I Give Thee GalaMania

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I wrote yesterday about my most awesome weekend pickup, A Galaga 88 and a new test kit http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=212434

I was unsure if the Galaga was a dedicated version or not. It is the right shape, color, and there appeared to be side art in the right places. Alas, I found some Pac Mania Schematics as well as a Pac Mania door sheet, so it looks like my new acquisition was a conversion

My favorite part of picking up a game is cracking it open. You never know what you may find. As much as I love playing the games, I value and respect their history and you can often find out a lot by what is left inside.

As I had mentioned in my previous post the game had two different manufacturer stickers on it. One was a basic UR with serial number and the other was stamped Galxxx.
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Believe it or not the keys were still inside it so I opened her up and the Galaga 88 schematics as well as the first printing of the Pac Mania schematics (1st edition BABY!), and the Sanyo EZ20 manual were in there. Oh and I made a couple of bucks in quarters too, hello free laundry.
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Pac Mania Door Sheet.

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The other neat thing about this cabinet is that it appears to use the Sanyo EZ20 monitors that are found in Nintendos

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Dedicated or not I am pretty stoked about the pickup. I can't wait to fire it up (hopefully tomorrow) and get cracking on removing the black paint.

The game is super clean and looks like it was extremely well taken care of.
 
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pac mania and galaga 88 used the exact same cab and are basically jamma boards. So it may technically be a conversion but it's a conversion in the correct cab regardless.
 
SWEET FIND! Yeah when I was cleaning out my Street fighter to cabinet, I found some quarters and the original printed manual that came with it.....and a bottle cap, dust bunnies, a power wire and and old bag of chips....


lol:D:D
 
congrats, looks like it'll clean up nice. I'd use Citristrip to take the black paint off the sides if it still has the white vinyl under.
 
congrats, looks like it'll clean up nice. I'd use Citristrip to take the black paint off the sides if it still has the white vinyl under.

I was thinking citristrip or graffiti remover.

I am glad I didn't order the vinyl for my paperboy restore yet as it looks like I am going to need some more.
 
I have been working on the Galaga 88 side art for like 4 years. I guess I should find the file and finish it.

:D
 
Never knew there was so much love for Gal88' out there. I have it on my TurboGrafix and play it on Mame a bit...think it's pretty fun if a bit quirky.
 
most Galaga '88's seem to be conversions via kit of either Pacmania or Dragonspirit (as mine is.) i'm not sure i've yet seen a true dedicated cabinet, though they might exist.

Atari utilized the 20EZ in a lot of their mid-to-late '80's cabs. i currently have them stock in my G88 and Blasteroids and had one in my converted Escape From the Planet of the Robot Monsters. one of the nifty things about these cabs is that the power supply has both isolated 100v for the Sanyos and 120v for other monitors, making it pretty easy to replace if necessary.
 
most Galaga '88's seem to be conversions via kit of either Pacmania or Dragonspirit (as mine is.) i'm not sure i've yet seen a true dedicated cabinet, though they might exist.

Atari utilized the 20EZ in a lot of their mid-to-late '80's cabs. i currently have them stock in my G88 and Blasteroids and had one in my converted Escape From the Planet of the Robot Monsters. one of the nifty things about these cabs is that the power supply has both isolated 100v for the Sanyos and 120v for other monitors, making it pretty easy to replace if necessary.

From what I have been told they made 600 dedicated 88's. The rest were conversions.

I haven't had a chance to dig into it, but I can't wait to check out the iso. That's so cool.
 
Congrats!
Pac-Mania is in the top 3 on my list of "wants"
Never saw a Galaga 88 BITD(with the limited numbers I guess I now know why), but loved Pac-Mania...

Maybe DPTWiz will get a donor cab at some point and I'll buy a cab from him and roll my own since they are near impossible to find :D

Would be interesting to know how many Pac-Mania cabs were produced
 
Believe it or not the keys were still inside it so I opened her up and the Galaga 88 schematics as well as the first printing of the Pac Mania schematics (1st edition BABY!), and the Sanyo EZ20 manual were in there.

LOL you know the first printings are typically less desirable since if there is a 2nd printing it usually has corrections? Then again for this game I doubt there was a 2nd printing.

Also I see the CPO has a nice chip at the bend. I forget if it was quarterarcade.com or thisoldgame.com (maybe both), but there is a repro CPO available.

Nice score btw. I still want to get a dedicated one (or a converted one in the correct cab) some day.
 
I agree, the pacmania's came through with sanyo monitors. My pacmania had the original manual hiding under an inch of dust. It had never been opened before.
 
Cool! You also have a nice SF2CE sitting back there. :) Not to derail, but what happened to your SI cocktail?
 
Cool! You also have a nice SF2CE sitting back there. :) Not to derail, but what happened to your SI cocktail?

Thanks. The SFII is my current project. I was hoping to find an original CPO and Bezel, but think I am just going to order up some repro stuff :(

The SI cocktail was a bootleg and I just didn't have the time or the energy. It was beyond gutted so I gave to to someone who could use it. Plus these two projects had come along before, so I thought it best to spread the SI love.

I am almost done with the trimline, but the other Taito is being a snarky little one. Ahh, this hobby.

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Congrats!
Pac-Mania is in the top 3 on my list of "wants"
Never saw a Galaga 88 BITD(with the limited numbers I guess I now know why), but loved Pac-Mania...

Maybe DPTWiz will get a donor cab at some point and I'll buy a cab from him and roll my own since they are near impossible to find :D

Would be interesting to know how many Pac-Mania cabs were produced

DP is a little out of my travel range, but I would be more than happy to do whatever I could to get him the measurements of this cab and even my Trimline.
 
BTW if you wanted to make some quick cash:

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=196977

Also the 600 wasn't an actual number, just a range I recalled, here are the actual production numbers.

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=190627

http://www.atarigames.com/atarinumbers90s.pdf

The actual number of dedicated Galaga '88 cabinets produced was 136! 850 kits were made. Pacmania total production was 1412.

As for that monitor, while Atari used 20ez monitors I production date of 1984 and having Nintendo of America sticker on it I would say that it was a monitor swap done by an operator.
 
All I found in my Centipede Nerdy was an old garden hose nozzle and some big rocks. No joke! lol
 
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