Atari Assault Arcade Restoration
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Mike Murray restores an Atari Assault arcade cabinet for the Time Rift Arcade in Bedford, TX.
In 1988, Namco released Assault, a multi-directional shooter arcade game later licensed to Atari Games for North American distribution. Players pilot a caterpillar-tread self-propelled gun through eleven stages, battling foes and dodging attacks. The game features a twin-stick control scheme akin to Battlezone. Its storyline follows humanity's search for new planets due to Earth's overpopulation. Upon enslaving the natives of a distant exo-planet, tensions rise as the planet's inhabitants rise against their human oppressors, with the player controlling a native protagonist determined to bring peace to their world using the self-propelled gun.
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Mike Murray restores the amazing Atari Assault arcade game. Mike calls Assault his favorite "Atari game", even though it was sold by Atari in the USA but licensed from Namco Japan.
just discovered this chanel, intenat subscrivbe. great work. a question any reason why you dont use flatscreens in the resorations??
@@ph0n1k Because they do not faithfully recreate the effect of a CRT. Not even close.
Even when you don't get "the 8-bit guy", you still get the familiarity of the 8-bit guy. Neat! Loving these arcade restorations. Takes me back.
It is his brother
@@LeeLee-gy7gp I love how their voices are similar.
this channel is like ordering a david off ebay and getting 2 in the box as a surprise.
i know they're brothers but its still nuts how similar they look and sound
@@ChairmanMeow1 I know! haha
There must be a part of our brain that loves seeing old things get restored
I love you, you handsome person :D
Nostalgia is feeling pleasure and pain at the same time.
Maybe it somehow soothes our deep fear of aging ourselves? Seeing something old become young again brings us hope for our own renewal
I had no idea I can get another 8-Bit-Guy for the same price! What a bargain!
I really like seeing Mike and David both putting out videos for this project.
Mike sounds incredibly like his brother. i was playing this in the background while playing video games and flipped back and forth just to check to see who was actually there speaking. Both channels are great.
Even the vocal inflections and word choices are eerily similar. I have a hard time telling the difference between the two.
Has his own channel too. The Geek Pub.
@@Jason-lx3zuYeah, to me the voice isn't all that close, but the inflections and timing of Mike's speech sounds exactly like his brother!
Very common
Sometimes my sister sounds like me. But only when drunk.
Is that a good thing?
Obviously there is a familial resemblance between the brothers but it really comes through when you hear him do the voiceover on the video. Cadence and tone are nearly identical.
Definitely agree with the CRT over an LCD. If you’re going retro gaming, nothing beats original equipment.
The games were designed on computers with crt's, and made to run on machines with crt's. Everything look so bad when you take these gems and run them with a LCD screen due to the differences in sharpness. These games use pixel art sprites. they need a touch of fuzziness to look good.
Unfortunately, we will get to a point where it's necessary. I wholeheartedly agree on CRTs for games prior to the early 2000's. It is unmatched for sure!
But sadly, it's not to last. CRTs are no longer in widespread production and the people who know how to repair them are reducing in numbers. I mean, it's happened before. How many programmers know FORTRAN? How many know how to work with vacuum tubes?
I hope that some people can make specialized CRTs for arcade cabinets, but who knows...
@@TheRogueMaverick There are people who make radio tubes for the niche hobby market. It is quite possible that once the sell price becomes high enough, someone will revisit the issue and start making new ones based on old tooling. It will be very expensive to recreate the tech tho. But it's still possible to do so without reinventing it.
There are still plenty of people alive today that have lots of experience with these devices.
damn. Someone is making the tubes even today: www.thomaselectronics.com/
@@MrAntice - Awesome! And I don’t doubt there’s still a lot of knowledgeable people! I’m just aware it COULD one day be an issue.
@@TheRogueMaverick My last comment got eaten by RUclips it seems. took me a few seconds to realize what I had written.
There are a hundred small and big issues that we will have to figure out when it comes to keeping retro stuff alive as far as reproducing stuff is concerned. For these really old Arcades, it's not too bad. The boards and stuff can be reverse engineered fairly easily, So even if they are broken, we can at least reproduce them. But younger stuff, like old laptops with early lcd screens have issues that will kill them without any apparent solutions for now. Some of these devices look like they are melting.
I briefly dated someone that worked at an arcade and I can tell you why those wires are like that. The staff at this arcade didn't have any real tools to fix things. They were lucky to have a screwdriver on hand. When you got people yelling at you because they can't play the game they played for you do what you can to get that machine back up and going. Sometimes that's cutting a chunk of shorted wire out and hand twisting them back together with a little tape. Whatever it takes to get it up and going in 5 minutes or less. In the moment you don't really care if it'll last several years, all you care about is it working until the end of your shift.
This is awesome. Thanks for posting. I can totally see that.
That still doesn't make any sense to me. Just give the customer their money back and maybe a little extra for an additional free play on another game so you don't lose a customer. Then put an out of order sign on the cab. Fix it properly when time permits. I've never met anyone in my life that would have been that upset over a broken arcade game but I guess that's just me.
@@AFFL1CTED1 You have to remember they were mainly dealing with kids.
@@MegaDeox It still doesn't make sense though - these cabinets were expensive, they were a sizable investment that paid themselves off over thousands of plays. If a machine broke, you refund the credit and put the machine out of service. You don't risk your investment on having the floor staff (who generally would be barely older than kids themselves) trying anything more complicated than using the service key to unjam a stuck coin drawer, or power cycle a machine.
Channels like this and TronicFix make soldering and doing correct wire splices look easy, but it isn't. It's a skill that takes time and practice to cultivate. They probably have years (if not decades) of experience working on circuit boards.
The average arcade probably didn't have anyone who could do proper electronics repair, so you'd be in the position to find somebody who could and get them on the schedule to come work on your cabinet. That would probably take weeks. Bear in mind that when this cab was in use, virtually nobody had email or cell phones. You're leaving a message on some guy's machine and hoping he calls you back.
Per the LCD/CRT debate, I can absolutely see a time when putting an LCD in place of the CRT will be necessary as supplies of good tubes will be even more difficult to find. For now, I say that if you can repair the CRT, then go for it.
CRTs have a lot of subtle artifacting that are iconic to the way they work. I would say repair as long as possible, then replace with a high-resolution flat panel and scaler capable of generating those artifacts as accurately as you can.
I agree completely, It's way better than a nonfunctional machine.
I think it can even depend on the game. Some games benefit from a brighter higher resolution screen in ways the devs never envisioned.
I think eventually we'll be at a point with stuff like Retrotink and high-resolution that the CRT can be visually emulated, but we're not there. But no CRT is better than no machine.
I've always hoped that one day we might have 8K HDR LCDs that can curve to look like a CRT. Put one of those behind glass, put a CRT filter on (they've gotten REALLY good in recent years, phosphor grid simulation should look great in 8K HDR) and it could be indistinguishable from the real thing.
As someone who restores: cars - motorcycles - bicycles - furniture - I find this channel to be very satisfying. Putting a machine which provides enjoyment to people is even more satisfying.
I love how happy Mike is about this game!
+1 to keeping the CRT. It's always best to keep that in place if it's possible. The way a CRT displays the image does make a difference compared to an LCD, especially for those of us old enough to remember when everything was CRT based!
I donno man, burn in really shoots the quality and brightness arguments right in the head, these old CRT's also use an insane amount of power and heat, they really should be replaced.
Nah, that’s a terrible take. Unless you can find an equivalent new old stock CRT, keeping the CRT is absolutely the right plan. LCD is a poor replacement.
@@christophersteen1873 The business is based on appealing to nostalgia. Games that are as authentic as possible help greatly in fulfilling that need, and customers who are really in to that will just drive to the arcade that still uses real CRT's. I get it if the tube is worn out and a replacement can't be sourced, but that obviously isn't the case here. There is a time and a place for modernizing for the sake of a few dollars on the electric bill, but there is also a thing called "the cost of doing business" when you're running a business based upon vintage technology. Otherwise, they'd might as well build a bunch of custom cabinets running emulators. But that would be missing the point entirely.
I love these restoration videos!! Seeing how excited he was to get this cabinet made my day.
Assault is a great game. One of my favorite from back in the day... not the golden age of arcade but rather that second life it had in the late 80's going into the 90's.
Dude THIS GAME WAS AMAZING. I remember playing it in arcades as a child.
As long as there are working CRTs in the world, keep them in these machines. Part of the authentic experience.
Thank you for trying to keep it as original as possible, keeping the CTR monitor and repurposing it, does keep to the authenticity of the early '80s
Ugh, so jealous. This was my favorite arcade game in 1989. My dream game room would include a regulation pool table, Theatre Of Magic pinball game and Assault arcade game as absolute must-have items.
I. Love. This. Channel. Discovered this from David’s channel. I always enjoyed his restoration videos but these old arcade machines are next level. Total comfort watching. Thank you.
I'd like to see Mike do some videos on 8bitguy's channel. His excitement and enthusiasm is infectious. He might rub off on Dave.
Agreed. Mike always seems so happy while David seems indifferent and sometimes even depressed. Don't get me wrong. I like David's stuff. Just pointing out the differences between the brothers.
Mike on 8bits would be so rad!!!!!!
He actually did! He made a video of replacing the motherboard of a Commodore 64 with a Raspberry Pi several years ago. It was very cool! 😊
Wonderful seeing restored classical memorabilia.
Assault was also one of my favorite games. I was 14 when it came out. Man time flies. Great restoration!
Your intro is how the world is meant to sound.
Guys, I am so happy to see that this channel is doing so well! Everyone wins here... We get our restorations itches scratched, you all get your machines ready for service, and it builds some hype for the business! I'm sure the repairs take a while longer when dealing with taking video and doing post-production work, but I truly hope you keep them coming. I live in the DFW area and am looking forward to the launch!
It’s very cool to see these arcades come back to life and get to be enjoyed again
Looks absolutely wonderful! Looks like a really fun game, too, especially on those nice hunky dual sticks!!
This channel is really helping to motivate me to restore a old cinematronics cabinet with ghosts and goblins game installed. Thanks Mike and David!
This looks like a game play experience that you couldn’t replicate at home . . . Or it would be super complicated. Really impressive.
Nice. Assault is a great game. I remember playing it many years ago when I lived in NYC.
Love that you guys are giving these old games a new life.
This happens to be my favorite game of all time, GJ guys.
I have the utmost respect and admiration for people who dedicate so much effort in these works of art and preservation.
8:55 Drifting controllers, My old nemesis
I am going to keep posting on every one of these videos just how much I enjoy them, because I want you all to know how much your effort is appreciated!
I know it's a labor of love, and there's a capitalist component to your arcade. But it truly feels like you're also doing a serious service to lovers of nostalgia, and for that, I say a hearty THANK YOU!
Something so special about arcade games from the 80s. The backdrop to so mamy great memories with friends.
Such a pleasure seeing you restore this machine.
What a magnificent Assault restortation! :D
thanks to the restore of the control panel i can finally play this game
I need to make a pilgrimage here the next time I'm in Texas. This looks really cool.
Wished I lived in Texas. Would become a regular customer of your Arcade. Keep up the great work!
Happy birthday, Mike
Wow, That is a VERY narrow cabinet. BTW Mike, Your other channel "Geek Pub" inspired me to build my own cabinet for my X-Arcade tank stick. For someone with no woodworking experience, it came out GREAT!
Congratulations Mike! I could tell in your reactions that you really appreciate this game and it was fun watching you clean and restore it.
Such a good restore. Hope to make it out to the arcade someday.
First time ever seeing this arcade game. Looks like fun with the twin stick controls.
I absolutely adore these restoration videos, and thanks very much for not replacing the CRT monitors with LCD ones! There's just something about the warm glow of a CRT in the dark that can never be replicated by the alternatives.
Mike, you and David have inspired me to start tinkering with electronics. I can only hope to be half as competent as you someday!
OMFG I LOVED THIS GAME! I was also pretty darned good at it to the point that when my friends watched me play it, they would freak out.
i was born the year this game came out and it looks impressive for the time.
I loved that game. I played in a lot back in the day.
Holy mackerel!!! Assault is also my favorite arcade game of all time! This is so awesome! I love it so much that I implemented an optimization in M.A.M.E. to allow its rotating grapics to be smooth in Assault instead of choppy like they used to be (because of the pixel order that the M.A.M.E. renderer had been using that was not cache-optimized. I fixed it like 13 years ago ... was in the process of building a M.A.M.E. cabinet but never finished sadly).
I love the intro. Even the audio which is slightly stretched magnetic tape 😅 very authentic!
Reminds me of my Elite Dangerous setup with those dual sticks. What a beautiful machine.
Mike’s genuine enthusiasm on this one made my day. Keep making videos, I really enjoy your content!
Assault is one of my Top 20 Games of all time. Beautiful restoration
I swear the algorithm knows what I’m thinking because I was trying to remember the name of this game only a few days ago. I remember riding my bike to the Hill’s department store down the road just so I could play this and Afterburner after school and on the weekends. Absolutely loved this game, I just wish I could experience the original arcade hardware again. Might have to figure out a way to build my own MAME cabinet and controller setup… Awesome vid, thanks!
Man every time I see you guys do a resto like this it makes me want to try it myself. I think I could given the right cabinet
The Showbiz Pizza Token is a nice find!
This is amazing I love these restorations and seeing these Machines come back to life
I played this at the local convenience store for a LONG time when I was in my younger teens - So fun and so many memories! (and quarters :) )
Something about restoration videos (at least ones I can trust are real) makes me smile. Even better when it's a game I remember playing in the arcade.
. Wow! that was an amazing transformation! The amount of work and effort to restore such machine is incredible!
Looking forward to checking these machines out when you guys open up.
You should make some kind of display for the tokens to show off at the barcade. Its cool piece of nostalgia and history.
That is the best restoration yet
Assault was amazing, I wasted SOOO much time with Assault at the local Me 'N Eds back when I was a kid.
I've never seen or heard of this game before. It actually looks pretty cool. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Incredible job , restoring this game! It's never been better!
Nice resto, thanks for bringing us along.
looks like a fun game, never played it back in the day but will try it
What a cool game to have. Nice restoration.
I love these arcade machine restorations by the Murray brothers on this channel. So wholesome.
I like the moment of joy after seeing the arcade ❤
Happy birthday Mike, hope you had a great one!
I could watch these all day
I love these restorations. Breathing new life in to old classic arcades are just pure joy to see and also the transformation from old,dirty to clean fresh is just so satisfying.
NGL, this is the nicest end result so far, i think. That thing looks brand new.
To be able to cheer and celebrate a game like a kid when you’re full grown is priceless. Keep up this enthusiasm. I could feel your emotions when watching this and felt as happy as if it was my game you were restoring. 😊
My buddy up in Dayton, Ohio has an Assault. I've never seen it anywhere else. Nice job!
I am really loving this series. Y'all are killing it!
Awesome job, the finished product is incredible.
One of the first arcades I remember playing. Great video and love the resto.
This is quickly becoming my favorite restoring channel, you can tell everyone working on this project are very passionate for this kind of stuff and not just the 8-bit Guy. Wish I could visit the arcade once it's all set up!
My god I loved this game....was pretty good at it too. Played this ALOT back in the day at college. I need one of these....
I really like this game too, every time Id go to this one and play
It looks beautiful! I don't remember ever playing that game!
The work you do on restoring these machines is phenomenal. You have amazing skills and love seeing the machines from start to finish. Next time i'm in Texas I'll be going to the arcade when it opens.
Can't wait to watch this. This is one of my two favorite games of all time (Major Havok is my other). I'm glad someone is giving it some love!
Nice work on this one. Glad you were able to get one.
I'm absolutely loving these restoration videos. I hope we see more, and I'd love to get a tour video of the arcade too, since it will be very difficult for me to travel to see it.
Assault was just an awesome arcade game. It was so great seeing it restored to life. Wish I had your skills and I could get the robotron I had about for my brother years ago working lol.
Im very far from texas, but the next time im closer, I am definitely stopping by!
I was just re-watching the other two restorations this morning - what a treat to have a new one drop right now! Thanks y'all!
That looks absolutely fantastic! Also, to weigh in on the CRT/LCD question, many game designs were based on how a CRT behaves, and an LCD may not behave the same way. The go-to example that comes to my mind are graphics that show as transparent on a CRT but show as matte on an LCD. By changing the screen, you may be changing the way a game looks and even how a player interacts with it.
These videos are incredibly satisfying.
Those joysticks are a perfect example of "they don't make em like they used to." A couple of low-cost part swaps and they're ready to go another 20+ years. Product of an era where things were made to last and be worked on, not to throw away and buy a new one.
Looks brand new! Can't believe that games almost 40yrs old!
Keep the restoration videos coming, really enjoying it
This is awesome, love Mike's reaction he really seems to be enjoying these restorations.
There are so many arcade games that I have forgotten about. Thanks for sharing!