Restoration of Six-Player Arcade Game From the Early 90s
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Summary
Blogger and arcade game restorer PhilWIP is restoring a six-player shooter game called Galaxian 3, originally built by Namco in the 1990s and recently acquired by Phil’s group.
The game is a colossal piece of technology from the 1990s, requiring two projectors and LaserDisc players to operate, and Phil and his team have been working on making it functional again as well as preserving it through digital means.
There are a number of steps involved in the preservation process, including imaging the LaserDiscs to copy their data onto modern storage, repairing player input PCBs, and addressing issues with the projectors.
The restoration work is still ongoing, but the team are hoping to have the game working again shortly.
There are many other unique hardware restorations from the same era that could be restored as well.
