Oh yes. Please do. I think that namco used what was available at the time. These strobes are no way 'Starblade strobes' but simply strobe lights bought from some manufacturer. Just like the force feedback motors for driving games.

Equites, if I had only known you needed a Starblade gun. I gave mine away for free to a friend here in Sweden, so he could hang it on his wall. He only paid me the shipping costs which btw were pretty expensive alone.

My cannon was in OK condition with a little crack on the red LED-lamp cover. The handles were ofcourse pretty loose as with all Starblades I've tested. But I had fixed that with paper inlays to stabilize the handles some. It worked fine. Also I cleaned the buttons down to the smallest detail as I even desoldered the little PCB underneath the switch for 100% access.

The Starblade cannon I think is exactly the same as Galaxian3, and is based on a general design used in other gun games today, latest being Let's Go Jungle. I may be wrong though.

On the other hand, I would really like to feel a Galaxian3 gun, and if I like the feeling even have one. Any color would do, just that it must in good shape with all plastics intact. I love the handles and the white plastic, and I think that Galaxian3 guns are nicer than the Starblade one.

Speaking of Playstation ports, I just found out that there's something called "The Rising of Gourb" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxian_3 which is weird because it seems that you can connect a LD-player to your Playstation and have is show the CG as overlay ontop of the LD movie.

Anybody konws anything about this?

Oh my god.. What is this??

"Buran2" ... they are all .. russians?

I love the joysticks, 4 thumb-buttons!

Aha, right. It's for kids education. If I would have access to this as a child I would be a rocket scientist today. I mean it!

.. but the little robot, you cannot shoot him? He's kind of annoying.

But it's totally russian!?

Oh, and yet another thing which is kind of funny. Did you ever wonder how Starblade can output four individual speaker sound when the hardware only has two channels?

Think about this. It is very innovative actually.

Equites, what a beautiful Starblade you've got there. To my knowledge there are three types of cabinets: your yellow seat one in these pictures, then the fully decorated silver-metallic type with larger seat base and more lamps, also this had different side-art if I remember correctly plus its mirror bezel was more detailed, then the third type which seems to be a mix between your yellow seat type and the silver-metallic type. The one I had was this mix. It had the same mirror frame bezel as yours but the seat module was the larger one with the wooden seat. My Starblade was made in the USA but I bought it from JNC I think, it was one of the Blackpool ones I think I was told.

It's so nice to see this game gaining popularity lately, together with Galaxian3. They are kind of the same game but with somewhat different feel. Personally, if I must choose I would pick Starblade over Galaxian3, mainly because of the more comfortable and a little more extravagant concept. Ofcourse Galaxian3 is bigger, clearly giving a stronger impression at first sight. But then you need to look at the details like a/ the gunfire: Starblade has two very powerful lasers (unlike the Galaxian3's single laser, reminding me of a pointing stick rather than a deadly weapon) firing with a low frequency sound besides the obvious 'swooshing' sound. To really experience this you need to turn up the rear speaker volume so that you can *feel* the lasers firing (my SB had the rear speakers built into the seat). Then b/ Starblade has all realtime rendered CG which has the advantage of being more flexible giving the player several variable routes from round to round. If you know you Starblade you will notice this. Which is why Starblade, given the fact that it is a shooting gallery, however all but a simple shooting gallery, has the potential to outlast Galaxian3 in the longer run of fun gameplay. Not to mention its image projection consisting of the concave mirror making it a mini-3D holocinema, or like the IMAX display sort of. The Galaxian3, largely is just a multiplayer laser-disc shooter not much different than the old laser games like Galaxy Ranger and Astron Belt. However more like a laser disc game with a Starblade CG-layer ontop, which is really some of the coolest thing imaginable to be honest.

I've not played Galaxian3 much at all, just briefly watched someone play when I was in Paris a few years ago. Does somebody know if the routes are exactly same every time in Galaxian3? Or if the routes vary from round to round, altghough slightly? This is actually the only detail I'd really like to get confirmed regarding Galaxian3.

Wow.. Amazing. Congratilations on a great catch. Cabinet is in good shape!