Found something yesterday.

[paigeoliver]

Vectorbeam Space Wars, working 100 percent, monitor is perfect, although it could use a little cosmetic work.

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Side view

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other side

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boards, no signs of any repairs.  

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screen shot. Hard to photograph the screen, with no flash it looks like that.

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With flash it looks like this

[paigeoliver]

Lower marquee. This is cracked, and someone put some sort of clear plastic stuff over it to hold it together, which makes it look terrible. I wonder if I will be able to find another one?

[paigeoliver]

21 buttons on this control panel

[SirPeale]

Lower marquee. This is cracked, and someone put some sort of clear plastic stuff over it to hold it together, which makes it look terrible. I wonder if I will be able to find another one?

Maybe, but it looks easy enough to duplicate.

[paigeoliver]

Power supply, has some big old caps on it, don't look to be the same as big blues though.

[paigeoliver]

Lower marquee. This is cracked, and someone put some sort of clear plastic stuff over it to hold it together, which makes it look terrible. I wonder if I will be able to find another one?

Maybe, but it looks easy enough to duplicate.

It has a curve that you can't see in the picture, although the curve is not strictly needed.

Upper marquee detail, one of those oddball games that does NOT have a lighted marquee.

[paigeoliver]

Now for the bad stuff.

There was some SERIOUS crumbly particle board on one side (one of the reasons I ALWAYS stress to people to use plywood).

[paigeoliver]

BUT I was able to pull up the vinyl off the lower cabinet and cut out the damaged wood. This will soon be filled in, and then I will glue the vinyl back on.

I am also mildly considering cutting all the vinyl off, except for underneath the sideart, getting thje wood really good and smooth and then roller painting it white, it would look better, but would take FOREVER.

[NoOne=NBA=]

Have we mentioned lately that we really, really HATE you?  

[bdsjake]

Paige, WOW! what a find!

That's one of my top 10 b/c its one of the first, if not the first, games I remember playing.

I've planned on adding the SW options to my 2-player MAME cab bezel instructions, whenever I get around to do that anyway.

...if you ever think about selling...


bds

[bdsjake]

ps, exactly where/how do you "find" this stuff (like also your star wars sitdown!!!)  

pps, how much does that think weigh?

[Pasqualz]

Dude, did you cut that particleboard with just a drill?? LOL priceless!

[ericball]

Could you do a nice square-on view of the side of the cabinet please?  For my cocktail cab I want to have pictures of the sides of classic uprights.

Plus, it will make it easier if someone wants to do a vectorization of the side-art.

Thanks!

PS That marquee is probably good enough for me to use it for the ships in the version of SpaceWar! I am doing for the Atari 7800.
PPS Nice score!  

[RacerX]

Have we mentioned lately that we really, really HATE you?  

No kidding.  I have found several crappy, dirty, converted games, but Paige always finds working or nearly working classics.  I'm extremely jealous.  

[vputz]

Wow, pretty awesome--SpaceWar was probably the very first coin-op I ever played.

Great find indeed.

-->VPutz

[NY_in_TX]

Awesome!!

Great find Paige.  I was beginning to wonder where you were.

where's the trackball gonna go  


ny

[Stingray]

Wow! That is so cool!

-S

[greywolf22]

I'm in complete agreement with everyone else...what a terrific find that is.  And the cabinet is in awesome shape considering how old the cabinet is.  Great great find  

[JoeB]

excellent find!  

With lots of TLC (a la Oscar style) they cab can be restored to better than new condition and net you some good $$$ and a collectors heart.

 

[paigeoliver]

Ok, quick answers to everyone.

First off. Yes I can take some square on sideart pictures, but I will probably wait until I fix the bottom area of the cabinet so it looks better.

I can also DEFINITELY take some good sideart pictures. I would love if it ended up getting reproed, as mine is complete, but has some scratches.

The cordless drill was handy to use, and it cut through the thing like butter. That pic was taken before I was done, it is actually a perfectly smooth cut now (I have A LOT of practice using a drill as a saw).

Now, onto the question how do I FIND this stuff.

First thing is that I know other collectors, a lot of my stuff comes from them in one way or another. I also go to the auctions, I keep my eyes peeled, and I constantly offer up my dead/project games for trade, and take a trade if I come out ahead.

In the case of this game I gave my really nice Do! Run Run for it. Which cost me approximately $150. The guy frankly would have taken ANYTHING for it (wouldn't fit through his basement door), but I didn't have any conversions or less than minty games laying around that actually worked, and I didn't want someone else to snag the deal. I can always play Do! Run Run in Mame anyway, can't REALLY play Space War in Mame.

[bdsjake]

Paige, here's the marquee:

http://classicarcadegrafix.com/s2.html

(about 1/4 down the page)


Edit:  oops, looks like thats for Space Wars, not Space War, close but the same, sorry!

[paigeoliver]

Chewed up wood has been replaced. Hole has been filled and vinyl has been glued back down. It doesn't look perfect, but it looks a whole lot better now. Will look GREAT once I add the along the bottoms of the sides and along the back, and once I put corner protectors on it.

I also replaced the t-molding on one side (so far), which is also doing wonders for the looks of the thing. Can't do the other side until I flip the thing over, since it is laying down on its side.

[Chris]

Wow... I've never seen the Vectorbeam version of this game before... great find!

This was always one of my favorites...  of course, one of the reasons was that I could jiggle the plug and it would sometimes give a free game... often only a few seconds of time, but once it added 8 minutes to the clock!

[paigeoliver]

Ok, I have done a bit of work, and here is how it is coming along.

This picture shows the former "bad" side, with rotted wood repaired, new t-molding, some corner trim, and some other fixes. I don't have any corner protectors "in stock", so those will have to wait until my next Bob Roberts order.

I also still have to repaint the lower black part, which originally appears to have just been black spraypaint sprayed over on the white vinyl.

[paigeoliver]

Here is the former "good" side, looks terrible when compared to the revamped "bad" side. This shot is before I did anything to it, I have since begun to work on it. Although I really don't think it is going to end up coming out as nice as the other side.

[paigeoliver]

Sideart shot as requested.