I'll stick to my Cowabunga collection I have for Nintendo Switch. I played some full size stand up arcade machines at the Washington State Gaming Expo at Puyallup fairgrounds on Saturday though. That was cool. Great job on this video!
It’s neat, but I’m pretty happy with Arcade1UP’s TMNT countercade, which has full-sized buttons and joysticks and a beautiful large screen. It’s only two player, but, really, how many people are going to jump on this thing anyway?
cool! I hadn't seen on of these cabinets before! Wow, what a nice generous size...but those controls are so tiny. Colors on the cabinet look so vibrant! The sound seems pretty decent also. Still love the coin slots.👍 Thnx!
I don’t have this one (at least not yet-hope to grab one at some point), but I have a few other Quarter Arcades and I can tell you they are VERY playable. They are big enough that it kind of pulls you into the game and you almost forget that the controls are smallish-it probably helps that we’ve gotten used to handheld devices.
This review brought back good memories as the shopping mall in my home town used to have a pizza parlor in the early 90s which had a TMNT cab and my brother and I would go there just to play the game even if we didn’t get any pizza. Not surprised at the high rating, I own the Numskull Quarter Arcade unit for Bubble Bobble and they do very high quality work.
raph is the best for speed and his special move. Don has the longest reach, Leo has 2nd longest reach and mike is slightly slower then raph but has fast attacks. If you want the most kills for leaderboard pick Raph. If you want to beat the game hit and move then pick don or leo.
I remember playing this game in the arcade section of Windsor Waterworks (a water slide park) on my friend's birthday one summer when we were in junior high school. There were 4 of us together at the park, so we all played simultaneously as each of the 4 turtles. Fun times.
Numbskull does an admirable job with these cabinets. I have one of their retro dollar coin machines and it's nice, but it's not a solid construction or as tight as these arcade cabinets. 🎉 The look, feel and sounds are exactly like the arcade experience and as close as you can get without having a full scale replica one from Arcade 1UP or an authentic TMNT arcade in your home or garage.
Did you happen to go to UF in Gainesville? Sounds like you're describing the Reitz Union, but a lot of colleges have similar setups. Another great video my friend, you have become/ Are becoming the defacto Atari repair man for UA-cam. I think if you keep up with these kind of videos and the tutorials you're going to see the explosive channel growth you've been hoping for. There really is no comparison, your tutorials and diy guides stand alone. Keep it up!...please!
Firstly, thank you for the kind words. I just really like to share my own little experimentations and see what viewers think. Secondly, UF? {cue spitting on the ground noise} I attended FSU. 😜
@@GenXGrownUp Normally, you send items back the way you receive them here in the UK! Simply switching it on to check it powers up correctly and then fully charging the battery to check the battery holds a full charge along with a couple of tries to check all the buttons are fully working and before you apply decal stickers! As you are doing a review, i understand you want to show off the screen display on your channel!
Looks pretty sweet, but I have both games on the Cowabunga Collection on my PS4 so I'll just play TMNT on that. I'm saving my money for Zookeeper. With the Cowabunga Collection out, I assume companies like Numbskull, and Arcade 1Up, and anyone else, is having a hard time selling any products with TMNT games on them.
I know that my favorite arcade game will never have a mini version, will never be ported and will totally be forever forgotten. My favorite arcade game is Captain Silver and I am forever alone.
No problem. Just get a 1/6th scale GRS Build-a-Cade and download the Captain Silver MAME ROM to make your own. You power it with a Raspberry Pi3 or Pi4....and Arcade Graphix can custom make the cabinet artwork for you if some appropiate images can be found for it.
The irony is that I would genuinely recommend the Genesis version of the game (or even the Game Boy version of the game) rather than the arcade, all things being equal! Alas, this will be bought and sold as a mere shelf decoration, and for that purpose, nobody will be disappointed with the purchase.
There is a tinier, much cheaper TMNT 89 cab (Tiny Arcade makes one) which might justify its price as shelf candy. A four-player quarter-scale is preposterous as something that is useable.
Hello my friend. I too dropped hundreds of quarters in the arcade back in the 80's. I always wanted to buy an actual "arcade game" but wouldn't have the faintest idea of where to get one? Oh, April O'Neal the woman's name from the Ninja turtles. Thank you 😊
You could probably add a diffuser like tissue paper to the LED lights to "even out" the light behind the marquee. 8:14 I'm curious why companies like Nickelodeon do not claim copyright infringement on selling merch with their IP such as TMNT.
@@GenXGrownUp I was referring to your merch site. I've read articles on Nintendo suing for people selling their stuff. Anyways, what do you think of the tissue paper idea?
@@WhatsOnMyShelf Ah, the merch store. The designs in our store span not only our designs but those from all sellers (we get a cut of those sales too, if you got there through our link).
@@GenXGrownUp Yeh, I was referring to those. I'm not a lawyer, but I thought companies block sales of stuff like that. I know Sega is pretty forgiving, but Namco, Nick, etc. who knows. I guess you're safe until you're not.
TMNT is my favorite game from my time in the arcades. I'd love to get this, but I just put a new roof on my house in February, so I might have to pass on it. 😞 Stupid adult stuff . . . lol I've got the Arcade1Up cabinet and the Cowabunga Collection on Steam, so I've got ways to play this game anyway, but a miniature replica is still cool. I kind of wish MyArcade would release TMNT.
@@GenXGrownUp 💯 About the only good part about being an adult is I can use the stove unsupervised. I like to cook, so it's nice to be able to do that whenever I want. lol
I remember running into this back in the day and of course loved the turtles and all....but I'd rather go for a double dragon arcade.....or better yet smash tv.
Great video Jon! I'll stick with my Nintendo Switch Cowabunga Collection in a Arcade Mini Cabinet with a Hori Fighting Stick Mini which cost me around £60 for everything excluding the Switch Console :-) If I ever win the lottery though ... ;-) Keep up the awesome work!
I have seen Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade cabinet ,however I have yet to play this I played Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time the Arcade version and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist for the Sega Genesis My fifth birthday was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles themed party
I don't always have specific complaints or problems that mathematically lead to my token rating. It's more of an overall feeling of quality, value, fun, and probably a few other things. Not being a huge TMNT fan also probably played into it. Thank you for watching! 😁
It would be cool if they would have made it bigger / with bigger screen sticks & bigger buttons / & actually have it to insert the little coins in it for credits / like the Ghouls in Ghost they did / especially for the price it is / its kind of expensive
The Ghouls and Ghosts cabinet is a smaller 1:6 scale from New Wave Toys. The Quarter Arcades from Numskull are about 50% larger which makes them more playable, but also more expensive. I kind of prefer Replicades for the lower price and all the extra features they pack in (like coins and coin operation, and HDMI out), but I still love my Polybius, Dig Dug, Pac-Man, Galaga, and Space Invaders pt II Quarter Arcades. Jon is spot on in his review: They are expensive, but not overpriced.
@@ThorKCade / i think its over priced / but that’s just my opinion / if it was a little bigger then it would have been the right price / but if you like paying that price for it thats you / but not me
@@jayjayshowcaser5859 If you think Quarter Arcades are overpriced, you should see the prices for 18” quarter scale figures (ie. Equivalent size and detail) from Sideshow Collectibles-prices START as low as $500. For the quality and level of detail that Numskull and New Wave Toys put into their products, they can be too expensive for many casual fans, but as collectible replicas, they hold or increase in value over time pretty well. As Jon said, if having something closer to the size of a real arcade machine is more important to you than having a detailed replica, Arcade1Up has some great options, but based on the quality of materials that you use to put together an A1U, they are relatively inexpensive but often still overpriced in my opinion. If you can find an A1U Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cabinet for the same price or less than the Quarter Arcade, it would be a great choice since you get both games and online play. But when you decide that it is taking up too much space in your home and want to try to resell it, the QA is going to be easier to store and ship and would likely fetch a higher resale price.
Haha! I can only imagine the pitch meeting where somebody said, "You don't really expect four people to be able to crowd around that, do you?!" It might be fun to do once, but with controllers it becomes quite comfortable.
![Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time [1991] Arcade vs SNES (Version Comparison)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/RdIzQRxytaI/mqdefault.jpg)
I would absolutely love to see an "ALIENS" or "AvP" cabinet like this, even more so "Discs of TRON".
I'll stick to my Cowabunga collection I have for Nintendo Switch. I played some full size stand up arcade machines at the Washington State Gaming Expo at Puyallup fairgrounds on Saturday though. That was cool. Great job on this video!
They did an excellent job on the Cowabunga collection. I jumped into Shredders Revenge and thought they did an excellent job with that one as well.
These arcade machines are awesome, don’t have them myself as its not for me, but this is how collectible arcades should be made
Operation Wolf or Operation Thunderbolt would be fantastic! But the logistics of that… wow. Thanks for the video, Jon.
It’s neat, but I’m pretty happy with Arcade1UP’s TMNT countercade, which has full-sized buttons and joysticks and a beautiful large screen. It’s only two player, but, really, how many people are going to jump on this thing anyway?
cool! I hadn't seen on of these cabinets before! Wow, what a nice generous size...but those controls are so tiny. Colors on the cabinet look so vibrant! The sound seems pretty decent also. Still love the coin slots.👍
Thnx!
I don’t have this one (at least not yet-hope to grab one at some point), but I have a few other Quarter Arcades and I can tell you they are VERY playable. They are big enough that it kind of pulls you into the game and you almost forget that the controls are smallish-it probably helps that we’ve gotten used to handheld devices.
This review brought back good memories as the shopping mall in my home town used to have a pizza parlor in the early 90s which had a TMNT cab and my brother and I would go there just to play the game even if we didn’t get any pizza. Not surprised at the high rating, I own the Numskull Quarter Arcade unit for Bubble Bobble and they do very high quality work.
Ah, I love hearing good memories revitalized through classic games. Thanks for sharing, Mon!
raph is the best for speed and his special move. Don has the longest reach, Leo has 2nd longest reach and mike is slightly slower then raph but has fast attacks. If you want the most kills for leaderboard pick Raph. If you want to beat the game hit and move then pick don or leo.
Bellissimo !!!! Non ho mai visto un cabinato così 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Questa azienda fa dei lavori premium davvero carini!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is easily in my top five for most played arcade games. Leonardo is the best.
Excellent arcade machine review jon this ip holds a special place in my childhood growing up 👍😎👍💯
Glad you enjoyed it! 😁
I remember playing this game in the arcade section of Windsor Waterworks (a water slide park) on my friend's birthday one summer when we were in junior high school. There were 4 of us together at the park, so we all played simultaneously as each of the 4 turtles. Fun times.
Epic! 🐢
Glad you got to reconnect with the game that got you through the college grind! For me it was the great Addams Family Pinball!
Numbskull does an admirable job with these cabinets. I have one of their retro dollar coin machines and it's nice, but it's not a solid construction or as tight as these arcade cabinets. 🎉 The look, feel and sounds are exactly like the arcade experience and as close as you can get without having a full scale replica one from Arcade 1UP or an authentic TMNT arcade in your home or garage.
Did you happen to go to UF in Gainesville? Sounds like you're describing the Reitz Union, but a lot of colleges have similar setups.
Another great video my friend, you have become/ Are becoming the defacto Atari repair man for UA-cam. I think if you keep up with these kind of videos and the tutorials you're going to see the explosive channel growth you've been hoping for. There really is no comparison, your tutorials and diy guides stand alone. Keep it up!...please!
Firstly, thank you for the kind words. I just really like to share my own little experimentations and see what viewers think.
Secondly, UF? {cue spitting on the ground noise} I attended FSU. 😜
I love the fact that everyone rips the protective screen covers off before powering it up! If it`s faulty, it needs to go back! :)
Do you think removal of protective film somehow voids the warranty?
@@GenXGrownUp Normally, you send items back the way you receive them here in the UK! Simply switching it on to check it powers up correctly and then fully charging the battery to check the battery holds a full charge along with a couple of tries to check all the buttons are fully working and before you apply decal stickers! As you are doing a review, i understand you want to show off the screen display on your channel!
Looks pretty sweet, but I have both games on the Cowabunga Collection on my PS4 so I'll just play TMNT on that. I'm saving my money for Zookeeper. With the Cowabunga Collection out, I assume companies like Numbskull, and Arcade 1Up, and anyone else, is having a hard time selling any products with TMNT games on them.
I know that my favorite arcade game will never have a mini version, will never be ported and will totally be forever forgotten. My favorite arcade game is Captain Silver and I am forever alone.
No problem. Just get a 1/6th scale GRS Build-a-Cade and download the Captain Silver MAME ROM to make your own. You power it with a Raspberry Pi3 or Pi4....and Arcade Graphix can custom make the cabinet artwork for you if some appropiate images can be found for it.
The irony is that I would genuinely recommend the Genesis version of the game (or even the Game Boy version of the game) rather than the arcade, all things being equal! Alas, this will be bought and sold as a mere shelf decoration, and for that purpose, nobody will be disappointed with the purchase.
There is a tinier, much cheaper TMNT 89 cab (Tiny Arcade makes one) which might justify its price as shelf candy. A four-player quarter-scale is preposterous as something that is useable.
The tiny joystick and buttons are hliarious haha.. This was definitely one of my favorite games in the arcades
That price isn't bad at all for what's being offered!
This was the first arcade game I ever played all the way through to the end. Cost me $7 in quarters but it was worth it.
Hello my friend. I too dropped hundreds of quarters in the arcade back in the 80's. I always wanted to buy an actual "arcade game" but wouldn't have the faintest idea of where to get one? Oh, April O'Neal the woman's name from the Ninja turtles. Thank you 😊
I wonder if they can do a shooter like T2 or Rambo.? The TMNT i plan on ordering ASAP. That looks amazing.
You could probably add a diffuser like tissue paper to the LED lights to "even out" the light behind the marquee. 8:14 I'm curious why companies like Nickelodeon do not claim copyright infringement on selling merch with their IP such as TMNT.
Infringement? Numskull licensed TMNT directly from Nickelodeon (who now owns the turtles IP). So they're not upset because they got PAID! 😉
@@GenXGrownUp I was referring to your merch site. I've read articles on Nintendo suing for people selling their stuff. Anyways, what do you think of the tissue paper idea?
@@WhatsOnMyShelf Ah, the merch store. The designs in our store span not only our designs but those from all sellers (we get a cut of those sales too, if you got there through our link).
@@GenXGrownUp Yeh, I was referring to those. I'm not a lawyer, but I thought companies block sales of stuff like that. I know Sega is pretty forgiving, but Namco, Nick, etc. who knows. I guess you're safe until you're not.
These always look great but my old ass eyes like this on my big screen 😂
TMNT is my favorite game from my time in the arcades. I'd love to get this, but I just put a new roof on my house in February, so I might have to pass on it. 😞 Stupid adult stuff . . . lol I've got the Arcade1Up cabinet and the Cowabunga Collection on Steam, so I've got ways to play this game anyway, but a miniature replica is still cool. I kind of wish MyArcade would release TMNT.
Adulting is not recommended. It often has a negative impact on my hobbies, too! 😁
@@GenXGrownUp 💯 About the only good part about being an adult is I can use the stove unsupervised. I like to cook, so it's nice to be able to do that whenever I want. lol
Great video. I always enjoyed playing that game.
Same here!
This game was so great.
Still is. 😀
I remember running into this back in the day and of course loved the turtles and all....but I'd rather go for a double dragon arcade.....or better yet smash tv.
Loved the review. These are great but the retail price on it is just too high, I feel anyway
Fair enough! Thank you for watching! 😁
Great video Jon! I'll stick with my Nintendo Switch Cowabunga Collection in a Arcade Mini Cabinet with a Hori Fighting Stick Mini which cost me around £60 for everything excluding the Switch Console :-) If I ever win the lottery though ... ;-) Keep up the awesome work!
I get it - it's quite an investment but for the right type of fan, it's probably an insta-buy!
For sure but you know us Scots are famed for our short arms and deep pockets ;-)
Coool!! Beautiful unit! Glad to hear of a fellow Donatello! 😎
#Don4Life
Were there start buttons on the OG cabinet or no?
No, your turtle's attack button served as START.
I have seen Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade cabinet ,however I have yet to play this
I played Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time the Arcade version and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist for the Sega Genesis
My fifth birthday was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles themed party
Excellent review as always!
I appreciate that! 😁
Digging the graphic special effects. 👍🏻
That was just me vibrating with excitement! 😜
Isnt there a version with Turtles in Time included for around the same price?
This is that one. Turtles in Time is a choice at boot-up. I definitley didn't do a good job of calling that out. Sorry!
@@GenXGrownUpSo it has two turtles games included for the same price then instead of what you said at 15:18 ?
@@bigbabatunde1218 That's right. I was mistaken. Turtles in Time is also included.
@@GenXGrownUp Good for people to know.
It sounded to me as if it was gonna get a 5 token review listening to all your positive comments. Why not 5 tokens? :)
I don't always have specific complaints or problems that mathematically lead to my token rating. It's more of an overall feeling of quality, value, fun, and probably a few other things. Not being a huge TMNT fan also probably played into it. Thank you for watching! 😁
Radical dude!
Totally tubular!
It would be cool if they would have made it bigger / with bigger screen sticks & bigger buttons / & actually have it to insert the little coins in it for credits / like the Ghouls in Ghost they did / especially for the price it is / its kind of expensive
The Ghouls and Ghosts cabinet is a smaller 1:6 scale from New Wave Toys. The Quarter Arcades from Numskull are about 50% larger which makes them more playable, but also more expensive.
I kind of prefer Replicades for the lower price and all the extra features they pack in (like coins and coin operation, and HDMI out), but I still love my Polybius, Dig Dug, Pac-Man, Galaga, and Space Invaders pt II Quarter Arcades. Jon is spot on in his review: They are expensive, but not overpriced.
@@ThorKCade / i think its over priced / but that’s just my opinion / if it was a little bigger then it would have been the right price / but if you like paying that price for it thats you / but not me
No single product is going to please everyone. If you're looking for a larger device, Arcade1Up's offerings may be more to your liking.
@@jayjayshowcaser5859 If you think Quarter Arcades are overpriced, you should see the prices for 18” quarter scale figures (ie. Equivalent size and detail) from Sideshow Collectibles-prices START as low as $500.
For the quality and level of detail that Numskull and New Wave Toys put into their products, they can be too expensive for many casual fans, but as collectible replicas, they hold or increase in value over time pretty well.
As Jon said, if having something closer to the size of a real arcade machine is more important to you than having a detailed replica, Arcade1Up has some great options, but based on the quality of materials that you use to put together an A1U, they are relatively inexpensive but often still overpriced in my opinion.
If you can find an A1U Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cabinet for the same price or less than the Quarter Arcade, it would be a great choice since you get both games and online play. But when you decide that it is taking up too much space in your home and want to try to resell it, the QA is going to be easier to store and ship and would likely fetch a higher resale price.
I like turtles
Hey John it’s Jayden nice to talk to you again buddy
Howdy, Jayden!
so ... 6 inch screen ... 4 people playing on an iphone .. thank god they have usb for add on controllers!
Haha! I can only imagine the pitch meeting where somebody said, "You don't really expect four people to be able to crowd around that, do you?!" It might be fun to do once, but with controllers it becomes quite comfortable.
How are ya’ll selling unlicensed tmnt, etc shirts like that and being so bold about it 😂😂
All legal and above-board.
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more like 1/6 scale lol
New Wave produces 1/6 scale. These are 1/4.
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