After doing some research on various sites and forua, I picked this up from a guy on Craigslist. (I'm six years too young for when it came out, but Galaxian is my favorite classic arcade videogame)
http://imgur.com/a/LpT1l/
It plays just fine; the CRT likely needs to be replaced, it was swapped from a Pac-Man and has the maze burned into it. Also some wavy motion to the video which I expect re-capping the board the drives the tube should fix based on the monitor section of this forum.
The guy I bought it from said he had had it for ~15 years and that he bought it from the original owner who had it in their den with the Pac-Man that the CRT came from. The increment counter behind the coin door is incremented to quite a high number though, so I wonder if it was actually in an arcade.
As far as I can tell it doesn't look like anything has been repaired or replace from the photos I've seen of original machines, except for the swapping of the CRT. The marquee and right side art are in reasonably good shape; the kick plate art is worn (looks like where everyone rubs the toe of their left shoe on it) and the left side art has a bit more wear. One big blemish on the control panel overlay where part of the yellow/text by the 1P/2P start buttons is missing.
I wanted something I could have in my entertainment room and play without worrying that I spent so much $$$ on it that I wouldn't want to touch it, and this fits the bill. It plugged in and started up perfectly after the 120 mile road trip in the back of my little pickup truck (wrapped in 5 furniture pads and plastic cling wrap before covering with the tarp).
So, for a first purchase, how did I do?
http://imgur.com/a/LpT1l/
It plays just fine; the CRT likely needs to be replaced, it was swapped from a Pac-Man and has the maze burned into it. Also some wavy motion to the video which I expect re-capping the board the drives the tube should fix based on the monitor section of this forum.
The guy I bought it from said he had had it for ~15 years and that he bought it from the original owner who had it in their den with the Pac-Man that the CRT came from. The increment counter behind the coin door is incremented to quite a high number though, so I wonder if it was actually in an arcade.
As far as I can tell it doesn't look like anything has been repaired or replace from the photos I've seen of original machines, except for the swapping of the CRT. The marquee and right side art are in reasonably good shape; the kick plate art is worn (looks like where everyone rubs the toe of their left shoe on it) and the left side art has a bit more wear. One big blemish on the control panel overlay where part of the yellow/text by the 1P/2P start buttons is missing.
I wanted something I could have in my entertainment room and play without worrying that I spent so much $$$ on it that I wouldn't want to touch it, and this fits the bill. It plugged in and started up perfectly after the 120 mile road trip in the back of my little pickup truck (wrapped in 5 furniture pads and plastic cling wrap before covering with the tarp).
So, for a first purchase, how did I do?