Original Project Thread: https://www.aussiearcade.com/topic/79032-galaxian-bartop-project/
I’ve had this bartop carcass in my garage for about 4 years now. Like many of us, too many projects and not enough time and/or motivation. As is normal with me I get to a point where I want to complete a project that I’ve put off for some time so I pick one and work on it until done.
The biggest kicker for this is that I bought an arcade pack off Ebay pretty cheaply knowing it would suit this. It included 60-1 pcb, power supply, jamma harness, 12 player buttons, 1 & 2 player button, 2 joysticks, 2 speakers, speaker grills and 50 PCB mounts.
Bare carcass here which didn’t come with a back or control panel.
So using a 19″ 4:3 LCD monitor as the template I measured up to see how I could fit everything in. The 19″ just fits vertically so I measure up some timber rails to mount both the control panel and rest the monitor on, then glued and screwed.
Measured up a control panel and dicked around with control and button layout. Test fitting here.
Made a rear door and fitted with a barrel lock. Also cut out a hole for the IEC power socket.
Now most people opt for a Galaga based bartop or some sort of custom job. Me, I’m more partial to Galaxian so I’ve elected to go that way. Overall colours will also match so I’m going gloss white and then I’m going to get original artwork sized and printed.
that will include Marquee, Control Panel, Side Art & Kick Plate. Not sure I’ll bother with a bezel as it would only be the width of the monitor bezel which is 10mm.
Now I suck mightily at graphics but I’ve managed to use Adobe Illustrator to modify the original Galaxian control panel artwork to suit my bartop. Everything else will remain original, just re-sized to fit.
Original
I printed off a sample on plain paper to ensure it fit and to my great surprise it fit perfectly, down to the button holes.
Next up was painting the cabinet. True to the original dedicate cab I painted it gloss white.
I also received the reproduction artwork scaled to size I’d ordered the previous week!
I wanted this cab neat and tidy so installed and IEC power socket into the cab. Marked it out, used a spade bit to cut and then a jigsaw for the shape. It turned out really nice.
Once completed I then applied the artwork and installed the controls.
I then installed the green t-molding!
Space inside this thing is REALLY tight so I’m trying to save by using as few space stealing parts as possible.
The monitor is a 19″ 4:3 vertically mounted LCD. Now this of course requires 240 volts.
I have an arcade power supply. I wired it up and mounted the PSU onto the bottom of the cab. The PSU has 240volt inputs which is wired to the IEC socket I’d installed previously.
I’m using a 60-1 game board which uses a Jamma interface. This only requires 12 volts which is fed from the Arcade Power Supply. Wired all up and then gave it power.
I then fired it up and of course I just had to play Galaxian on it!
It’s alive!
