Archived on November 19th, 2003 at 8:52am from
www.consortiumofgenius.com/wow.htm
Here are some more detailed pictures of Cinematronics 'War of the Worlds'.
Click on each description to view a detailed picture.
From yesterday, the
left side of the machine. Decal condition is amazing.
Here's the
much-requested right side of the machine. You can see a tear in the
bottom right of the decal, but on the whole, it's excellent, though not as
perfect as the left.
The control panel
overlay is protected by an apparently home-made piece of thick plexi. I took the
plexi off to clean it and the buttons and found the CP overlay to be in mint
condition. The bottom metal bar is typically marred, but would look brand new if
stripped and painted. Sorry about the screen image, the display really looks
better than that - this is a digital double exposure. Here you can also observe
the city skyline on the screen overlay gel, complete with twin towers.
Another shot of
the game being 'played.' None of these shots really do it justice - the
screen image is really quite beautiful, and doesn't really translate well to
digital camera. This game lived most of its life withOUT the color overlay, and
the brightness was cranked way DOWN! And while I have the color overlay taped
the the tube (I didn't peel off the self adhesive either) I'm keeping it sort of
dim until it is sold!
This game features
a back cover in fairly good shape. You can see that at some point the
keylock had been pulled through the particle board at the top of the door. When
I found the game, a single screw on the left was holding the back on.
A very clean
inside. This must have been kept in a pretty dust free environment and
rarely played.
Here's some detail on
the PCB. Similarly clean, and it's apparently never been worked on. Like all
other WotW's, the sound board is a Cinematronics factory kludged Star Castle
board.
Finally, here's the
coin door. This game was operated at 'Putt-Putt Golf & Games', and is set up
with mechs that accept Putt-Putt tokens, a few of which are still in the coin
box! The family that owned this didn't even know it could do Free Play, which I
have switched on right now - they were toggling the coin drop switch to play.
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