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Pilot the X-Wing Fighter in the classic color vector arcade game! Blast away TIE Fighters, zoom across the surface of the Death Star, and roar down the trench with sampled voices and effects from the movie!

There are three chapters in the story of the game. In the first, your X-Wing Fighter dogfights with Imperial TIE Fighters and Darth Vader's ship. In the second, you maneuver past bunkers and deflector towers on the face of the Death Star, blasting them along the way. In the final scenario, you find yourself speeding through the trench of the Death Star, avoiding obstacles and blasting gun turrets then, finally, hopefully time a proton torpedo for a direct hit on the exaust port target. What follows, if you are successful, is the Death Star exploding in a multitude of different colors. Then it is on to do battle again.

Another Craigslist pickup. I purchased this for the amazingly low price of $175 in August 2008. It was sold as complete, was working and now not.

I recruited the help of my buddy since I wasn't sure I could fit an Atari cab in my vehicle. When we got the game back to my house we removed the back door to find that the transformer was not afixed to the bottom of the cabinet and the power connector disconnected as a result. I plugged it back into the transformer and powered the game on.

To our surprise it came to life. Needless to say I was totally stoked! It's not everyday you find a working Star Wars arcade for $175.

The cab would need some repair work done to it as it had some missing corners. The marquee was hacked, there is also a crack above the coin door, it has lockbar holes and a chunk missing from the lower front. The artwork was decent on the cab but the CPO is missing.

The game was filthy on the inside so I stripped the cabinet to clean everything from the transformer to the harness to the cooling fan.

I used Bondo to repair the damage to the cab... OUCH!!! Gotta love particle board.

Only drawback about using Bondo is that it sets fairly quickly. Once you mix the compoind it has to be applied immediately.

After the Bondo cured I sanded it smooth with an orbital sander. I then masked off all the artwork and applied several coats of Rustoleum Gloss Black Finish.

 

While the cabinet looks significantly better from when I first got it it is far from perfect. I plan on finding an empty cabinet in better condition to swap this one with. Until then...

Update 16MAY09...

I ended up getting an almost empty, near mint Star Wars cab. I swapped just about everything from my working, beat-up cab to the new one within 24hrs of getting the cab (yeah, I was a little excited).This one also had a respectable marquee and not that Frankstein that some op concocted. While I had it out and accessible I decided to post another question to KLOV to see if I can resolve the monitor jitters. I was informed to check the B+ and also ground the monitor frame. I did both and jitters are a thing of the past.

I also ended up getting a control panel overlay from www.arcadeshop.com. I stripped the black vinyl from it and sanded it down to remove the glue and paint. I then primed...

Then I sprayed some black followed by a clear enamel coating.

Then applied the CPO...

Reassembled and sitting pretty in the gameroom...

 


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