Tony's Arcade

Since I can’t find any documentation of Allied Leisure’s F-114 anywhere on the Internet (well, except for the marketing flyer), and I was lucky to find schematics and instructions with my F-114, here they are. Hopefully they’ll help you with your restoration of a F-114. I only have the Theory of Operation, Assembly Instructions, and Schematics. If you have any other F-114 documentation, please let me know and I’ll add it here.

Allied Leisure Theory of Operation and Assembly Instructions (5MB)

Allied Leisure F-114 Schematics (2.3MB)

Each time I visited the arcade warehouse, I noticed a behemoth of a game lurking from under the boxes of 45s, NOS (New Old Stock) joysticks, and pinball score displays. It had this huge, half-circle wraparound projection screen and a black padded vinyl chair. The side of the game was stenciled with “F-114″ in white. I was curious. What was this game? Some kind of jet fighter? It sat among a few Sonic Fighters, which are electro-mechanical (EM) projection games. “It must be some kind of projection EM game on steroids,” I thought. I decided to do some searching on the Internet, since I never heard about this game before…

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