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LAI Space Invaders Restore Project Complete (Part 5)

May 10, 2020 roxbury 2 comments

I had a few tasks ahead to complete the restoration. The good news is everything went smoothly, with no sticking points. First up time to make a new cardboard bezel for the monitor. The old one is a bit scummy. I couldn’t find a piece of cardboard large enough at

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LAI Space Invaders Restore Monitor Replacement (Part 4)

April 26, 2020 roxbury Leave a comment

The early Space Invaders boardsets, including the Midway L shaped boards only output to a black and white monitor. The monitor that came with my cabinet is not working. I have not really done any troubleshooting for it, however the chassis was very dirty, and I decided my efforts would

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LAI Space Invaders New Side Art & Control Panel (Part 3)

January 12, 2020 roxbury 3 comments

Time to apply new side art, and new control panel overlay! We are fortunate to have Noodleshirt in Australia to supply our arcade artwork needs. I wanted to get the artwork colour as close as practical to the original, so sent off the remainder of the artwork I removed so

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LAI Space Invaders Restore – Teardown & Cabinet Repairs (Part 2)

August 3, 2019 roxbury Leave a comment

This post has been a long time coming. My progress stalled for over a year after our house was flood damaged. Time to get back into this project! Time to tear the cabinet down & make some repairs to the woodwork. It is in very poor shape. Taking everything out

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LAI Space Invaders Restore – Checking PCB & Monitor (Part 1)

December 3, 2017 roxbury Leave a comment

Its time now to start the restoration of my LAI Space Invaders upright. LAI (Leisure & Allied Industries) is an Australian producer of amusement and arcade games. This cabinet is quite similar to the original Taito Space Invaders, using a lot of the same components. However the LAI variant is

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