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Restoring the Galaxian3 Theatre 6, 1992 six player arcade machine
Introduction During the late 1980s, Namco set out to create the world’s largest arcade game. The result was Galaxian3: Project Dragoon; a 28 player behemoth that debuted in April 1990 at the …
Ford very graciously agreed to fly with an HP 1660C logic analyzer in his carry-on luggage and arranged to borrow a digital storage oscilloscope from a friend in Boston (thank you Gally!). During my research, I had found photos of the inside of another machine showing leads connecting the GND test points of each PSN PCB to the metal frame of the left control box. At one point I accidentally knocked off a jumper on the RSO board and we spent twenty painful minutes wondering why the game stopped responding to inputs and would not display anything other than ‘INSERT COINS’.
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