We Found A Classic 1979 MIDWAY SPACE INVADERS cocktail cabinet Arcade Game!
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I dropped a million quarters into one of those at the store in my dorm. That is the only cocktail table game I ever saw in the wild.
Very cool, i'll bet these things made a fortune.
I have this in my game room currently. Doesn't get as much love as it should from my friends, but I love it. It's such an easy game to play, but very hard to master. When you play it in the dark, you can't see the scratches on the top! Thank you for posting this version too. Most of the YT videos of this style game are in the Taito cabinets. Nice to see a familiar friend pop up on my feed. Keep up the great vids
Yeah I hardly ever see these Midway ones, there's like 3 times as many Taito ones it seems....
Just got one of these yesterday, was sitting in someone’s garage for 20 years or so.
Got it home and saw right away that the cord was chewed by a rat, drilled out the locks AVS found the keys along with quarters from 1980 in the coin box lol.
I checked the usual suspects for shorts ect and didn’t find any issues so I cleaned up the monitor pots with deoxit and soldered in a power cord and fired right up, no issues at all, all sound work, all controller panels and buttons work a few of the incandescent bulbs need to be replaced but she is a runner!
Such a cool piece that stood the test of time!
Very nice! In general I think they were built pretty damn good, usually you can get them going again, there's nothing disastrous that happens with them (usually!). Take care of it Shinju!!!
Not surprised to hear that some people refer to tabletops as "Pizza Hut Cabinets". That's probably where most of us, age 60 and younger now, saw them since we were too young for bars at the time. I forget if the first tabletop cabinet I saw was Pac-Man or Ms. Pac-Man, but it was definitely one of the two (as you also recall), and definitely in a Pizza Hut.
I was born in 78 so I missed all these the first time around. By the time I remember the games were over in a corner at Pizza Hut by the front door, and none of them were cocktails....
@@LyonsArcade born in 76 here and yea I instantly think of Pizza Hut when I see these too.....Pizza Hut did have beer in big pitchers when I was a kid....when I got older the beer and everything good about pizza hut disappeared.
My first true love! Played this at Big Ed's Hamburgers in OKC. Big Ed was so big he literally sat across two pull up chairs, but he was pretty cool with all the kids hanging around dropping quarters.
There was a woman here nearby, that sold hotdogs in a place, they actually built a bumped out part of the building to make more room for her where she sat! On the side of the building there was a little spot that stuck out another foot!
Nice job .. when I was a kid in the early 80s we had a original space invaders upright @ the boarding school. Great memories. & now I’ve got 2 mame arcade machines... great memories 🇬🇧🇬🇧👍
Thanks for watching Richard!
We had 5 cocktail cabinet games in Wizards games Arcade in Christchurch NZ, along with many other games like Sit in Driver games, and 12 Pinball machines, 1 Golf game and shooters. I love your channel as it brings back good memories.
Brings back so many childhood memories. It still holds up!
The thing is, those games HAD to be fun back then or nobody'd put money in them. Modern Games just have to look good. It's a whole different mindset. It's like Frogger: Your're just trying t not to get ran over. Simple game, fun as hell.
Best cocktail arcade game was Atari Warlords. 4 players all sitting around it, in a pub. Brilliant.
I played both space invaders head to head and pac man in our Pizza Hut when I was a kid waiting for our food, good memories
Maybe this one was once in a Pizza Hut too!
It still amazes me how complex these games were in the day. Huge game boards, power supply, sound boards, amps. Now thousands of the games can be emulated on a one chip mini PCB card. We have come so far technologically in one lifetime. I was born in 69. I have been so happy to have lived through all these technological marvels. Thanks for the videos Ron. They sure do bring back great memories. 😊👍
Yeah I think stuff advanced more in our lifetime than any other, technologically speaking....
Wow, original and the best !...cheers.
Thanks for watching, Andy!
Our Pizza Hut had a Space Invaders and a Tempest.
Very cool! I wish the Pizza Huts still looked like they did, you'd think they'd go retro and try to make some money but then again the pizza tastes like crap now so they'd have to rethink a lot of their mistakes, lol
Ours did too!....and yes they were way cooler in the 70s and 80s
Yes! Pizza Hut was where I saw the Space Invaders cocktail too.
@@LyonsArcade Did the pizza get worse or did our standards improve?
I just scored a Super Pac Man cocktail!!! But it was converted to a 40 in 1 grrrrr.... but it still has the original monitor and dedicated cab!! Pew pew pew pew pew! Get em Ron!!
I've got one in my garage that needs a new cabinet. It sat in the parent's basement for too long. Bummer.
That is a survivor. What an awesome piece of arcade history. The Space Invaders recipe endures to this day. Simple to learn, difficult to master. First one I ever saw was at a Bresler's Ice Cream parlor in Salem Oregon. 1978 or 79. Its difficult to explain to most folks how mind blowing Space Invaders was. None of us had ever seen anything like that before. It was magic at the time. It was a Pivotal time in history when technology was getting ready to explode and change the world forever. It was mind blowing. Four decades later, still awesome. The best part about it is that I was there when it happened! Ron, I would rate your space invaders skill level as "above average".
It's so wild that they could actually make money off of them at the time, if you think about it one of the reasons it doesn't work as well right now is because back then a quarter was a 'thing'... it's no longer like that, playing it with a bill isn't the same and playing it with your credit card isn't the same.... the definition of a Zeitgeist, the culture and even the way we used money at the time all kind of conspired together to make something like this bigger than it would have been normally... Games like this came along at just the right time to be successful, the Invaders couldn't have Invaded 5 years later :)
Love it. Remember the Taito cocktail machines in family pubs in the UK, and at travelling fairs around the country. I've had a Taito one since the 1990s and it's only ever needed one board repair. Built to a very high-standard back then.
Yup, typically once you get them going again they're good to go, those Taito ones , many many many of them survived over the years. The cabinets themselves being metal are pretty much indestructible too....
This and the other Cocktails bring back so many arcade and mall memories. I saw these in a convenience store neat my house too back in the day. I was 10 when this came out in 79. You are much better at this than me!
It was just a few years before my time, when I was a kid I didn't see many arcade games, until 1987 or so!
Awesome trip down memory lane! I remember being 13 yrs old in the bowling alley playing this game in'79. Found out there were a couple tricks to score more. There was a combination of shots to make the UFO worth 300 pts. once you had hit the UFO and got 300, take 23 shots and the next UFO would be worth 300 pts. Also if you can shoot all the invaders leaving the last column on the right, then shoot into the invaders and remove them top to bottom, the biggest guy on the bottom,killed last gave a bonus of 800 pts. Finally, if you let a group come all the was down to the bottom, just before they kill you on the last pass, you can move under and shoot them without being killed by their shots.
Thanks for showing off this survivor.
Thanks for watching Macdaddy, this might be the same one you were wearing out all those years ago :)
congrats on the score. I finished repairing a taito japanese b/w cocktail space invaders a little over a month ago. the game originally only had a burned out 161, shorted tant cap and lm3900( my lm3900 would not stop playing a sound never had that happen before) and needed an overlay. The best modification I did to it was to add a braze kit to make the game play for free and add extra games to the stock configuration. photographic color correction gels make great overlays
Where did you work on this machine?! I just got a call to fix one recently and I'm afraid I know very little about CRTs as they basically quit making them over ten years ago, it has never seemed like worth learning but here goes nothin.
I played Space Invaders on one of these cabinets when they first appeared.
This game may have been simple but it was so well done. The shape of the aliens, the animation of the “walk”, the sounds and the game play all combined to create the greatest video game ever. My favorite pinball shares the name and sounds of this game as well! Bally’s wide body masterpiece!
I've never had one of those in, but they did a great job on that pinball too!
Ron, Love those old Midway cocktails. They definitely have that iconic look that never grows old.👍
I was also able to get my hands on a Atari Hard Drivin compact cabinet for $1K, been looking for one of those for years.
Hello from Phoenix Arizona!🔥
Very cool, glad you found one! It's the kind of thing that we need to get in people's collections that really value those specific games, so they'll take care of them!
My favorite anecdotes about this game: 1) It was fundamentally a take on Breakout, which was extremely popular in Japan. 2) The "music" was directly inspired by the Jaws theme. 3) The aliens are crabs and squid. (Trust me: This only feels obvious in hindsight. I spent decades not realizing this.)
Awesome Dude, amazing how cool those old sound f/x were 😎
I was born in '79, so don't remember these when they were new, but my parents had a Fountain game console with this game on it. Hours of fun, this was in the early 80s. The console lasted well into the 90's before it quit working and was beyond repair unfortunately. Only arcade machines I remember was a couple of non-working, upright ones in corner dairies and the like.
Thank you for watching Mark!
Awesome quality find! I randomly found on of these at an antique market in Las Vegas a few years ago. Powers on, plays for a few minutes, but bugs out. I'd love to get it restored, but for now it's a great furniture piece
Probably something in the power supply, that's a cool game! Thanks for watching Aaron!
Awesome! My parents have this same model in their game room. Still works for the most part... Some of the sounds don’t work. I plan on getting it fully restored someday.
The daughterboard has some little 'lm3900" IC chips on them that control sounds, a few have probably died and killed some of the sounds.
Great job as always, This video bought back lots of memories from when i was a kid. Keep the kewl things coming!
Thanks Chris glad you enjoyed it!
Very nice remember this very well from liverpool England great video 👍👍
Thanks for watching!
I remember fishing one night on Lee Park Golf Course pond. Next thing we hear broken glass and two lads running across a fairway carrying one of these machines over towards Netherley 😂
WOW never seen an original space invaders cocktail in a midway cab !!! Thank you guys for filming the video for us x :)
Thanks for watching Saskia, glad you enjoyed it :)
Hi I'm from uk my fave arcade machines wher battelzone .phoenix. buggy boy .love the channel
Thanks for watching David! We've had all those over the years, but I don't think we ever did a video of Phoenix. Over here Buggy Boy was called Speed Buggy :)
hard to explain to anyone now how exciting this, or asteroids, was when they came out
Yeah it's one of those things you had to kind of live through. I wonder how much all the history we've read is similar to that? We probably get the wrong version of everything!
Played an online version of Asteroids on the AARP website the other day. Shows my age. Ha. I have no idea why they have arcade games to play on there but they do. Asteroids was still as exciting as it ever was. And I was just as bad at it as always. Still a great game.
Now I'm waiting for a vid on that 18 Wheeler 😁 Was just playing that on the old Dreamcast
Coming soon 😀
Cool beans!
@19:26 good job on the first screen... a masterclass!
It's a very fun game!
Great homage to 70s 80s classics. Starting to look like a video game machine museum up in here! :)
That sound is SO unique and organic, the Space Invaders emulators had to use audio effects captured from a real game because there was no way to duplicate the sound electronically. Or so I was told. For me, the sound of the Atari 2600 version is burned in my brain. My family got that cart with the Atari console and my brother played it non stop for hours and hours and hours.
It's true... several of the early games (Donkey Kong is another example) used discrete circuitry to create the sound effects, so basically they run some voltage into a resistor and threw some transistors and caps a few op amps and an oscillator or something and it makes a certain sound out the other end. All the resistors and transistors, caps, etc. are made to slightly different tolerances so each board sounds slightly different, too.
So you can't really make that exact sound, with just a chip.... so all the modern versions of it just play a recording of the sound instead of create the sound fresh.
This might have been the first arcade game I recall playing... I remember that I preferred this one to the upright due to the 2 way joystick for moving your laser (don't think the one I played had that lever mechanism shown here)... I could never get use the L&R buttons on the standup versions...
The speeding up thing was an accident. As you pick off the invaders, there’s less work for the cpu so the game loop would run faster and faster.
Wow! That's a beautiful machine
It's a real work of art for sure.
the scratches in the glas can be fixed.
There are several methodes to bring it to a new shine.
I'm going to look into it one of these days....
@@LyonsArcade there is a product to polish car windshields to remove scratches. Comes with a pad for a drill.
It's cerium oxide... Have to be very careful not to overheat and break the glass, and a steady hand so you don't leave "ripples" in it. Had it done on my car's rear glass, it was badly scratched by the wiper; was an expensive job but a new glass would be MUCH more expensive haha
I remember playing Space Invaders when it first came out. The place I played had 4 of them. That was bad enough hearing them all going at once. I can't imagine 30 of them all playing, slightly out of sync. The sound would drive you crazy lol :)
Wouldn't that be crazy? I think at the time they thought that was what arcade games were supposed to be, they'd just all basically be the same game, lol
Cool! Love Space Invaders but never had an opportunity to play it in a cocktail cabinet, must be great!
Pretty sick you were able to find one. I heard they're hard to come by.👌
I don't see many of these Midway ones :)
I haven’t played Space Invaders in 4 decades and i knew the sound before you even said it 😂
Ain't it funny how a melody, can bring back a memory - Clint Black
@@LyonsArcade yes a dying Pacman or the Galaga bugs noise
There was in fact a shortage of 100-yen coins (the denomination used in Japan for coin-op games) around 1978-79 which happened to coincide with the release of Space Invaders, but it was due to not enough 100-yen coins being minted in those years, not due to Space Invaders.
OMG Space invaders cocktail cabinet :D. And its in good shape? Just goes to show how much people who love arcade games take good care of their cabinets
Pizza Hut had Galaga too
I totally forgot about these in Pizza Hut till you said it,. I remember playing it in Pizza Hut waiting for the pizza to be made
I really liked the Pizza Huts when they were dark and had the stained glass lights over all the tables
That's a wild Space Invaders game. I never remember it with that kind of lever....mind you I was born in 1972. Was the controller changed to a regular side to side joystick at one time? Wild!!!!!!!
The uprights just had buttons and the cocktail had this thing, but it's the midway version... there was a taito version of the cocktail that had a more normal joystick. Thanks for watching Troy!
@@LyonsArcade yeah....okay now I remember the left and right buttons. Interesting. Do you remember the game Gorf? It had all the different arcade games of the day intertwined into one.
Brings back memories early in my working career going to bars they were great for setting a drink it why you were playing
2:40 "Original Pacman, original cabinet..." and original screen burn - I love to see it! I think on the second version of Space Invaders if you left one of the bottom 2 rows till last you got a special animation at the end of the level. I used to always try to do that :)
One of the greatest mysteries of arcade collecting is why people rush to get rid of screen burn, to put a brand new tube in a game that's going to immediately start burning that tube up too.
@@LyonsArcade Although, to be fair, I've heard that newer tubes are more resistant to screen burn. (They still do burn eventually, though.) Here's the obligatory _"stuff Ron already knows, but people reading this at home probably don't"_ section: 😉
The big problem is that the remaining stock of new tubes is dwindling. Nobody makes them any more, _not even the Chinese company that bought the manufacturing equipment,_ because winding together the CRT with the electron gun is a semi-manual procedure that requires a delicate touch. It’s a two-part, by-hand procedure that begins with the laborer painting the inside of the tube as it spins on a centrifuge. The worker must use a dipstick-like brush to coat the depths of the monitor with a conductive substance. Then he must merge the glass of the bulb and the electron gun under a flame that burns at 400 degrees celsius. Any debris or dust that gets into the unit at that point will shorten the display’s life expectancy. Because the process is so difficult, it’s unlikely that anyone will pick up the mantel just to serve a small community of classic-arcade enthusiasts.
At some point, there will probably be some guy you can send your monitor to and have him rewind the bulb (at the moment I don't know anyone who does it), but it'll probably be really expensive. A CRT tube is very heavy, so just the shipping costs alone would be astronomical. A 29-inch (73.6 cm) CRT weighs around 100 pounds (45 kg). That currently costs $55 USD for FedEx Ground, or $350 USD for FedEx Overnight, plus ancillary costs such as insurance _each way,_ plus the cost of actually having the tube rewound. The games _can_ run on an LCD, but the colors may not be 100% accurate, and the refresh rate may not play well with an old game’s code that is expecting a much more responsive CRT monitor (resulting in "screen tearing").
It's more likely that at some point in the future, most of the old CRT video games will end up in the hands of museums, who are better equipped to keep them working, and the rest of us will have to settle for authorized reproductions, such as the ones from Arcade1Up, or running them on our home computer with an emulator.
Great find!!
There is a strategy for the 300 point saucers hit the saucer with your 23 shot,, at the start , then with the 15 shot after this count resets at the start of every new board.. on even number of shots fired , saucer will enter one side ,, odd number the other.
Thanks for the tips Allrock123!
Tbh I like the upright version more because the artwork on it is sick
The upright is pretty awesome for sure.
This was the first arcade game I ever saw
Wasn't a cocktail but I think this was the first arcade game I ever played. I have a distinct memory of playing it at a laundromat as my dad did laundry. Must have been all of 7 or 8.
I was in high school and I loved it so much that it was the only thing that tempted me to skip school. I was 16 yrs old and obsessed. I am 60 now and it was the first and last video game I ever played. When I watch kids gaming now I can't even fathom being able to figure the game out and the games are so fast moving I don't think I could keep up. It actually looks stressful to me.
Yep, played this game a bit in the day. Never was very good at it. I actually thought that the game learned from how you played and got better as you played it but it was probably just me getting worse as I played on... thanks for the video Ron.
I'm not sure it learns from you but like all these old games, the learning curve is STEEP, once you get past the second screen it's tough, quick!
@@LyonsArcade You're right, the game doesn't learn from you. There are people who have analyzed the code. Interesting fact, the game only tracks three alien shots at once: the squiggly shot, the plunger shot, and the rolling shot. If there is only one alien remaining, only rolling shots will be fired. The rolling shot is the only one that directly tracks the player (it fires when you're directly beneath it). Also, the squiggly shot will not be fired if the UFO is on the screen.
Here's where the difficulty increase comes in: There is a "reload rate" which is based on your score's MSB (which means Most Significant Byte, for the non-geeks out there). After one of the three shots has hit a shield or exploded, it will not fire again until the other two shots have moved a number of steps equal to the reload rate. In other words, the difficulty is directly tied to your score and how many aliens are left onscreen, NOT to which board you're on. The higher your score is, the more often they fire.
Obviously, you know that the aliens move faster when you shoot more of them. Did you know that this is NOT because of a delay loop? It's because the game doesn't have to draw as many of them. Therefore, the aliens moving faster and faster was actually _not intentional._ But Tomohiro Nishikado liked the effect so much, he decided to keep it.
The game itself has only 8K of RAM, out of which 7K is reserved for screen memory. It also has only 8K of ROM, but 2K is an "expansion area" filled with zeros, and more than 1K is shape tables for the game's sprites, character set, and tables (like the table for the reload rate). This means that the actual game code is only about 5K in size.
Totally forgot about SI 2 head to head. I loved that game. It was at Alfalfa's and Ms Pac man was @ Pizza the Hut!
The Bonus Ship comes out based on time. There is a way to get the Ship worth 300 when you kill it. First ship on the level kill it with the 23rd shot, then kill the 2nd and each remaining Bonus ship on the 15th bullet, You can not go below 8 invaders to farm this 300 per ship.
Thanks for the tips Scott!
@@LyonsArcade Always brother! Now that I am thinking about it, You may need to Shoot 33 times and hit it on the 34th, shoot 13 and hit on the 14th..
Well, I remember it as 21 and 14 but it's been so many years. I also think I worked from the right. On a business trip to Chicago I turned one over. Ie. the game slowed down again. Some kids saw we were excited, came over and looked. They were not impressed, they thought I might have wrapped the score.
@@LyonsArcade I have corrected the numbers. I have yet to test it on mame.
Makes me happy to see that!
I asked my Japanese friend and he said he didn't remember the coin thing, but the early video game craze in the 80s was total insanity.
It's probably a made up story but no doubt they went through some Yen :) I've seen pictures (or video?) of the gamerooms full of only space invaders games, it must have been something to see.
Oh yeah, no doubt.
I lived in Japan in 1983 as a trade student. I was based in Yokohama, and there were many arcades and what I found unique what they were mostly sit down games. I would take the bus to Yokohama station area, train station and mall zone, and no matter what direction you walked you would pass 1 sometime two of these places in every other block.
You would go in and start playing and a lady would bring you a pitcher and a cup full of the tea of your choice. Don't get me wrong there were arcades with stand up games, the sit down places were at a different pace. MANY MANY of the games were of Mahjong, and Some gambling games, ANY stand up game you had here in the states there was sit down version, and quite a few you have not seen here in the states.
You have to remember things are smaller in Japan, the smaller multitasking table games just seemed to fit in.
The games were 50 cents a game to play,(100 yen) but most of the games were set to the easier side of difficulty, The card and tile games were rented by time. Many of the games I played in Japan in 1983 did not even make it to the states until 2 or 3 years later.
Adults were the prime customer in these places as well, some of the arcades excluded children as policy 30 to 40% it seemed.
I admit I never played nearly as much of the arcade Space Invaders as I did the Atari 2600 cartridge, so that's the iconic one for me. It was rather aesthetically different--instead of the descending notes, the "step" was just a monotone "chunk... chunk... chunk". But I always liked the sound of your gun firing in the Atari version.
The Atari game is a classic too, think of the millions of people that got to play that game at home because of that cartridge! I always liked the Atari 2600 version of Asteroids too, they both took the general concept and made it just about as fun on the home system.
@@LyonsArcade I spent endless hours playing 2600 Asteroids, though now it seems kind of easy compared to the arcade version (that was probably part of the attraction for me back then).
I remember using the original 9 pin video monitors on the IBM XTs
4.77 mhz CPU
single sided, single layer flippy, might have been 360k ?
Green monochrome monitors were the first and then the orange monochrome
This was around 1980 81
I remember the first hard drive was 10 MB and it weighed around 15 lb and was double the height of a standard 5 and 1/4 knockout
The hard drive controller was not IDE it was proprietary if I remember correctly and the controller board was an 8-bit Isa card that was the entire links from front to back and from top to bottom
I think they had 640k of memory
The memory chips were on a separate board or maybe that was an expansion board that gave you another 640k
I remember prepping the raw drive before you could format it and the prep command took several hours to do just 10 MB
Fast forward to 1995 and HP made one of their first digital cameras and it had a 10 MB CF card
Nowadays you can buy a 2 TB TF card that is about a tenth the width of the CF card and about 1/8 the size or maybe a tenth the size of the CF card
It is absolutely mind blowing to have lived through going from a 10 MB hard drive that weighed thousands of pounds in the 1960s that was 6 ft high by 6 ft cubed to having two terabytes so small you can barely see it
And to go from having a computer running at 10,000 bytes to having 16 core processors running at 6 GHz each that anybody can buy off the shelf
And in 1995 I remember buying 1 MB memory to put in 386s to install Windows 95 and now an average memory stick is 4 gigabytes
I wonder what the next 40 years will bring
I imagine having computers linked to our brains directly is the next step in evolution
But to go from the days when only the government having two-way communication over the air to having everybody having a two-way radio in their hand and from being able to walk out your door and no one knew where you were and you had total privacy to now having everyone know where you are and no privacy and to go from where you left work at 5:00 p.m. on Friday and the boss could not get hold of you and no one expected to have the boss get hold of you till 8:00 a.m. Monday and now we have boss's emailing and texting and people working from home every night and every weekend
I remember when I was a kid taking work home from the office and having my parents and grandparents yell at me for doing work and not getting paid
Now it's just expected people do this
Technology is great but I really do miss the old days when you could be completely out of touch and the world was so much bigger
I remember making a phone call from Albany New York to Allentown Pennsylvania cost $3 a minute and required an operator to connect you and driving between Albany and Binghamton took 6 hours
And driving from Albany to Allentown took 8 hours if you were lucky and there weren't nearly as many highways
And the roads once you got outside the city and even some in the city were dirt and gravel and even in the '80s many of the roads here in Pennsylvania were still dirt and people burned coal and people had outhouses and Wells for drinking water
And you could build anything without a permit and there were a lot less people and it was quiet God it was quiet
I really miss those days
Yeah it's pretty amazing seeing things change, I think we all have lived in a strange period where things changed really fast, I don't think most generations saw as much change as our couple generations did.
What always trips me out, specifically, is go watch an old video of Buddy Holly playing on t.v. or something. Then imagine, that world he existed in, is this same world just 60 years later. It doesn't even seem like the same planet but supposedly all that happened right here! That's how people are going to think in the future, they won't even believe they're living in the same world as what things were like in the 1980's.
Super cool ...
We like it!
looks brand new bro
Pachinko Machines were huge in Japan
Then came the arcade games.
I don't remember them having Pong,
But Space Invaders, black and white, or monochrome, I think green
The space invaders 2 cocktail was even cooler (the 2 player Midway one). Hopefully you can make a video on one of those one day,
Yeah I'd definitely like to get one for sure.
Pew pew!
Dum Dum Dum Dum.... Dum Dum Dum Dum.... dumdumdumdudmdumdumdudmdudmdum
Cocktail table of space invaders.
Pretty cool.
But me I rather have the upright arcade cabinet.
With that whole mirrored back glass effect with the space invaders on the moon.
It just looks more cool.
And proves ATARI was ahead of the curve. And didn't realize it.
Just think TIME TRAVER the laser disc game from SEGA.
and the Williams 2000 pinball machines.
INVADERS FROM MARS and PHANTOM MENACE.
ATARI invented that mirror effect and didn't even realize it. With SPACE INVADERS arcade cabinets.
The upright is very cool, definitely!
I have this exact cabinet and game. Currently looking for a monitor
Magic smoke!!
Remember lots of Bars haveing them.
It was probably everywhere for a little while!
IS this 43 years!? My good. Neet new men
It is! Still in great shape after all these years.
That's pretty cool
Arcade forever
Awesome cocktail. Now I have to play some Space Invaders.
How did the cabinet not get any foot marks on the sides?
Always loved cocktail cabs. I'm building a Ms. Pacman replica from the original prints (it will be similar but a bit more modern)
I played space invader at pizza hut and pizza inn and on the Naval Air Station at recreation or at the gym Kingsville TX
They were all over Kingsville!
And on the naval bases too
We always called them tabletop never heard them called cocktail tables
A lot of people called them Pizza Hut cabinets too. The manual calls it a cocktail but nobody would really have any way of knowing that if you were just playing it! Thanks for watching!
Bars are mature?😆😆😆 anyways this is awesome and so is that pacman. Wanted to add something. One of my 1st memories was xevious sound effects and I unfortunately learned how to play recently(1 loop) it did not match up to the memories and nostalgia lol.
hahaha that's how it works sometimes!
i seen a guy drunk as hell trip and fall on top of one of those bam !! then it fell on its side the monitor was flickering everybody was laughing except the owner
Yeah I wouldn't be laughing either, I'd be beating his ass!
I used to play a Popeye cocktail table at a local arena in the early 80s.
Popeye is such an underrated game.
My grandma had 1 of these in like 2007. She sold it to some dude for like 50$
It happens! At the time that's about what they were selling for!
Joe you definitely need to make more video game noises in your videos ;)
hahaha i'll see what I can do
If you have glass thats really bad, they make a kit to polish auto glass with a drill, it has a buffing pad and a compound with light grit to take out wiper blade scratches, may work on this glass if it is printed on the back side..... Im with you though why mess with that one its too nice to screw with.
My precious
hahaha that's what I thought when I saw it "WHAT???? HOLY CRAP!@!!!!!!"
I picked up one of these about 10 years ago and it needs some significant repairs. When we acquired the sound wasn’t working and now the whole thing isn’t… Any ideas on what/where to look for someone to repair?
Hi Katie;
there is a website www.KLOV.com if you go on their forums, there are people on there who repair all kinds of games, there may be someone near you on there. You probably have a problem on your power supply. Thanks for watching!
i'm more used to left and right buttons, than a joystick.
also, you do need precise control to line up your ship properly.
otherwise, your game ends real quick as a casual player.
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22, 14, 14, ... IYKYK. :)
Point of curiosity;
If memory serves (and I could easily be wrong), raster based games that predate Space Invaders (Pong, and its variants for example), used a modified (?) off the shelf television (with simulated woodgrain) as the display. Was Space Invaders the first to use a dedicated, made for arcade cabinet monitor for its display?
Nah, there were a bunch before Space Invaders that are 'long forgotten' that used made for arcade cabinet monitors. People think that Pong turned into Space Invaders but they jump past all kinds of games like Stunt Cycle... or Sky Raiders.... or Basketball... or Football... or Breakout.... or Sprint, etc. Literally hundreds of games came out between Pong and Space Invaders and tons of those had Wells Gardner or Motorola monitors in them
@@LyonsArcade Ah! So it is, then... I stand corrected (actually, I sit, but that's another story... ;-) )
This is great. May I ask what monitor is in it and where to purchase the cap kits for it. Just scored the exact same one yesterday, but not in as nice condition as yours. Thanks!
Have you had the Derby Owners Club Horse Racing game in store??? I loved playing the game, and spent lots of money playing it
And the thing that's really weird.
I've worked at a McDonald's and few of there timer sounds going off.
Exactly sounds like Jaws theme.
Da na. Sound.
If you ever order in a McDonald's just listen the timers going off you'll hear it.
Guarantee it.
hahaha maybe they did that on purpose?
I’ve got an asteroids cocktail with NOS original glass. Not a scratch on it. But the sound is starting to fade out and get static / white noise. I assume that’s a capacitor issue... not sure which ones or where to begin the troubleshooting though...
There is a little sound preamp on your game board that might have actually went bad too, I think it's the same LM3900 that goes bad on these Space Invaders, it may be a LM324 though.
@@LyonsArcade I opened it up yesterday and remembered in 2018 I replaced big blue, and all of the caps and transistors audio regulator board. I then noticed that not only is the noisy static on the audio but the display is dimming while the noise is occurring so I think it’s a monitor issue actually. Or maybe a main power supply problem other than the big blue 🤔
I rememberd.
perhaps
mystery:300 points
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I'm sorry! I'm japanese, so I don't
know English well.
Your English is better than my Japanese :) I can't believe people still remember how to get the points! Thank you for watching.
wow... how much
Joe? I want it!! Such a beauty.. was my first arcade game played!!
It was $1200 but we already sold it!
@@LyonsArcade Thanks for the reply ..sad to hear.. hope it went to good home! LOL.. Great price! I'm in Ohio need to start looking local.
there was a space invaders in a local pizza joint around here, but also a pac man and ms pac man by the time my memory started to form ... that specific machine had buttons, and hell I was like 5 so it might have been some knock off invaders who knows
Was looking through you videos wondering if you've ever worked on the sega 1982 Star trek bridge simulator game? Id love to own one of those.
I have never had one unfortunately.
@@LyonsArcade If you ever cross one, please do a video on it. Thanks again!. look forward to your next video.
How much does one of the galaga cocktail tables cost?
Great stuff,‘crazy how good of shape that space invaders is in
Most of the cocktails of the classics we usually sell for $1299. We don't have a Galaga in right now though...
@@LyonsArcade thanks for the reply, you do great work, can’t believe how immaculate they come out even with the age on em
@@LyonsArcade howdy Joe…I have one that’s actually I believe older than yours and in perfect shape…it’s also in all Japanese text. Even the coin counter is Japanese. I believe mine is the 76 model. Great to see another out these still going!
Edit: mine is the “space invaders 2” by taito
There is a lot of replacements on this, I would know cause I have all the original parts on mine
I haven't seen one of those cocktail versions in years!! Didn't they have a color version as well?
There were several versions it was so popular they rode that horse until it collapsed. This was the first cocktail Space Invaders that Midway did, then they did another one called "Space Invaders II" that you played head to head, shooting at each other. Taito made a cocktail version that was called "Space Invaders Part II", that was basically Space Invaders but in color. Then Midway made Space Invaders Deluxe, which had a color overlay on the screen but the monitor was still black and white (the Midway 8080 based boards weren't capable of color).
So there's 4 different versions, the three Midway versions all had cabinets that were pretty much identical except for the glass tops, and the 1 Taito version looks completely different, but in all likelihood there's probably more of the Taito ones floating around than all three types of the Midway ones combined. I've had 4 or 5 of the Taito versions but this is the first Midway version I've had.
@@LyonsArcade Very informative, thanks!
I have one!!! but sad the Art was sanded off the top and painted black. Been looking for the Art to fix it up but never found it.
You replaced those pesky lm3900 on space invaders didn't you? :) Thanks for sharing buddy.
Had to!
@@LyonsArcade Yea i tend do them all once a few go its dominos.