Space Invaders (upright cabinet) | Bally/Midway, 1978

acquired : February 21, 2006
game settings : (stock?)
personal best high score to date : 6,300
personal best high score to date : 4,830 (Deluxe) (level 3)

Braze multi-game upgrade kit (includes the following games) :
Space Invaders - Space Invaders Deluxe - Jatre Specter - Lunar Rescue - Space Laser - Balloon Bomber - Galaxy Wars - Solar Fight

History: Moved it into my studio games space to get my fill before someone buys it - have a couple people interested in it (Nov 26, '09) :: Added the Braze upgrade kit, played a round of each new game, seems the Lunar Rescue is much harder than the Escape From Mars upright that I have, but it's pretty cool to play it with the moonscape and semi-silvered mirror gameplay (Dec 25, '07) :: Re-cleaned, and installed the NOS control panel overlay - looks extra sweet! (Dec 24, '07) :: Sparked it up, but no sound. Grrrr. Oh yeah, the speaker connections were always just holding on by a thread - turfed the broken connections, and soldered them on properly - works great again (Dec 09, '07) :: Brought it back to my studio (Dec 08, '07) :: My upgrade kit came for the Space Invaders [whoo hoo!] (Oct 29, '07) :: Space Invaders was botched, but I ended up fixing it. It was exhibiting a bizarre Matrix like pixel shower, and vastly sped-up game play - oddly, I did not have my camera with me - would have made some great images or video footage. The left coin slot chute is jammed, need to pull that apart soon [fixed at some point between 24.08 and 29.10]. Re-seated the dual boards, and now it looks great again (Aug 24, '07) :: Fixed the sound issue on SI - just disconnected wires! (Mar 31, '06) :: Space Invaders is almost totally back again - one small part got fried - which made the boards stop getting "-5v", but still no sound. (Mar 29, '06) :: Received my Asteroids upright, and Space Invaders uprights - both were working great, until I turned my back and the Asteroids popped the breaker in the garage. Changed the blown fuses in the game, but power-up blew the 7A right away. Crap! - well, the SI is very fun to play. Gotta fix up the bottom in the morning (all the leg-levelers are missing and/or broken posts) - but you have just got to see this backlit and reflected display - very trippy! (Feb 21, '06)