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Arcade Collecting => Miscellaneous Arcade Talk => Topic started by: JeepMonkey on April 26, 2006, 10:15:14 am

Title: Space Invaders Deluxe Cocktail Questions
Post by: JeepMonkey on April 26, 2006, 10:15:14 am

I am looking to purchase a Space Invaders cocktail and had a couple questions before proceeding.

1.  Did the original cabinet have a spinner or joystick to move left and right?

2.  What type of cable / connector goes from the video board to the monitor? 

Title: Re: Space Invaders Deluxe Cocktail Questions
Post by: quarterback on April 26, 2006, 10:29:36 am

RE #1:  AFAIK, the original SI cocktail had a joystick.

My memories also tell me that it was a "two-way" stick.

Title: Re: Space Invaders Deluxe Cocktail Questions
Post by: quarterback on April 26, 2006, 10:34:48 am

The Taito version had a two-way joystick. 
The Midway version had a little "lever" that you kind of turned to the right and left.

Title: Re: Space Invaders Deluxe Cocktail Questions
Post by: JeepMonkey on April 26, 2006, 10:52:53 am

The pic I found of the controls wasn't clear enough to tell.

So multiple companies were allowed to make and sell the same SI game?

Thanks for the info.

Title: Re: Space Invaders Deluxe Cocktail Questions
Post by: Kevin Mullins on April 26, 2006, 11:27:31 pm

Lots of info here : http://www.spaceinvaders.de/

Check out their FLYERS and MANUALS

I'm sure quarterback is pretty correct.......

Title: Re: Space Invaders Deluxe Cocktail Questions
Post by: Luigi on April 27, 2006, 06:15:14 am

I'm sure I once saw one with two buttons for left/right (like the upright version).....but I'm not sure if it was an original  ???

Title: Re: Space Invaders Deluxe Cocktail Questions
Post by: Stingray on April 27, 2006, 04:08:07 pm

Midway SI Cocktails used this odd little lever, which is really just a strangly shaped two-way leaf stick.

(http://www.stingraysmadness.com/images/photoalbum/13/P1_CP.jpg)

-S

Title: Re: Space Invaders Deluxe Cocktail Questions
Post by: JeepMonkey on April 27, 2006, 04:11:24 pm

Thanks all.  I did eventually find that pic Stingray, but the one I found was a bit blurry and I couldn't make out that controller.

Title: Re: Space Invaders Deluxe Cocktail Questions
Post by: Stingray on April 27, 2006, 04:17:23 pm

This angle shows the shape of the lever a bit better.

(http://www.stingraysmadness.com/images/photoalbum/13/SI_glasstop.jpg)

And for the heck of it, here's one of the P2 side. I can take pics of the inside of the CP over the weekend if anyone is interested in seeing what this freaky little guy's guts look like.

(http://www.stingraysmadness.com/images/photoalbum/13/P2_CP.jpg)

-S

Title: Re: Space Invaders Deluxe Cocktail Questions
Post by: CheffoJeffo on April 27, 2006, 05:49:24 pm

FWIW, Todd at TNT posted on RGVAC that he had six of these available.

Cheers.

Title: Re: Space Invaders Deluxe Cocktail Questions
Post by: grantspain on April 27, 2006, 06:15:33 pm

the original space invaders cocktail cab we had in the u.k had 2 buttons for left/right,joysticks were not available then(well not in the u.k/all the first space invaders were jap imports-my father was one of the first operators in the u.k to get them)