Repairing Midway's Excellent WIZARD OF WOR Arcade Game From 1981 - Old School Card Rack Technology 

Wizard of Wor is one of my favorite games. High Five for getting that one fixed!

I worked security in and arcade years back, and at closing they counted the money from the machines. I would play this for hours till 3am when we completed the close. You brought back allot of memories for me! Beautiful restoration. Kudos to you! 😊

That game took a lot of my lawn mowing quarters back in the day. I saved a ton of money when my parents bought me a C64! I know one complainer that must be sooo happy right now.

I so loved wasting quarters at my local bowling alley back in the '80s on this game! "I'll fry you with my lightning bolts!" Great repair.

That is a top ten most iconic vintage arcade game! I just have to bow down a little when I hear that iconic voice and music. The 4600 is awesome too. Some would say the best monitor WG ever made. They are a bit of a pain in the tail to work on and adjust but they are awesome and built to last. Very satisfying seeing any vintage machine come back and live in awesomeness again! It is one of the few things that makes me happy!

The C64 had a decent conversion of this - I played it rather a lot, but my Mum played it even more and was pretty good at it!

This is absolutely fascinating! I would love to be able to understand these machines enough to be able to repair them the way y'all do!

One of the best old school arcade games ever. Love that game!

Remember playing this on my Atari 5200 back in the day. Was really close to the arcade version, but it sadly lacked the voice overs. Really underrated game from that era.

I used to play this at the laundromat. I chose that one because of this game. Laundry never took long enough.

Thank you for restoring this gem; Wizard of Wor is hands down my favorite classic arcade game. It has it all! Co-op or deathmatch play, a fantastic "story" or "setting" for lack of a better term, strategy, gameplay...oh and the SOUND! I don't think the COVOX audio system has ever been used better than it is here. If I had the room for a classic arcade cabinet (and the money!) I would track down a WoW machine.

The music makes me feel the same tension as I did as a kid.. Blast from the past!! Gives me the tingles. lol

A thang of beauty! Big hugs for repairing it!

I played this at the local skating rink growing up. Was one of my favorite games.

Nice - I love the pinball repair series, but have been missing the arcade repairs.

Wizard of wor is so good! I wasnt expecting this. I also noticed a the game cartridge for atari at a local game shop too! Man what a month.

Thank you Ron (and Joe) for keeping churning out these troubleshooting videos.

I had this game!!! First arcade my dad bought. Loved it!!

Used to play this as a kid on the Atari. Brilliant.

We had this on our Commodore 64. Thanks for the upload, brings back memories of the 80’s.

I really love that synthesized voice!

Wg4600 monitor has the best picture of the classic monitors. IMHO Great job!

That was great! Interesting repair ...and bring you back to the 80's game play!

If I was to have only one game, I’d probably be Wizard of Wor. Cool art, and two player.

Wizard of War takes me back to my childhood. I spent so many hours playing at my tutor's house. She was the first person that I had ever known that had an arcade machine in their house she had the stand-up version and after I was done with all my studies, she would let me play wizard of War for an hour. My brother would come early to pick me up and we would spend some more time playing. Isn't this cabinet for sale and if so, how much?

Cool professor Ron an Arcade repair video.

Wow, sounds from Gorf with a D&D look. First time seeing that one. Thanks, Joe!

One of the first games I ever played and still one of my favorites. Thank you for restoring it and getting it back in the world.

Liked this game along with Joust.

Howdy my Friend, That is a Cool game indeed, in my top ten all time favorite games, and still on my list for games I want to aquire, but a hard game to find, oh Man, GORF !? Another game in my top 5 all time favorite games, still looking for that one too, Another very hard game to find, that is so Cool, two of my all time most favorite games !! Thank you for posting this video on them, Very Cool indeed !! Stay safe, Stay Calm and game on, Peace

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Looks like a s-100 bus. Old 70’s computers used this standard bus to allow the cpu board to talk to i/o interface boards. Think old pdp-8 stuff. I love this old stuff the best. So crude. Utility. No waiting for updates to play.

Amazing job restoring this classic! It was really just a pile of dead scrap electronics at the beginning but you turned it all into a fully functioning mint condition beauty.

One of the most underrated games at reclaim arcade in Fredericksburg Virginia

This brings back childhood memories. Always put in two quarters on this game for the extra lives. :D

great classic game, thanks for sharing!

this video is 2 years in the making... lol nice job with this one

THis game brings back so many good memories. Awesome game!

Great vid. Thanks for posting. WOW was my fav arcade game back in the day.

Glad your were able to fix and get it going, cool game, the sounds reminds me of the computer in the movie war games lol 🤣

Love this game, haven't seen it in years! Great work as always.

that is so cool. it looks ace.

This is a neat game! The invisible enemies is a cool gimmick with the RADAR. Thanks for sharing this with us.

Very nicely put together video and very entertaining as well. Thanks for posting this.

This video came up on my youtube suggested. Absolutely fascinating. Also used to play Wizard of Wor in my youth!

I spent a many of a summer day playing this with my buddies. It’s more fun with 2 players. Great job

Love how the guts pull out of the front bottom! Good fix Wizard of Repai!!

OMG love this game! I only had it on the C64 as many others here, but played it all the time :D

Nice job guys. This is one I remember and had a blast playing. Love the way it taunts you. As a kid it really kept you putting quarters in because of the constant ribbing :-)

Man I just stumbled on your vids and as im watching more I like how you go back and correct yourself when you dig deeper. Like the dates on the chips. I dig it thanks for the info

i remember playing this on my commodore 64 from a cartridge !

Another awesome video. Thank you

I used to love this on the C64

I love this one. Had a super clean complete cab given to me by a vendor who wanted space for newer games back around 2000 or so, missing only the game boards. Found the game boards on Ebay for $100, slapped them in got her working, voice systhesis and all! Sold it about 3 years ago for $1400. Lately the price has shot up quite a bit higher than that even.

Wow the sound in this one is amazing.

Good work. Thanks for sharing. 😉👌🏻

I had my 7th birthday party at an arcade back in the early 80's, and that was where I first saw and played Wizard of Wor. I remember defeating the Worluck.

I used to work at the former Worlds Largest Arcade and I never saw that game before! How cool!

Ah this is fantastic! Nice work!

I have one of these in my garage. Still works good.

First time viewer and I really liked the commentary. The way you would through troubleshooting is an art, and definitely a dying art IMO.

Very understand game, I had 2 of them back in the day

Great game!

Wow - that brings back memories!

Nice looking game..I remember playing that in the day

Many, many quarters into that one back in the day.

thank you lads for upload...

Thank God you got that jukebox fixed now we can go onto the the real

Played this at Circus Circus Arcade at the Midway in Vegas when this came out. Got it on my C-64 but couldn’t afford the Speech Adapter. Love that game. Looking forward to it looking like it used to. Hard game but a classic.

Very cool! I think the static on screen could just be noise introduced somewhere in the video circuit. Maybe oxidized contacts or cold solder joint somewhere..

awesome detail, nice machine

I am getting flashbacks of Joust, these sounds sound very similar. 🤷‍♂️ I have never seen this game.

Nice work.

I loved it on my C64 especially in 2-Player modes.

looks perfect, playable, and with special effects!, you got a unique arcade!. If you fix the dots, it won't be unique anymore.!

Great restore vid! My local 7-11 had this game. Spent all my weekly $2 allowance playing it. Recently rediscovered it on Defender Arcade 1up. But still not as good as the original.

Man still love the Commodore 64 version.

This is certainly one of those classic machines. I had a gorf machine recently but sold it. I kinda regret it. I wish I had a smaller one to keep.

I had this game for Atari 2600, and it didn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense. The voice really makes a difference

That repair process is, how a lot of "legacy" network Telecomm equipment that may carry voice, analog and digital data ( in SONET and sometimes GbE signal format) gets repaired. Our company had a limited stock ( or we could order and wait for days, weeks, or longer) of "It may or may not be good" plug in PCB "cards" that we would swap and hope things behaved well and came back into service. The trick is, like you have found, to have an educated "order of progression" for what to replace to see if improvements have been made. In the interest from damaging your stock of cards any more, you might want to order some anti-static album cover sleeves to put cards in, and use some "static discharge friendly" work habits, like, never installing a card you picked up without first touching the metal frame you are plugging into with your other hand first, or, be official and get a static discharge wrist strap. Fun repair, thanks for posting!

Love it!

great guys , i cant remember this game , maybe it will light up my bulb after i see the game running , i can look up some video about this game but that kills all the fun greetings from amsterdam

Wizard Of Wor is a timeless classic, love it!!

Good to hear that y’all make Joe work too!

Great video. I do like this game. It’s a bit difficult at least on the Arcade 1up releases

so true same sound chip as Q Bert and wat a game that was. that sound chip is comical

Nice to see another wizard of wor back alive. I love my wizard machine, but the boardset scares me. It's the only game I own that I have a spare boardset for.

I owned the bar-sized standing WoW game WAAAAAAAAAAAAY back in about 1987ish. Fun game.

Haven’t heard of that one it is beautifully 80s

OMG - a FAVORITE!!!!! first speech game! HO HO HO HA HA HA WIZARD OF WOR

This is definitely one game where it would be cool if they made a movie based on it, they made one based on Doom.

One of my favorite games

I love it! I can see why Joe made you the star. You are quite entertaining and he just is like, "yup", "it's broke", "I fixed it" etc... Great video again!

Always thought it funny that the main music theme from this game was from the old TV show Dragnet.

That sound effect at 27:23 is EPIC!

Looking forward to watching this video 👍

I think he said "I'M OWED A FIGHT! HA HA HA HA!" My favorite lines were always "COIN DETECTED IN PCOKET!" and "COME BACK FOR MORE, WITH THE WIZARD OF WAR!" still love this game today... so many memories of blasting away at monsters, and fighting against other players to nail the Worluk and nab that sweet Double Score! Thanks for sharing this! 🙂 (Although is it just me, or do the Worriors kinda look like little Ghostbusters wielding a Proton Pack and Neutrona Wand? ;-) )

Great Video i have 1 and a extra set of boards just incase

Paper route money gone in the 80s lol. One of my favorites

GORF is cool and I never knew that this existed and has that same voice.