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GORF Arcade Game Review - Bally/Midway 1981 - John's Arcade on the Road!
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Here's a video review of GORF ("Galactic Orbiting Robot Force") by Bally/Midway. This game was released in 1981 and contains elements of Space Invaders and Galaxian. It's essentially four games in one. It's a pretty neat cabinet! The joystick in this game was designed by famed pinball and video game designer George Gomez. It is the same joystick that you will find on Tron, Discs of Tron, and Satan's Hollow. This video was filmed at the Flux Capacitor Arcade in suburban Chicago.
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You said it was from an arcade in the south suburbs of Chicago. Two possibilities...Wright's Barnyard in Lansing, IL and Number 1 Fun in Homewood, IL. Crazy that this could be the exact GORF that I played back in the early 1980's!
GORF is awesome! Played this in the arcades many moons ago, I'm still rocking GORF on MAME. I liked how you had two ways of firing, all on the same trigger. A single slow long range laser shot that could reach the top of the screen. And fast multiple short range laser shots (by pressing the fire trigger quickly) for when the GORF are swarming upon your ship ;)
Takes me back to my university days, when I graduated with a Master of Arts but never got beyond the rank of space cadet. The noise when the flagship blew up was awesome!
I ordered a Gorf from TNT Amusments and can not wait to get mine....
I recall playing this in 81, loved the stick and display, could never remember what is was called till now.
I used to love Gorf as a teen. I recall some places didn't ground the cabinet right, or something, and you'd get little electric shocks from the metal front panel if you held
your hands there while playing. Creepy!
Just so you know, I removed the red transistor from the neck board and let the game run for an hour. It never turned red. It's not the tube!
TRY. AGAIN. I. DEVOUR. COINS.
As far as the red, I once saw someone with that problem and it turned out to be one of the adjustment pots causing the issue. Sometimes when you would just touch the pot the problem would correct itself. Worth a shot if you haven't tried that already.
iv been fixing my gorf and its the same with the background sounds missing and the lazer on the second level. first thing to check is swapping the speaker wires i think. its a great machine. LONG LIVE GORF!
GORF= Galactic Orbiting Robot Force
these type of transistors are two lead units where the case forms one of the connections. there is usually an insulating pad under the transistor to isolate it from the frame and one of the mounting nuts will have a tag connecting it to the PCB.
I miss Johns Arcade Upload. Nostalgia
this game was truly badass. loved playing it.
GORF is a very fun game. I honestly wouldn't have searched this one out, but I went to buy a Gravitar from a guy and he had several other games that weren't listed yet but that he would be selling. So, I ended up getting Gravitar, GORF, and Frogger from him. Gravitar is in the restoration queue, Frogger didn't need much, and that GORF just needed cleaning, new t-molding, and one piece of the formica-like side had started to peel back so I had to glue & clamp it back into place.
I remember playing this when it first came out.. Depending on the machine, I could make it all the way past Space Avenger.. PLUS, I've seen guys take out the Flagship with only two shots (one at the barrier, the other well-placed at the core.. Yes, it is possible!)
I swapped neck boards and it was still red! The pots are on the neck board. Thanks for the idea, though!
I fixed the missing sounds on my Gorf, which is the one shown in this video. The audio PCB was the problem, the small board with the 2 volume pots and switch located behind the coin door. Now all sounds are present.
Yup exactly, those 4 transistors on the frame are the X-Y control . It will be a dry joint on one of them probably.
I figured it did. I always equated Bally/Midway with seeing both companies' names together as such, like on Tapper. Ah well. Gorf remains one of my favorite games, and it's a shame it will never appear on emulation packages, so the only genuine way to enjoy it is in arcade format.
Bad to the Bone game! Gotta love the 80's. Thanks for posting, now I want to play the game, Dang it!!!!!!!
I replaced D207 and it looks like I fixed it! Woot! Game has been running for 45 minutes now. NO RED! Thank you!!
My favorite game of all time. I could play hours on a single quarter.
gynandroidhead It's a great game for sure! Total classic.
Hi Jon, your red issue will be a short circuit in the red section on the main part of the chassis, if the issue was in the neck card then you'd see flyback lines at the same time and from your vid you don't have that so it's in the initial colour amplification stage pre-drive. Check the red input from the video connector onwards starting there as something will be causing it to not shut off. If you've already swapped the transistors in the circuit it's a short or a crack in the PCB.
I almost got a Gorf last year. I got my Tapper when the deal fell through. I do believe, though, that Midway hadn't gotten to the Bally/Midway state yet when they put out Gorf. The marquee simply reads Midway, and I believe so does the title screen.
Use to play this at the local Max n Ermas as a teen for free. You could hit the coin return and it would give you a credit. Love this game. They need to put it out for the playstation.
I remember GORF.... was my favorite when I was a kid.... I kicked its ass once I bet I dumped 1000quarters in that mutha
GORF was my favorite game ever in the arcades... the 1st time I played and I made Space Captain I was sold... I dumped rolls of quarters in this game... Loved putting my initials in
Will do! Thanks for the help!
ahhh the memories.i loved gorf
It's a 6100. I'll order the transistors. I might have them too. I'll check when I get home and swap them out.
I tested it and compared it to one from another chassis. Got same results on both. No resistance in one direction and a reading in the other. This monitor usually worked normally when I turned it on and then it would turn red. Maybe it was failing when it got hot?
I already replaced Q203-208 and Q401-Q405. I'll look a that diode!
looks, video rgb is HIGHER voltage -> TOP INTENSITY, ZERO or near ZERO = black, so, if some of the R G B signals is interrupted, it won't lights that channel. So, the problem is more in the RGB output amplifier, it sounds like the R transistor lacks the 200v video +B, when that voltaje fails, the cathod of the tube lights. Normally, there is one big wattage resistence that normally turns hot, one for each channel, from the +200v , to the collector of the transistor, now, some moderns board, uses IC for handling the RGB output, check its datasheet and check if it have all voltaje needed.
I liked GORF because it talked and had 5 stages per level. It might have been good if it came out talking on the Intellivision.
I think there are some sounds missing, someone else also pointed that out! I personally am not that familiar with the game so I don't know! :)
Tempest monitor has horizontal collapse- will be one of the drive Trs.
I hope your Tempest machine is alright, it was freaking out at the end there.
Great video! Gorf was one of my favorite games for the Atari 2600 back in the day, and I wouldn´t mind owning the arcade machine :)
Hey, I never knew what GORF stood for! I added it to my description. Thanks!
Did you ever figure out what was causing the red screen on the moon patrol? I realize this was years ago. I have a go7 chassis doing the same thing...
q203, q207 or D207. Basically Q207 is being switched on all the time, it could be a bad resistor in the circuit around Q203- 207, the diode could be another culprit.
Another all time classic. Yes!!.
The Marquee says by Midway a Bally Co. :)
My Tempest PCB is sick!
Greg has a great collection, I agree!
thanks man for the response though it brings back memories that's all we once owned 1 years ago but the board died after so much use and since i was young and didn't know how to repair it the machine ended up going to the dump lol you got a cool collection
John's Arcade Game Reviews & Tech I like your videos and repairs. Keep up the good work!
Thanks, buddy! :)
your welcome
if you missed the insulating pad then youve shorted the transistor collectors together- resulting load of that will cook F200 (I think it is F200 its the fuse in the vertical (X) section.)
Nope, no new guitars. The hollow body by the Megatouch is a Guild Starfire III!
At 5:02, you made me think for sure my headset had gone out! D:
Awesome as always, John!
I really want this game in my basement.
Same! Make sure to buy one with a working joystick though...they are a bit on the pricey side lol.
Hey John, this may not be any help, but I had the same red problem with a 25" CRT I have in my Dynamo. I had a cracked solder connection on the red pin from the harness to the chassis. Since it still does it when the game is unplugged, that may not be it, but that is the exact problem I had and that fixed it. You have probably reflowed all of the solder leads though I am sure.
Funny that the title says something about Gorf and I hear a bunch of technobabble about moon patrol.
Gorf is our new supreme ruler!
Good port to the colecovision too!
Galactic Orbiting Robot Force
Oh, you think maybe just reflow the solder on the connection? Ok!
Nice work! Glad it's working right now.
I'm trying to figure out how to use the soundtrack. I am only playing it at very low volumes during the beginning and that's it. Maybe I'll kill it all together. :)
I sent you a PM on my forums... Anyways, I fixed the Tempest. It's all good. I replaced the transistor that controls the bottom half of the monitor. I shorted it at first after I installed it but fixed that issue and it's all good now. Thanks for the advice!
are some of the sounds missing from that gorf? maybe one of the channels isnt working. i couldn't hear the lazer from the blue ships on the second level. that chanel also does the background sounds.
It has the Wizard of Wor voice :o
ORLY!? You mean one of the frame bottlecap transistors?
Could even have been something like a dry joint at D207. Give it a while, if it keeps working do a vid !
wish I could visit but Im in UK, awsome collection.
i was wondering if you knew how much for the original cocktail table space invaders are going for now if there are any around these days
Do a diode test on the component you just removed.
I see the uprights going cheap around here. So, I'd guess the cocktail would be less. Thanks!!!!!
gimme a wee mention in your next video- you have a big fan in UK!
What was wrong with your moon patrol?
If your red was fine then maybe your blue and green were underpowered?
What happens when you reach the highest rank and you beat the last level? Do you go back to the lowest rank or stay at Space Avenger for the rest of your game?
i found a flaw on the original raiden arcade and the multi game neo-geo systems years ago by repeatedly pressing the player 1 on boot up really fast when the system started it would clock up credits i got busted at the local bowling alley for doing it on their raiden when i was younger lol
Hi John!
All hail Gorf!
Oh I see very nice very nice!
Gorf from halfway
the moon patrol monitor I meant, what make is it?
Its missing a channel of the sound :-( ! You can notice when the flagship has no bomb dropping sounds as they drop!!!
Yeah, I think he has since fixed that. We didn't notice it at the time but it was pointed out by others later.
I love the games with stereo sound so I alway notice when they are not working right!!
Prepare yourself for annihilation space cadet
that is quite the mancave.
Is that a new guitar acquisition i see by your Mega Touch? A Gibson perhaps? :p
It's a 4900!
Don't forget Zaxxon
yeah GORF!
Ahhh! Ahhh! Ahhh! Goooot you spaaaaaace cadet!
I let the game run for a long time last night. It's fixed! (CROSSING FINGERS!)
Hi! :)
This Gorf is missing some sounds!
You need to tell @coastalmichelle on Twitter! :)
what make is the chassis?
Dont thank me yet. If it goes again, replace D207 again and R207 with it.
More 4x Transportaion.
he sure does your basement looks a mess not a arcade
You're actually second. :)
Your best bet is playing it in MAME. And, I am just being me. :)
Maybe just a lot lower in volume, and shorter? I love Add N to (X) and Kraftwerk (aka music that makes my wife want to kill) - but for some reason, I find it really hard to listen to you with it warbling away in the back ground. Might be I'm just getting old. Keep up the great work, anyway.
I don't think very much. I wouldn't pay much more than $100 for one. Don't really care for it...
gorf ist cool
i bet he made you take your shoes off. :)
Can you mention if this game was on any compilation or collection? Also can you not talk so fast?
did it have an insulator pad? I bet it did.
btw, do you have an msn? or skype? personal message me