Creative Arcades 3500 User manual

3500
COCKTAIL LIFT TOP ARCADE
USER MANUAL

Control Panel
To start playing a game. First find the category by pressing the Category button and continue to press it until you
come to the category that you want. Then use the joystick to navigate through the game selection screen. Push
down on the joystick to move down one game at a time, Also you can push to the right to jump through games ten
at a time. Hold the joystick to the right to cycle through the games quickly. Once you have found the game you
would like to play, press the start a game or P1_A button as shown in Figure A.
After the game loads, press the freeplay button to add credits and then Player one start to start the game.
To exit out at any time, press and hold the player one start button and it will bring you back to the game
selection screen.
Quick Starting
Figure A

Change the orientation of the screen by hitting the all white button
next to player one start that is shown in figure b.
Once you find a game that you would like to play, push the Player1_a button to load that game.
Once the game is loaded, push the freeplay button to add credits
after adding credits, push Player 1 or Player 2 start
Exiting the Game
While playing the game, to exit you simply hold down the Player one start button and after a few seconds
it will take you back to the game selection screen.
While on the game selection screen
you can push Player1_b button to cycle through the game categories one at a time then you can push down
on joystick to cycle down through game list one at a time, or press to the right and cycle through game list
TEN at a time. You can also hold the joystick to the right to go through the game list superfast.
Game Category is displayed at top left of screen in RED
Game Category - ------>
Game List ------------->
Game Selection

Playing Doubles
Some games (donkey kong, pacman, galaga) require players to use the same
controls. The original design of these games was based on taking turns using
the same controls. As one player would play until his turn ended and then the
other player would step up and take his turn on the same controls.
But if you want to play two player games with seperate controls then you
would have to start it from the ends where both players are facing each other
(cocktail mode). To switch the orientation of the screen you must do it from
the game selection screen by hitting the Cocktail/Standup orientation button
that is shown in Figure A. This only applies if you have a cocktail table
Some games may be louder than others and the volume can be adjusted to
preference. To adjust the volume ayou have to open up the machine and locate the
amplifier that has 4 knobs on it and looks similiar to Figure D. Once you locate that
amplifier you simply just turn the volume knob counter clockwise to lower and
clockwise to raise. Please note that your machine may have a different location for the
sound amplifier
Figure C.
Figure D.
Volume Control

Setting up machine to take quarters
Step 1. Locate the coin assimulator in fornt of the machine and open the coin door.
Step 2. Put in a sample quarter into the caddy tray as shown in figures D and E above.nt of the machine and open the
Step 3. Find the green QC sticker and pull up on it. It may be easier to lift up on it with the spring disconnected.
Step 4. Once you have it up, then you want to put your sample quarter in the cut as shown in figure E (the yellow disc is
a dummy coin that you need to replace with a real one.
Step 5. After you put your quarter in the caddy, then lower it back down.
Fine tuning the coin caddy will take a number of attempts to ensure accurate alignment when it is setups correctly, then
the quarter should fall all the way through. If it gets caught then the sample quarter is not in correctly and you must hit
the coin return lever to get it out and reinsert the sample quarter again. NOTE: the machine must be on for this to work.
It may take a couple of tries but it will work just keep trying!
Figure E
Figure D

To finish setting up your machine to take quarters you must de-activate the freeplay
button on the control panel and to do this you must open up the machine on the coin
door side and look up to the right and you should see something similiar to figure f.
Figure F
The other switch that is behind the back door of the machine is to turn off the LED
lights that are on the outside of the video game unit.
De-activate freeplay when using coin acceptor
The blue button is the freeplay button and the red switch is to turn off the freeplay
button that is on the control panel.
***IMPORTANT*** To activate FreePlay again, the switch must be flipped back on
to use the freeplay button on the main control panel
LED Light Controls
Note that this process is for our Lift top Model

Three sided cocktail control panel

Step 1 : Locate the two latches (one on each side) that secure the screen to the unit during shipping.
These images are from the top of the machine when the screen is up.
To unlatch the screen, you have to reach into the machine from the back (opposite of Coin Door) and reach up through the hole that is
in the picture and unlatch the clamp. THE SCREEN WILL NOT GO UP UNTIL YOU DO THIS.
Lifting up the tilt screen

Here is a view of the latches from the top side of the machine
NOTE: When transporting machine, make sure that you have fastened these latches back down again to prevent damage
This is a view from the bottom inside pointed up