Thanks for the update Alex, that pump house looks gorgeous! What a great space to fix up the old cabs. TMNT was always around when I was little, at chip shop and leisure centre and I loved it. Today I do find it quite repetitive but back then I was loving it.
I remember back in my college days in the mid 90s, at Uxbridge college, the Uxbridge site, we visited Quasar all the time. "Squeak" knew the owner and they had an NBA Jam cabinet. He'd play it all the time and when no one in the office in the corner was looking he'd lay on the floor and push his foot on the bezel whatever you call it, where the joystick and buttons rest. It would pop the bezel up and he could slide his hand in and clock up free credits. Then push it back down again, don't think anyone knew him and his mate did that.
So many potential treasures lurking in your cupboard of wonder 👍. Pity some of the old boards are needing a bit of Arcade Archive TLC but I guess that's just the nature of the hobby, we're lucky they're in safe hands 👍👍👍.
@@TheArcadeArchive I'm no carpenter either, but I do similar work so can relate. 2 days to put those up means you put love into it, and they'll last a lifetime. It's beyond a decent job :)
That fast fire Galaxians looked so cool, would love to try that. Galaxians is such a nostalgic game, amound those very early arcade memories and so happy to have it in my arcade1up at least. The sounds alone are enough to bring a huge smile. Great vid Alex.
The new board storage area looks really good, I need some board stands as well. The new area for storage and repairs will be very handy, restoration takes time and you need space to do it plus I am sure lots of people will be interested in the repair service. Not a Street Fighter person myself but I know some of my other local friends absolutely love it. Not a big fan of Turtles either but don't mind a decent beat 'em up, not something I played back in the day, but a genre I have gotten into in recent years. Haven't seen Spiderman before, that looks brilliant, I really like the mix of general fighting and platforming. Galaxian hardware is really cool, in a way it's what some of the home hardware (like MSX) was modelled on, a very similar tile-based layout. I have dabbled in converting one of my games to the hardware. I have my original Sega Galaxian board (which still needs work), a clone that has fast bullets, and another that has a different ROM set that I haven't got working yet. Bonus cake! :)
Hey Tony Spider-Man plays and looks amazing, it’s only recently I’ve got into the game but it’s got me hooked. I will return to the games once they are fixed as I would love to do a full play through. Looking forward to seeing your Helifire working
Exactly TMNT and X-men arcade 4-player been amongst my favorite from my childhood, during holidays back in the day spending loads of time in the local arcade.
Fantastic video mate! Love that new shelving and the repair space is going to be incredible! Really proud to see how far you've come with the museum 💪🏻
I really enjoyed this video as well! Those drone shots were amazing. You should sneak some more in. It was nice to see Gloucestershire from a birds eye view. Great repair space, too Arcade Archive has made great progress, I'm looking forward to another update 😀
Bloody sods law with filming your arcade plays. If the board boots up the sound doesn't work. If the sound works the camera's battery runs out 😂 BTW Very minor note about the video's thumbnail. As someone else here has stated, it's "Lets" not "Let's". Thanks for the great video as always. The drone footage really shows the majesty of the surrounding area 🥰
Enjoyed this been working away to it this afternoon. The new space looks great, I definitely have some PCBs you can look at that are beyond my skills. Would certainly like to see fighting games make an appearance, SF2 obvioulsy but not sure which MK i'd choose.... probably 2 for me, 3 went bonkers haha. Turtles is really repetiive for me, I agree, great for kids tho and it was magic seeing it just boot up first time like that.
Great video Alex, you’ve been really busy. The pump house looks like a good space for storage, repairs and refurbs. Shame about the faults on those boards, but they looked good while they lasted. I need to have a look at Spiderman, it looks really good.
15:16 The funny thing with nostalgia is its just experience. So with TMNTs I only ever got to part of the next stage then would always die and walk away. So when I play it now, I only like it up to that point then get bored. Exactly the same with Final Fight. Now I can finally play Final Fight on MAME and on my Switch, once I get past part of the 2nd stage I get bored as I never used to get that far.
I’m the same mate it gets very repetitive after a while. I do like Dungeons and Dragons and Cadillacs and Dinosaurs and maybe a few others that grab me but I don’t play them much.
Looks like a great space mate, I'm sure the repair service will prove popular. Glad your getting into the turtles mate, although it's a bit of a coin eater it's great fun. I'm alright ta mate, won't eat my dinner 😂
Sound cutting in out is probably just a cold solder joint, should be an easy fix. You probably already know this, just excited for the new additions while watching the video :)
@@TheArcadeArchive If you try everything, and it's just not working, last resort, you hit it with the heat gun, total board reflow. Section by section at first. Then if need be, literally stick the whole thing in the oven. But I'm sure if you got some talented volunteers, one of them will suggest this if it gets to that hail mary stage. Good luck and all the best!
Can be the caps on the amplifier circuit. My board had sound that would gradually get worse in quality until it just stopped working the longer it ran.Replacing 2 of them fixed it. I also found if they aren't on properly then various sounds and voices stop working. Only problem mine has now is player 4 is stuck moving to the left. It's a board issue as I've tried multiple controllers and harnesses, changed a couple of chips too but I've had no luck fixing it.
Great work mate, the CRT repair center sounds handy as I have 3, and while they're giving a great picture there are some niggles like not being centered. And I'm not going to stick my hand into a high voltage CRT! Plus the obligatory troll about Pacman (which you don't have) haha...I'm terrible at the game, but for me it's the sound of the 80's Arcade...Walk into any arcade back then and you can either hear the tune at the beginning, the death of a Pacman or the waka-waka, no matter where you were within the arcade!
Well stay tuned mate we might now have a Pac-Man 😉 I’m with you on the sounds of the early 80s games, they just made a atmosphere all of their own and nothing quite beats that.
ooo the spiderman game had slipped from my memory but yes what a game! I now need to play this asap. Of course you have to have a SF2 on a chip shop cab, no arcade would be complete without one. Love seeing things continue to develop and I cannot wait until I can come down again.
Did I catch a cheeky bit of the wonderful Thunder Dragon inbetween the PCBs you looked at in detail? The Galaxian setup looked awesome :D Sorry you had all the sound and video issues outside of SF2. Tbh, though I'm the right age just about at 41 to have caught the Turtles bug, I was never big on the videogames. I liked Vendetta/Crime Fighters 2 best out of the 4 player Konami brawlers, X-Men a close second. Lovely to see more coverage for Spiderman, such an overlooked and fun title. Great video as always Alex, hope you're well and you've been able to dig out some fixes for the issues on the boards.
This is interesting. I have a non-working monitor which I don't quite have the nerve to try and repair myself... if you ever do any repair workshop type days I would love to come down and bring her, my monitor 😀, along!
Interesting that Konami could keep the original TMNT theme song but need to use the "HERO" bit on the title screen. Did the TV cartoon in the UK have an altered theme song or were they allowed to sing "ninja"?
@@ChrisShadowens what I can say is in the 80s the uk had the strictest censorship laws in the west. I remember all the Bruce Lee movies had the nunchaku scenes deleted and cut out and you had to be very lucky to find a full length Bruce Lee film anywhere. It’s probably why Ninja was taken out for the same reason
A shame you had a few issues with one or two of the games Alex but it's commonplace I guess given their age Sure you will get them fixed up. I'm not a turtles fan as probably too old🤣 but the attract screen on Turtles is one of the best I think, it always used to annoy me back in the day as it was next to the Outrun cab I used to hog on holiday and it was really loud when I wanted only to hear magical sound shower🤣👍
It’s funny James I’ve been singing the theme tune of TMHT since I made this video and I can’t get it out of my head 😂 I can imagine bitd there must of been tens of thousands of kids doing exactly that. Not a game I would play at home either but I could see 4 player action being quite fun.
I've gotta try that Galaxian with the fast shooting. I'll check out Mame and see if its in the set. Hope to see the Spiderman board working soon too. I remember playing that on holiday years ago.
@@TheArcadeArchive hey Alex thank you for the message. One other question… the sliding wooden storage door in your museum has the blue asteroids spaceship logo. Is that a custom stencil you painted on? Look awesome 👏!!!
Haha, well I’ve got to have games that other people want and I don’t mind if it’s the odd one multiplayer game in the arcade. It’s either that or sunset riders might be quite good
@ 14:36 Love the way the lyrics are "Teenage mutant NINJA turtles", but the title screen says "hero turtles"... wasn't there some issue in the UK with ninjas back in the 1980's (even around the use of the word "ninja" ?) Sorry if I've got this wrong. Please advise ! Love the new work area!
Your right to assume there was a problem with Ninjas back in the 80s in uk. In fact we had some of the strictest censorship laws in the western world at that time and a lot of my favourite films by Bruce Lee were cut so we didn’t get to see the famous Nunchucku scenes. The same applied in games as well. Thanks mate hope your well
"My carpentry skills are not the best" - I would argue you did a fine job there. I am absolutely terrible at anything DIY. Huge respect for what you have achieved with the AA so far. Its the curation and attention to detail that really captures my attention. I watch for the AA. My Dad watches for the engineering/DIY. My wife watches for the scenery and the desserts. My two young sons (8 and 4) look out for any machines with steering wheels on. Arcade Machines as a whole are aspirational to me. My income and my home space means that even one of these machines would be a problem for myself and my family. I have dreams of owning a Neo Geo MVS or similar in the future. I was raised on Sega/Taito/Capcom/JAMMA/SNK in the 80's/90's/00's. The additional work that goes into the maintenance of these is an artform in itself. Hope you continue to evolve in every sense. Oh and really getting a kick out of the drone footage. Gorgeous part of the world! All the best!
Awesome news Alex, a repair shop sounds great !
Noooo it didn’t work
Yea it’s going to be great for the community, thanks Scott
I can only imagine how much you have on your plate now so thanks for taking the time to make this video Alex. Much appreciated
Thanks for taking the time to comment it’s always read and much appreciated, thank you 🙏
Thanks for the update Alex, that pump house looks gorgeous! What a great space to fix up the old cabs. TMNT was always around when I was little, at chip shop and leisure centre and I loved it. Today I do find it quite repetitive but back then I was loving it.
I think the actual game is ok but I can’t stand the theme 😬
Thanks for watching mate
I remember back in my college days in the mid 90s, at Uxbridge college, the Uxbridge site, we visited Quasar all the time. "Squeak" knew the owner and they had an NBA Jam cabinet. He'd play it all the time and when no one in the office in the corner was looking he'd lay on the floor and push his foot on the bezel whatever you call it, where the joystick and buttons rest. It would pop the bezel up and he could slide his hand in and clock up free credits. Then push it back down again, don't think anyone knew him and his mate did that.
One of my first job as a apprentice bricklayer was at Uxbridge collage must have been around 1988
Good work on the shelving and the repair space looks great. Love your unending enthusiasm for these great classic games, Alex! Cheers
Thanks buddy
I’ll shall return to these games I promise because they look great fun to play, especially spider-man and Galaxian
Hope you're able to get all the PCB fixes sorted, Alex - and now you've made me want a cream cake! 😄
Spider-man and Galaxian are top of my list 😊👍
So many potential treasures lurking in your cupboard of wonder 👍. Pity some of the old boards are needing a bit of Arcade Archive TLC but I guess that's just the nature of the hobby, we're lucky they're in safe hands 👍👍👍.
It’s always frustrating when they don’t work especially for a video 😩
I’ll come back to them once they are working 👍
I really liked both that “Juno First” and “Sheriff” machines when I was there last month. ☺️
Glad you enjoyed it 😎👍
Wow ‘Hero Turtles’ not seen that on a Turtles arcade screen since I was in Swanage in 92. 😆
What a great video 👌🏼
6:46 Now need a label maker to label the shelves :) or just use thick pencil.
carnival still play it now, love it
So much nostalgia for me as well and still fun to play today
You did a top job with those shelves, nice work. Kudos
Your to kind thank you, they serve their purpose I guess 😊
@@TheArcadeArchive I'm no carpenter either, but I do similar work so can relate. 2 days to put those up means you put love into it, and they'll last a lifetime. It's beyond a decent job :)
That fast fire Galaxians looked so cool, would love to try that. Galaxians is such a nostalgic game, amound those very early arcade memories and so happy to have it in my arcade1up at least. The sounds alone are enough to bring a huge smile. Great vid Alex.
It was a huge surprise for me to see fast bullets, I will return to this game in another video once it’s fixed 👍
The new board storage area looks really good, I need some board stands as well. The new area for storage and repairs will be very handy, restoration takes time and you need space to do it plus I am sure lots of people will be interested in the repair service.
Not a Street Fighter person myself but I know some of my other local friends absolutely love it.
Not a big fan of Turtles either but don't mind a decent beat 'em up, not something I played back in the day, but a genre I have gotten into in recent years.
Haven't seen Spiderman before, that looks brilliant, I really like the mix of general fighting and platforming.
Galaxian hardware is really cool, in a way it's what some of the home hardware (like MSX) was modelled on, a very similar tile-based layout. I have dabbled in converting one of my games to the hardware.
I have my original Sega Galaxian board (which still needs work), a clone that has fast bullets, and another that has a different ROM set that I haven't got working yet.
Bonus cake! :)
Hey Tony
Spider-Man plays and looks amazing, it’s only recently I’ve got into the game but it’s got me hooked. I will return to the games once they are fixed as I would love to do a full play through.
Looking forward to seeing your Helifire working
Not a complete Arcade without TMHT for me 🤩 so many memories of 4 player crazyness on holidays in the 90s
Well that’s what I was thinking, we do have a 4 player cab maybe we should convert it to TMHT just for you guys
@TheArcadeArchive Sounds like a good plan, hopefully the audio is an easy fix for this and the others. Would it be a Jamma 4 player cabinet?
Exactly TMNT and X-men arcade 4-player been amongst my favorite from my childhood, during holidays back in the day spending loads of time in the local arcade.
Fantastic video mate! Love that new shelving and the repair space is going to be incredible! Really proud to see how far you've come with the museum 💪🏻
Thank you mate
You’ve helped a lot too volunteering on a Saturday.
@@TheArcadeArchive You're always very welcome. Hope to catch up soon.
I really enjoyed this video as well! Those drone shots were amazing. You should sneak some more in. It was nice to see Gloucestershire from a birds eye view. Great repair space, too
Arcade Archive has made great progress, I'm looking forward to another update 😀
Thanks Mathew
Be cool to get the drone to fly straight into the arcade next time 😎
@TheArcadeArchive That sounds so cool! How have you been flying drones? Dad used to fly drones using FPV, which essentially is first-person flying
Bloody sods law with filming your arcade plays. If the board boots up the sound doesn't work. If the sound works the camera's battery runs out 😂 BTW Very minor note about the video's thumbnail. As someone else here has stated, it's "Lets" not "Let's". Thanks for the great video as always. The drone footage really shows the majesty of the surrounding area 🥰
It happens a lot when I want to do a video and it’s very frustrating when you’ve planned it all week 😩 thumb nail changed thank you 👍
Enjoyed this been working away to it this afternoon. The new space looks great, I definitely have some PCBs you can look at that are beyond my skills. Would certainly like to see fighting games make an appearance, SF2 obvioulsy but not sure which MK i'd choose.... probably 2 for me, 3 went bonkers haha. Turtles is really repetiive for me, I agree, great for kids tho and it was magic seeing it just boot up first time like that.
Let me know what you want repaired Michael and I’ll see we can do 👍
Great video Alex, you’ve been really busy. The pump house looks like a good space for storage, repairs and refurbs.
Shame about the faults on those boards, but they looked good while they lasted. I need to have a look at Spiderman, it looks really good.
Spider-Man is great Ed just wished it worked when I was filming I was gutted.
Still new repair area we should get it fixed.
I’ll see you soon buddy
LOL you'll rip the joystick off the cab with them hadokens! 😅
I’ve done that before with Robotron, I nearly pulled the cab over 😂
Looks smart good job Alex 👍
Thank you
15:16 The funny thing with nostalgia is its just experience. So with TMNTs I only ever got to part of the next stage then would always die and walk away. So when I play it now, I only like it up to that point then get bored. Exactly the same with Final Fight. Now I can finally play Final Fight on MAME and on my Switch, once I get past part of the 2nd stage I get bored as I never used to get that far.
I’m the same mate it gets very repetitive after a while. I do like Dungeons and Dragons and Cadillacs and Dinosaurs and maybe a few others that grab me but I don’t play them much.
Looks like a great space mate, I'm sure the repair service will prove popular.
Glad your getting into the turtles mate, although it's a bit of a coin eater it's great fun.
I'm alright ta mate, won't eat my dinner 😂
You know you wants some 😂
Sound cutting in out is probably just a cold solder joint, should be an easy fix. You probably already know this, just excited for the new additions while watching the video :)
Your probably right mate, I’m no expert but we have the some really cleaver volunteers helping get these fixed.
@@TheArcadeArchive If you try everything, and it's just not working, last resort, you hit it with the heat gun, total board reflow. Section by section at first. Then if need be, literally stick the whole thing in the oven. But I'm sure if you got some talented volunteers, one of them will suggest this if it gets to that hail mary stage. Good luck and all the best!
Can be the caps on the amplifier circuit. My board had sound that would gradually get worse in quality until it just stopped working the longer it ran.Replacing 2 of them fixed it. I also found if they aren't on properly then various sounds and voices stop working.
Only problem mine has now is player 4 is stuck moving to the left. It's a board issue as I've tried multiple controllers and harnesses, changed a couple of chips too but I've had no luck fixing it.
Great work mate, the CRT repair center sounds handy as I have 3, and while they're giving a great picture there are some niggles like not being centered. And I'm not going to stick my hand into a high voltage CRT! Plus the obligatory troll about Pacman (which you don't have) haha...I'm terrible at the game, but for me it's the sound of the 80's Arcade...Walk into any arcade back then and you can either hear the tune at the beginning, the death of a Pacman or the waka-waka, no matter where you were within the arcade!
Well stay tuned mate we might now have a Pac-Man 😉
I’m with you on the sounds of the early 80s games, they just made a atmosphere all of their own and nothing quite beats that.
@@TheArcadeArchive oh ok, cool. That sounds interesting mate. But what a fantastic job you and Neil have both made, it has to be said.
Top stuff as always mate!
Thank you Dean
Always nice of you to say I appreciate it 👍
ooo the spiderman game had slipped from my memory but yes what a game! I now need to play this asap. Of course you have to have a SF2 on a chip shop cab, no arcade would be complete without one. Love seeing things continue to develop and I cannot wait until I can come down again.
Do a play through on your channel Martin I’d love to see you cover it 👍
Great vid thanks 👍👍👍
Yes! Retro Tom Hardy is back! :D
Haha my son thinks he’s Tom Hardy 😂
You gotta love SF2 and of course Turtles Arcade. My boys love playing this with me on my Pandora box. A shame that Spiderman didn't work
Hi mate hope your well it’s been ages.
@@TheArcadeArchive I'm getting there matey 👍. How are you?
Did I catch a cheeky bit of the wonderful Thunder Dragon inbetween the PCBs you looked at in detail? The Galaxian setup looked awesome :D Sorry you had all the sound and video issues outside of SF2. Tbh, though I'm the right age just about at 41 to have caught the Turtles bug, I was never big on the videogames. I liked Vendetta/Crime Fighters 2 best out of the 4 player Konami brawlers, X-Men a close second. Lovely to see more coverage for Spiderman, such an overlooked and fun title. Great video as always Alex, hope you're well and you've been able to dig out some fixes for the issues on the boards.
This is interesting. I have a non-working monitor which I don't quite have the nerve to try and repair myself... if you ever do any repair workshop type days I would love to come down and bring her, my monitor 😀, along!
Oh definitely bring it down would we love to help fix
Thumbnail: *Lets.
The Stamina of this Guy is Legendary ! Eats 3 shredded wheat every morning.🎮😲
Haha 😎🤜
Never played Spiderman matey... Looks good though will defo give it a play 😎😎🍺🍺
One for the high score challenge i recon, thanks Rob 👍
U know it Alex - nice , I resto being pretty good idea, remember I got access to a Cnc lol … anyway, maybe see u at Zzap with archers games.
Hello dave
Yea I’ll be there promoting the museums 👍
Juno first challenge - has there been a top score list yet???
Next week I’ll follow that up
Sorry for the delay
Spiderman isn't a patch on that TMNT board.
Wish I was closer, I'd love to volunteer and help you out.
You would be welcome
Interesting that Konami could keep the original TMNT theme song but need to use the "HERO" bit on the title screen. Did the TV cartoon in the UK have an altered theme song or were they allowed to sing "ninja"?
Your asking the wrong person mate 😂 I never watched it bitd as I was travelling and into my music when every kid was going mad for it.
@@TheArcadeArchive Fair enough! 😆 I'll have to hit up the Google to satisfy my curiosity. Thanks, man, and thanks for the fun video!
@@ChrisShadowens what I can say is in the 80s the uk had the strictest censorship laws in the west. I remember all the Bruce Lee movies had the nunchaku scenes deleted and cut out and you had to be very lucky to find a full length Bruce Lee film anywhere.
It’s probably why Ninja was taken out for the same reason
Do we have a power supply problem with the jamma cabs? I'm seeing a trend of audio problems. Nice vid Alex :)
You know what it could be Jon
Because a lot of games seemed to have lost audio.
A shame you had a few issues with one or two of the games Alex but it's commonplace I guess given their age
Sure you will get them fixed up.
I'm not a turtles fan as probably too old🤣 but the attract screen on Turtles is one of the best I think, it always used to annoy me back in the day as it was next to the Outrun cab I used to hog on holiday and it was really loud when I wanted only to hear magical sound shower🤣👍
It’s funny James I’ve been singing the theme tune of TMHT since I made this video and I can’t get it out of my head 😂
I can imagine bitd there must of been tens of thousands of kids doing exactly that.
Not a game I would play at home either but I could see 4 player action being quite fun.
I've gotta try that Galaxian with the fast shooting. I'll check out Mame and see if its in the set.
Hope to see the Spiderman board working soon too. I remember playing that on holiday years ago.
I will return to spider-man I promise as I think that would make for a great play through video.
Awesome. You know I love a PCB video.
Still got so many to get through 😂
Any plans for a LIVE show soon ?😀
Yes most definitely but I’m going to set up another channel for life stuff as RUclips kills my videos when I do stuff live
@@TheArcadeArchive hey Alex thank you for the message. One other question… the sliding wooden storage door in your museum has the blue asteroids spaceship logo. Is that a custom stencil you painted on? Look awesome 👏!!!
This explains why you weren't too keen on a loan of my Turtles cab for the museum 😄
Loving the new space. It's looking great!
Haha, well I’ve got to have games that other people want and I don’t mind if it’s the odd one multiplayer game in the arcade. It’s either that or sunset riders might be quite good
@ 14:36 Love the way the lyrics are "Teenage mutant NINJA turtles", but the title screen says "hero turtles"... wasn't there some issue in the UK with ninjas back in the 1980's (even around the use of the word "ninja" ?) Sorry if I've got this wrong. Please advise ! Love the new work area!
Your right to assume there was a problem with Ninjas back in the 80s in uk.
In fact we had some of the strictest censorship laws in the western world at that time and a lot of my favourite films by Bruce Lee were cut so we didn’t get to see the famous Nunchucku scenes.
The same applied in games as well.
Thanks mate hope your well
@TheArcadeArchive thanks for confirming 👍🏻
Do you think one day you will hang up the trowel, and go full time ARCADIAN?
That’s the dream but unfortunately it hasn’t worked out like that,I’ll keep trying.
@@TheArcadeArchive "If you build it, he will come."
Loving the return of the “naughty but nice” cream cake section! 🧁👍🏻
Thanks Russ 😂
"My carpentry skills are not the best" - I would argue you did a fine job there. I am absolutely terrible at anything DIY.
Huge respect for what you have achieved with the AA so far. Its the curation and attention to detail that really captures my attention.
I watch for the AA. My Dad watches for the engineering/DIY. My wife watches for the scenery and the desserts. My two young sons (8 and 4) look out for any machines with steering wheels on.
Arcade Machines as a whole are aspirational to me. My income and my home space means that even one of these machines would be a problem for myself and my family. I have dreams of owning a Neo Geo MVS or similar in the future.
I was raised on Sega/Taito/Capcom/JAMMA/SNK in the 80's/90's/00's. The additional work that goes into the maintenance of these is an artform in itself.
Hope you continue to evolve in every sense.
Oh and really getting a kick out of the drone footage. Gorgeous part of the world!
All the best!