Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
My First cab and First Restoration (sorta) - Galaxian/Galaga
Mauzy:
--- Quote from: Crayola on August 31, 2010, 05:00:15 pm ---
The cabinets themselves look identical.. except paint.
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The cabinets are very different when seen from the side. The Galaga/Ms Pac Man "side swoop" is much more dramatic than the Galaxian/Pac Man. From the front they do look the same though. If you notice, you still have the Galaxian bezel. The Galaga bezel would be similar but in color rather than black and white.
RayB:
No, keep it as Galaga.
1. It's almost 100% Galaga already
2. Galaxian is not as fun as Galaga
3. Galaxian has full length side-art that AFAIK has not been repro'd and if it has it's costly.
4. It will be more expensive to revert to Galaxian than fix up Galaga.
5. Galaga has a higher resale value (most likely reason it was converted to that in the first place).
WunderCade:
A true Galaga is closer to a Ms. Pac-man cab (only difference is the coin door on Galaga is .5 inch higher than Ms. Pac. and the coin hopper area is wooden)
What you have is a Galaxian cab which is most identical to a Pac-man.
As you can the sloping is cut deeper back on a Ms. Pac/Galaga style than it is on the Pacman/Galaxian style:
Crayola:
So I didnt get a chance to get more pictures last night but I did do a bit of
poking around in it. The power supply has been replaced with a switching
supply.. although they left the original so I have some work to do there.
The coin door mechs are also missing but they are easily replaced.
Given I would have to virtually replace everything it.. Art, marquee, pcb, rewire it
to get it back to a galaxian..which means well over $500.. I'd be in over 1k in
the machine which just isnt worth it IMHO even if it is just for my personal collection.
If I find another original Galaxian & Galaga I might consider doing a part swap to
get two original machines..
For now I am going to stick with the Galaga and replace the Control panel and the bezel
with Galaga ones (I'll save the originals just in case).
I guess we can move this out of restorations for now.
Bummer..
Crayola
Mauzy:
--- Quote from: Crayola on September 01, 2010, 11:02:28 am ---So I didnt get a chance to get more pictures last night but I did do a bit of
poking around in it. The power supply has been replaced with a switching
supply.. although they left the original so I have some work to do there.
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You probably want to keep the switcher in there. It will be more reliable than the old wiring. I agree with leaving it as a Galaga. Since you're doing that I would adopt the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" philosophy on this machine, but thats just me...
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