Eyes

  • Manufacturer: Rock-Ola / Zaccaria
  • Year: 1982

Useful info

  • Cabinet type: Upright
  • Measures (WxHxD): 63,9 x 176,0 x 73,0 cm
  • Working voltage: 220V
  • Maximum consumption: non disponibile
  • Technology: Vertical color raster monitor

It is the classic maze game of the early ’80s. You control an “eye” that runs through the maze collecting green balls. In the labyrinth various enemies walk, obviously trying to kill you. In order to make the game easier, the eye can “shoot” in front of itself, getting free its passage.

The original game was produced by Rock-Ola but this is the marvelous licensed version produced by Zaccaria. It is said that the front glass that brings a frowning look, draws the eyes of the designer and that this is the second version, because the first instilled fear to the children. The restoration of this cabinet has been long and tiring because the game was in very bad condition and it was rebuilt as much as possible with original parts. Overall, the cabined is in good condition, the CPO has been reproduced while the (original) side art is rather damaged. Better a discrete original game than a beautiful reproduction, doesn’t it?

The most dirty cab I’ve ever seen

24 April 2014

This is my Eyes when I picked up it. OMG!

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Top

24 April 2014

First of all I cleaned the cab starting from the top, repainting and rebuilding part where needed.

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Coin mechanism

24 April 2014

This is the coin mechanism

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Power supply

24 April 2014

Here is the power supply

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Fan

24 April 2014

Re-building the fan

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Bottom of the cab

24 April 2014

The base

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These are the scratches used for reproduction

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Metal label

24 April 2014

I destroyed the original metal label removing it from the back of the cab. I’m sorry.

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Bezel

24 April 2014

I had to repair part of the bezel

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and the instruction flyer.

Coin box

24 April 2014

rust! rust! rust!

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Coin door

24 April 2014
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Front panels

24 April 2014

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Joystick

24 April 2014
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CPO

24 April 2014

I made a reproduction of the CPO starting from a scan of the original corrupted I had.

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The end (more or less)

24 April 2014

Not so much work on the side arts. I’ll do that later

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Eyes :: Summary

24 April 2014

A fast “summary” about what I did… 🙂

 

Eyes :: Pinout

26 April 2014

Remaking the cabinet wiring I followed the original cabinet schematics respecting wire colors but the connector is dedicated to EYES PCB

COMPONENT SIDE pin 
number
SOLDER SIDE
GND1GND
GND2GND
GND3GND
SPK –4SPK +
12V512V
 (P2 fire)6P1 UP
P1 FIRE7(P2 UP)
+5V8+5V
 (Cocktail)9
P1 DOWN10
(P2 DOWN)11
122P START
COIN SW131P START
14P1 RIGHT
RED15P1 LEFT
(P2 RIGHT)16BLUE
(P2 LEFT)17GREEN
18SYNC