Interesting to come across this in such a friggin random RUclips way. This game existed at a 7-11 @ 44th and Indian School in Phoenix sometime in the early 80s. Rocked that game!
+WARRIOR4CHRIST70 KZ4LIFE On a side note, 8-track players were surprisingly still around until its death in 1985. Cassettes overtook the 8-track cartridges in 1979 and became the 'new' standard for the 1980's.
For those of you wondering what all of the Journey songs are in this game for each of the levels, they are: Steve Perry - Don’t Stop Believin’ Neal Schon - Chain Reaction Ross Valory - Keep On Runnin’ Jonathan Cain - Stone In Love Steve Smith - Wheel In The Sky Planet Select Screen - Frontiers Losing a Life - Who’s Crying Now Planet Clear - Lights
I bought that same upright in an arcade for $150.00 That was back in the 80s. Sold it 10 yrs ago. Excellent condition! Was an awesome game, awesome band!
Yes...Bally arcades used to sell there games real cheap right from the arcade....I remember buying two Tron's that were like new (sat in one arcade their whole life) for $250 each.
In about 2010 me and Anthony did a bulk buy in CT. We flew up, rented a truck and drove back here to PA. That game was a pretty clean original and cleaned up real nice with the exception that it didn't work of course. I rewired the inner workings to bring it back to life. The tape deck was replaced, the monitor was also replaced because it had bad screen burn. I don't think Rich reproduced the side art yet? # 374 was in my collection until 2014 when somebody out west made me a ridiculous offer...and that is basically the story.
This was honestly one of the most bizarre machines ever made. Still for it's time really unique. The way the tape drive works is a lot simpler than I thought. Surprised no reports of chewed tapes ever happened. Does it auto rewind when it reaches end of tape?
The tapes were endless loops...so no rewinding needed! The metal cover assured no one could easily push the fast forward or reverse buttons (which WOULD ruin the tape).
I remember playing this when I was 8ish in a little dark arcade in a small town called Atikokan in Canada…(amazing how i can remember things like this) I wonder if any other arcade games used a tape player?
At my father's old Arcade he worked at they had the Journey game and I played it a few times, but I looked as it as a poor knock off of the much superior Tron game. I did have a similar game put out by another company called Journey Escape for the Atari 2600. Unlike the Arcade game, I LOVED this game and played it often. The gameplay featured a "member" of the group running around escaping groupies (heart shapes with lady legs), camera flashes, crazy Fans, etc. The band were saved by the "mighty manager" who looked like the Kool Laid man (Tea Flavored). Instead of "Separate Ways" it played "Don't Stop Believing" as the intro. Fun game, though I was never a Journey fan.
I don’t know why people didn’t like this game. I thought it was so fun as a kid. Guess you had to like Journey. I put a lot of quarters into this game. Would love to own one.
Not really a video game but the same company Bally Midway put out a KISS pinball machine in 1979, another game I played a lot back in the early 80's. Also 2 Elton John Pinball games were made as well.
Just played one today at an arcade on freeplay. This game is both cheesy and hard. I came here to youtube to look for some help for next time. I don't imagine many people ever got to the bonus round. I played about fifteen games and only completed on of the five levels. It's mind boggling that this game was made. I wonder how many other bands turned Bally down before they signed Journey. I like the band well enough to have seen them play a few years ago, but are they arcade worthy? I think not. I'd be willing to own the machine though, if only for the unique nature of the machine.
ive seen this machine in real life. 30 years ago at the entrance to a super market grocery store. probably somewhere around 45th and sharidan , tulsa oklahoma , i was far to young to know exactly where. but i listen to the tracks even more in 2023 at the lucky ol age of 44
When I was a kid the local laundry mat had one these games that someone had taken the back off of and I thought the cassette player was the strangest thing.
Just got done playing this on my phone using mame emulator. And yes it even plays the cassette music track that's been upgraded to CD quality using the same editing of the original cassette. Fun game!
That's all it did was use a tape player that you could get at Walmart or K-Mart with the play button pressed down and it plays a answering machine type cassette tape and not some special custom looping tape and drive? Sounds like it was a prototype that never got past the prototype stage.
There's an arcade game by Stern called "Journey" which is much better than this one, which thrived on its connection to the popular band alone. Even the singer of Journey said this game was dumb. But Stern's Journey belonged to a rare genre, similar to Bosconian and Time Pilot.
Johns's arcade youtube channel Journery rebuild episodes shows him rebuilding the cassette amp board and he got rid of the "bump" He had helpful info from the engineer that designed the pcb..worth checking out.Don't shop ....believing
The power supply system must be changed out...all the capacitors are leaking. You can buy this from Arcade Shops. Once thats done, the hum will probably be gone.
+shawnsdada - yes he replaced all the caps and voltage regulators on the amp board to correct the problem. Also the audio cable jack to cassette player needs to be mono not stereo.
only about 1000 were made? didn't know it was that rare. I could make it to the 2nd concert often but, the 3rd round was crazy tough. I belive I got to the 3rd concert like once.
I remember when I was working for a vendor as a co-op back around 1982, when a sales/technical rep came to our shop to demonstrate this video game. The rep said that the developers configured the eproms such that if you shorted two data lines together, that the heads of the players turned into the heads of the developers. Have you ever heard that?
one of the band members thought that video game based on band was stupid idea but I can tell it a better game that awful journey escape Atari 2600 game. trust me, I've seen some play through videos of the console game. their was even a commercial for journey arcade game and it was similar to the commercial for star wars video game.
TNT Amusements Inc That SUCKS!! Just adjust it way open but still can be used when you want it..I'm a purerest and like things to be there that are supposed to be!!
I've been watching John's Arcade restore of this game, in which he bought the cabinet that was converted to a jamma golf game at an auction, and is currently coming close to getting the game to function perfectly (he might need to fix some of the tape player interference) before cleaning the cabinet up.
TNT Amusements Inc Todd, nice work on the Journey! As TheDabeavis said I am in the middle of restoring one right now. I have a playlist here: ruclips.net/p/PLF6Omn2cXb7Y7efYb7rvGj9T2mSdfkgHs -- AMAZING game! I love mine! Nice work, Todd!
I was glad Steve Perry actually came and sang live for like the first time in 20 yrs a couple months ago.. no never heard of this one. wonder if it was in the first Tron :P in the arcade O_O
No. Tron came out in 1982, Journey came out in 83, which was around the same time the Frontiers concert was happening, and originally, there was going to be a promotional tie-in with the game and the concert tour, but that got scrapped. As for the tape deck, I wonder if anyone has ever thought of switching the original tape with something else (one good example which would work for April Fools would be using Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up)?
You can do that phone gag a million times and it will never get old.
The boys think it's old!
You're the boss! Tell them that your fans demand the phone gag! ;)
Journey rocks, just like TNT..
:-)
Interesting to come across this in such a friggin random RUclips way. This game existed at a 7-11 @ 44th and Indian School in Phoenix sometime in the early 80s. Rocked that game!
RASTAN!! WOW! I remember playing that! I remember playing the JOURNEY one too!! At the GAME ROOM in the Ocean County Mall!!
A slim line cassette player? Wow, that's crazy! We've come a long way.... Great video!
WARRIOR4CHRIST70 KZ4LIFE It's the F U T U R E !
+WARRIOR4CHRIST70 KZ4LIFE On a side note, 8-track players were surprisingly still around until its death in 1985. Cassettes overtook the 8-track cartridges in 1979 and became the 'new' standard for the 1980's.
They still make that style of cassette player today, surprisingly
ROTOR AT RESCUE of Midway is great arcade. Not dead Árcades!
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Just excellent!!! Thanks
Thanks!
For those of you wondering what all of the Journey songs are in this game for each of the levels, they are:
Steve Perry - Don’t Stop Believin’
Neal Schon - Chain Reaction
Ross Valory - Keep On Runnin’
Jonathan Cain - Stone In Love
Steve Smith - Wheel In The Sky
Planet Select Screen - Frontiers
Losing a Life - Who’s Crying Now
Planet Clear - Lights
Seperate ways (worlds apart) was used in the bonus screen (concert)
I bought that same upright in an arcade for $150.00
That was back in the 80s. Sold it 10 yrs ago.
Excellent condition! Was an awesome game, awesome band!
Yes...Bally arcades used to sell there games real cheap right from the arcade....I remember buying two Tron's that were like new (sat in one arcade their whole life) for $250 each.
Love that the game music is playing Wheel in the Sky while you have to bounce off of...wheels in the sky. :)
Todd that was my Journey and my handy work. I sold it back in 2014
Hi Walt! It was sent to us for reconditioning in May 2014. Cant remember for who!
In about 2010 me and Anthony did a bulk buy in CT. We flew up, rented a truck and drove back here to PA. That game was a pretty clean original and cleaned up real nice with the exception that it didn't work of course. I rewired the inner workings to bring it back to life. The tape deck was replaced, the monitor was also replaced because it had bad screen burn. I don't think Rich reproduced the side art yet? # 374 was in my collection until 2014 when somebody out west made me a ridiculous offer...and that is basically the story.
The Journey logo reminds me of the Magnavox Odyssey 2 logo!!!
This was honestly one of the most bizarre machines ever made. Still for it's time really unique. The way the tape drive works is a lot simpler than I thought. Surprised no reports of chewed tapes ever happened. Does it auto rewind when it reaches end of tape?
The tapes were endless loops...so no rewinding needed! The metal cover assured no one could easily push the fast forward or reverse buttons (which WOULD ruin the tape).
I remember playing this when I was 8ish in a little dark arcade in a small town called Atikokan in Canada…(amazing how i can remember things like this) I wonder if any other arcade games used a tape player?
At my father's old Arcade he worked at they had the Journey game and I played it a few times, but I looked as it as a poor knock off of the much superior Tron game. I did have a similar game put out by another company called Journey Escape for the Atari 2600. Unlike the Arcade game, I LOVED this game and played it often. The gameplay featured a "member" of the group running around escaping groupies (heart shapes with lady legs), camera flashes, crazy Fans, etc. The band were saved by the "mighty manager" who looked like the Kool Laid man (Tea Flavored). Instead of "Separate Ways" it played "Don't Stop Believing" as the intro. Fun game, though I was never a Journey fan.
It uses all the same electronics, with the addition of the cassette player!
Beautiful restoration. No one overhauls like TNT Amusements.
One of the nicest arcade cabinets you've shown so far. And I love that tape deck feature
Thanks!!
Well, this certainly puts the "Flynn's Arcade (revisited)" scene from Tron: Legacy in perspective....
I don’t know why people didn’t like this game. I thought it was so fun as a kid. Guess you had to like Journey. I put a lot of quarters into this game. Would love to own one.
Not really a video game but the same company Bally Midway put out a KISS pinball machine in 1979, another game I played a lot back in the early 80's. Also 2 Elton John Pinball games were made as well.
yes, we have several KISS videos up now on the channel
i remember the journey game had a lighted up tron style joystick. i swear it did. it was at catsle park in hawaii..
that poor poor pinch roller must have a dent in it from setting pressed against the caspain all that time
This journey is a really nice and special game,well done and you should do the gag anywayz :)
Yes it is!! We love doing our gags!!
Just played one today at an arcade on freeplay. This game is both cheesy and hard. I came here to youtube to look for some help for next time. I don't imagine many people ever got to the bonus round. I played about fifteen games and only completed on of the five levels. It's mind boggling that this game was made. I wonder how many other bands turned Bally down before they signed Journey. I like the band well enough to have seen them play a few years ago, but are they arcade worthy? I think not. I'd be willing to own the machine though, if only for the unique nature of the machine.
I love the phone gag.
badreality2 That gets em every time!!
ive seen this machine in real life. 30 years ago at the entrance to a super market grocery store. probably somewhere around 45th and sharidan , tulsa oklahoma , i was far to young to know exactly where. but i listen to the tracks even more in 2023 at the lucky ol age of 44
When I was a kid the local laundry mat had one these games that someone had taken the back off of and I thought the cassette player was the strangest thing.
+BeerDrinkersUnited yes...it does seem like an odd thing to see in a video game!
Just got done playing this on my phone using mame emulator. And yes it even plays the cassette music track that's been upgraded to CD quality using the same editing of the original cassette. Fun game!
That's all it did was use a tape player that you could get at Walmart or K-Mart with the play button pressed down and it plays a answering machine type cassette tape and not some special custom looping tape and drive? Sounds like it was a prototype that never got past the prototype stage.
Yes...nothing special
Seen on of these back in the late 80s in the Volusia, Mall, arcade in Daytona Beach
i had the billy squier arcade game the plot of game was to try and stop him from making his rock me tonite video and save his career 😂
Someday love will find you.
There's an arcade game by Stern called "Journey" which is much better than this one, which thrived on its connection to the popular band alone. Even the singer of Journey said this game was dumb. But Stern's Journey belonged to a rare genre, similar to Bosconian and Time Pilot.
So fun, so hard, reminds me of tron how it’s multiple games in one
I used to love that game so much when I was a boy.
That is FUCKING GORGEOUS!
Where's the hyperlinks to cleaning the ROMs and logic board an how to deal with graphic issues?
Look at the end of the video...there are links to two different videos for repairs
I must have played that game like 400 times back in the 80's
Inachu Ikimasho It was popular back then!
Johns's arcade youtube channel Journery rebuild episodes shows him rebuilding the cassette amp board and he got rid of the "bump" He had helpful info from the engineer that designed the pcb..worth checking out.Don't shop ....believing
thats gotta be hard to emulate on mame
I played this maybe twice
Lol i tried to hit esc to exit mame.
Clunk!
AN arcade hobbyist on RUclips is dealing with an annoying hum/buzz on a Journey he is reconverting from a Golf game that was a journey originally
The power supply system must be changed out...all the capacitors are leaking. You can buy this from Arcade Shops. Once thats done, the hum will probably be gone.
+shawnsdada - yes he replaced all the caps and voltage regulators on the amp board to correct the problem. Also the audio cable jack to cassette player needs to be mono not stereo.
What is the Journey song that plays in Jonathan Cain’s stage at 11:26?
“Stone in Love” from Escape (1981)
ruclips.net/video/PjGJ4yygZME/видео.html thx a a e
Cool!
Haha, Todd... Loved the singing at the end!
hotchalupa Thanks!!
Such a rarity for sure but very odd... Lol
Odd----for sure!
I used to play the snot out of the Atari 2800 version of this game, but only once ever saw the arcade machine "in the wild." Love it.
+Ryan “Lyanheart” Leonard :-)
I remember seeing one of those on the boardwalk in NJ. I can't see that game in a route.
Very few routes saw it, that's for sure! And most of these games were converted into other games!
only about 1000 were made? didn't know it was that rare. I could make it to the 2nd concert often but, the 3rd round was crazy tough. I belive I got to the 3rd concert like once.
+Dirt Muhgert It wasn't popular when it came out...but of course now, it is very desireable!
I remember when I was working for a vendor as a co-op back around 1982, when a sales/technical rep came to our shop to demonstrate this video game. The rep said that the developers configured the eproms such that if you shorted two data lines together, that the heads of the players turned into the heads of the developers. Have you ever heard that?
That I never heard about...interesting!
It would be nice if you did a video of that Dig Dug in the background. :) JOURNEY is AWESOME!
That is coming!
one of the band members thought that video game based on band was stupid idea but I can tell it a better game that awful journey escape Atari 2600 game. trust me, I've seen some play through videos of the console game. their was even a commercial for journey arcade game and it was similar to the commercial for star wars video game.
i loved the atari version!!! :)
LOL Satans Hollow comes in......"We installed that nice discs of tron t-molding"
Thats referring to the light blue T Molding first used on Discs of Tron...we use it all the time now!!
Spent ALOT quarters on this game ..Love this game
Yes...I have had two others tell me that too!
do the elton john captain fantastic pinball machine
already did....we have over 1200 videos up now! ruclips.net/video/O1DsyF6XYvM/видео.html
after you turn on the test button hit the slam switch to put into test!!!
We actually remove the slam switch...we have had more service issues with customers with it....and it may save us an annoying service call.
TNT Amusements Inc That SUCKS!! Just adjust it way open but still can be used when you want it..I'm a purerest
and like things to be there that are supposed to be!!
I've been watching John's Arcade restore of this game, in which he bought the cabinet that was converted to a jamma golf game at an auction, and is currently coming close to getting the game to function perfectly (he might need to fix some of the tape player interference) before cleaning the cabinet up.
I will have to watch it too!
TNT Amusements Inc Todd, nice work on the Journey! As TheDabeavis said I am in the middle of restoring one right now. I have a playlist here: ruclips.net/p/PLF6Omn2cXb7Y7efYb7rvGj9T2mSdfkgHs -- AMAZING game! I love mine! Nice work, Todd!
Customer supplied us with the side art...we just installed it!
TNT Amusements Inc You probably should have told us it was the wrong side art. The Journey side art is not a rectangle! It's angled on the top. :D
John, I never researched the side art...it was shipped to us.
+johnsarcade do you know this channel?
Yes!! That's John...we have been trying to connect to do a video together!!
nice! keep on trying ... id love to see a colabo =D
Awesome video
Thank you!!
Great job guys!
Thanks!!!
That was great!
Thanks!
Such an awful game, but I remember playing it at my local arcade. I think I played everything at least once.
I was glad Steve Perry actually came and sang live for like the first time in 20 yrs a couple months ago.. no never heard of this one. wonder if it was in the first Tron :P in the arcade O_O
No. Tron came out in 1982, Journey came out in 83, which was around the same time the Frontiers concert was happening, and originally, there was going to be a promotional tie-in with the game and the concert tour, but that got scrapped.
As for the tape deck, I wonder if anyone has ever thought of switching the original tape with something else (one good example which would work for April Fools would be using Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up)?
figment1988
Good point. as for the tape deck someone must have pulled Rick somewhere lol
Very bad game