The Famous 1976 Midway Sea Wolf Arcade Cabinet ! This Thing Is A Complete Survivor!!!!
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Thank you so much for posting this! I remember that red "Press" button, it really brought back memories. The old arcade games were magic. Back then, nothing was better than a pocketful of quarters!
Yup! It's a time long gone...
@@LyonsArcadeWaylon sang that 😁
Sea Wolf was the holy grail of "1970's" arcade games that featured mostly racing games, primitive light gun rifle, huge screen deer-hunting/Western gun draw simulators, Ski-Ball and of course, pinball. But, once the "70's kids" grew out of the arcades, and the "70's-baby/80's kids" who got spoiled on Asteroids, Tempest, Defender, Battle Zone and other "newer" early 80's games took over, it was a rarity to find a working Sea Wolf game at your local arcade, post-'84. Pity. It was really an unsung, innovative gem.
Yeah very creative game! Really had an interesting look to it, too.... I love all the black and white raster games.
Our arcade had SW game I was dying to play since I was 5. In the 1970's I never had any quarters, the older kids were always playing it and I wasn't even tall enough to reach the periscope. By age 10-11 I had quarters to spend, but that poor SW game had seen better days. Only worked half the time, screen was all fuzzy. Around 1985 it left the arcade on a dolly. Us kids gave it a watery eyed salute as they wheeled it out the door. RIP, Mighty Sea Wolf.
Hopefully it survived somewhere!
MIND-BLOWING!! my childhood in the flesh, THANK YOU :)
They should make a new version of this game. I had an arcade in my mall but it closed over 10 years ago. I miss the nostalgia.
They did make a new one but it was a redemption game (ticket machine)....
Was just looking at a listing on ebay of this game. Wait a minute...it WAS this game. Lol Looks good. Wish I had the money.
We're proud of it!
That was such fun to watch! I played that game many times when it was new in the late 70's. You're completely correct in that the cabinet is 80% of the experience especially with that periscope! If my memory serves me correctly I remember the thrill of hitting that launch button was heightened because of the sound system and that sound effect!
Thanks for the flashback!!! This was one of the first, if not the first, video game I ever played in an arcade (late 70's).
Very cool. It may have been this exact cabinet, Dave!
This plus Battlezone we’re my favorites at that time
Thank you for posting this arcade game.
Thanks for watching Tino!
This was the first arcade game that I ever played. Was a little kid, around 1979. Small game room that mostly had pinball and a few pool tables. They also had an Atari Stunt Cycle game that I played. Brings back memories.
Thanks for watching Phillip, these things have a way of wrapping up memories in them for sure!
Wow, I just found this on your website. This is one of my favorite arcade games of all time. I remember farming the hell out of these things for the arcade tickets.
It's a really fun one, definitely. Cool sound.
No, you don't remember farming the hell out of this game. Sea Wolf from 1978 was not a redemption machine. You may be thinking of the "remake": Sea Wolf The Next Mission. Not a biggie, just thought I'd clarify.
Was 10 years old loved this game
It's something special, for sure!
Pinball was first for me
But the Sea Wolf was my very first true video game. I remember going to Payless drug store ( how many remember them ) to play the game that was in the corner of the store.
I don't think I ever saw a Payless! Thank you for watching Paul!
@@LyonsArcade Bay area California. It closed up years ago. But there was a lot of them in our area.
One of the first arcade games I remember playing at Rico’s Pizza Parlor. Along with another arcade game with a step & viewfinder; BattleZone! Thanks for the review.
Thanks Hot Tamale Kid for watching! We've got a Battlezone video or two on here somewhere too...
Battle Zone was great! I use to ram the enemy tanks before I’d shoot them just for the fun of it. There is an App you can buy that is pretty close to the old game.
@@Snowball042 Please hook.me up with the app, if you don't mind. I grew up on Battlezone. My favorite game.
The only arcade game that I actually had the patience to play as a kid in the 70's. Loved that game.
I haven't seen this game since I was a kid after first checking it out at a waterpark in Portland many years ago where it sat right next to the Taito Superman arcade game as well.
That is really beautiful.
We think so too! Thanks for watching BOODRO!
@@LyonsArcade Thanks for the reply.
Brings back a lot of fond memories! This was a very immersive experience as a kid. The periscope and the sound effects created the nautical motif beautifully. I absolutely loved playing this.
I don't know what it was about nautically themed things that I found so cool when I was a kid. Looking back, I think it was this game, Jaws, The Tidal Wave rollercoaster at my my local amusement park (Great America) and a few family trips to Hawaii that may have intrigued me! Takes me right back to the late 70s.
Remember at the time Jacques Cousteau had really brought the sea into pop culture too.... so it all kind of just worked... ocean themes and space themes were irresistible for awhile there :)
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I remember this was the first arcade game I ever played. I must have been 3 or 4 years old
Very cool Cabo, just think... this may actually be the exact same cabinet :) Where was yours at?
@@LyonsArcade it was at an old pool hall in Nashville TN my Dad took me to. I also remember playing Outlaw, and Sprint 2 or Atari LeMans there
We've had a Sprint 2 before, but have never had Outlaw or LeMans... hopefully one day :)
So primitive by today's standards, but still so dear to the hearts of those who were there. This was the game I played in the summer of '76 at the Holiday Inn arcade in Vegas. It wasn't even really an arcade by today's standards, but I was only 9 and I loved it. I pumped quarter after quarter into it. Thanks.
I've had a ton of people tell me this machine really meant something to them at a certain place around that time! Thanks for watching Charles!
I loved playing this at Chuck E. Cheese's in Fremont back in the 80's.
Very cool. Sucks all that stuff is gone now when you go to chuck E Cheese, but time marches on!
Firefighters ? And yes, I =AM= reproducing this game, complete with the explosion overlay. Will write back here when done.
I remember playing this at the first arcade I started frequenting... the "basement" of Eastland Mall, McKeesport, PA. That arcade was mostly old mechanical and light gun games and some pinballs, but I remember they also had Sea Wolf, Lunar Lander, and they later added a Space Invaders. While the monitor on this is, of course, black and white, I remember the one I played, the "white" looked blue (giving it a deep sea ambience) than what's in this video. Maybe that color isn't coming through in the video? Was it an effect of the black light that's mentioned?
They had a blue gel overlay over the monitor originally that made it look blue, this one is subpar as you immediately pointed out
Played this as a kid. 40 plus years ago. Lots of water under the bridge....
This might be the exact one you played, Mike. You didn't scratch your initials in the side did you???
If it came from Cincinnati it probably was. I think it is great how much work you guys put into this machine. They really made them to last back then - and made in America too. Different time. Now everything is made by Slave labor in China.
Funny how your video brings back memories that lay dormant for so many years. I still remember the Department Store that the Sea Wolf I played on was located. It has long since been closed.
Nostalgia's a powerful thing :) They can take the department store and the game away from ya but they can't take the memories!
Wasn't this the game that was featured in the movie "Jaws"? Or was that one called "Shark Attack"?
EDIT: The arcade game in Jaws was "Killer Shark". Wish there was actual gameplay videos of that one!
My memory's horrible about stuff like that, I need to rewatch "Jaws"...
ruclips.net/video/ObUw9ezvp5o/видео.html killer shark!
I used to go into a little submarine sandwich shop in Bremmerton, Wa way back in 1977 and they had this game. It's the only video game I have ever liked.
It was definitely unique at the time!
My first submarine game I played was SEGA Periscope game in the 60s. This game was faster. The PT Boat tested your peripheral vision also skill of leading it to get it. Those two games are some of my favorites. Thanks for bringing a smile to this old man
They're very cool games, I like the simple nature of these better than some of the later ones and they all had unique looks and designs back then...
Thanks for this. I have fond memories of playing this game as a kid on holiday in the 80s. Me and my younger brother spent loads of money on it, i remember having a really good game and getting really excited as it gets quicker and more ships, i banging the hard plastic periscope on my left eye accidently lol it bruised up and my parents thought me and my brother had been fighting and we were covering for each other so we wouldn't get in trouble. It wasn't until the next day me & my brother took my dad into the arcade and showed him Sea Wolf and how i hurt my eye. my name rik was still top of the points table. He brought me and my bro some chips as a sorry for doubting us and some more money for the arcade 😂👍
That PT boat with the annoying quacking! This brings back the memories, thank you for showing off every bit.
This was the very first video game I ever played back in ‘76 or ‘77 at the Wonderland arcade in Ocean City, New Jersey. I’ve been a gamer ever since!
That's very cool OriginalGrasshopper, it was definitely something special!
Do people still like this game? It's pretty low tech compared to what's available in games today.
Mostly people that play it for nostalgic reasons...
Sure, I'd love to play it again! It is nostalgia for a simpler time
"Stan's Arcade" in Janesville(Wisconsin)had this!
Holy shit is that still a thing my cousin lives there!
@@nonfernoalt2812 No; But StB used to have that machine in the Arcade...back in the day. Is your Cousin..."Jeff"?
One of my favourite arcade games back when I was at high school in Newcastle Australia.
That's really cool, I'm always happy to hear which ones made it to other countries, they built most of these in Chicago! Thanks for watching Daniel we appreciate it!
I used to love this game when I was a kid. But like you said, I was too short to play it.
Good memories!
That's crazy to me because I remember video games arcades didn't really kick off until the 80s. Strange that there were video games out in the 70s.
Yeah it's kind of a forgotten time period, a lot of people don't realize it but there were actually arcades long before the video arcades of the 80's.... back in the 1920's they used to have rooms full of pinball machines, by the 50's they had all these electromechanical arcade games where you shot little targets or lit up lights, bowled balls, hit baseballs, flew helicopters.... and in the early 70's they started making video games. So they were always around we all just grew up where we saw the video games of the 80's and see it as the 'hay day'
remember playing this in Spanish arcades in the 70s
I wish there were more video of the Spanish Arcades, I've heard they had slightly different games that we never saw over here in the states! They made a lot of pinballs in Spain for instance...
@@LyonsArcade yes wish the same - unfortunately wasn't many video cameras around back then! Just recall there were many arcade venues in the city and yes pinball machines very popular back then too - as well as arcades virtually every bar I went into with my parents (I was 7 or 8 - no age restriction unlike here in USA and UK) they had an arcade machine or pinball machine. I recall seeing Space invaders when it first came out in Spain and the crowds of people around it...then I recall PacMan and later on the laser disk games - of course Dragons Quest but also recall one called Us v Them - ah those were the days
"Earl" (Wisconsin)had two of these machines...both busted! I wanted to buy one, but he wanted too much for it; Said he was probably going to take both cabinets "out back" at some point & urn them. Cats...all over the place, poopin' In all the games, too! Earl was a good guy, though!
I've heard lots of stories about the characters that ended up with these over the years, and have a few stories myself :)
What does the sort of dinging noise represent that you hear sporadically? That the torpedos have been reloaded?
To be honest, I think they just wanted to make it sound like sonar, and tied it to the torpedos being reloaded so that it would kind of 'randomly' sound, but it doesn't really serve any purpose (because the torpedos reload pretty much immediately when you run out).
Odd, this just showed up today on my feed. I've watched these videos for years. Never saw this one. I played this game often back then. They had it at Nickelodeon arcade at Antioch mall in KC, Mo.
They're spreading me around a lil bit I think
This arcade game is 45 years old now, since it's 2021.
What a classic!
Just caught onto your channel. Love your passion for these old games. Thank you for making these videos and bringing these classics back to life.
Thanks Ikey, glad to have you watching!
I played this at Funspot recently and it was one of my favorite. Very immersive for a game from the mid 70s. Cab and art is beautiful.
Yeah it truly is, masterpiece of a game considering the time period.
Ok, I remembered this one only because that fast PT boat with the siren. I played this.
This may have been the same one you played!
Wow, looking through the periscope it sure brings memories when I was 9. This is one of the very first arcade games I ever played. Thank you for posting!
Do you have one of these for sale, or know of someone who has it for sale?
My Grandma used to give me quarters to play this when she took to to Rink's Department Store (a chain that long ago went out of business) back in the 1970s. She has been gone now for over 30 years. Been so busy with the RAT RACE that I haven't thought of her for a while. Thanks for the memory.
We used to spend the night at my grandma's house on Fridays and on Saturday morning when we woke up she'd say "you boys want to watch Wrasslin?" and put on Hulk Hogan and we'd watch it with her, lol. Her favorite was Hillbilly Jim, I still watch wrasslin' to remember her.
I recall either this or a similar game (still had the periscope) at Cedar Point up in Sandusky OH back in 1980. It wasn't the first video game I played (that would be Pong, back in 1975 at a Greyhound bus terminal) but I certainly loved playing it.
wow, 1976 i was three years old. i like such games with light and mirror effects.We have to remember that back then it was only black and white screens that made such analog effects necessary.
But i love it cause it's something special and unique.
At home in my room i had just a black white tv unit from trashplace. It was working an i get 3 Channels with an antenna. In our mainroom/livingroom we had a little colour tv ^^
For kids of today this sound poor, but tecnique was expensive back then.
O.k. i want say i remember this sea wolf machine. I've seen it in Bavaria on a hill in earle 80ies. There was a open air theatre in forrest and a restaurant with a little arcade in
the backrooms (aprox. 10 machines). In every restaurant was a room with game machines. That was rescue me and that was always the motivation for me to go out into nature
because after the hike we always went to a restaurant to eat. great channel by the way👍
11:35 is the word coin cut off cause of monitor issue?amazing back then how cpu could control accurate second countdown and individual ships speeds at same time back then.
That particular part of the video we're looking through the scope and it can only see a part of the screen, so it only sees part of that word unless you turn the scope :) Yeah this was the Intel 8080 CPU, it did a good job of keeping track of everything, I think they kind of set a grid up in it's memory to figure out where everything was....
@@LyonsArcade 8080 only chip that could run that game right? intel
wait is your name Michael joe?
Nope, one of us is named Ron the other is named Joe, we're brothers.
Out of curiosity, I was delving into early video game sound. For this game, they had a PCB dedicated to sound circuits, as you mentioned. The code in the game would trigger the sounds. I can understand why. (1) CPU capacity was limited to create sounds, (2) They might have lacked audio chips in 1976, and (3) The sounds were pretty sophisticated, such as the sonar and dive sound.
Played this a lot as a kid. Grants store (pre-Kamart) in Bloomsburg PA. This was higher tech. I remember one that had painted metal ships on a chain drive. The ‘torpedo’ was a red light under a painted ocean scene. Great game too!
I love all those kinds of games, they're more fun to me than the newer ones! Thanks for watching Snowball042!
Firefighters?.....lol
Oh my God!!! I actually remember!!! Thanku so much for keeping this alive!!! One of the very first games!! Unbelievable!!!✌️✌️✌️
3:01 I remember some video games would have an on/off switch on the top of the cabinet that was hidden and people that knew about them would switch the game off and on to erase the high scores.
I ADORED this game when I was a kid and my Dad took us to the bowling alley on the weekend!
This is perhaps the KING of Bowling Alley arcade games :)
@@LyonsArcade Do you recall the projector booth game that had a 50 cal that you used to shoot at film of Japanese Zeroes? I can't find that anywhere. It was in my local arcade in 1977 or 1978
Played this one alot 😂. Over 9 years ago I bought one from a guy none working. These games are heavy. We had to get it out of a basement I almost had to give up. This guy's son came home and helped this guy looked like he played on New York giants thank you Jesus 😅😅
I remember my dad having this cabinet in our garage in the late 80s/early 90s it was awesome! Thanks for the video I thought the game was Silent Service, but that was an NES game I also owned at the time.
I was a kid when this was my favourite game
Yeah, I've heard lots of people say this one was something special back then.
I used to go on this. My dad would pick me up because I was too small to reach the periscope.
Gotta sink me some 'firefighters', heh!
They made the most annoying possible sound for those, lol.
He's referring to you misreading the bezel art saying "firefighters" instead of freighters. The annoying noise comes on when the PT boats enter the screen.
Icredible! These are truly pieces of art as you said! They don't have that "human touch" any more, 70s and 80s were a special era!
I play seawolf (the original) on my atgames machine - I use the spinners as the periscope - you've not beaten my high score yet lol I fire multiple missiles to hit multiple ships
Did he just say "firefighters" instead of "freighters?!"
Yeah
Could have paid for a much better college if I didn't spend so many quarters on this one back in the day. Memories.
Killing Fire fighters should be way more points..might be a dipswitch for that!
I looked it up, there's no dipswitch, they're probably a lot easier to hit than I made it out to be, I'm not the greatest at any of these games, lol.
👏👏👏 ‼️®™️ We took these games, and this time for granted❕ You are an absolute "ICON"❗️
I'm trying to find out the name of the machine they had on the Russian typhoon submarines similar to this one just wondering do you know what it was
I played this game quite often when I was young ,, from a sound perspective it seems a little different , the sonar ping in the background was a constantly present low level ambient sound effect , with the jarring alert and explosion sound on top everything ,, the sonar sound behaves differently on your game ,,
The way they made all the old sounds like on games like this were through discrete components, so resistors tied to transistors, etc..... they all have a knob to adjust them. So the one you played was probably adjusted one way the one we've got the knob on that particular sound is probably adjusted the other.
Great video series of all your games. I just picked up an original Galaga locally here in Tennessee. I wish you were close to me because your arcades look great. I would probably have too many. Keep it up 👍🏻👍🏻
You're not too far, you'll have to drive over sometime :) Bring a truck!
I remember playing this in the 80’s!
Maybe if you're competing with friends, you could clear the high score first then see who gets it.
playing this game now on the atgames arcade legend machine! Fans of sauce v5.0!!
From where I can download it :)
LOL I think you can probably play it on MAME but you're gonna be short 1 Periscope :)
I got good at this as a kid. It is a precursor to Missile Command in that you had to lead the smart bombs and hit them dead on.
One of my favorite games as a young kid. It was awesome.
Loved this game when I was young. I used to play it at the arcade at Salem Willows Park in Salem, MA in the 70s
I've heard a lot of people express fond memories of this one!
Really cool. I remember playing this and loving it as a kid.
I had this game as a kid!!! It wasn’t working when my dad picked it up but he had her running great within a week.
Very cool man, and good on your dad for making it happen :) Such a classic game!
I played this in 1980/1981... was only 9!!! Too cool!
i was 7YO when it came to the restaurant in my town ,and i had to stand on my toes or a booster seat to play it- i did not do well
Don't feel bad i'm on video not playing very well either :)
One of my top 10 games when I played in the early 80s. Game looks great and burn in adds character.
That's how I see it :) It's acting up right now, I'm going to have to film a video of us fixing it.
I was in high school when I gained came out I really enjoyed playing it
It's such a great game!
My mom used to build these machines back in the day.
firefighters? lol
That's what they look like! Thanks for watching Don
Wow Joe, this video brought back so many memories. Thank you very much.
Thanks Gus, glad you liked it!
one of my FAVORITES as a kid
Amazing game !!!
We love it! Thanks Ronalvel!
Gracias, fue uno de los primeros super juegos de mi infancia '70
Where are the automated audio come-ons?
I loved this game so much but my house was already to full to buy one when it came up on the market so I convinced my friend to buy it so I could play it. only took me about a month to finish repairs on it and make it reliable. ps there is a dip switch setting that turns off the high score reset button. got to replace the ball bearings in the periscope some day
MAME did a pretty good job at recreating the bezels and lights for this gam
Did they get the periscope lights in there?
@@LyonsArcade Yup, they're in there if you install the artwork, both the torpedo loading/ready/1/2/3/4 lights and the explosion lights, and they look pretty nice, considering. (There are also simple, crude light effects that you can have without the artwork, but that's a poor substitute.) Of course it's not quite the same as real physical lights. One difference I noted in your playthrough is that your machine would sometimes light a pair of explosion lights bracketing the target (I assume if it was between two light positions), while MAME would only ever show one. Might be a difference in ROM code, but I suspect an oversight in MAME's emulation.
Stupid noises ‼️®™️ 💯💯 lol
Sea Wolf: WWII Submarine
Joe, do you still have this Sea Wolf for sale?
Hi Karen, yes, it's still in our showroom! Check it out at www.LyonsArcade.com .
I think this my first video game experience....
I remember this cabinet as toddler of six years .Was this first arcade game before space invader craze?
It was probably the biggest game before Space Invaders, yup. There were several other games but this one seems to hold a special spot in people's minds.
@@LyonsArcade i play it on mame...its not the same......the parascope made the game awesome.
Definitely.
@@LyonsArcade awesome video.
Don't shoot fire fighters
i remember this game. niffty. before my time but fun
Yeah I'm a sucker for these original games with a weird cabinet and simple gameplay, any of those black and white games I love.
reminds me "bazooka"
Loved this game to the moon and back..
It's pretty cool!
How do the explosions work? Some lighting and mirrors?
Yes, there's like 5 different mirrors in the game that make all the different lights appear where they should, and reflects the monitor from the bottom of the cabinet, etc.
gotta love that hybrid tech! :)