My 1980 Atari Missile Command Arcade Machine!
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- Опубликовано: 7 июл 2019
- Ahh, talk about a lifelong dream come true. I bought an Atari Missile Command arcade cabinet from 1980! The woodgrain cabaret version, oh yes. And it even comes with a working coin door and normal-sized quarters!
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First he bought a tiny Atari arcade machine, then a big Atari arcade machine, next time on LGR we're liquidating Atari's buisness assets
Ha!
That shouldn't be too expensive, surely the ad money will pay for it.
Next time: he's buying an actual missile base
Does that mean he also would own the rights to all those crapstastic ET carts in that hole in the ground in the desert? Not exactly a great deal.
He's going to need a bigger house if he's going to buy all those arcade machines from Atari
The woodgrain compels you! Nice purchase Clint.
LGR's name is Clint?!
@@TheAtoll yes
@@CaveyMoth that is the dumbest fucking "joke" anybody ever came up with. It also doesn't even make fucking sense. The whole goddamn thing is a double negative
How do you know his name?
LGR magic. Woodgrain actually increases telepathic abilities.
According to Wikipedia the developer Dave Theurer suffered from nightmares in the midst of the cold war of US cities being nuked, so he got the idea for this game.
It was that era...
Very interesting
When I was informed about this, I have had the same dreams.
Worst ones are when I see the flash in the horizon, and I realize my family is close enough to die, but I am not close enough to get to them.
It is not fun, I can tell you.
Yeah. For me too especially serving in the West German army in the late 1980s. Worst day was when this pilot-less MIG entered West German air space and we tracked it via radar. Pure horror as nobody knew what will happen next.
Wikipedia has misconstruing those facts. Dave Theurer didn't get the idea for this game, he was tasked to create it by his boss, Steve Calfee, as one of the most talented lead programmers. But it was Atari's president of its arcade/coin-op division, Gene Lipkin, who actually came up with the idea for the game, after seeing a magazine advertisement depicting a radar screen with incoming missiles closing on a cityscape. They discussed and handed it off to Dave to work out the details.
The nightmares come from Theurer's tireless work on the project over the next six months, he'd stay up for 3, 4 days working non-stop, consumed with the game, constantly trading off mechanics to get the player choice just right, the need to let cities be hit to survive further rounds, the initial personalization of the cities as the major population centers of California, and the general dread of nuclear confrontation between the superpowers.
I love watching these with captions, [laughs in walnut] is my new favorite line
How would you caption 12:48?
Seeing a 'cleaning restoration' video of this would be amazing, congrats on the find
Third. That would be super great.
then go to the restoration linked in the description
@@andrewdriver3318 I'm an LGR fan. I'm here for LGR content. So, no.
I thought the same.
yeah it definitely wasn't cleaned worth a shit on the inside... :/
If you get enough machines, please make a new channel called LGRcade. :)
I second this motion!
Ohhhh that's a great alliteration.
Niice!
sick pun! also yeah love the arcade footage. cabinet hovering simulator
Great name!
This video smells like an old bowling alley.
Hey LGR, I used to repair arcade machines for a living. I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have about your missile command or any other arcade stuff you get curious about
drivethrufiend I’m definitely not lgr but I do have a question as I want to get my own arcade machine where would I look to get one
That booming bass-y sound is what I remember most about old school arcade cabinets. I love that it really takes me back
YES!! I had 3 years ago. Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, and a Millipede machine. All heated the house very well 😉
Remember once having the displeasure of playing a constantly-running-for-five-years-straight Galaga machine. The controls were hot, the coin slots were hot, the machine itself radiated 110 degree heat, but it had a specific competition switch setting that allowed the player to skip the formation sequence as well as give themselves an extra life once per level, and I got far with it. If the machine is still working and hasn't been reset yet, there's a good chance that my high score is still number one on the machine...
*A S C 782300*
LOL!
But /had/? Why no have?
sinephase Bad decisions were made. I bought them from a bar going out of business for $300 together. Sold them for $300 each about 6 months later.
@@scotttaylor9961 OOOF
I actually dont care much about arcade itself, but I am SO glad to hear this sheer happiness in LGRs voice :зз
I'm in the middle of writing a version of this for BASIC. One of my favourite arcade games. Great choice Clint 👍
I own a Golden Ax machine. Hearing it blair at parties is awesome .
I’m glad the CRT is in good condition. Lots of arcades don’t maintain the screens and they end up looking really sad after a while. The arcade on the Santa Monica pier was surprisingly unmaintained.
How does one 'maintain' a CRT? I know you can up the voltage on the guns to eek some life from them, but that just degrades them faster. Afaik, turning the house lights down is the best call, lifewise. No slight intended, id really like to know how you maintain a CRT, other than replacement (which can be hard to impossible)
arjovenzia You’re right that there isn’t too much you can do to stop inevitable wear, but there are definitely good practices to extend their lifetime. Even just degaussing the screen regularly, powering it off when not in use, and not displaying 100% static images really helps with screen burn and overall quality.
I have heard that good color calibration can help wear the guns down more evenly over time, and I have heard something similar to what you said about higher voltages, I’ve known people that would run the tubes super hard for a brief period of time to “burn off” stuff but I’ve never done repairs that in depth.
@@arjovenzia
Ensuring the proper voltage for one. A line conditioner wouldn't be a bad investment. These old machines use a fair bit of power.
As for preserving it? Just use it sparingly and it should last for decades more. CRTs are built to last unlike LCDs.
A novel idea would be to use PIR sensors (Think security lights) on top of the machine that are tied into the CRTs power that way it powers on when a customer approaches the unit and off when they leave all while retaining flashy light and sounds.
Fun fact: Atari in Finland is also associated as an acronym for Professional and Prone-Criminality Supervision unit.
(Ammatti ja TApa RIkolliset)
Skipper The Anime Inspector huh. You learn something new every day. And I am a Finn, lel.
Aivan, juurikin näin.
Indeed, that's correct. 👍
Haven't thought that myself right away when I've read about Ataris game stuff but I've known about the special unit for a long time.
That doesn't translate to English very well but I get the drift
Not a fun fact at all, actually.
Whuaaa?! First time I heard about that! That is just hilariously terryfying.
Clint 2 weeks ago: I bought a mini Atari Machine
Clint today: I bought a BIG Atari machine
Clint 2 weeks into the future: I bought Atari. Just all of Atari.
We're so glad to see the beginnings of the LGRcade
Missile Command is such an existentially jarring game. You don't beat Missile Command, you are just prolonging the inevitable.
It's hard too
What I mean is, you're trying to prevent your destruction but no matter how well you do, you can't prevent it. It's going to happen.
The same could be said about any arcade game or life in general.
That's how it is with most of those older games, isn't it? There's no actual "end," the game just gets more and more difficult until it's unplayable and you immediately lose.
My father used to repair arcade machines in the 80s going through the early 2000s. Good memories of running around the shop and playing the games to ‘test’ them. What a blast from the past!
Its great seeing your child like glee with an arcade machine that obviously brings back so many memories. Thats the beauty of retro gaming.
My earliest memory of Missile Command was seeing John Connor play it in T2.
I was absolutely hooked to Atari's Star Wars game.
I guess the later version, where you had to climb into. With a cockpit and sht.
I felt like Luke in his X-Wing.
All-time classic. They have one of those at Funspot in NH (they have just about everything at Funspot). My daughter got to play it there, so she knows what a great arcade game is like.
I always wanted a home version of the Star Wars control yoke, myself...or even the one from Roadblasters, which is basically the same, just with the up/down axis fixed.
Loved that game, one of my favourites as well Also spent a fair bit of time and money on Sega Rally a bit later on.
Takes me back to my childhood in the late 80s LGR! Amazing isnt it, how much pleasure can still be found with this very simple machines and hardware! Excellent!
It's the sounds that are giving me a nostalgia overload. I could seriously just sit and listen to this all day. :D
Aww that's awesome! When I was growing up, my dad used to fix pinball machines all the time, but I always hoped he'd get an arcade machine one day too, but he didn't! The one I remember the most was an unusual machine called Hyperball, that had two "guns" that shot the pinballs out at targets. It wasn't a classic pinball machine at all. It was SO loud, it was amazing. Even without the music on, the sound of the balls hitting the back was incredible!
I was so lucky being able to grow up with things like that in my house... (I thought everyone had oscilloscopes in their dining room!) my dad was an electrical design engineer (now retired but still tinkering with stuff!), and he used to get his hands on the coolest things to repair and play with, and things that people would THROW AWAY because they were broken, he would fix and we could play with!! He used to fix classic Jukeboxes and stuff too! It's because of his passions that we had computers all my childhood though, :D The first computers he had, he built himself!
I'm waffling, but this sort of brings back memories of the cool stuff my dad used to bring home!
Something about that THE END game over screen is chilling, even all these years later.
Hard driven’, full console with shifter, key, and feedback steering. I love that machine.
Congratulations Clint. 😄
Great find indeed. 👌👍
...woodgrain... 😍
Now it's LAR
Lazy Arcade Reviews xD
But nice purchase, and have fun with it!
This needs to be a spin-off show, Clint! Do it!
@@ianmiller6040 Good idea! Since LGR mentioned thinking about what cab to get he might have a look at www.ankman.de/mame to get ideas what cab to get for a possible spin off channel. Page has screenshots of arcade video games from the late 1970s to late 1980s that some people might be like "OMG, that game! I totally forgot about that".
F@&*ING MISSILE COMMAND!!! ( what a great 10 year anniversary present for ones self, congrats! )
What can I say ?
Well, thank you
Memories, fond memories of countless hours I spent in those arcade galleries when I was a kid
Those sounds, those explosions ... nice music to my ears
Again,
Thank you
Glad you found this and you're so excited! So fun to watch 🙂
It is now OK for today to be Monday. Thanks for this LGR
i'm willing to help you get the coin mech working, worked at a video arcade in portland for 7 years now in nc myself
It looks like it was working fine (?)
1:03 that floor! Absolutely amazing.
There's some perfectly fine feeling watching Clint this excited. I felt most of the feelings i had during childhood which was an absolute delight. Keep it up !
This was one of my favorite Atari 2600 games, and even after watching your video I still think the port was very good, the arcade had so much more!
Well the 2600 was very limited in what it could do. I don't remember the particulars of the top of my head but that they were able to push it to the length they did for some of the later games says a lot about the programmers.
Missile Command was a very simplistic game in its original form, and didn't really push the programmers. Apart from the controller the 2600 was able run a pretty good approximation of the original game. Yes the resolution is much lower and by necessity you only had one missile base, but the simple gameplay really worked.
I only mastered two games on the 2600, Pacman and Missile Command. Of these two Packman was the easier as the ghosts had very simple rules for how they moved. That meant that if you ran a certain path the ghosts would always do the same thing. So find a winning path and keep to it and you will always win. A friend got to the point he could do it without watching the TV or even hearing the sounds. Missile command on the other hand was more random. You could end up in situations where you had no choice but to sacrifice one or more cities, but once you got good enough you could easily lap the score counter. You just had to know when to give up on cities and concentrate on the base and a couple of the closest cities. I can tell from experience that being able to lap the counter in the VCS version doesn't carry over to the arcade version...
That’s amazing and gotta love the wood grain
That's awesome! Congratulations and thank you for rescuing a classic from the arcade golden era. Nothing beats that original hardware. That stuff is just endlessly fascinating.
JUST WOW! Im so jealous. Of course keep the woodgrain! The marks are part of the nostalgia. Lucky you. Enjoy!
That is a thing of beauty Clint
Seeing those manuals took me back to the days that I worked at an arcade. Hope you're good with a soldering iron! Congrats, Clint.
Thanks very much for rekindling some memories. I remember playing on that type of cabinet at my little local 10 pin bowling alley when I was young.
My old next door neighbors had this machine in their living room, made me want to get one but it was about 15 or more years ago when I was in my mid-teens, definitely couldn't afford one. This is rekindling that desire to get one :)
Awesome! Love your channel buddy
I'm like that for pin tables... man, I would do unspeakable things for an Elvira & The Party Monsters table. Congrats on your new Atari bride!
It's so cute, seeing you enjoying the heck out of this machine. Have fun!
Really is nothing like the way the sound resonates in and thru true arcade machines, it's irreplaceable. The trackball, the 'start' and play instructions, incredible. Enjoy!
My good friend Bob Sacamano is good friends with a guy named Cosmo Kramer and Kramer can solve your space problem so you can get more arcades. The solution? Levels. Time to go vertical, LGR.
Oh, no. It's not that I don't think you can. I know that you can't, and I'm positive that you won't.
My friend George Castanza knows how to keep your high scores active on the machine if you ever have to move.
@@NandR If it involves a couple of guys named Slippery Pete and Shlomo then I'm all in.
On a side note, LGR guy should consider Frogger as the 2nd installment of his arcade collection.
Master of your arcade domain
Holes Kramer, I need HOLES!
"Factory Original Atari Installed Woodgrain: The LGR Story"
Could work for a memoir title. You did that, Clint, not me. Cheers
Its always fun going back in time for all the NOSTALGIA !! all the feels, keep up the great content and never forget where you come from :)
Woooooooo I love Joe's Arcades. I live about 30 minutes away from his store and visit it quite frequently.
You should watch John's Arcade but take it from me, once you buy one they multiply. Started with 1 and I'm up to like 35.
Exactly, haha. Started with 1 in 2012, now I have 8.
Such is the case with coin-op / amusement devices of any ‘species’... My weakness is jukeboxes. I only have seven of them in the house, mind you. 😊😂
@Liberalism is a Cultmame is a great alternative and unless you care about the physical aspect, perfect for most people. I use it for replacing faulty boards but retain the crt where possible.
Congratulations, welcome to the arcade cabinet in your house club! Be prepared to discover how many 30+ can throw down.
I love your enthusiasm. It’s infectious!
I love how happy this made you! Looking forward to seeing your new collection grow
First year of college at Penn State Beaver Campus we had a space invaders game in the Student Union. Next year there was a true "arcade" in the basement with this machine and a few others. I wish i had all the money i put into those machines now.
if you had the machines then you could sell them for even more =P
Let's get LGR to get a Dance Dance Revolution machine!!!
These are the type of Play Throughs I would love to watch on RUclips!
Congratulations Clint. So excited for you. Still wanting to get into the hobby. Enjoy it!
Great! I love it! I hope I'll find a working Wizard of Wor arcade machine (cocktail) I used to play as a child. =)
i think this is the game played in Terminator 2
Yes, it is.
It's one of them. John Connor also played some After Burner for a few brief seconds.
It is, it's obviously some kind of wink at the future that may become if john fails to prevent judgement day... nuclear strikes all over the place.
Congrats, man! What a brilliant find! Definitely a sweet dream to finally be able to fulfill.
Congratulations and welcome to the obsession! I felt the same way when I got my first pinball machine. It took time to get it working, you already have a great head start
THAT'S SICK! I would love a Defender arcade cabinet.
"I'm not sure where I'll put this in my house"
I vote bathroom
Easy to learn, difficult to master. That was the underlying charm of all the classic arcade games. And that's why these low-resolution CGA games are better than today's games.
Thanks for the trip in the Way Back Machine. Back in the day my friends would call arcades "Space Bongos" cuz you would always end up slapping the cabinet like a madman.
I'm honored to be number 98. First time I come in under 100th in an LGR video. Best of luck, Clint! Love your work!
Very nice pickup there, Clint, and very well maintained/preserved! Missile Command was/is an awesome arcade classic - and fits in well with your love of Fallout-type things, definitely one of the arcade games that defined the Cold War era - you never 'Win' Missile Command - and no GAME OVER ..... just THE END. (quite possibly of humanity. War... War never changes)
Are we gonna talk about how tetris is a perfect analogy for communism next?
I've always loved the cocktail cabinets. It was from a time when you could not only smoke in an arcade, but you could drink in there too.
I love the old arcade machines. My parents have an Atari Asteroids machine they got from a friend a while back that I absolutely adore. Sadly it doesn’t work :( but it’s such an amazing experience to live with one of these gigantic machines.
Oh man, I remember playing Missile Command on my Atari XE back in the day!
How about that woodgrain, huh? * chef's kiss*
This is the game I played most on my 2600.
Holy crap man beautiful
WOW!! Having grown up in the '80s I can say- you've got one of the coolest ATARI arcade machines you could have picked! Love the cabaret size machines, definitely less common, certainly cool factor x100 for the woodgrain to surface area ratio!! I'm SO excited for you! I'm totally vicariously giddy right now!
Missile Command and Stargate Defender were my 2 favorite arcade games back then. Dropped tons of quarters in those cabinets
Games were great in the 1980's...a huge wave of video game creativity for this new genre of entertainment...I may sound old when I say they were the good old days
The best old school golden-age Arcade games are Game-design at its finest imo. Easy to grasp and figure out with simple objectives, yet with a level of difficulty that hooks you into wanting to keep trying. And despite their goal of earning money you never feel cheated when you fail so you always have the urge to keep retrying, unlike now where games usually have to be obtuse or have unfair AI to provide a decent sense of challenge (a great example being Souls-likes, which I do enjoy, yet often feel do difficulty the wrong way). That or they're just piss easy and boring as a result. There are some standouts in indies and more arcady AAA games recently, but I still wish the industry would learn from them.
And I'm not even old. I'm 21. Just a bit of a retro enthusiast I guess.
arcades, home consoles and computers I think all had significant advantages over each other. arcades had the freedom of being custom hw handpicked to best serve the game and requirement to balance the time/reward ratio to keep the money rolling in (which can sound like a limitation but actually leads to more immediate experience rather than with home systems that could just waste people's time freely.. who'd return a game to store if there's too much dialogue)
This is such an awesome game. Wish I had one. Atari should start making FPGA full sized replica cabinets. Be a better use of their time then whatever they're currently doing.
And remember: every time you fail, millions of people die.
Yep, I'd love to buy a machine loaded with Atari rooms! Actually licensed/sold by atari
@@badmeme486 It'd be a bit rough since like half of their early library uses Vector rather than Raster graphics. Plus you would have to account for all the different control schemes. There's also the question of which games. I'd love to see more obscure ones like I, Robot, but I doubt they would bother.
It'd be better if they sold them as individual cabinets licensed by some 3rd party manufacture tbh. CRTs and computer hardware are relatively cheaper now, so maybe like $300-$400 a pop? Maybe have cheaper version that uses mame rather than true tech? IDK.
@@warbossgegguz679 Honestly I think the vector games are the best place for them to start. A cabinet with a real vector monitor would provide a much stronger argument against the "just use mame" crowd since it's impossible to properly emulate a vector display, especially if they did it right and included all of the games from the start and allowed you to add your own homebrews.
Hell, even a mini-arcade or vectrex style system would be pretty awesome. They could call it the Nextrex.
I believe classic Atari arcade games are owned by Tradewest Games. Tradewest bought out Midway Games, who last held the Atari Classic Arcade games.
@@67amiga Atari in it's current incarnation is an independent company. They maintain most of the rights to their old titles, save for a few like Battlezone. Midway/Williams bought a few atari titles but were bought out by WB in 2009, hence MK, though some Midway games were liquidated to other companies like hydro thunder.
Only really the Japanese arcade manufacturers remained independent to this point.
This machine was sitting down in a little store when i was a kid during the early 90s. Its the reasom that I started liking video games and arcades.
I love seeing you this excited over an arcade machine this beautiful!
oh yes he finally got a real one :D
Missile Command is awesome. :D I didn't remember that it had 3 fire buttons. I'd want Omega Race
The need to keep track of the three fire buttons and manage the bases' missile supplies separately adds a whole other aspect of challenge to the arcade game (one I've never fully adapted to). The 80s home ports generally simplified that down to a single fire button, and it made the game easier.
Looks awesome, Clint. I'm glad you got your hands on it.
I'm so jealous. I love Missile Command and the cabinet would be perfect for my games room. Enjoy and cherish it Clint.
Back in "the day" of this game, 3D movies were the rage in theaters (think Jaws 3D). Grab a set of old school 3D glasses (red/blue lens) and play the game with them on. The explosions are amazing with the glasses. At least it was for a young teen back in the early 80s. Maybe today as a jaded 50-something with everything UHD, it may have lost some of its luster. I hope not though....
Try dropping acid before playing for extra effects.
Seems like a fun thing to try, though I was as unimpressed with early 80s 3D movies as I am with contemporary 3D movies.
England is glad you called yourself a jaded old man. You are extremely ugly and decrepid.
You and Brootalmoose-Ian should go to an arcade together.
We plan to! So many coin pushers, so little time.
@@LGR Nice! Looking forward to the videos. :)
What an amazing looking machine, really cool to see. I can hear the sheer excitement on your voice, awesome find Clint!
Absolutely loved this video! It was so entertaining to watch!
I am a big advocate for the Arcade 1up, but there is something truly magical about actual arcade cabinets! Especially Atari ones! You don't know who played that exact cabinet, maybe even Nolan himself!
Nice find! I got an Asteroids Deluxe cocktail version, which still saves the top 3 scores. With cherry woodgrain, which I haven't seen that often.
I'm not that good at missile command, but it is a good game. I need to get the multigame kit for my Asteroids Deluxe machine at some point.
You lucky bastard .. that game is awesome (not sure if i like Asteroids or Asteriods deluxe more .. they are both great).
Luck was very much involved in getting that machine. I love both as well, though I'm better at Deluxe because of the shield, which is a bit nerve wracking when I play normal asteroids in MAME because I press hyperspace by accident thinking its the shield button.
I'd kill for an original asteroids arcade machine
@@FamilyGuyBob I'd kill for any vector-based arcade game.
Gameplay-wise I'd prefer Battlezone or Tempest, but anything with a true vector display would be amazing to see in action imo.
I'm a zoomer, but I love retro arcade games for their sheer historic value and innovation alone. Not that they aren't fun too.
@@warbossgegguz679 Oh asteroids is definitely fun but I agree on the whole vector graphics thing. They're a thing of beauty.
I love the sound effects of that arcade cabinet, great choice Clint!
Congrats man! Missile Command is a great choice! One of my childhood favorites. It’s such a fun and unique game.
That´s awesome! Now you can really say "I have nearly complete retro collection of various gaming systems" :)
Before you know it, you'll have a housefull. it's what happened to me!
I started with a centipede now I have 8 machines lol
Galloping ghost (which is in Brookfield, for anyone who was wondering) is one of my favorite places to go whenever we go to Chicago because it's about 15 minutes away, not accounting for traffic and we can usually get to it on the way back from or to Chicago.
So happy for you man. It looks awesome and amazing all at the same time :)
My life long dream is to one day own authentic cabinet for Capcom/DataEast's "Commando" the very first game I ever played as a 1 year old baby because my late grandfather owned one (that much to my disappointment he sold years later)
I would love an original MK2 or Pac Man arcade. I think Pac Man was the first arcade I played at the local laundry mat when I was a little tater tot. Im hungry.
Fantastic! I can't wait for you to collect more. Great to learn about this.
Congratulations on getting that cabinet!! It is gorgeous.