That game took a lot of my lawn mowing quarters back in the day. I saved a ton of money when my parents bought me a C64! I know one complainer that must be sooo happy right now.
Back in the 80s when I was a kid, there was only 1 location I knew where this arcade game existed. I only ever got to play it on our yearly summer vacation upstate. The place our family vacationed every year had it in their game room. I absolutely loved it! Today I play it with an arcade emulator on my raspberry pi. I last played about a month ago. It brings back great memories.
That is a top ten most iconic vintage arcade game! I just have to bow down a little when I hear that iconic voice and music. The 4600 is awesome too. Some would say the best monitor WG ever made. They are a bit of a pain in the tail to work on and adjust but they are awesome and built to last. Very satisfying seeing any vintage machine come back and live in awesomeness again! It is one of the few things that makes me happy!
I worked security in and arcade years back, and at closing they counted the money from the machines. I would play this for hours till 3am when we completed the close. You brought back allot of memories for me! Beautiful restoration. Kudos to you! 😊
Thank you for watching Andy! I used to work for an operator and had a route I went around and collected from, and did location repairs on the games so I was in that world a little bit too... .
Remember playing this on my Atari 5200 back in the day. Was really close to the arcade version, but it sadly lacked the voice overs. Really underrated game from that era.
It really is underrated. I love it and cant get enough of it. I discovered it awhile ago on midway's arcade origins on xbox 360 and fell in love immediately. I recently got the MK2 arcade1up midway collection which features wizard of wor and man, i still cant get enough of it. Wish i could get a cab of the real deal.
Thank you for restoring this gem; Wizard of Wor is hands down my favorite classic arcade game. It has it all! Co-op or deathmatch play, a fantastic "story" or "setting" for lack of a better term, strategy, gameplay...oh and the SOUND! I don't think the COVOX audio system has ever been used better than it is here. If I had the room for a classic arcade cabinet (and the money!) I would track down a WoW machine.
Mrshoujo is correct. It used a chip called the Votrax SC-01. The Commodore 64 version supported Commodore's "Magic Voice" cartridge, which uses a Toshiba T6721A chip.
Amazing job restoring this classic! It was really just a pile of dead scrap electronics at the beginning but you turned it all into a fully functioning mint condition beauty.
Wizard of War takes me back to my childhood. I spent so many hours playing at my tutor's house. She was the first person that I had ever known that had an arcade machine in their house she had the stand-up version and after I was done with all my studies, she would let me play wizard of War for an hour. My brother would come early to pick me up and we would spend some more time playing. Isn't this cabinet for sale and if so, how much?
Man I just stumbled on your vids and as im watching more I like how you go back and correct yourself when you dig deeper. Like the dates on the chips. I dig it thanks for the info
Looks like a s-100 bus. Old 70’s computers used this standard bus to allow the cpu board to talk to i/o interface boards. Think old pdp-8 stuff. I love this old stuff the best. So crude. Utility. No waiting for updates to play.
Howdy my Friend, That is a Cool game indeed, in my top ten all time favorite games, and still on my list for games I want to aquire, but a hard game to find, oh Man, GORF !? Another game in my top 5 all time favorite games, still looking for that one too, Another very hard game to find, that is so Cool, two of my all time most favorite games !! Thank you for posting this video on them, Very Cool indeed !! Stay safe, Stay Calm and game on, Peace
Nice job guys. This is one I remember and had a blast playing. Love the way it taunts you. As a kid it really kept you putting quarters in because of the constant ribbing :-)
I love this one. Had a super clean complete cab given to me by a vendor who wanted space for newer games back around 2000 or so, missing only the game boards. Found the game boards on Ebay for $100, slapped them in got her working, voice systhesis and all! Sold it about 3 years ago for $1400. Lately the price has shot up quite a bit higher than that even.
I had my 7th birthday party at an arcade back in the early 80's, and that was where I first saw and played Wizard of Wor. I remember defeating the Worluck.
Very cool! I think the static on screen could just be noise introduced somewhere in the video circuit. Maybe oxidized contacts or cold solder joint somewhere..
Played this at Circus Circus Arcade at the Midway in Vegas when this came out. Got it on my C-64 but couldn’t afford the Speech Adapter. Love that game. Looking forward to it looking like it used to. Hard game but a classic.
That repair process is, how a lot of "legacy" network Telecomm equipment that may carry voice, analog and digital data ( in SONET and sometimes GbE signal format) gets repaired. Our company had a limited stock ( or we could order and wait for days, weeks, or longer) of "It may or may not be good" plug in PCB "cards" that we would swap and hope things behaved well and came back into service. The trick is, like you have found, to have an educated "order of progression" for what to replace to see if improvements have been made. In the interest from damaging your stock of cards any more, you might want to order some anti-static album cover sleeves to put cards in, and use some "static discharge friendly" work habits, like, never installing a card you picked up without first touching the metal frame you are plugging into with your other hand first, or, be official and get a static discharge wrist strap. Fun repair, thanks for posting!
That old 74 series TTL is pretty static tolerant. It's the old 4000 CMOS stuff that was fragile. Plus in circuit parts are protected then too. Voltage is a differential between two points after all. When leads are tied they're no longer a point then.
Nice to see another wizard of wor back alive. I love my wizard machine, but the boardset scares me. It's the only game I own that I have a spare boardset for.
@@LyonsArcade there are card extensions that the high score saves site sells so that you can probe ram and game cards while the game is running. The only real achilles heel with these systems are the customs, as of now there are no reproductions and they get more expensive by the month.
Great restore vid! My local 7-11 had this game. Spent all my weekly $2 allowance playing it. Recently rediscovered it on Defender Arcade 1up. But still not as good as the original.
great guys , i cant remember this game , maybe it will light up my bulb after i see the game running , i can look up some video about this game but that kills all the fun greetings from amsterdam
I love it! I can see why Joe made you the star. You are quite entertaining and he just is like, "yup", "it's broke", "I fixed it" etc... Great video again!
Wizard of Wor is one of my favorite games. High Five for getting that one fixed!
I'm planning to build a MAME based clone cabinet of it...
That game took a lot of my lawn mowing quarters back in the day. I saved a ton of money when my parents bought me a C64! I know one complainer that must be sooo happy right now.
Wizard of War and Robotron 😄
I was so happy with the C-64 version. Remember my Grandma watching me play it at my cousins.
Back in the 80s when I was a kid, there was only 1 location I knew where this arcade game existed. I only ever got to play it on our yearly summer vacation upstate. The place our family vacationed every year had it in their game room. I absolutely loved it! Today I play it with an arcade emulator on my raspberry pi. I last played about a month ago. It brings back great memories.
I played the cocktail version a lot in a pizza parlor. I loved the gritty looking graphics and sound effects. So much summer fun in my youth.
@@b.o.353 It was a pretty good rendition of the arcade version, easily one of the better C64 games.
That is a top ten most iconic vintage arcade game! I just have to bow down a little when I hear that iconic voice and music. The 4600 is awesome too. Some would say the best monitor WG ever made. They are a bit of a pain in the tail to work on and adjust but they are awesome and built to last. Very satisfying seeing any vintage machine come back and live in awesomeness again! It is one of the few things that makes me happy!
I so loved wasting quarters at my local bowling alley back in the '80s on this game! "I'll fry you with my lightning bolts!" Great repair.
I worked security in and arcade years back, and at closing they counted the money from the machines. I would play this for hours till 3am when we completed the close. You brought back allot of memories for me! Beautiful restoration. Kudos to you! 😊
Thank you for watching Andy! I used to work for an operator and had a route I went around and collected from, and did location repairs on the games so I was in that world a little bit too... .
@@LyonsArcade Your very good at your work! It's a pleasure to watch the restoration of these classic arcade systems. God Bless
The C64 had a decent conversion of this - I played it rather a lot, but my Mum played it even more and was pretty good at it!
Me too! I mean I played on the C64, me mum never did like computer "stuff".
And Wizard of Wor and Gorf were compatible with the C64 speech cartridge, if memory serves - so you could get the funky voice effects.
I played the original a lot. I will always remember the shop corner where the machine was, the smell, the excitement...
Yes I loved the c64 version
This is absolutely fascinating! I would love to be able to understand these machines enough to be able to repair them the way y'all do!
Remember playing this on my Atari 5200 back in the day. Was really close to the arcade version, but it sadly lacked the voice overs. Really underrated game from that era.
It really is underrated. I love it and cant get enough of it. I discovered it awhile ago on midway's arcade origins on xbox 360 and fell in love immediately. I recently got the MK2 arcade1up midway collection which features wizard of wor and man, i still cant get enough of it. Wish i could get a cab of the real deal.
Thank you for restoring this gem; Wizard of Wor is hands down my favorite classic arcade game. It has it all! Co-op or deathmatch play, a fantastic "story" or "setting" for lack of a better term, strategy, gameplay...oh and the SOUND! I don't think the COVOX audio system has ever been used better than it is here. If I had the room for a classic arcade cabinet (and the money!) I would track down a WoW machine.
This wasn't the Covox.
Mrshoujo is correct. It used a chip called the Votrax SC-01. The Commodore 64 version supported Commodore's "Magic Voice" cartridge, which uses a Toshiba T6721A chip.
WoW and Joust are my favorite arcade classics mostly because of the "death match" play option
One of the best old school arcade games ever. Love that game!
I used to play this at the laundromat. I chose that one because of this game. Laundry never took long enough.
A thang of beauty! Big hugs for repairing it!
Thank you for watching Csaba and the kind words!
The music makes me feel the same tension as I did as a kid.. Blast from the past!! Gives me the tingles. lol
Thank you Ron (and Joe) for keeping churning out these troubleshooting videos.
Thank you for watching Matthias!
Nice - I love the pinball repair series, but have been missing the arcade repairs.
More to come!
cool@@LyonsArcade
I played this at the local skating rink growing up. Was one of my favorite games.
It's a special one!
Used to play this as a kid on the Atari. Brilliant.
Wizard of wor is so good! I wasnt expecting this. I also noticed a the game cartridge for atari at a local game shop too! Man what a month.
I had this game!!! First arcade my dad bought. Loved it!!
Cool professor Ron an Arcade repair video.
Thank you Dano!
This video came up on my youtube suggested. Absolutely fascinating. Also used to play Wizard of Wor in my youth!
Thank you for watching!
I really love that synthesized voice!
We had this on our Commodore 64. Thanks for the upload, brings back memories of the 80’s.
Wg4600 monitor has the best picture of the classic monitors. IMHO Great job!
Amazing job restoring this classic! It was really just a pile of dead scrap electronics at the beginning but you turned it all into a fully functioning mint condition beauty.
Liked this game along with Joust.
Wow, sounds from Gorf with a D&D look. First time seeing that one. Thanks, Joe!
One of the most underrated games at reclaim arcade in Fredericksburg Virginia
it's really something special
One of the first games I ever played and still one of my favorites. Thank you for restoring it and getting it back in the world.
Thank you for watching Lab Nine!
If I was to have only one game, I’d probably be Wizard of Wor. Cool art, and two player.
Yup, very fun....
Wizard of War takes me back to my childhood. I spent so many hours playing at my tutor's house. She was the first person that I had ever known that had an arcade machine in their house she had the stand-up version and after I was done with all my studies, she would let me play wizard of War for an hour. My brother would come early to pick me up and we would spend some more time playing. Isn't this cabinet for sale and if so, how much?
what a cool tutor!
This brings back childhood memories. Always put in two quarters on this game for the extra lives. :D
I miss old style repairs and fault diagnosis
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Thank you Ritchie!
@@LyonsArcade Your welcome
@@LyonsArcade All the way from London Uk
God Bless and Stay Safe
THis game brings back so many good memories. Awesome game!
yeah it's a classic! Thanks for watching!
This is a neat game! The invisible enemies is a cool gimmick with the RADAR.
Thanks for sharing this with us.
Glad you liked it Vince!
That was great! Interesting repair ...and bring you back to the 80's game play!
Love this game, haven't seen it in years! Great work as always.
Thank you Chris!
that is so cool. it looks ace.
Yeah it has that cool late 70's early 80's vibe to it....
Great vid. Thanks for posting. WOW was my fav arcade game back in the day.
Man I just stumbled on your vids and as im watching more I like how you go back and correct yourself when you dig deeper. Like the dates on the chips. I dig it thanks for the info
Thank you ThePieDish, we're glad to have you on our channel!
Looks like a s-100 bus. Old 70’s computers used this standard bus to allow the cpu board to talk to i/o interface boards. Think old pdp-8 stuff. I love this old stuff the best. So crude. Utility. No waiting for updates to play.
I used to work at the former Worlds Largest Arcade and I never saw that game before! How cool!
I used to love this on the C64
First time viewer and I really liked the commentary. The way you would through troubleshooting is an art, and definitely a dying art IMO.
thanks Ryan, glad you enjoyed it! We like working through them logically and trying to track it down...
Glad your were able to fix and get it going, cool game, the sounds reminds me of the computer in the movie war games lol 🤣
Howdy my Friend,
That is a Cool game indeed, in my top ten all time favorite games, and still on my list for games I want to aquire, but a hard game to find, oh Man, GORF !? Another game in my top 5 all time favorite games, still looking for that one too, Another very hard game to find, that is so Cool, two of my all time most favorite games !! Thank you for posting this video on them, Very Cool indeed !!
Stay safe, Stay Calm and game on, Peace
Love how the guts pull out of the front bottom! Good fix Wizard of Repai!!
Yeah it was an interesting little cabinet! Thanks for watching Ajaxaxxess!
Nice job guys. This is one I remember and had a blast playing. Love the way it taunts you. As a kid it really kept you putting quarters in because of the constant ribbing :-)
Yeah it was a very smart design! Thanks for watching James!
I love this one. Had a super clean complete cab given to me by a vendor who wanted space for newer games back around 2000 or so, missing only the game boards. Found the game boards on Ebay for $100, slapped them in got her working, voice systhesis and all! Sold it about 3 years ago for $1400. Lately the price has shot up quite a bit higher than that even.
I had my 7th birthday party at an arcade back in the early 80's, and that was where I first saw and played Wizard of Wor. I remember defeating the Worluck.
I spent a many of a summer day playing this with my buddies. It’s more fun with 2 players. Great job
Glad you enjoyed it T-Ravis comics!
this video is 2 years in the making... lol nice job with this one
Yup, this one got back burnered for awhile :)
Wizard Of Wor is a timeless classic, love it!!
Very nicely put together video and very entertaining as well. Thanks for posting this.
great classic game, thanks for sharing!
OMG love this game! I only had it on the C64 as many others here, but played it all the time :D
Ah this is fantastic! Nice work!
Nice looking game..I remember playing that in the day
This might have been the exact same cabinet you played Naytch
@@LyonsArcade yeah probably..was in better shape then..😄
Good work.
Thanks for sharing. 😉👌🏻
Another awesome video. Thank you
Many, many quarters into that one back in the day.
thank you lads for upload...
i remember playing this on my commodore 64 from a cartridge !
Great game!
Very cool! I think the static on screen could just be noise introduced somewhere in the video circuit. Maybe oxidized contacts or cold solder joint somewhere..
Man still love the Commodore 64 version.
I never got a Commodore back in the day but I might get one yet :)
I had that on cartridge for mine
@@LyonsArcade the game crt was cool as it worked with the Magic Voice board.
@@LyonsArcade Get an 8-bit Atari XL, it will leave that c-64 in the dust.
@@craftsman123456 you ever get the board? I never did. Still loved it.
Wow the sound in this one is amazing.
Good to hear that y’all make Joe work too!
We're crackin the whip around here!
Very understand game, I had 2 of them back in the day
Thank God you got that jukebox fixed now we can go onto the the real
Thank you for watching Clark!
I have one of these in my garage. Still works good.
Played this at Circus Circus Arcade at the Midway in Vegas when this came out. Got it on my C-64 but couldn’t afford the Speech Adapter. Love that game. Looking forward to it looking like it used to. Hard game but a classic.
OMG - a FAVORITE!!!!! first speech game! HO HO HO HA HA HA WIZARD OF WOR
Wow - that brings back memories!
It's pretty cool!
I loved it on my C64 especially in 2-Player modes.
I had this game for Atari 2600, and it didn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense. The voice really makes a difference
I remember when I had an Atari as a kid, I didn't know how to play like any of the games, at the time it was just kind of a thing, haha
Haven’t heard of that one it is beautifully 80s
looks perfect, playable, and with special effects!, you got a unique arcade!. If you fix the dots, it won't be unique anymore.!
That repair process is, how a lot of "legacy" network Telecomm equipment that may carry voice, analog and digital data ( in SONET and sometimes GbE signal format) gets repaired. Our company had a limited stock ( or we could order and wait for days, weeks, or longer) of "It may or may not be good" plug in PCB "cards" that we would swap and hope things behaved well and came back into service. The trick is, like you have found, to have an educated "order of progression" for what to replace to see if improvements have been made. In the interest from damaging your stock of cards any more, you might want to order some anti-static album cover sleeves to put cards in, and use some "static discharge friendly" work habits, like, never installing a card you picked up without first touching the metal frame you are plugging into with your other hand first, or, be official and get a static discharge wrist strap. Fun repair, thanks for posting!
That old 74 series TTL is pretty static tolerant. It's the old 4000 CMOS stuff that was fragile. Plus in circuit parts are protected then too. Voltage is a differential between two points after all. When leads are tied they're no longer a point then.
This is definitely one game where it would be cool if they made a movie based on it, they made one based on Doom.
That sound effect at 27:23 is EPIC!
This is certainly one of those classic machines. I had a gorf machine recently but sold it. I kinda regret it. I wish I had a smaller one to keep.
I owned the bar-sized standing WoW game WAAAAAAAAAAAAY back in about 1987ish. Fun game.
That's a cool one too, we have a Gorf in that cabinet...
Nice to see another wizard of wor back alive. I love my wizard machine, but the boardset scares me. It's the only game I own that I have a spare boardset for.
Yeah it's a strange duck, I'll bet they're more fixable than we think though, I'm going to find out when I do my Gorf....
@@LyonsArcade there are card extensions that the high score saves site sells so that you can probe ram and game cards while the game is running. The only real achilles heel with these systems are the customs, as of now there are no reproductions and they get more expensive by the month.
Nice work.
awesome detail, nice machine
Thank you for watching!
Great restore vid! My local 7-11 had this game. Spent all my weekly $2 allowance playing it. Recently rediscovered it on Defender Arcade 1up. But still not as good as the original.
so true same sound chip as Q Bert and wat a game that was. that sound chip is comical
Love it!
I am getting flashbacks of Joust, these sounds sound very similar. 🤷♂️
I have never seen this game.
They're two different companies but yes the sounds are very similar! Thanks for watching Jason!
Great video. I do like this game. It’s a bit difficult at least on the Arcade 1up releases
Always thought it funny that the main music theme from this game was from the old TV show Dragnet.
I never watched enough Dragnet to remember it unfortunately!
One of my favorite games
It's pretty awesome!
Paper route money gone in the 80s lol. One of my favorites
Yeah awesome simple to understand game, really fun!
Wow, talk about a flashback.
Looking forward to watching this video 👍
Thank you Glen!
Man I'm old... I remember playing this one nearly religiosly...
GORF is cool and I never knew that this existed and has that same voice.
great guys , i cant remember this game , maybe it will light up my bulb after i see the game running , i can look up some video about this game but that kills all the fun
greetings from amsterdam
I love it! I can see why Joe made you the star. You are quite entertaining and he just is like, "yup", "it's broke", "I fixed it" etc... Great video again!
Joey does all the work!
@@LyonsArcade Perhaps but you sir are the star! Great viddies!