Midway's 1979 GALAXIAN Cocktail Table Arcade Game Machine

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[@Gauntlet1985]

I love the fact that not only do you have a real appreciation for these classic games but you take the time to make detailed videos for each and every game. You don't just put up some 2 minute rushed video you put the time and effort into the videos that these machines deserve. 😎

[@LyonsArcade]

Thank you Micah, we appreciate that. Yes we try to show everything we can, they're works of art.

[@Foxonian]

Used to play this game a lot at our local Pizza Hut back in the day.

[@LyonsArcade]

Some people call them "pizza Hut" cabinets because of that!

[@stephenthevhsdvdblu-raymed9346]

I know when you mentioned about when you was a kid and your dad used to play Galaxian all the time at the bowling alley in 1979

[@tomypower4898]

last yes!

[@LyonsArcade]

Yes, we have to find some witnesses :)

[@tomypower4898]

@@LyonsArcade cool!

[@tourstagez101]

I love watching your video's..Brings back so many memories!

[@LyonsArcade]

Aw thanks! See you on the next one tourstagez!

[@theblindtechguy]

It's ironic. That background noise you keep hearing was in fact, Galaga's attract mode.

[@LyonsArcade]

LOL I might have done that on purpose don't tell anybody!

[@theblindtechguy]

I figured you knew exactly what it was. It's our little secret. If anybody asks, I'll just tell them I didn't see a thing.

[@martywolfman]

I was totally blown away by this game when it first appeared in arcades. Many a happy wasted hour in my childhood. There was just so much more to it compared to space invaders.

[@LyonsArcade]

Yeah, people look back on some of these old ones and wonder what's so special but if you saw them when they first came out there was nothing like them. I don't know if I mentioned it in the video but it was the first full color game as well.

[@martywolfman]

Yes, I think you said something about it being the first game with full colour sprites. But yes, indeed. It's very primitive now, but at the time it was the most amazing looking video game, and we'd never imagined such a game was even a possibilty before seeing it. Pretty much all i'd played before this was pong and space invaders. This was quite step up.

[@LyonsArcade]

I was a little younger then but went through the same thing with Super Mario Brothers, I'd never seen anything like it at the time, it even made you feel different playing it, hard to explain but it was all very exciting at the time.

[@darkgemini666]

Looks fun. Got me playing Galaga now.

[@LyonsArcade]

Crank up the sound, they're better LOUUUUDDDD

[@retroforce6919]

That's a nice cocktail Galaxian cabinet. I've never seen one in person, I do remember playing on the upright cabinet when it first came out. Great game but I do prefer Galaga over Galaxian. They should've made it 5000 points for the first free life then every 7000 points. By default it's 7000 points for the first free life.

[@LyonsArcade]

It looks like there were two rom revisions, this was the first one and harder one, the later one did just what you said, lowered the settings for a free Galaxip

[@mrdestructo74]

Have you ever stumbled across a Tutankham cocktail cabinet ? I used to play it when I was 9 or 10 when my dad had a machine in his hotel bar in 1983 or 1984 . Lucky for me the bar was closed on sundays and I was able to play that awesome game all day . If anyone knows of any for sale please comment .

[@LyonsArcade]

I've never had a Tutankham unfortunately, maybe someday I'll find one!

[@sasfarmer9379]

you inspired me to play it as i was watching the vid,as i was always pretty gd at it !! thanks joe... as usual from the uk :) 1 of your fave fans !!

[@LyonsArcade]

Ha glad you enjoyed it, see you on the next video!

[@memyopinionsche6610]

I like galaxian has a soft spot in my memory. It's like space invaders with diving ships that set the bar up a notch. But Galaga took that bar to a new level..

[@LyonsArcade]

Yeah i prefer Galaga but I can't hate on an older game....

[@zhardoum]

Well, i was 11 when this came out, so you can imagine where my misspent youth went.. One of my favorites was GORF which took a galaxians style gameplay to another level

[@kenlanier2131]

Hek yeah! Galaxian was my favorite arcade game, Defender a close second... wait there was a old game motorcycle jumping trucks, ever increasing distance between the trucks, monochrome, with handle bars and throttle, cant remember I think it was called Stunt Jumper not sure. It made me think of Evil Knievel. I can remember on vacation at the beach playing it and kept going back to mom and dad begging for more money to keep playing. Good Times :)

[@andymouse]

Im checkin out your classics tonight. beautiful cabinet but me personally I think I would like it cleaned up abit but I would want the original glass as part the deal!

[@LyonsArcade]

I hear you! cool to hang on the wall....

[@Jamesamong007]

Although this is called a cocktail cabinet, i really doubt it any bar owners let people drink while playing these since they were expensive at the time. "Spill anything on that you are banned from this bar FOR LIFE!"

[@LyonsArcade]

Believe it or not, they let people drink and eat on them all the time! They used to call them "Pizza Hut" cabinets because back in the early 80's they always had some in Pizza Hut restaurants (you used to be able to go in and set down, it was a dark restaurant) ... they replaced a couple tables with them and would bring your pizza right over to the arcade game :)

[@danijelcar5184]

Nice one 😎👍🏼

[@LyonsArcade]

We think so :)

[@hardlucknate6769]

galaxian is one of the first namco games to have the pacman style arcade cabinet in Japan and this game controls in Japanese version are buttons space invaders Japan version have a joystick the USA version has buttons

[@LyonsArcade]

That makes sense!

[@memyopinionsche6610]

I am not spaming but there is a glitch in the programming of Galaga.. That if you leave at certain amount of enemy ships and go to the far left or right corner and let them fly and let loose there bombs. They can't hit you and let it happen for an hour or so then they stop lobbing bombs at you. Then it becomes a broken game and you can rack up a lot of points with out there bombs flying at you. It's complicated to explain it but I guess it works.

[@LyonsArcade]

I've never got it to work probably because I'm not patient enough to wait around, lol

[@chuckdupre8894]

The glitch works on the arcade 1up as well. It takes 15-20 minutes to execute. You need to leave the last 2 stacked blue bees on the left for last. Let them keep coming down and firing at you. Eventually they will go from 2 to 1 shot each. Then they will stop firing all together. You can then kill them and play the rest of the game without anything firing at you. Back in the day I was able to play until level 247. Took about 3 hours. I heard that there is a kill screen at level 250 but I never got there.

[@Sonichu_issue0]

Theres so many cocktail arcade games for namco

[@LyonsArcade]

Most of them had a cocktail version.

[@michaelnippert945]

They always remind me of bees or Hornets

[@LyonsArcade]

Yeah they even have that sound!

[@ocsrc]

I never saw the lever instead of a joystick I didn't know they had this in 79 I though 81 was the first year

[@LyonsArcade]

81 was the first year for Galaga but this is the older version, Galaxian that came out in 79. They're pretty similar though, if you haven't played one in awhile you might not recognize they're different without seeing both of them!

[@ocsrc]

@@LyonsArcade I recognize both them and I played both of them a lot back in the 80s I just didn't realize they had it in 79 The same company must have made King and balloon The sound effects are identical With the exception of in King and balloon they had the king yelling Help ! Help ! Help, Bye Bye !! And Thank You when you saved him That was a very simple game and that was around 79 that I played that game that and I think Megatron was the first two colored games that I played the Megatron had all of these ships that would come down and there was a little shooting station at the bottom that had shots going in three directions diagonally and up when the ships made it to the bottom they would jump up and down and eventually get you I think Megatron was the name of it but I could be wrong there was another game that was similar that had chutes at the top where the ships would come down they would be stacked and fall down in the video You got Lucky by the guy that sang with Stevie nicks I can't remember his name but they had a futuristic mad max-style video and in the video they went into this tent and that game was in there and they pushed it over Tom Petty that was the guy and had the video and in there they had a jukebox and they had a guitar and they had this game that wasn't Megatron it was the other one that had the ships that would come down straight at the top That was a cool video the videos from the early 80s were incredible simple but incredible I remember when MTV first came on the air I remember when there were only 40 cable channels And half of those were local I remember when there used to be local stations that were independently owned I actually worked at a few of them before they went out of business when they got bought up Those were the days

[@demofilm]

I am almost guessing the printer ink on the red is not working... i hope the jukebox is going to work.

[@LyonsArcade]

Hopefully :) I think they just used a faded one to scan, I've seen several different places selling them faded like that.

[@hardlucknate6769]

the space invaders and GALAXIANS have appeared in gorf

[@LyonsArcade]

That's right!

[@sasfarmer9379]

gotta love gorf ! :)

[@hardlucknate6769]

@@sasfarmer9379 I actually got a chance to see Gore and play it but I never got to the galaxians

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

Galaxian was first released in the U.S. through Midway in February 1980.

[@memyopinionsche6610]

But you probably could answer this wasn't there a Galaga 99? I think when you shoot the ships they burst into a firework display.. Was it 99? It was fun to play on the same line of Galaga.. Easy to get into. But can't remember 98? Part. And yes it was an upright arcade game. But can't remember the numbers.

[@LyonsArcade]

Yes there was one called Galaga 88, fairly rare game, very fun though! Gaplus was also very fun, we have one of those here on our channel.

[@stephenthevhsdvdblu-raymed9346]

This was before the Pac-Man Cocktail

[@LyonsArcade]

Yes, this was before.

[@stephenthevhsdvdblu-raymed9346]

@@LyonsArcade galaxian is the first game that has that Pacman style cabinet

[@stephenthevhsdvdblu-raymed9346]

On the upright/mini it has the joystick The Cocktail only has the knob/lever

[@LyonsArcade]

That's true!

[@Trin100]

I'll take it! Already gone. Bummer.:(

[@LyonsArcade]

Yes it didn't stick around too long.

[@tomypower4898]

cool!

[@LyonsArcade]

Thank you Tomy Power!

[@tomypower4898]

@@LyonsArcade :) welcome!

[@stephenthevhsdvdblu-raymed9346]

@@LyonsArcade this game is way more hard than Chase HQ for the Sega Genesis and the Super Nintendo and the arcade version

[@memyopinionsche6610]

I would. If I had 20 million points or dollars I mean oops. One side is janky as hell but the other side pristine.. That's adds character. So yeah I would hang that on my wall as an art piece. If I could afford it. Oh well. But I have been thinking why didn't pinball manufacturers turn their back glass into plastic? It would save the back glass from easily being broken and losing it to the sands of time. Weird.

[@LyonsArcade]

Some did, I've even seen games from the 50's with plastic backglasses still in perfect shape!

[@ocsrc]

Same sounds as King and Balloon Have you ever worked on a King and Balloon ?

[@LyonsArcade]

I've played it but only on the multigames, I've never played a real one!

[@Nestalgba92023]

But I perfer of droning sound of Galaxian over King and Balloon.

[@JohnDoe-uq3mx]

it's not a bad game at all, but galaga blew it out of the water.

[@LyonsArcade]

In a lot of ways, yes.... Galaxian is a lot better than people give it credit for, though :)

[@cklinejr]

Is that the ArcadeShop underlay?

[@LyonsArcade]

Yes, it is.

[@hardlucknate6769]

Galaga 1981 namco/midway full of dragonflies scorpions satellites Beatles moths bees and more idiot aliens and special aliens the Spy ship from bosconian Starship Enterprise and the flagship from galaxian

[@LyonsArcade]

Yes, that is true!

[@hardlucknate6769]

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[@swizard0922]

Hello and good day. Someone local is selling a galaxian cocktail for $100 and it is in great condition, but board needs replacement or repaired. How would I purchase another galaxian board? I am fairly new to arcade collecting.

[@LyonsArcade]

You can get them used on ebay, or get it repaired as well. There's also a place named Eldorado Games that swaps boards....

[@swizard0922]

@@LyonsArcade thanks for the help

[@memyopinionsche6610]

And that's why galaxian is a much harder game than Galaga.. You only had 1 shot to work with than Galaga with it's rapped fire approach. Me if I had to choose both games in my imaginary arcade. But with a gun at my head.. And I had to choose.. Easy Galaga a far superior game. But galaxian takes more skill..

[@LyonsArcade]

Yup, I agree.

[@TheOneTrueSpLiT]

I know it's not the same but get MAME if you've not got it already. I fire up Galaxians, Galaga, Invaders, Asteriods, Tempest, Xaxxon, Pac-Man, Bubble Bobble etc. between sessions of GTA V :)

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

@@TheOneTrueSpLiT With a good GPU and 4K LCD Display, and CRT emulator tweaked right, you can play it as if you're looking at the 40-year old CRT screen itself. 1 on 1 duplicate as far as gameplay goes. I play millipede this way with my trackball connected to USB. But what I would not give for an original arcade cabinet, fixxer upper or not...Anways on my 4K display Millipede looks exactly like what the CRT showed in the classic arcade. It looks so natural the mind is even tricked into seeing depth in the corners where the CRT sinks away deeper than in the middle.

[@wilder9777]

Joe`s Good ARCADE like

[@LyonsArcade]

Thank you Wilder!

[@flightofapaullo72]

Instantly smelt pizza from Me-n- Ed's Pizza ... goodtimes!

[@LyonsArcade]

That's pretty cool man... ever noticed nobody makes pizza like they used to?

[@flightofapaullo72]

@@LyonsArcade Indeed! The experience is totally different now. Seems like everything is, get you served, and get you out the door lol! Most pizza places now (if any) have prize machines. I get a kick outta my grandkids now asking for money (dollar bills, not quarters) to try and win a stuffed animal... instead of trying to get a high score (like back in the good ole days lol! I do have a couple of classics here at the house for them to experience. That's one thing I really enjoy, is seeing my kids and grandchildren playing the arcades at home. Cheers Joe!🍻

[@LyonsArcade]

I remember even in the 90's Pizza Hut still made pretty good pizza, it was like a completely different experience when you went in, the room was dark and at the time it was even a little expensive, more of an event to go. Now it's trashy food, they're all in competition to have the most discounts which means all the bread/cheese/toppings are the cheapest stuff they can buy, nobody gives good service, the place looks like a McDonalds, etc.

[@flightofapaullo72]

@@LyonsArcade Totally agree!

[@mikmurphy1]

@@LyonsArcade Now I know I am not the only person lamenting about the "old style" Pizza Hut LOL.

[@stephenlongsmovieandvideog9283]

Is that a 4600 or a GO7 in this machine

[@LyonsArcade]

I don't remember Stephen, but I'd bet it's a G07 because I don't remember seeing any 4600's in the cocktail machines.

[@stephenlongsmovieandvideog9283]

@@LyonsArcade Electrohome GO7?

[@christophersoper]

Me and my friends hated this game and always called it the bootleg galaga

[@mariodykstra6555]

Even though Galaxian is before Galaga. The former is not a bootleg of the latter.

[@mariodykstra6555]

I’ll show you a Bootleg of Galaga! m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2GaqqGXaLOIpdk

[@AndrewAHayes]

The village pub where I live had a Midway Galaxian cocktail machine in 1980 but it had a joystick and different graphics on the control panel

[@LyonsArcade]

Very cool... and you're sure it wasn't a Galaga? I wonder if it was a knock off version or something, they made a lot of bootlegs around that time!

[@AndrewAHayes]

No, it was definitely Galaxians and labeled Midway as I remember my friend seeing it saying he was midway to crawling home on his hands and knees(drunk), I'm thinking there may have been European export models as I live in England

[@LyonsArcade]

That makes sense, yes they made them in a lot of different cabinets I'll bet