Crazy Cool Recessed Screen Mod for an Arcade1Up Space Invaders
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- Having played the original Space Invaders when it came out in the late 1970s, I picked up a used Arcade1Up cabinet several months ago. Playing it was fun, but something seemed to be missing from the original experience. Once I did some research, I discovered that the original arcade game had a backlit mirror to give its black and white monitor a color 3D look. While I didn't want to find a semi-translucent mirror, I did manage to get something of the original playing experience by recessing the screen in a shadow box inside the cabinet and adding new custom graphics from LoudGraphX. Although no one else may attempt this mod, it was a lot of fun, and I really love what it did for my Space Invaders cabinet. Special thanks to Arcade Archive for the handful of vintage Space Invaders images.
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Beautiful! Looks so good, I’m tempted to buy a Spade Invaders just so I can attempt this, haha.
Nicely done! Now, you just need some Space Invaders related toys (UFOs or spaceships) to mount inside the shadow box. Or, a wrap-around starfield. By the way, 50% two way mirrors can be had from any glass supply shop, if you ever decide to upgrade to the full on reflection method. Thanks for sharing this. :)
Badass bro!! Well done
I love it.... Great mod to Wave 1 cab... You gave it extra life...
Wow I literally just did the recessed monitor mod on my cab. My original plan was to install a piece of mirrored plexiglass at a 45 degree angle like the OG but the form factor of the G1 cab was not possible so I recessed the monitor and made the front bezel tilted 90 degrees vertical. You took it a step further with the shadowbox graphic and lights. Just contacted the Etsy seller to see if I could get the graphic to finish the mod. Oh and tilting the bezel created a 1 1/2” gap between the control deck and bezel so I have to have a new control deck custom cut.
A++ Great project and great video. Thats a labor of love . Thats what its all about.
Awesome mod👾
Ok this is awesome. If I had that cab I would try doing the same mod
Nice and crazy mod indeed.
Nice work and it looks really good 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Beautiful job
If the SI cab had been done like this I probably would have bought one..
Very cool. Well done, sir.
That's amazing, I love it! Had the opportunity to buy one of these cabs a couple years ago when they were on clearance at Walmart for (literally) one dollar, but I just didn't have the space for it... I have since wished I made that purchase because I keep thinking about how to achieve that original arcade effect. My idea was to recess the monitor like you did, but use a transluscent film on top of the interior plexi for those planetary graphics. Easier said than done though, as I don't know where you could get something like that custom printed!
Level it up.
Use a fresnel lens with a smaller lcd to fit screen horizontal in the cab facing up, with 2 way mirror and backdrop art like original
Its sad that 1up did not coded a replica game of the original or at least used the one on the space invaders compilation game from 1994.
Extremely cool! I was thinking of how I could recreate the arcade effect with a 2-way mirror. Do you know if it's possible to flip the Arcade 1up's image to a backwards "mirror" effect? Then the lcd screen could be mounted below, and the image reflected onto the 2-way mirror. I believe that's how the arcade was. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Good point.
Maybe there's a hidden service menu for this pcb?
Otherwise, would need to put in an rpi or Android box running retropie or batocera, or a minipc.
Bonus with a pi or Pc mod is mame or other emulators will put the original background graphic behind the playfield, dimmed and semi transparent, may be adjustable.
Then all you need to do is this recess mod, no need for the bezel graphics, nor the bottom planet.
That said, still be a cool project to replicate the mirror and uv blacklight background graphics like the original