toshiba T6721A chip.
Remember playing this on my Atari 5200 back in the day. Was really close to the arcade version, but it sadly lacked the voice overs. Really underrated game from that era.
It really is underrated. I love it and cant get enough of it. I discovered it awhile ago on midway's arcade origins on xbox 360 and fell in love immediately. I recently got the MK2 arcade1up midway collection which features wizard of wor and man, i still cant get enough of it. Wish i could get a cab of the real deal.
Amazing job restoring this classic! It was really just a pile of dead scrap electronics at the beginning but you turned it all into a fully functioning mint condition beauty.
Nice job guys. This is one I remember and had a blast playing. Love the way it taunts you. As a kid it really kept you putting quarters in because of the constant ribbing :-)
Man I just stumbled on your vids and as im watching more I like how you go back and correct yourself when you dig deeper. Like the dates on the chips. I dig it thanks for the info
I love it! I can see why Joe made you the star. You are quite entertaining and he just is like, "yup", "it's broke", "I fixed it" etc... Great video again!
I love this one. Had a super clean complete cab given to me by a vendor who wanted space for newer games back around 2000 or so, missing only the game boards. Found the game boards on Ebay for $100, slapped them in got her working, voice systhesis and all! Sold it about 3 years ago for $1400. Lately the price has shot up quite a bit higher than that even.
I had my 7th birthday party at an arcade back in the early 80's, and that was where I first saw and played Wizard of Wor. I remember defeating the Worluck.
great guys , i cant remember this game , maybe it will light up my bulb after i see the game running , i can look up some video about this game but that kills all the fun greetings from amsterdam
Wizard of War takes me back to my childhood. I spent so many hours playing at my tutor's house. She was the first person that I had ever known that had an arcade machine in their house she had the stand-up version and after I was done with all my studies, she would let me play wizard of War for an hour. My brother would come early to pick me up and we would spend some more time playing. Isn't this cabinet for sale and if so, how much?
Nice to see another wizard of wor back alive. I love my wizard machine, but the boardset scares me. It's the only game I own that I have a spare boardset for.
@@LyonsArcade there are card extensions that the high score saves site sells so that you can probe ram and game cards while the game is running. The only real achilles heel with these systems are the customs, as of now there are no reproductions and they get more expensive by the month.
Played this at Circus Circus Arcade at the Midway in Vegas when this came out. Got it on my C-64 but couldn’t afford the Speech Adapter. Love that game. Looking forward to it looking like it used to. Hard game but a classic.
Looks like a s-100 bus. Old 70’s computers used this standard bus to allow the cpu board to talk to i/o interface boards. Think old pdp-8 stuff. I love this old stuff the best. So crude. Utility. No waiting for updates to play.
Great restore vid! My local 7-11 had this game. Spent all my weekly $2 allowance playing it. Recently rediscovered it on Defender Arcade 1up. But still not as good as the original.
Very cool! I think the static on screen could just be noise introduced somewhere in the video circuit. Maybe oxidized contacts or cold solder joint somewhere..
That repair process is, how a lot of "legacy" network Telecomm equipment that may carry voice, analog and digital data ( in SONET and sometimes GbE signal format) gets repaired. Our company had a limited stock ( or we could order and wait for days, weeks, or longer) of "It may or may not be good" plug in PCB "cards" that we would swap and hope things behaved well and came back into service. The trick is, like you have found, to have an educated "order of progression" for what to replace to see if improvements have been made. In the interest from damaging your stock of cards any more, you might want to order some anti-static album cover sleeves to put cards in, and use some "static discharge friendly" work habits, like, never installing a card you picked up without first touching the metal frame you are plugging into with your other hand first, or, be official and get a static discharge wrist strap. Fun repair, thanks for posting!
That old 74 series TTL is pretty static tolerant. It's the old 4000 CMOS stuff that was fragile. Plus in circuit parts are protected then too. Voltage is a differential between two points after all. When leads are tied they're no longer a point then.
Any advice for getting a light gun game to be more accurate when calibration doesnt work? Im a reasonable experienced arcade tech, 5+ years. But mainly work on newer games. Ones that use IRLEDs to determine gun location. But this one light gun game, Police Academy, seems to be off every couple shots.
I’m working on a 1967 electro mechanical pinball machine and for some reason none of the score reels are functioning and all the bells and the knocker when actuated they stay energized, do you have know what it might be?
The bells are turned on by the point relays, the point relays also move the score reels, so if the score reels never move, the point relay never turns off, which makes the bells stay locked on. Don't leave it on long like that it'll burn those coils up..... if none of the score reels are working maybe you have a broken wire in the back, there's a common wire that should go to each score reel, but it also goes to the point relays which must be working, so it would have to be a broken wire in that instance. The only way to really repair them is to go through and clean ALL the switches, you'll find something misadjusted or off kilter somewhere....
What did you end up finding was blowing the 1.5 amp fuse? I just got a wow cab from an uncle that passed and it's doing the same thing, I'm thinking it's amp board
I think he said "I'M OWED A FIGHT! HA HA HA HA!" My favorite lines were always "COIN DETECTED IN PCOKET!" and "COME BACK FOR MORE, WITH THE WIZARD OF WAR!" still love this game today... so many memories of blasting away at monsters, and fighting against other players to nail the Worluk and nab that sweet Double Score! Thanks for sharing this! 🙂 (Although is it just me, or do the Worriors kinda look like little Ghostbusters wielding a Proton Pack and Neutrona Wand? ;-) )
That game took a lot of my lawn mowing quarters back in the day. I saved a ton of money when my parents bought me a C64! I know one complainer that must be sooo happy right now.
Wizard of War and Robotron 😄
I was so happy with the C-64 version. Remember my Grandma watching me play it at my cousins.
Back in the 80s when I was a kid, there was only 1 location I knew where this arcade game existed. I only ever got to play it on our yearly summer vacation upstate. The place our family vacationed every year had it in their game room. I absolutely loved it! Today I play it with an arcade emulator on my raspberry pi. I last played about a month ago. It brings back great memories.
I played the cocktail version a lot in a pizza parlor. I loved the gritty looking graphics and sound effects. So much summer fun in my youth.
@@b.o.353 It was a pretty good rendition of the arcade version, easily one of the better C64 games.
Wizard of Wor is one of my favorite games. High Five for getting that one fixed!
I'm planning to build a MAME based clone cabinet of it...
That is a top ten most iconic vintage arcade game! I just have to bow down a little when I hear that iconic voice and music. The 4600 is awesome too. Some would say the best monitor WG ever made. They are a bit of a pain in the tail to work on and adjust but they are awesome and built to last. Very satisfying seeing any vintage machine come back and live in awesomeness again! It is one of the few things that makes me happy!
I worked security in and arcade years back, and at closing they counted the money from the machines. I would play this for hours till 3am when we completed the close. You brought back allot of memories for me! Beautiful restoration. Kudos to you! 😊
Thank you for watching Andy! I used to work for an operator and had a route I went around and collected from, and did location repairs on the games so I was in that world a little bit too... .
@@LyonsArcade Your very good at your work! It's a pleasure to watch the restoration of these classic arcade systems. God Bless
I so loved wasting quarters at my local bowling alley back in the '80s on this game! "I'll fry you with my lightning bolts!" Great repair.
Howdy my Friend,
That is a Cool game indeed, in my top ten all time favorite games, and still on my list for games I want to aquire, but a hard game to find, oh Man, GORF !? Another game in my top 5 all time favorite games, still looking for that one too, Another very hard game to find, that is so Cool, two of my all time most favorite games !! Thank you for posting this video on them, Very Cool indeed !!
Stay safe, Stay Calm and game on, Peace
The C64 had a decent conversion of this - I played it rather a lot, but my Mum played it even more and was pretty good at it!
Me too! I mean I played on the C64, me mum never did like computer "stuff".
And Wizard of Wor and Gorf were compatible with the C64 speech cartridge, if memory serves - so you could get the funky voice effects.
I played the original a lot. I will always remember the shop corner where the machine was, the smell, the excitement...
Yes I loved the c64 version
One of the best old school arcade games ever. Love that game!
Thank you for restoring this gem; Wizard of Wor is hands down my favorite classic arcade game. It has it all! Co-op or deathmatch play, a fantastic "story" or "setting" for lack of a better term, strategy, gameplay...oh and the SOUND! I don't think the COVOX audio system has ever been used better than it is here. If I had the room for a classic arcade cabinet (and the money!) I would track down a WoW machine.
This wasn't the Covox.
Mrshoujo is correct. It used a chip called the Votrax SC-01. The Commodore 64 version supported Commodore's "Magic Voice" cartridge, which uses a Toshiba T6721A chip.
WoW and Joust are my favorite arcade classics mostly because of the "death match" play option
Thank you Ron (and Joe) for keeping churning out these troubleshooting videos.
Thank you for watching Matthias!
Nice - I love the pinball repair series, but have been missing the arcade repairs.
More to come!
cool@@LyonsArcade
This is absolutely fascinating! I would love to be able to understand these machines enough to be able to repair them the way y'all do!
A thang of beauty! Big hugs for repairing it!
Thank you for watching Csaba and the kind words!
THis game brings back so many good memories. Awesome game!
yeah it's a classic! Thanks for watching!
We had this on our Commodore 64. Thanks for the upload, brings back memories of the 80’s.
Wizard of wor is so good! I wasnt expecting this. I also noticed a the game cartridge for atari at a local game shop too! Man what a month.
Remember playing this on my Atari 5200 back in the day. Was really close to the arcade version, but it sadly lacked the voice overs. Really underrated game from that era.
It really is underrated. I love it and cant get enough of it. I discovered it awhile ago on midway's arcade origins on xbox 360 and fell in love immediately. I recently got the MK2 arcade1up midway collection which features wizard of wor and man, i still cant get enough of it. Wish i could get a cab of the real deal.
One of the first games I ever played and still one of my favorites. Thank you for restoring it and getting it back in the world.
Thank you for watching Lab Nine!
Amazing job restoring this classic! It was really just a pile of dead scrap electronics at the beginning but you turned it all into a fully functioning mint condition beauty.
The music makes me feel the same tension as I did as a kid.. Blast from the past!! Gives me the tingles. lol
Love this game, haven't seen it in years! Great work as always.
Thank you Chris!
I miss old style repairs and fault diagnosis
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Thank you Ritchie!
@@LyonsArcade Your welcome
@@LyonsArcade All the way from London Uk
God Bless and Stay Safe
I had this game!!! First arcade my dad bought. Loved it!!
Cool professor Ron an Arcade repair video.
Thank you Dano!
This is a neat game! The invisible enemies is a cool gimmick with the RADAR.
Thanks for sharing this with us.
Glad you liked it Vince!
That was great! Interesting repair ...and bring you back to the 80's game play!
I used to play this at the laundromat. I chose that one because of this game. Laundry never took long enough.
I really love that synthesized voice!
I played this at the local skating rink growing up. Was one of my favorite games.
It's a special one!
This video came up on my youtube suggested. Absolutely fascinating. Also used to play Wizard of Wor in my youth!
Thank you for watching!
Nice job guys. This is one I remember and had a blast playing. Love the way it taunts you. As a kid it really kept you putting quarters in because of the constant ribbing :-)
Yeah it was a very smart design! Thanks for watching James!
This brings back childhood memories. Always put in two quarters on this game for the extra lives. :D
I spent a many of a summer day playing this with my buddies. It’s more fun with 2 players. Great job
Glad you enjoyed it T-Ravis comics!
Man I just stumbled on your vids and as im watching more I like how you go back and correct yourself when you dig deeper. Like the dates on the chips. I dig it thanks for the info
Thank you ThePieDish, we're glad to have you on our channel!
First time viewer and I really liked the commentary. The way you would through troubleshooting is an art, and definitely a dying art IMO.
thanks Ryan, glad you enjoyed it! We like working through them logically and trying to track it down...
Wow the sound in this one is amazing.
Wg4600 monitor has the best picture of the classic monitors. IMHO Great job!
Wizard Of Wor is a timeless classic, love it!!
Nice looking game..I remember playing that in the day
This might have been the exact same cabinet you played Naytch
@@LyonsArcade yeah probably..was in better shape then..😄
Glad your were able to fix and get it going, cool game, the sounds reminds me of the computer in the movie war games lol 🤣
Love how the guts pull out of the front bottom! Good fix Wizard of Repai!!
Yeah it was an interesting little cabinet! Thanks for watching Ajaxaxxess!
Very nicely put together video and very entertaining as well. Thanks for posting this.
If I was to have only one game, I’d probably be Wizard of Wor. Cool art, and two player.
Yup, very fun....
Used to play this as a kid on the Atari. Brilliant.
OMG love this game! I only had it on the C64 as many others here, but played it all the time :D
Wow, sounds from Gorf with a D&D look. First time seeing that one. Thanks, Joe!
that is so cool. it looks ace.
Yeah it has that cool late 70's early 80's vibe to it....
Another awesome video. Thank you
Liked this game along with Joust.
Wow - that brings back memories!
It's pretty cool!
great classic game, thanks for sharing!
One of the most underrated games at reclaim arcade in Fredericksburg Virginia
it's really something special
I used to work at the former Worlds Largest Arcade and I never saw that game before! How cool!
Good to hear that y’all make Joe work too!
We're crackin the whip around here!
Good work.
Thanks for sharing. 😉👌🏻
Ah this is fantastic! Nice work!
I love it! I can see why Joe made you the star. You are quite entertaining and he just is like, "yup", "it's broke", "I fixed it" etc... Great video again!
Joey does all the work!
@@LyonsArcade Perhaps but you sir are the star! Great viddies!
I love this one. Had a super clean complete cab given to me by a vendor who wanted space for newer games back around 2000 or so, missing only the game boards. Found the game boards on Ebay for $100, slapped them in got her working, voice systhesis and all! Sold it about 3 years ago for $1400. Lately the price has shot up quite a bit higher than that even.
I had my 7th birthday party at an arcade back in the early 80's, and that was where I first saw and played Wizard of Wor. I remember defeating the Worluck.
thank you lads for upload...
Very understand game, I had 2 of them back in the day
I have one of these in my garage. Still works good.
great guys , i cant remember this game , maybe it will light up my bulb after i see the game running , i can look up some video about this game but that kills all the fun
greetings from amsterdam
Wizard of War takes me back to my childhood. I spent so many hours playing at my tutor's house. She was the first person that I had ever known that had an arcade machine in their house she had the stand-up version and after I was done with all my studies, she would let me play wizard of War for an hour. My brother would come early to pick me up and we would spend some more time playing. Isn't this cabinet for sale and if so, how much?
what a cool tutor!
I loved it on my C64 especially in 2-Player modes.
this video is 2 years in the making... lol nice job with this one
Yup, this one got back burnered for awhile :)
I used to love this on the C64
awesome detail, nice machine
Thank you for watching!
Nice to see another wizard of wor back alive. I love my wizard machine, but the boardset scares me. It's the only game I own that I have a spare boardset for.
Yeah it's a strange duck, I'll bet they're more fixable than we think though, I'm going to find out when I do my Gorf....
@@LyonsArcade there are card extensions that the high score saves site sells so that you can probe ram and game cards while the game is running. The only real achilles heel with these systems are the customs, as of now there are no reproductions and they get more expensive by the month.
Played this at Circus Circus Arcade at the Midway in Vegas when this came out. Got it on my C-64 but couldn’t afford the Speech Adapter. Love that game. Looking forward to it looking like it used to. Hard game but a classic.
looks perfect, playable, and with special effects!, you got a unique arcade!. If you fix the dots, it won't be unique anymore.!
Man still love the Commodore 64 version.
I never got a Commodore back in the day but I might get one yet :)
I had that on cartridge for mine
@@LyonsArcade the game crt was cool as it worked with the Magic Voice board.
@@LyonsArcade Get an 8-bit Atari XL, it will leave that c-64 in the dust.
@@craftsman123456 you ever get the board? I never did. Still loved it.
That sound effect at 27:23 is EPIC!
Looks like a s-100 bus. Old 70’s computers used this standard bus to allow the cpu board to talk to i/o interface boards. Think old pdp-8 stuff. I love this old stuff the best. So crude. Utility. No waiting for updates to play.
i remember playing this on my commodore 64 from a cartridge !
One of my favorite games
It's pretty awesome!
This is certainly one of those classic machines. I had a gorf machine recently but sold it. I kinda regret it. I wish I had a smaller one to keep.
Looking forward to watching this video 👍
Thank you Glen!
I owned the bar-sized standing WoW game WAAAAAAAAAAAAY back in about 1987ish. Fun game.
That's a cool one too, we have a Gorf in that cabinet...
Great game!
Great restore vid! My local 7-11 had this game. Spent all my weekly $2 allowance playing it. Recently rediscovered it on Defender Arcade 1up. But still not as good as the original.
Nice work.
so true same sound chip as Q Bert and wat a game that was. that sound chip is comical
Many, many quarters into that one back in the day.
Very cool! I think the static on screen could just be noise introduced somewhere in the video circuit. Maybe oxidized contacts or cold solder joint somewhere..
Great video. I do like this game. It’s a bit difficult at least on the Arcade 1up releases
Paper route money gone in the 80s lol. One of my favorites
Yeah awesome simple to understand game, really fun!
OMG - a FAVORITE!!!!! first speech game! HO HO HO HA HA HA WIZARD OF WOR
Always thought it funny that the main music theme from this game was from the old TV show Dragnet.
I never watched enough Dragnet to remember it unfortunately!
Thank God you got that jukebox fixed now we can go onto the the real
Thank you for watching Clark!
That repair process is, how a lot of "legacy" network Telecomm equipment that may carry voice, analog and digital data ( in SONET and sometimes GbE signal format) gets repaired. Our company had a limited stock ( or we could order and wait for days, weeks, or longer) of "It may or may not be good" plug in PCB "cards" that we would swap and hope things behaved well and came back into service. The trick is, like you have found, to have an educated "order of progression" for what to replace to see if improvements have been made. In the interest from damaging your stock of cards any more, you might want to order some anti-static album cover sleeves to put cards in, and use some "static discharge friendly" work habits, like, never installing a card you picked up without first touching the metal frame you are plugging into with your other hand first, or, be official and get a static discharge wrist strap. Fun repair, thanks for posting!
That old 74 series TTL is pretty static tolerant. It's the old 4000 CMOS stuff that was fragile. Plus in circuit parts are protected then too. Voltage is a differential between two points after all. When leads are tied they're no longer a point then.
Haven’t heard of that one it is beautifully 80s
Any advice for getting a light gun game to be more accurate when calibration doesnt work? Im a reasonable experienced arcade tech, 5+ years. But mainly work on newer games. Ones that use IRLEDs to determine gun location. But this one light gun game, Police Academy, seems to be off every couple shots.
this game had great sound effects
I’m working on a 1967 electro mechanical pinball machine and for some reason none of the score reels are functioning and all the bells and the knocker when actuated they stay energized, do you have know what it might be?
The bells are turned on by the point relays, the point relays also move the score reels, so if the score reels never move, the point relay never turns off, which makes the bells stay locked on. Don't leave it on long like that it'll burn those coils up..... if none of the score reels are working maybe you have a broken wire in the back, there's a common wire that should go to each score reel, but it also goes to the point relays which must be working, so it would have to be a broken wire in that instance.
The only way to really repair them is to go through and clean ALL the switches, you'll find something misadjusted or off kilter somewhere....
@@LyonsArcade thanks, I’ve been careful to not leave it energized since that is what likely burnt up the old coil that I had to replace.
What did you end up finding was blowing the 1.5 amp fuse? I just got a wow cab from an uncle that passed and it's doing the same thing, I'm thinking it's amp board
There is a little tantalum cap on the amp board that will short and blow that fuse, check it out! Thanks for watching Ryan!
I think he said "I'M OWED A FIGHT! HA HA HA HA!"
My favorite lines were always "COIN DETECTED IN PCOKET!" and "COME BACK FOR MORE, WITH THE WIZARD OF WAR!"
still love this game today... so many memories of blasting away at monsters, and fighting against other players to nail the Worluk and nab that sweet Double Score!
Thanks for sharing this! 🙂
(Although is it just me, or do the Worriors kinda look like little Ghostbusters wielding a Proton Pack and Neutrona Wand? ;-) )
Actually he said I'm full of spite....ha ha ha ha!
Love this game. It’s hard though lol
is this the same hardware used for professor Pac-Man?
I've never had a professor Pac so i'm not sure!
What do you use to clean the pins on chips?
I use a little flat file to just clean them off.
@ ok, thanks for letting me know