Shuttle Invader cocktail cabinet

If anything I am saving it from a fate worse than killing it off. At least this way it will be kept running. The wooden base board was falling too pieces and I cut my hands on it lifting it up. Many splitters later, it had to go!

I take your point, but as pointed out, actually getting hold of a working SI PCB is nigh on impossible. What to do in the mean time? Convert it I guess as most of the guts for the machine are already missing.

If it had arrived in complete condition, just missing the PCB I'd perhaps of thought otherwise.

Shame about the Galaxian.

 

1) I seriously doubt that Parris would just junk the original plates from the cab. However, it is missing most, if not all, the original buttons.

2) The cabinet is also missing the critical part of the puzzle - the hardware. Despite it having the panel, the PCBs are missing from it and apart from that, there is nothing really that distinctive about it.

So in conclusion: what's the point of putting Shuttle Invader back in it, when aside from the plates, it's just a standard Taito cabinet?

 

It's not a standard Taito cabinet though, it's similar but not the same. The monitor should be B&W but I have a feeling that someone removed that and whacked a colour monitor in it.

I think it's part of the charm in having these old oddball games in the original cabinets, okay there isn't a game board and the original buttons are missing but both could be found with a lot of time and effort...

 

The question is whether having spent £15 on it, having to replace the top, base, buttons, internal wiring, PSU and respray the feet, metal parts etc is there really any real point going to the trouble finding the original bits and pieces, especially as it was bought for my son to just tinker with some gaming?

I get where you are coming from, but in this instance I think there's no real point.

 

I've got a Sega Galaxian cocktail, and this is the only reference I've ever found to another Sega Galaxian.
Do you know anything about this machine?
Who else has one?
Where's the one youre talking about?

Any info will be greatly appreciated!

 

As far as I know, Galaxian was Namcos second arcade game and unlike Bee Gee was proving far popular and Namco did not have the facilities to make as many boards as they liked, so they turned to Sega who were know to have licenced and published games for other companies and an agreement was thrashed out so that Sega would license and sell the game in a limited number of prefectures in Japan. A number of these would be exported to New Zealand and Australia and this is the only place I have managed to find them.

 

Ah,
it isnt too suprising that it isnt documented online then I guess..
in fact the only pcb photos I've come across have been the ones I've taken that people have borrowed