Galaxian Coctail (Trivia Whiz)

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I so loved playing Trivia Whiz as a kid that I felt the free Mame version just wasn't good enough.

Oh, who am I kidding- I love Trivia Whiz- it makes people ignore it's a Midway coctail!


About as original as it can get except for these.. things. Original CRT, and it's been sitting around for awhile, but the CRT lights up.
And I know what it's current problem is.. lack of current;

Serial #6051, for those who can't read blur-text. sorry.

So.. again, I'm more used to the outside of these things.. is this is a dedicated TW board?
no ROM swapping will bring back the Galaxians, eh?



Shopping list: something that runs midway games.  or game.

Sorry, but I never did like that flippy switch on the original sitdown galaxian,
so it's probably a four-way  and fire buttons in the control panels to enable a Pac/Galaga combo..
They chunked out big hunks of wood under the controls to make room for those buttons.. so stuff should fit.


Top Plexi is scratched to crap, again, I don't mind, it made people go eww and buy something else.
and I have something to work from as a template for the replacement..

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Taking my time on this one, it seems.. Since I've imposed a moratorium of no more games till I fix the ones I have.. 
I went past my limit, but who can turn down a Color X-Y game dirt cheap?

Anyhow.. With several of the distractions taken care of..

Stripped out the remaining uglies of the Trivia conversion. Got a new grounding plug (why are these always missing?)
hooked up a reliable switching supply, jamma harness and fabricated a connector for the G07 to the Jamma video.
Double-checked all my connections, tested the voltages to ensure they were correct, routed the wires for the as-yet unpopulated control panel areas,
Plugged in my stunt Jamma board (no big loss, but would have been annoying), fixed a wrong synch jack (negative sync to the 3-pin molex)
and adjusted the monitor controls.

Up to this point, I had never really checked the operation of the monitor other than 'it glows white, duh'. Not even a cap kit...

Works fine! Mind you, this is the monitor it came with- 1980, although with about 14 years of sitting around, based on that note.
Just some lines towards the top (left side for horizontal) when the brightness was up too high (leftover from the 'white test'.)

Those bemoaning the 'loss of an original'.. Trade me a cocktail wire harness and panels and I'll put em in. For now, it's multigame jamma with a Galaxian wrapper.

Now to turn that pile of wires at each end into controllers. A _lot_ less room in galaxian panels than oh, a Pac or Ms.Pac.. but I'm adapting the setup to the game,
not mangling the game (further) to make x controller work.  basically fabricating joysticks with the middle of the panel as the retaining case. Adds to the challenge.
Everything carefully done so later, if I get the parts, I can bring it back to 1980 spec. The panels I have are too holey for restoration, and no parts besides.

Okay, that's 4 out of 5 showing video, 3 out of 5 playable (shorting control wires to ground doesn't count) After this.. Centipede! (all the parts, not hooked up yet)

  I do want again to thank everyone who buys my extra junk. It just ends up being my funds for buying someone else's..