Midway's 1979 Galaxian Arcade Game with the 25" monitor!

ladies and gentlemen this is Joe's classic video games back on another really cool arcade game video for you today check this out we have an original Midway Galaxian arcade game in the store and I'll show you something special about it here in a second but that course this was released by Namco overseas and then they licensed it the Midway or the United States these were really cool cabinets it was the first one that they did that had that pacman cabinet look to it or at least that I'm aware of I think it's the first one and I think it came out in 1980 am I right about that or was it earlier than that I believe it was 1980 but this one here is the actual one with the big 25 inch monitor in it and I'll show you that here in a second let's see they're saying 1979 on the marquee but usually when they do the art they do it a little early so it might and I came out until 1980 these had a really strange way that they did the art it has like white vinyl on the side of it see if I can get a good yeah there you go see the texture in it it's like vinyl thick vinyl on the sides see what I mean on the wood and then they silk-screened the artwork right on the white vinyl and Atari kind of did a similar thing but their's was smooth it didn't have a texture to it like that but the ink that they used is pretty weak so it would wear right slap off you can see how worn it's gotten and so when you get a Galax in the artwork is usually worn pretty bad you can't even really clean it if you if you hit this with Windex or something in a paper towel you're going to lose a lot of that color and it's very very complex looking artwork so down here at the bottom you have this green moonscape with crevices and everything it says Midway a Bali company you have these gears and things and all of these cables you have this little moon base I'm assuming it's the moon I don't know and then you have the big bug which as you can see is a robot its robotic Galaxian so it's hard to get these that actually still have the original art cuz they're it where's slap off as it has done on the front it's on the front someone had painted over it like a dark blue so the kick art is long gone but there's usually art down here that's the original door which someone's installed just a red button in this side the art is a little bit better and the T molding that's the original color that it came with it originally had green tea molding which looks pretty cool matches everything and that's how it was some Midway's Galaxian the Marquis is in pretty good shape it has this like black level on the top and if it's on the bottom - that's actually silkscreen doing it so let's read the instructions instructions insert coin select one or two players control ever moves to thin chip right or left to fire missile press button attacking alien ship scores higher than ships and convoy attacking alien ships score higher than the ships in the convoy scoring in convoy 13 attacking 60 40 80 50 180 and who knows flagship attack a hundred and fifty points with one escort you get 200 points with two escorts you get 300 points two escorts flagship last 800 points it says 1970 and nine again so this thing the story I heard was that they had a bunch of extra 25 inch color monitors that they were putting in Seawolf - and Seawolf - didn't sell that great so they had a bunch of them around and they hooked them into these big o relaxing tenants so if you look at most galaxians they have a nineteen but the first run of thousands or whatever had this big 25 inch color monitor in it and if you look at the bezels on the 19-inch ones they're slightly different if you look real close you'll notice there's actually a like a black border around the edge of the artwork to see how the art doesn't really go all the way to the to the edge there's like a black border the only difference between this one in the 19-inch is that on a 19-inch that goes over a little farther so it goes over like here but it's still just a black border so they just made that border a little thicker all the way around on the 19 which is a pretty popular one and then on the top here it's kind of hard to see it but if you look on the top hope that's right enough you can see how it just abruptly kind of ends that's because if you look on the back of the bezel it looks like from the factory innocence of factory game has never been kidded anything it looks like from the factory they used a razor blade to make it a little bit taller to cut off some of the artwork so that you could see more of the screen and they can adjust it up a little bit bigger so they've got it adjusted in a little bit the tube actually runs over to about here and they didn't really they didn't really design it for the 25 inch one they just use it cuz they had a bunch of them sitting around so it's got a big huge 25 inch tube and these are the ones that you have to converge I can't remember what they call it but it's it just has a different way of converging everything so there's all kinds of adjustments and stuff on the neck board to converge this thing big old huge chassis and the neck board has all kinds of adjustments and stuff so we did converge it but we're not experts on it so slightly off we got everything right but we couldn't get the blue perfect so the blue was slightly off in the center everything's pretty good but edges in the middle of the screen everything's good so we almost got it perfect but that's what you run into when you're working on this old old stuff we're not good enough at repairing TVs that we can adjust it all out but I'll uh I'll get the tripod and we'll play through it a little bit you can see the difference between it and Galaga alright folks at this particular game we have set on free play and this is what it looks like on free play that doesn't really have a very good attract mode during free play they still have the Cascade of the starfield behind it but no uh no good attract mode if it's on free play now it's not on free play it has a pretty cool attract mode like most games do so we'll play it a little bit you can see where the convergence is all slightly on that big monitor see this blue shadow that should actually lined up with the letters you can see it at the top too it's off a little bit we couldn't quite get it converged perfectly now I'm horrible at Galaxian I'm all right at Galaga but Galaxian I was never good at quite a little bit you can only do one shot at a time so as long as the shot is on the screen which in Galax in it's easy to miss the line until you get really good at it we're gonna play it a couple times so if your shot misses them and goes all the way up you have to wait for it you got to remember the time line you know this was 1979 1988 fool oh I almost dodged that it's 1979 1980 which so this was the successor basically to space invaders you know I mean of course the same company didn't design it but Midway had done the American versions and then when they did whenever they got Galaga that Namco had done they had Namco had improved on this kind of concept so if you can read that my score was eighteen hundred and sixty we got to do better now I haven't played Galaxian enough to have any real strategies the more I think about it galaxias and Galaga must have been designed by the same people because it actually has some of the same Oh actually has some of the same when you get to the end of the wave with music stop or the swarm stop we flew off their movement is much different than on Galaga so stop doing that that last one if you try to he'll curve around and just clip the back the back of you 3850 that's about twice as good as last time right that move right there is a little dangerous and when there's this many of them it seems pretty dangerous I think they say it's like the best way to get good at it is to get more accurate with your shooting on Galaga you can kind of just spray the bullets because if it doesn't hit one of them it'll hit one of the things above and I usually play it with the rapid-fire chip on it so there's no there's like the bullets travel a lot faster and you can have a couple on the screen but on this one so in other words so on Galaga if you missed them it goes up and it hits the swarm or whatever it's called you know whatever it's considered at the top but on this one you don't really have that option so I think you're much better off on this one if you get really accurate with your shooting so that you don't waste me I'm shooting at Smith's missing them and then you get in a situation where you can't shoot until the boy gets off the screen in big trouble here I think like that how quickly I was able to shoot those two cuz I hit the first one all right in the corner like you can't get either on Galaga a lot of times you can get over the corner and they can't get that far but that one just followed me right into the corner Galaga you can kind of change how they're going to move by getting near them so like if you come over Adam and then go back they'll kind of be out of the way but on this one you can't they're just kind of they've got their own pattern it doesn't seem like it changes once they start flying I busted on them you see that little move I know y'all saw that little move alright I got another high score I'm up to 4,000 points now the people that know how to play this game are probably laughing hysterically that I'm bragging about 4,000 points let's try it again though just like Galaga it's got great music and sound effects and space of it I consider space invaders they have great music and sound effects even though it's just that you have a thumping it's a lot like space invaders kind of there's a lot of space invaders to it just the way the the back-and-forth movement at the top are all lined up perfectly you have a swarm change man I made it sound like she like stopped and turned around that's when you could get them and so now that the whole swarm sound is gone because it's the last wave or whatever all right I kinda want to just get two more levels so I can see if it's different hard to get through that you get a lot more points if they're flying what have we just read a minute ago oh I guess if you like run at that that line up whenever they're coming you can shoot up a lot more of them didn't work for me that time but 4710 we're getting a little better I do have the high score since the last time it was turned on three minutes ago all right so when they're attacking everything is worth more points so where I've been screwing up is I've been focusing on shooting them while they're not attacking but if you just wait and shoot them as they're attacking you get a lot more points you know of course that's much harder but watch this we can go let's go say if you can hit one of them whenever they do that you've got the opportunity hit three or four of them you get a lot of points I want to get more than one of them whenever they're doing it so I got to that time three I got three that them that one just goes I didn't do too much better that time let me read that again what it says attacking alien ship scores higher than ships in convoy in convoy you get 30 or you get 60 if they're attacking 45 you get 40 for the red ones or 80 if they're attacking 50 for the other red ones or 100 if they're attacking 80 in convoy and you get a lot more for the yellow one if it's attacking so basically you get twice as many points if they're attacking so I'm gonna try not to shoot anything unless it's attacking that's how that works that might not work too good because if you don't get rid of some of them you might be in big trouble nasha wait till they get closer they're pretty good on that yellow one right esse like this is a good opportunity I'm trying to shoot the the formation all right so I made twenty nine hundred and ten points on the first wave without finishing the board so that's a little that's marginally better than I was doing just spraying and praying so we'll try it one more time doing it that way I bet you can get pretty good at just like sniping on there I like I'm getting the timing down a little bit okay these guys here and of course the yellow ones are the ones that really give you the points that was drying I was trying and they alternate sides so that makes it a little easier to figure out so you get 300 for the yellow one I missed I was a good opportunity there come on now well there you go folks there's a little bit of Galaxian on the original big old huge electric home co2 monitor it's still working great after all these years now by the time you see this video I may not have Galaxian anymore it may have flown off to someone else's game room you can see everything I do have that we do have to sell on our website go to lions arcade dot-com it's always up-to-date this is on there right now because it's for sale but if you see this several years from now likely not but you can see an 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