Hey John, We meet at SFGE briefly. Can't wait till all the Northerners of our generation start retiring and coming down here and realize they can't keep all their games and start unloading. That's when the South shall rise again-home arcade-wise. I actually grew up in NJ with beach and mall arcades. Anyway, I have to say you crushed it with this video!! You even anticipated and addressed viewer questions on the fly, like your new ride-lol-knowing your audience. The down to earth human element is what makes you so enjoyable to watch. This episode...1- Little suspense 2-you kicked up the production value 2-New game pickup 3-I learned something 4-I saw an everyman's basement arcade 5-learned a little arcade history 6--re-exposed me to a forgotten game-can you say fire-up the MAME attack? I bet a 4-player Sente Mini Golf with beers for bucks would be awesome-think twice about swapping that game for chicken shift -same with your High Impact- you'd be surprised how fun 4 players can be when it's not always scrolling characters to the right kicking everything? Thanks so much for hooking us up with an extra video this week and the best one of the year at that in my humble opinion. I laughed-I cried-i shat the bed.
Well, I think John should offer the guy 50$ for said (B)roken game, take it from said letter writer's (O)bviously aging grandparents, (U)nderstandably relieving them of the (N)uisance of repairing it, (C)arrying it, storing it etc., and bring it to John's (E)xcellent garage so that he can kindly dump the (R)oms into mame, so that everyone can enjoy them. Then possibly refurbish said game, and make a video, showcasing its gameplay. ;)
Just checked out a Chicken Shift video (because I'd never heard of it) and HOLY MOLY!! That game RAWKS, and the music and sounds are just AMAZING. Great find!!
Congrats on the pickup John and awesome video. I picked up a Bally Sente Mini Golf this summer for $100.00. It was in a Galaga cabinet. I never heard of the mini golf game before but I bought it for the Galaga cabinet. I have since restored the cabinet back to a Galaga; however, I still have everything complete and ready to drop back into a cabinet one day. I have been looking for one of these cabinets but they are like impossible to find it seems. So jealous you found one. Great find. Take care.
To put Chicken Shift on it, you will need a 14 ROM position board since it's a 13 ROM game. Everything else should be the same as far as I can tell. No idea though, just going off the pdf's and Google. Looks like a great game, congrats on the new cabinet!
. . . I'm already seeing a new project for the MAME guys. Namely the CEM3394 sound chips (six in total with one channel each) were treated like the Commodore 64's SID chip, when they really were more like FM synth-based cause of the filtering involved. At least I thought the one Gimme A Break I played in person was FM-based at the time, and MAME made me think I remembered wrong all these years. Congratulations, John, for your vid just proved my suspicions! :D Also, about that Anonymous fourth email... I do believe that describes the fabled Bouncer game from 1983. Please... GET. THAT. GAME. It might actually be the first step of many in the process of making a legendary game more real than even Polybius!
Hey that’s such a cool thing with those carts I️ would see about making a 3D print case something unique and would make it easier to store with a side label when you add more to your collection
Two videos in three days. You're on a roll there. Keep up the excellent work there in you arcade collection. Love it as always what you're doing with you fantastic hobby.
I kept thinking you was saying 'Chicken Sh1t' hahahah. Great and interesting cab and looking forward to what you come up with regarding boards and control panels.
Snake Pit is also an awesome Bally/Sente game. As for the mail with the veiled reference to Bouncer, you never know. You have a video of a Sky Skipper machine on your channel, so stranger things have happened. Ask him for some cellphone pictures with a selfie or two with the cab. Those would be hard to fake.
Chicken Shift? I just checked it out in Mame. What an oddly fun and weird game. Can't wait to see the restore. Where would you have found a game like Chicken Shift in the first place?
I wish there was someone in the community that could create the Bally Sente equivalent of a 4-Slot Neo Geo, that way you could have Mini Golf, Billiards, Chicken Shift etc in the cabinet together and have a button combination to switch between them like you do with your Golden Tee cabinet; I'm sure that would make your Bally Sente a true hit with your Family ^_^
I grew up playing that game on the Commodore 64. That game was so much fun. Definitely play it a few times before changing it out. It really is a fun game that I spent hours of my childhood on.
I'm fucking stoked your putting up so many vids lately. It was the perfect thing to see on my subs list on a Saturday night while my girlfriend is away for the night. Cheers man looking forward to the next vid. Take it easy, keep gaming.
Hmm, wondering since winter is showing up, it kinda makes it hard to work on cabinets. Could john instead maybe work on that next killscreens album, because this music is awesome. 9:33 That's crazy with the furnace and all the duct work to have that in there. 28:07 Oh god, that's morbid. Any idea if those kids were found...hopefully alive.
The Mini Golf / Mini Golf Deluxe ROM carts share the same layout with Chicken Shift, so a ROM swap should be all you need. Though there are several different ROM version out there, depending on the size of the EPROMs used (e.g.16KB/32KB). So some testing probably required maybe merging ROMs.
Unique machine and interesting history. Your probably not going to touch Artwork but would a mashup of all the games you can play on it look cool. Maybe around coindoor. Someone good at art could send a sketch to you to print out. The crazy golf chicken shift billiards and all the other games ....
John, andrewb here. Are the 8351 and 8352 numbers on the ROM board chips the date codes of those chips, or the part numbers? They sound more like date codes, but I could be wrong. If these boards are all basically the same, we could do a 'master/mega Sente card' that has a single large ROM with all ROMs for all of the SAC-1 games on it, and some sort of switch mechanism. I just picked up a SAC-1, same as yours. It's got Gimme A Break in it, but I want to play the other games as well, so I'll be looking into it.
Scoots here with an update, I'm hiding in Johns back seat in the beginning of the video...while John is discussing the games with the owner I am stealing things from his yard.
Haa you looked tired dude, all worth it though. The guy you got the game off seemed like a cool guy. You should get an old baby's Cot Matress to put your games on in the back of your car to cushion it from the bumps in the road.
In your video at 15:28 it looks like it would have fit on it's back no problems with the seats folded down. I think you would have had lots of clearance for that.
John buddy, I think you need to feed these LOUD ass crickets some hard boiled eggs so next time it's more quiet in the intro. I thought I clicked on the wrong video so I was like WTF. lol :)
How rare is a contra cabinet ? I have one it was converted over to devastators which may be a rare game. Does anyone know ? Would greatly appreciate help
John if that's not a joke That Arcade game sounds like BOUNCER very rare only about a dozen prototypes were made. let us know if it's real or someone was pulling your leg
Mini golf was a favorite of mine and also Gimme A Break, and Stocker back when I was a teen living in Las Vegas and my mom would play at a local casino and I would spend all that time in the casino's arcade, Gimme A Break and mini golf are one of those the harder you spin the faster your ball goes, I got really good at both of those, but Stocker was always a challenge to get to the end, and someone commented earlier, that Bram Stoker's Dracula was great and also one of my favorite pins, along with Addams Family and Simpsons Party. Thanks John for this and good Machines Nick!
Snake Pit is one of the best Sente games, as is Rescue Raider, although I don't know if the ROMs for the cartridge system version have turned up. And as far as the "important email" goes.... HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!! God I hope that's real, but it's got to be a joke! Saying MAJOR prayers here....
the Bally Sente has a security chip like V.S only there one or two of the security chip that works with most games , i thinking they where running in to trouble with the security chip with paying customers who where piss i bet... so the security chip was made more comparable with a lot of games ,,, i help Richie Knucklez out and and search the forms for all the info ask him he would know he owns like every Bally Sente game cart made
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Hey John, We meet at SFGE briefly. Can't wait till all the Northerners of our generation start retiring and coming down here and realize they can't keep all their games and start unloading. That's when the South shall rise again-home arcade-wise. I actually grew up in NJ with beach and mall arcades. Anyway, I have to say you crushed it with this video!! You even anticipated and addressed viewer questions on the fly, like your new ride-lol-knowing your audience. The down to earth human element is what makes you so enjoyable to watch. This episode...1- Little suspense 2-you kicked up the production value 2-New game pickup 3-I learned something 4-I saw an everyman's basement arcade 5-learned a little arcade history 6--re-exposed me to a forgotten game-can you say fire-up the MAME attack? I bet a 4-player Sente Mini Golf with beers for bucks would be awesome-think twice about swapping that game for chicken shift -same with your High Impact- you'd be surprised how fun 4 players can be when it's not always scrolling characters to the right kicking everything? Thanks so much for hooking us up with an extra video this week and the best one of the year at that in my humble opinion. I laughed-I cried-i shat the bed.
Well, I think John should offer the guy 50$ for said (B)roken game, take it from said letter writer's (O)bviously aging grandparents, (U)nderstandably relieving them of the (N)uisance of repairing it, (C)arrying it, storing it etc., and bring it to John's (E)xcellent garage so that he can kindly dump the (R)oms into mame, so that everyone can enjoy them. Then possibly refurbish said game, and make a video, showcasing its gameplay. ;)
PLOT TWIST:
Imagine the missing kid on the screen was actually John.
plot twist!
Just checked out a Chicken Shift video (because I'd never heard of it) and HOLY MOLY!! That game RAWKS, and the music and sounds are just AMAZING. Great find!!
Quietest Intro in John’s Arcade History
That missing kids screen is DARK man!
Great pick up bro, I used to play mini golf when I was kid, always loved the music too
I thought this was a Wes craven flick at first, great production 👍🏻
Congrats on the pickup John and awesome video. I picked up a Bally Sente Mini Golf this summer for $100.00. It was in a Galaga cabinet. I never heard of the mini golf game before but I bought it for the Galaga cabinet. I have since restored the cabinet back to a Galaga; however, I still have everything complete and ready to drop back into a cabinet one day. I have been looking for one of these cabinets but they are like impossible to find it seems. So jealous you found one. Great find. Take care.
To put Chicken Shift on it, you will need a 14 ROM position board since it's a 13 ROM game. Everything else should be the same as far as I can tell. No idea though, just going off the pdf's and Google. Looks like a great game, congrats on the new cabinet!
In the early 1980’s a revolutionary new arcade game was created, promoted, played…...Then it was gone. To this day “Bouncer” is nowhere to be found.
That bowler is incredible man, old school and it sends the balls back wow. Great collection.
. . . I'm already seeing a new project for the MAME guys. Namely the CEM3394 sound chips (six in total with one channel each) were treated like the Commodore 64's SID chip, when they really were more like FM synth-based cause of the filtering involved.
At least I thought the one Gimme A Break I played in person was FM-based at the time, and MAME made me think I remembered wrong all these years. Congratulations, John, for your vid just proved my suspicions! :D
Also, about that Anonymous fourth email... I do believe that describes the fabled Bouncer game from 1983.
Please... GET. THAT. GAME.
It might actually be the first step of many in the process of making a legendary game more real than even Polybius!
Hey that’s such a cool thing with those carts I️ would see about making a 3D print case something unique and would make it easier to store with a side label when you add more to your collection
That's pretty cool and the sounds are awesome! 👍
Great video John, really enjoyed the extra effort and editing! Fun intro
Omg!!!#...I used to play that golf game here locally back in the day..never realized it was as unique as it is..way cool!! :-)
2 videos in 3 days thats great ;p
watching from Kuwait
+Stage 1 wow. That's cool.
Two videos in three days. You're on a roll there. Keep up the excellent work there in you arcade collection. Love it as always what you're doing with you fantastic hobby.
The bowling 🎳 machine looks phenomenal. Awesome video! 💀👍
I kept thinking you was saying 'Chicken Sh1t' hahahah. Great and interesting cab and looking forward to what you come up with regarding boards and control panels.
Snake Pit is also an awesome Bally/Sente game. As for the mail with the veiled reference to Bouncer, you never know. You have a video of a Sky Skipper machine on your channel, so stranger things have happened. Ask him for some cellphone pictures with a selfie or two with the cab. Those would be hard to fake.
Cool cab John, I love when picking up games meeting other collectors although it usually means you get less of a bargain, great vid👍
Chicken Shift? I just checked it out in Mame. What an oddly fun and weird game. Can't wait to see the restore. Where would you have found a game like Chicken Shift in the first place?
Hey, cool find John! That game looks pretty fun. I'll be giving it a go in MAME.
Also, +1 for the return of The Sanding Song. :)
Ha. Sanding song. Good ear. :)
Yeah, my vision is pretty terrible now, but my ears are still working just fine. :)
Nice intro John!
nice get john. that guy had a nice little collection you got it from too. keep the great videos coming.
I wish there was someone in the community that could create the Bally Sente equivalent of a 4-Slot Neo Geo, that way you could have Mini Golf, Billiards, Chicken Shift etc in the cabinet together and have a button combination to switch between them like you do with your Golden Tee cabinet; I'm sure that would make your Bally Sente a true hit with your Family ^_^
Great video and the seller has a nice little collection :) Nice to see people out there having these collections.
I remember playing this mini golf game growing up in Monticello, NY. I wonder if that's the exact cabinet.
Its really not great to have the "missing kids" in the attract screen, are there alternate roms without it?
Made my Saturday. Couldn’t wait to watch. 😲
I grew up playing that game on the Commodore 64. That game was so much fun. Definitely play it a few times before changing it out. It really is a fun game that I spent hours of my childhood on.
You now need a John's Arcade trailer.
Hey, John, I want you to put the Sente right next to the Neo Geo. :-)
(Happy Veterans' Day today too.)
I would love that bowling game !
Loved that funhouse. One of my favorites.
Whens the next kill screens album coming out?! I love all the new songs youve been putting in the vids
best execution of the multi-cart is the neo geo MVS big red
OMG! i have been looking for Gimme A Break for years!!!!!! nice score
Great episode, love this show!!
Wow I did not realize that mail was so long, Sorry about that. Again John Thanks.
*Great* video! Amusing, entertaining, informative... what more could you ask?
So when is Firefox going to get fixed? :)
"Hi Guys, we are NOT (!) in the basement!"... haha XD simply GREAT, Man!!!!! WOW! You are the best out there!! :)
"we're in Chicago downtown. this is NOT the basement" was the best one on the Raw Thrills / Level 257 video haha
oh wow, Chicken Shift yes. That game is so simple but so much fun.
this cart system is very interesting! all cabinet should have these tray that roll out from the front! like some candy cab.
I'm fucking stoked your putting up so many vids lately. It was the perfect thing to see on my subs list on a Saturday night while my girlfriend is away for the night. Cheers man looking forward to the next vid. Take it easy, keep gaming.
John is on fire this week!
2 on the road videos, no hard boiled eggs......
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johns slackin'
Would be fun to have a multi board adapter for that Sente, especially if you had a few games with similar control schemes.
I hear that Ford chime at the start of the video and was thinking 'Did John get a new car, or rent a Uhaul to pick up a game?'
Ya got the market on these videos man....Glad you haven't gone hollywood man. Great music by the way. Let us know how we could help $$$.
Hmm, wondering since winter is showing up, it kinda makes it hard to work on cabinets. Could john instead maybe work on that next killscreens album, because this music is awesome.
9:33 That's crazy with the furnace and all the duct work to have that in there.
28:07 Oh god, that's morbid. Any idea if those kids were found...hopefully alive.
I thought Gimme a break was a game about Nell Carter?
Mortal Kombat is a much longer cabinet than the 80's selection. If you put it in the row, it will stick out quite a bit.
The Mini Golf / Mini Golf Deluxe ROM carts share the same layout with Chicken Shift, so a ROM swap should be all you need. Though there are several different ROM version out there, depending on the size of the EPROMs used (e.g.16KB/32KB). So some testing probably required maybe merging ROMs.
Awesome,another road trip...
"I love that !" - missing children on screen....
Unique machine and interesting history. Your probably not going to touch Artwork but would a mashup of all the games you can play on it look cool. Maybe around coindoor. Someone good at art could send a sketch to you to print out. The crazy golf chicken shift billiards and all the other games ....
"Did we just become best friends?!"
I can´t work any more, must watch all you super videos..........
I just got a hat trick cocktail. and street football.snacksin Jackson too .kinda cool .fixing to buy a chicken shift
Seems like I have played the billiard game too.
That missing kids screen isn’t the greatest thing to have to see every time you power it on. Any way to get rid of that in the settings?
I dunno. I'll look. It is weird.
When this game was first emulated in MAME I remember there being a dipswitch setting to turn off the missing kids notice.
Nice meeting you today, John. Enjoy!
+parkway thanks Nick! You too. Love this game. Thanks!!
Hey, welcome to the video, Nick! :-) (Oh, and happy Veterans' Day too.)
Okay I think I saw this on Facebook!!! "Bouncer"?!!!!
I like how you started this Video , but do you Sold your Toyota ??
ok Ford change @min 20...😂😂 looks good
John, andrewb here. Are the 8351 and 8352 numbers on the ROM board chips the date codes of those chips, or the part numbers? They sound more like date codes, but I could be wrong. If these boards are all basically the same, we could do a 'master/mega Sente card' that has a single large ROM with all ROMs for all of the SAC-1 games on it, and some sort of switch mechanism. I just picked up a SAC-1, same as yours. It's got Gimme A Break in it, but I want to play the other games as well, so I'll be looking into it.
+andybaldman sweet. That would Rock
Scoots here with an update, I'm hiding in Johns back seat in the beginning of the video...while John is discussing the games with the owner I am stealing things from his yard.
Haa you looked tired dude, all worth it though. The guy you got the game off seemed like a cool guy. You should get an old baby's Cot Matress to put your games on in the back of your car to cushion it from the bumps in the road.
Isn't that the mini golf game that has a FBI lookout for two missing kids?
Are they talking about Tapper in that last e-mail? :/
I loved mini golf.
In your video at 15:28 it looks like it would have fit on it's back no problems with the seats folded down. I think you would have had lots of clearance for that.
what is the game john was talking about in the email at the very end?
Bouncer :) I bet his grandmother was a dancer/martial artist/telcom worker who had some 'street dance' friends with weird names like Turbo and Ozone.
Imo, the best game for this system by far is Night Stocker. Really fun driving/light gun game.
I thought you were camping in the beginning lol
Terminator still one of my favorites.
John buddy, I think you need to feed these LOUD ass crickets some hard boiled eggs so next time it's more quiet in the intro.
I thought I clicked on the wrong video so I was like WTF. lol :)
i would love to see a bouncer surface
The sound reminds me of a few Sega Genesis games.
Honestly sounds more C64 to me, especially those filters
yeah I don't think the Yamaha synthesis came to arcade games until more 84 85
bally sente, the system that requiered the arcade owner to rent the games
Dracula the best pinball ever
How rare is a contra cabinet ? I have one it was converted over to devastators which may be a rare game. Does anyone know ? Would greatly appreciate help
John if that's not a joke That Arcade game sounds like BOUNCER very rare only about a dozen prototypes were made. let us know if it's real or someone was pulling your leg
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John, a rare chance to correct an errant comment! Funhouse is NOT a System 11, but a WPC-89 game believe it or not.
+WxManBookie oh. Yeah I knew that at some point too.
have you played snake pit
Quite the Blair Witch Project opener... Awesome LoL Just started this vid. 45 minutes to go... =)
Mini golf was a favorite of mine and also Gimme A Break, and Stocker back when I was a teen living in Las Vegas and my mom would play at a local casino and I would spend all that time in the casino's arcade, Gimme A Break and mini golf are one of those the harder you spin the faster your ball goes, I got really good at both of those, but Stocker was always a challenge to get to the end, and someone commented earlier, that Bram Stoker's Dracula was great and also one of my favorite pins, along with Addams Family and Simpsons Party. Thanks John for this and good Machines Nick!
Snake Pit is one of the best Sente games, as is Rescue Raider, although I don't know if the ROMs for the cartridge system version have turned up.
And as far as the "important email" goes.... HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!! God I hope that's real, but it's got to be a joke! Saying MAJOR prayers here....
John, I hope this person is not joking about the game. If it is true, then he is sitting on a holy grail for some collectors.
Didn’t your Journey start out a Mini Golf?
+Ninja_Baseball_Haruhara it was s golf have. Taito I think. No mini.
What’s with the editions why is it pixels and in a black frame
If the email isn't a joke John is the emailer talking bout the game bouncer cause that's what it's sounds like to me.
drizzt186 WHAT THE HELL IS A BOUNCER EVERY ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS IN THE COMMENTS ITS PISSING ME OFF
Bouncer?
I really hope to hear that that mail is legit. You NEED a pics or it didn't happen reply to go out to that guy.
funhouse is not a system 11 but the first wpc
Yeah, I knew that. Oops.
the Bally Sente has a security chip like V.S only there one or two of the security chip that works with most games , i thinking they where running in to trouble with the security chip with paying customers who where piss i bet... so the security chip was made more comparable with a lot of games ,,, i help Richie Knucklez out and and search the forms for all the info ask him he would know he owns like every Bally Sente game cart made
@30:26 Let the BASS drop!
Sounds troll-y to me. No pic? no video?
juntistik am i missing something? What is he talking about?