My latest find - Space Invaders

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This was delivered Sunday night. I don;t know why I am so excited over a Space Invaders but I am. I guess I kind of think of this game as what started it all for me. The craze around this game is what got me into arcade games when I was a kid and I am pretty sure that every arcade I went to had one including the wall at the skating rink.
 

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In this pic you can see what I suspect is the reason it doesn't work. I am going to order new caps but I will probably still attempt to fire it up after repairing the traces and checking the other traces. Any advice is welcome.
 

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Space Invaders Deluxe was one of the first I remember playing and the first one in my collection. As much as I like the other ones this one always gets played. I recommend the 8-1 Braze kit for it which will make it even better. Congrats on the score.
 
other than the board(which can probably be fixed) this is a good looking cab with only a couple of scrapes. gratz on the score
 
This was delivered Sunday night. I don;t know why I am so excited over a Space Invaders but I am. I guess I kind of think of this game as what started it all for me. The craze around this game is what got me into arcade games when I was a kid and I am pretty sure that every arcade I went to had one including the wall at the skating rink.

It is a great game and awesome cabinet. It's also one of my very first arcade memories. They had one of these at the end of the row in the arcade/snack shop of my childhood roller rink. I just remember seeing the Space Yetis holding missiles on the side and wondering what the hell they had to do with the little flying aliens in the game. I have a Deluxe I will be restoring, but I'd trade it for a restored original in a heartbeat.
 
The board can definately be fixed. I'd be checking the traces downstream for what caused the flash damage - it looks like something is shorted to ground.

Check for wires at the coin doors and on the back plane - look for any that are pinched or damaged, and track them back.

It could also be a shorted diode.

Eldorado Games does work on these boards. You send the entire board set (both game boards, with the tent pieces off) and the power board (the one in your picture) to them.
 
My advice is to order the Braze 8 in 1 Space Invaders kit, it will actually fix a number of problems. It turned my non working SI into a Working SI.

Steve
 
Thanks everyone! I am pretty happy with it.

I do plan on buying one of the 8in1 kits but I want to try and get it working first. Would also like to find/build one of those speed up mods too.

I'll start another thread with some more pics once I get started but the only other things wrong I will be tackling immediately is the coin door which is a little beat up around the edges from people prying things, the two rear blocks of wood that the levelers go in got split out from someone aggressively moving it I suppose, and there are no locks at all. I hate how people never seem to take the time to buy new locks and just settle for a few screws placed between the cab and door edge....which often splits the wood it goes into. Bah. Pet peeve of mine.

If I am lucky I can still buy one of those repro doors I saw a while back in another thread.
 
Yes, I use El Dorado. I can't get an answer from Electron Forge.

So far, so good. I have two different board sets up and running from Eldorado at this point.

Everything he has shipped has been packed well, arrived quickly, and was billed accurately. It works for me - if you have better options, I'm listening.
 
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