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General Chat => Arcade Lifestyle => Topic started by: Luigi on August 23, 2014, 04:48:04 PM

Title: Guided Missile - Restoration
Post by: Luigi on August 23, 2014, 04:48:04 PM

OK, so you guys will face a Guided Missile on Eurocade 2014. Let me tell you the story behind the cab.

It's been a while since I got the cab along with Atari's Dominos. Guided Missile is already in the gameroom while Dominos is running, but has flaws that will be gone by replacing the connector on the adapter PCB.

Guided Missile was made by Midway in 1977. Two players can play simultaneously. The goal is to shoot missiles at different vessels....trucks, tanks, copters, jets, submarines and ships. You launch the missile and once it has reached the top of the screen and is descending you can use the joystick to move it a little bit left or right. Once a missile was launched you have to wait for the next missile to be brought in place. When the game starts time is counting down. When the countdown is at zero the game is over. You can earn additional play time be reaching a specified amount of points.


I had to do some woodwork with the Guided Missile and Klaus-Peter and Dirk took care of the electronics. Some, if not all, ICs for the single background sounds were blown and had to be replaced. Plus there were some minor problems. While troubleshooting Klaus-Peter found a bug in the schematics ;)

I will add details and pictures about the "hardware" work in the next days.


Here are some pictures how it looks NOW and a little bit about the gameplay:

(http://www.thludwig.de/arcade/pics/guidedmissile/IMG_8450_klein.jpg)

(http://www.thludwig.de/arcade/pics/guidedmissile/IMG_8468_klein.jpg)


The upper part of the bezel, the marquee, is lit by a row of small bulbs

(http://www.thludwig.de/arcade/pics/guidedmissile/IMG_8459_klein.jpg)

Two of them were dead.....

(http://www.thludwig.de/arcade/pics/guidedmissile/IMG_8463_klein.jpg)




The landscape in the background is not a piece of cardboard but a large piece of molded plastic. Love it very much.
Here you also see the two explosion plastics. If either player hits one of the vessels the light bubl behind the plastic is lit for a second.

(http://www.thludwig.de/arcade/pics/guidedmissile/guidedmissile_back_sml.jpg)

(http://www.thludwig.de/arcade/pics/guidedmissile/IMG_9888_klein.jpg)

(http://www.thludwig.de/arcade/pics/guidedmissile/IMG_9887_klein.jpg)


...to be continued

Title: Re: Guided Missile - Restoration
Post by: gyruss on August 23, 2014, 05:04:11 PM

Very cool!!!  :)

Title: Re: Guided Missile - Restoration
Post by: Tyrem on August 23, 2014, 05:24:04 PM

wohaaa... pure beauty!!!

Title: Re: Guided Missile - Restoration
Post by: Superully on August 23, 2014, 05:27:58 PM

really nice looking cab, especially the condition of the control panel. would be interesting to see some gameplay!

Title: Re: Guided Missile - Restoration
Post by: DarthNuno on August 23, 2014, 05:45:15 PM

Have great memories on electro-mecca such this one! I'm really happy that game will be available & playable @ the 'cade 2014  :)

Title: Re: Guided Missile - Restoration
Post by: jcp on August 23, 2014, 05:53:32 PM

Thanks Luigi for sharing :).

Title: Re: Guided Missile - Restoration
Post by: Alpha1 on August 23, 2014, 07:02:51 PM

Very cool!

Title: Re: Guided Missile - Restoration
Post by: Etienne MacGyver on August 23, 2014, 07:35:01 PM

Thats a beauty !  :spaceace:

Title: Re: Guided Missile - Restoration
Post by: anunaki on August 23, 2014, 08:22:03 PM

Being from another generation I never played games like this nor seen them. Must say it looks very pretty and I'll go give it a try at eurocade

Title: Re: Guided Missile - Restoration
Post by: synonym9 on August 23, 2014, 08:26:42 PM

Such games are so great....thanks for the insight  :)

Title: Re: Guided Missile - Restoration
Post by: PaulSwan on August 24, 2014, 08:25:01 AM

Nice game! Gotta love the light bulb explosion :)
Paul.

Title: Re: Guided Missile - Restoration
Post by: Q*ris on August 24, 2014, 09:11:32 AM

Great great great cab, love it!

Title: Re: Guided Missile - Restoration
Post by: Luigi on August 24, 2014, 11:13:50 AM

Thanks for your comments :)

I have made a video of the gameplay but I don't know where I saved it :(

But there's a good video on YT explaining the cabinet and the gameplay...enjoy :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4cLscUr5wY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4cLscUr5wY)

Title: Re: Guided Missile - Restoration
Post by: Wurstkopp on August 26, 2014, 11:17:00 AM

Great, great, great!!!  :shock: :)

Title: Re: Guided Missile - Restoration
Post by: nilfisk on August 26, 2014, 12:46:27 PM

I totally dig games from this era (and earlier - after all, I have a row of EM games in my basement). Great project!

Title: Re: Guided Missile - Restoration
Post by: synonym9 on August 28, 2014, 11:49:41 PM

Quote from: nilfisk on August 26, 2014, 12:46:27 PM

I totally dig games from this era (and earlier - after all, I have a row of EM games in my basement). Great project!

And you will get more in the future as I continue road-tripping ;)

Title: Re: Guided Missile - Restoration
Post by: level42 on August 29, 2014, 10:19:21 AM

Love it, can't wait to see and play it....so happy because it is such a great representative of games of that era and we really don't have that much games like that.
B/W, timed gameplay, half-mirror, extensive decor and this one has incandescent lamp effects as a bonus :) It clearly still has the "marks" of the EM machines...
Also great that it is 2 player, that is very good for RGE :):):)

Title: Re: Guided Missile - Restoration
Post by: Etienne MacGyver on August 29, 2014, 02:02:24 PM

Those lamp explosions effects are really cool, totally love that!