I may be a bit of a purist snob, but I can't stand that rapid fire. I walked away from a Galaga I played that had it. Shooting ducks in a pond is how I felt. Of course, Galaga was my game as a teenager. Taking it to the kill screen was pretty easy to do. The machine we had in our bowling lanes would kill at stage 256. It was eventually cycled out but after I requested the vendor to bring it back, they brought us one that had a new rom in it that would go past that stage. I think it had been used for a contest related to the War Games movie thus needed the ability to go past the kill screen. Which delighted me to no end. I played that machine for hours and hours on a quarter one day. Started in the morning and played until well after dark. And like I normally did after I got tired I would hand my game over to a kid and see how fast they would take to get killed off. I forget what my score was now but the kid asked and the next week he brought in a Guiness Book of World Records and showed me that I had blown away the then world record. Typical nonchalant teenager I was like "Cool" and shrugged. But I was always secretly proud of that though I'm sure that my score has been beaten many many times over by now. I'm still pretty darn good at that game in my mid 50's but it has to be a real cabinet with that short 2 way joystick. I really don't like playing with the taller 4/8 way joysticks in an emulator or combo cabinet. Just does not have the same response and feel. Playing a real cabinet is like saying "hello" to a freind you haven't seen in awhile and giving it a hug when I lay my hands on the controls. I need to go find one around here now.
I had one of those 4 in 1 home game systems featuring Galaga, Ms Pacman, Mappy, and Xevius. When my nephew would brag he could beat me at any video game, I would whip out the 4 in 1 and school him on early 80's arcade games
One of the first arcade machines I picked up was a Galaga. Non working of course. Learned that this boardset is one of the tough ones to work on but I prevailed. I ran into issues when I had the power supply set to 5v @ the board. As you stated these like 5.2 - 5.3v at the connector. I posted that these boards like to be run hot on KLOV and got roasted by some of the know it alls there. I learned pretty quickly to not bother sharing info on that forum due to some of the "smart" guys there. i'm glad you confirmed what I already had learned. Ironically enough I'm picking up another broken Galaga saturday. *My original is long gone.
Namco has said (in their book series Namco Museum Hyper Laboratory) that the first game in the series is Taito's Space Invaders. Taito has been reported as highly flattered and honored to have inspired their rival's shoot-em-ups. Gaplus is Galaga's sequel, in fact the name means "Galaga Plus". But Galaga doesn't seem to be a contraction of Galaxian... unless there's some Japanese word that fits in there somewhere. I hope someone watching this has info about that, my research has hit a dead end. EDIT: Thanks to @brianperkins6121 who says "ga" is Japanese for "moth", it seems Galaga might be a contraction of "Galaxian moth" referencing a greater variety of insectoid ships. Of course this is unconfirmed speculation. You can see how terrible the rapid fire is during the first challenging stage. It is possible to hit the button faster than the rapid fire would allow, and hit more targets. Also, your shot percentage goes way down with it on. But you probably don't care about that.
Absolutely love Galaga, and its successor, Galaga’88. Spent many years in a place called Barry Island in south wales, uk back in the late 70s-early 80s because dad was heavily involved with security and a donut stall on site😀. Got to swap donuts for fairground rides but this was my ‘go to machine in the arcade- along with Galaxians and Space Invaders part 2. Love seeing you bring my childhood back 👍🏻
Galaga!!! Definitely in the top 5 of all time greatest. It has truly stood the test of time! I did not know about the power hungry nature of the Galaga PCB! Learned something new there!! I own both a Galaga and a Galaga 3. (Gaplus) I go back and forth on which I like the most! My Galaga 3 control panel actually came from Joe's classic Video games. Ron had it on the KLOV several years ago. Interesting to note Galaga 3 and Super Pacman use the exact same control panel!. The layout and configuration is exactly the same. Obviously the overlay is different and Galaga 3 uses and 8 way joystick, but the panel itself is identical! Thanks for the video Joe!
This game is so addictive!! I never noticed how some of the shots go through the "bugs" and they don't explode... Their takin our Jerbs!! I mean Their takin our quarters! That is a very nice machine.
Hey Ron one of your shirts should have a design that has electricity coming out of a game and have the words "power supply, power supply, power supply"
When I was 12 years old I would go to Fun City in Central Mall. I got so good at Galaga that I once went through 23 screens before my first ship got destroyed. I would play two player with some older kid who was always there who was just about equal.
1981? Really thought, the Game was newer (played it on the NES first). Nice you use the Gift-Multimeter, remember you can take off the Display for more Show-Power :)
Just a random thought: Your parents were so unbelievably wise to name you and Ron with 3 letter names for the high score screens. Nice fix! Could you hear me chanting "Power Supply, Power Supply, Power Supply" along with you? I know you could. T-shirt for the 2029 season: the Power Supply shirt, with little spade lug connectors over your... terminals.
One of my favorites. For me Galaxian was similar, and good too. Really like the channel. BTW.... you need the double ships on the rounds before the Challenging Stages in order to kill all of the enemies. You can get the double ship last before the "bonus (challenging) rounds", stay perfectly in the middle where the game sets you, and destroy all of them. The Challenging Stages are the main reason to have double ships. Just thought I'd let you know in case you become addicted like I did once upon a time! 😛
@@LyonsArcade No... if you set it up to only get two ships at the very end of the level before the Challenging Stage, when all enemies have been destroyed except the last ship that captures and gives you two ships, then you don't have to be worried about getting killed. Again, once you get to the Challenging stage, you leave your ships in the middle where the game places you, then tap-shoot as fast as possible, by doing so you kill ALL of the enemies in the Challenging Stage. Then it gives you an extra ship for having killed all of the Challenging Stage enemies... so if you lose one of the ships in the next level you haven't lost anything... it gave you an extra ship for clearing the Challenging stage. If you do not lose your second ship in the next level or levels after, you've gained another ship. There is a skill and takes patience to develop that skill level in the game... but once you get the hang of it it's a breeze... and you can end up with multiple extra ships, you clear the board faster, and can play for hours if you feel like it. Again, if you have multiple extra ships then losing one of them in one of the levels isn't a big deal. The key is ONLY allowing the capture after all or most of the normal enemies have been killed, then shooting the captured ship last so it sets you in the middle of the screen for the Challenging Stage. Double ships are really best for only Challenging stages... much safer too. Hey... whatever floats your boat, my friend. Just letting you in on another way to play the game and racking up MAJOR points much faster. Cheers!
I love the game with the bugs too. I can't remember the game though. Was it space invaders? No. Galaga? Nah. Oh wait now I remember. Pac-Man. That's it. XD. Just messing with you. Of course it's galaga
"Galager" 😂 that's my favorite game! No... wait...IT WAS "GALAXY" OML, I love that game! 😂😂 Also is the Todd you're referring to Todd from TNT amusements? I watched him all the time in my early arcade years
when i was growing up in the late 70s early 80s I prob spent enough quarters on Galaga to buy the arcade machine. If it was open I was playing it for hours.
I remember finding the secret to disarming the bugs, then completed all 255 sheets, even completing every 7th challenge stage with the perfect 40 hits. I 'clocked' the machine 3 times and got another 250-300K points on top, but only got the high score of that, not the 999,990 that was on the high score. That was claimed by the next player, usually me by losing all three craft for zero. I hated finding out that the glitch on various other platforms was not included. Did play on one machine that blacked out and said 'this pilot is too good for me', that was at about 250K points.
Seriously Joe when midway created bosconian in 1981 most of them are converted to Galaga cause it was the most popular. Try comparing the 2 and see which one is different
what was up with that gold ship on the first time you played level 2? I've never seen that happen on my cab before. Was it a glitch from the power issue?
I've heard people pronounce the name with the emphasis on the second sylabol. "guh-LAG-uh." I've also seen in my life a bootleg cabinet where the name is "GALAG." I've also seen "PAC-GAL" (Ms.Pac-man) and "FROG" (Frogger) I've always wondered if the arcade owners knowingly purchased the bootlegs because they played exactly like the the legit games and they were cheaper, or were sold the bootlegs at the price of a legit cabinet.
JOE OR MATT, Why does it display an RAM 4L error when the +5volts is at 4.9vdc? Those RAM chips will cause errors if the +5volt rail is below and under 5vdc
Not sure if you are still using the same camera, but always make sure you clean your lenses off before you shoot a video. I am seeing some "haziness" on your video!
This old computer that we edit the videos on has basically been bricked by microsoft, we're updating it right now though so this should be the last video with a delay like that in it....
I may be a bit of a purist snob, but I can't stand that rapid fire. I walked away from a Galaga I played that had it. Shooting ducks in a pond is how I felt. Of course, Galaga was my game as a teenager. Taking it to the kill screen was pretty easy to do. The machine we had in our bowling lanes would kill at stage 256. It was eventually cycled out but after I requested the vendor to bring it back, they brought us one that had a new rom in it that would go past that stage. I think it had been used for a contest related to the War Games movie thus needed the ability to go past the kill screen. Which delighted me to no end. I played that machine for hours and hours on a quarter one day. Started in the morning and played until well after dark. And like I normally did after I got tired I would hand my game over to a kid and see how fast they would take to get killed off. I forget what my score was now but the kid asked and the next week he brought in a Guiness Book of World Records and showed me that I had blown away the then world record. Typical nonchalant teenager I was like "Cool" and shrugged. But I was always secretly proud of that though I'm sure that my score has been beaten many many times over by now. I'm still pretty darn good at that game in my mid 50's but it has to be a real cabinet with that short 2 way joystick. I really don't like playing with the taller 4/8 way joysticks in an emulator or combo cabinet. Just does not have the same response and feel. Playing a real cabinet is like saying "hello" to a freind you haven't seen in awhile and giving it a hug when I lay my hands on the controls. I need to go find one around here now.
I had one of those 4 in 1 home game systems featuring Galaga, Ms Pacman, Mappy, and Xevius. When my nephew would brag he could beat me at any video game, I would whip out the 4 in 1 and school him on early 80's arcade games
One of the first arcade machines I picked up was a Galaga. Non working of course. Learned that this boardset is one of the tough ones to work on but I prevailed. I ran into issues when I had the power supply set to 5v @ the board. As you stated these like 5.2 - 5.3v at the connector.
I posted that these boards like to be run hot on KLOV and got roasted by some of the know it alls there. I learned pretty quickly to not bother sharing info on that forum due to some of the "smart" guys there.
i'm glad you confirmed what I already had learned.
Ironically enough I'm picking up another broken Galaga saturday. *My original is long gone.
I appreciate you and your brother sharing your wealth of knowledge on these wonderful old machines. Good video, as always. Thanks!
“Galaga needs more power!” Fascinating insights compared to the more polished stuff out there, thanks so much for sharing!
That machine was like a box of chocolates! Thanks Joe! You and Ron have a nice weekend! Catch you Tuesday.
Namco has said (in their book series Namco Museum Hyper Laboratory) that the first game in the series is Taito's Space Invaders. Taito has been reported as highly flattered and honored to have inspired their rival's shoot-em-ups.
Gaplus is Galaga's sequel, in fact the name means "Galaga Plus". But Galaga doesn't seem to be a contraction of Galaxian... unless there's some Japanese word that fits in there somewhere. I hope someone watching this has info about that, my research has hit a dead end.
EDIT: Thanks to @brianperkins6121 who says "ga" is Japanese for "moth", it seems Galaga might be a contraction of "Galaxian moth" referencing a greater variety of insectoid ships. Of course this is unconfirmed speculation.
You can see how terrible the rapid fire is during the first challenging stage. It is possible to hit the button faster than the rapid fire would allow, and hit more targets. Also, your shot percentage goes way down with it on. But you probably don't care about that.
I wish I could find two Galagas! Good video!
Absolutely love Galaga, and its successor, Galaga’88. Spent many years in a place called Barry Island in south wales, uk back in the late 70s-early 80s because dad was heavily involved with security and a donut stall on site😀. Got to swap donuts for fairground rides but this was my ‘go to machine in the arcade- along with Galaxians and Space Invaders part 2. Love seeing you bring my childhood back 👍🏻
Galaga!!! Definitely in the top 5 of all time greatest. It has truly stood the test of time! I did not know about the power hungry nature of the Galaga PCB! Learned something new there!! I own both a Galaga and a Galaga 3. (Gaplus) I go back and forth on which I like the most! My Galaga 3 control panel actually came from Joe's classic Video games. Ron had it on the KLOV several years ago. Interesting to note Galaga 3 and Super Pacman use the exact same control panel!. The layout and configuration is exactly the same. Obviously the overlay is different and Galaga 3 uses and 8 way joystick, but the panel itself is identical! Thanks for the video Joe!
Hey, big moon, saw your "trashed super pac-man" series, thought it was awesome.
Thankyou!!!!! I am so glad you liked it!!!
This game is so addictive!! I never noticed how some of the shots go through the "bugs" and they don't explode... Their takin our Jerbs!! I mean Their takin our quarters! That is a very nice machine.
Probably a Power Supply Power Supply Power Supply issue. Definitely not the player. 😂
this is so awesome. Love it. A dream machine for me.
Good work Joe you fixed it
Nothing better than troubleshooting with two of the same game!
you made my weekend whith a nice arcade machine and with a nice game play.
the easy fixes are nice to see .
👍👍👍👍🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪
Thank you for filming that, you didn't have to do that!
Nice work. Although you have one working one. Get this. I know what's wrong with the other one, now. It's Broke! Thanks for making the video.
Well done. I'd definitely like to see a repair video on the other Galaga too.
Actually I have found people also want crystal castles and Australia as well it's the era people love to collect and the games
Thank you!!
What a score!
I love the old TEMPUS video games
Hey Ron one of your shirts should have a design that has electricity coming out of a game and have the words "power supply, power supply, power supply"
Beat me to it 😂
I should read the comments first 😊
Thanks for another great video
When I was 12 years old I would go to Fun City in Central Mall. I got so good at Galaga that I once went through 23 screens before my first ship got destroyed. I would play two player with some older kid who was always there who was just about equal.
Thanks Joe for a great tutorial on how to play this game. You were really strutting’ your stuff!
My favorite arcade game of ALL TIME
1981? Really thought, the Game was newer (played it on the NES first).
Nice you use the Gift-Multimeter, remember you can take off the Display for more Show-Power :)
After Tempest, Galaga is my favourite arcade game. I have never ran across one that had been modified with rapid fire.
dang!
world class content
I want one of these BAD.
Just a random thought: Your parents were so unbelievably wise to name you and Ron with 3 letter names for the high score screens.
Nice fix! Could you hear me chanting "Power Supply, Power Supply, Power Supply" along with you? I know you could.
T-shirt for the 2029 season: the Power Supply shirt, with little spade lug connectors over your... terminals.
That challenging stage tune always reminds me of the scene at NORAD in War Games.
One of my favorites. For me Galaxian was similar, and good too.
Really like the channel.
BTW.... you need the double ships on the rounds before the Challenging Stages in order to kill all of the enemies. You can get the double ship last before the "bonus (challenging) rounds", stay perfectly in the middle where the game sets you, and destroy all of them. The Challenging Stages are the main reason to have double ships. Just thought I'd let you know in case you become addicted like I did once upon a time! 😛
Then you immediately make yourself twice as easy to kill 1 man though. It's a trick to get you to lose a life quicker.
@@LyonsArcade No... if you set it up to only get two ships at the very end of the level before the Challenging Stage, when all enemies have been destroyed except the last ship that captures and gives you two ships, then you don't have to be worried about getting killed.
Again, once you get to the Challenging stage, you leave your ships in the middle where the game places you, then tap-shoot as fast as possible, by doing so you kill ALL of the enemies in the Challenging Stage. Then it gives you an extra ship for having killed all of the Challenging Stage enemies... so if you lose one of the ships in the next level you haven't lost anything... it gave you an extra ship for clearing the Challenging stage.
If you do not lose your second ship in the next level or levels after, you've gained another ship.
There is a skill and takes patience to develop that skill level in the game... but once you get the hang of it it's a breeze... and you can end up with multiple extra ships, you clear the board faster, and can play for hours if you feel like it.
Again, if you have multiple extra ships then losing one of them in one of the levels isn't a big deal. The key is ONLY allowing the capture after all or most of the normal enemies have been killed, then shooting the captured ship last so it sets you in the middle of the screen for the Challenging Stage. Double ships are really best for only Challenging stages... much safer too.
Hey... whatever floats your boat, my friend. Just letting you in on another way to play the game and racking up MAJOR points much faster.
Cheers!
Yup, hearing that hippie right about now.
In Australia we pronounced it Ga-La-Ga, at least where I lived. Nice work guys.
I love the game with the bugs too. I can't remember the game though. Was it space invaders? No. Galaga? Nah. Oh wait now I remember. Pac-Man. That's it. XD. Just messing with you. Of course it's galaga
Flea markets. Played Space Wars in 1977 at a drive in flea with my dad...
"Galager" 😂 that's my favorite game! No... wait...IT WAS "GALAXY" OML, I love that game! 😂😂
Also is the Todd you're referring to Todd from TNT amusements? I watched him all the time in my early arcade years
Just go get the multimeter. Hell yeah.
Fun! What are the Galaga difficulty modes that the arcade owners could adjust to make so people couldn't play that long on one quarter?
I think Joe knows what he doin? :)
when i was growing up in the late 70s early 80s I prob spent enough quarters on Galaga to buy the arcade machine. If it was open I was playing it for hours.
I like Galaxian more than Galaga, but I love "Moon Cresta" more.
I have that on my multicade, fun game
I remember finding the secret to disarming the bugs, then completed all 255 sheets, even completing every 7th challenge stage with the perfect 40 hits. I 'clocked' the machine 3 times and got another 250-300K points on top, but only got the high score of that, not the 999,990 that was on the high score. That was claimed by the next player, usually me by losing all three craft for zero.
I hated finding out that the glitch on various other platforms was not included.
Did play on one machine that blacked out and said 'this pilot is too good for me', that was at about 250K points.
And Joe start small to big😊
congrats on the new old stock lol i just relied that this game and i share a birth year lol
One of them could been a bosconian arcade game
Seriously Joe when midway created bosconian in 1981 most of them are converted to Galaga cause it was the most popular. Try comparing the 2 and see which one is different
I'm seeing double! :)
Galaga and tempest ate all my quarters.
Single ship sucks for the challenging stages.
Do you have broken gaplus pcb's? Mainly need a couple of custom chips..
Rather deal in the 'eights' :)
Hey Joe!!
Hey Jason!
This is one of the best machines
Donkey Kong
They should make a DK / Galaga / MS. Pac-Man combo machine
How did you get the Gold Galaga at 24:30 ? 👀
Let’s gooooooo
What is the value of a refurbished Galaga game?
Just out of curiosity, is the rapid fire mod just basically a timer circuit installed inline with the fire button wiring?
There’s a Galaga brothers joke here
Are they the real deal or are they the infamous “Gallag” bootleg?
what was up with that gold ship on the first time you played level 2? I've never seen that happen on my cab before. Was it a glitch from the power issue?
They got scared and didn't want to send any more ships against the one and only Joe! 😂 Yeah, double ship means double width target for them to hit. 🤔
I need them
Before this, I had only seen a boot-loop on a smart phone.
Love to find an original galaga and donkey kong to purchase..
Is it possible to mod the control board to put pacman in there as well? I got boards for that and my galaga machine wants a friend.
I've heard people pronounce the name with the emphasis on the second sylabol.
"guh-LAG-uh."
I've also seen in my life a bootleg cabinet where the name is "GALAG." I've also seen "PAC-GAL" (Ms.Pac-man) and "FROG" (Frogger) I've always wondered if the arcade owners knowingly purchased the bootlegs because they played exactly like the the legit games and they were cheaper, or were sold the bootlegs at the price of a legit cabinet.
IT'S BROKE ❤
Let me get this straight these were sold & bought without knowing if there was anything in them?
That's when you get the best deals
@@LyonsArcade Glad it worked out I cant find anything for less than $2,000-$4,000 its crazy out there for these games
Maybe they are just thinking about the earlier game when they say Galaxian.
Wouldn't it be prudent to backup the roms of the eproms just in case.
JOE OR MATT, Why does it display an RAM 4L error when the +5volts is at 4.9vdc? Those RAM chips will cause errors if the +5volt rail is below and under 5vdc
Not sure if you are still using the same camera, but always make sure you clean your lenses off before you shoot a video. I am seeing some "haziness" on your video!
Wait... was it stuck in a reboot-loop? this would never happen to a modern machine :p
Yodelayheehoo
Ohhh she gave birth
You can make a video about donkey Kong arcade please❤❤❤
Yikes! Audio delay made obvious during gameplay lol.
This old computer that we edit the videos on has basically been bricked by microsoft, we're updating it right now though so this should be the last video with a delay like that in it....
@@LyonsArcadeDid the worldwide Crowdstrike update knock Joes arcade offline too?! (lol)
@@LyonsArcadeWe await the Lyons Arcade Cool Computer Repair Video
After you powered up the cabinet and diagnosed the issue you forgot to mention the common problem.
Why don't you get an sd card hard drive to put the game on
'Ga" in Japanese means "moth"
So does it mean "Moth Gallery", like moth shooting gallery?
That's pretty shitty he would sell you games knowing a board is missing in one and monitor board on the other. He had to have known.
I think the "rapid fire" takes away from the accuracy standpoint of the game. Yuck.
Couldn't you just press the button once, or would that be too easy? Yuck
OH NO, THERES A BUTTON I COULD PUSH IF I WANTED, OH NOOOOO
Gorf
Having personally discussed this with the creators YOU are the one pronouncing wrong, the correct name is pronounced GAL- ARE - GAH
never post on my channel again, thx
@@LyonsArcade Well that escalated quickly
Rapid fire is cheating 🥱, nice machine and nice video, this an Moon Cresta where my favorites back in the days.
Take that board out.