Galaxian with a 25" monitor

alejandromad

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So today I went to pick up a Galaxian.
I get to the guy's house and I think to myself, while looking at the front of the game, "that monitor looks big... maybe I just haven't seen a Galaxian in awhile".

It has an issue with the sides of the image folding over and the guy tells me "I looked at the monitor manual and tried moving all those dials on the back"... and I was thinking "all those dials? There aren't that many on a monitor".

As we are moving it up the stairs I am thinking "Damn this thing is heavy" but I figured maybe I just wasn't into moving it.

After I get back with it I notice on the packet he handed me, that contained the monitor schematics and the Galaxian manual, there's something written:

25"

Hmmm... well what do you know.

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I would like to find one of those. Congrats!

It was a pleasant surprise. It was equally nice to realize I wasn't suddenly much weaker than I was last weekend... it IS heavier.

It really fills the cabinet. The chassis is almost bigger than the game PCB
 
Oh yah! Interesting, I was hoping to see the glass bezel. Still these photos are extremely useful, can you take more too?

It has the bezel. I took it out to take the front pictures because I wanted it to be easy to see how the monitor fills the cabinet.

All the pictures I took today are here:
http://s972.photobucket.com/albums/ae206/alejandro_madera/Arcade/Galaxian/

I would have taken more but it started raining so I had to get it into the garage.

I'll take more pics for ya.
What do you want... close ups of things... what?
 
It looks like the bezel is just scrapped back a little on the sides and the top. I'd say 1/2" on the sides and about 1 1/2" at the top.

25 inch monitor:
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19 inch monitor:
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Nothing special there, a lot of Galaxians had GO2's in them. They were also standard in Sea Wolf II's.

How many? What percentage of the total number of Galaxians?

My take is that I've seen a LOT more Galaxians with 19" monitors than 25" monitors, so I'll argue that it IS something special.

More valuable? ahh- I don't know. If it's working, maybe so. If not, chances are it'll get swapped out with a 19" anyway.
 
Surely they didn't screen another run for the 25" models or would they? I wouldn't be surprise if guys were getting paid beans to scrape those, using a template or tracing.
 
Uncommon

Nothing special there, a lot of Galaxians had GO2's in them. They were also standard in Sea Wolf II's.

I will also have to disagree. My definition of a lot and yours must be vastly different. I have had several Galaxians and seen tons more and I have yet to see a 25" Galaxian in the flesh. i have only seen pictures of a few. Very uncommon is a better way to describe it. Sea wolf 2? Those dont really fall out of trees either.
 
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