I have been doing free lance component level arcade pcb repairs for Gene for almost ten years. Man sends me boxes of broke boards to fix especially Konami boards. That Simpson pcb might have been the one I fixed. I know for a fact any TMNT he has sold in the last 2 years have been repaired by me.
Awesome video mate. That's cool seeing Star Rider again. I remember playing that in an arcade on St. Annes Pier near Blackpool in the UK. Must have been late 1986, maybe 87, on our family holiday there. It looked amazing and I remember being fascinated by it, but it was the only time I ever saw or played it. Until I found it again on UA-cam it was almost a case of "Did I imagine that game or did I really play it?" I don't remember being any good at it, but the backgrounds were so vivid and colourful and the little robot guy with a single eye giving you instructions at the start. Shame it did so poorly.
Hey john last week there was a huge arcade auction in Orange County 30 mile outside of LA lots of crazy stuff there over 300 games that they auction off. It was a shame you didn't go there. I think I saw that guy at another auction a couple of months ago.Great job on video
That was totally bad ass supershop. John's basement is also super duper bad ass ! I would like to visit you John some day and have a few drinks with you bro. And play some games ofc. Cheers from Sweden!
Wow, great video (as always, John). Man, I grew up not far from there (long beach), my brother lived a block from the Chinese Theatre a while back. I'm so sorry to hear about the medical incident, but I'm glad you're alright. As far as Star Rider, I don't recall ever seeing it, but Matt Ownby (Creator of Daphne & Dexter) was talking about it at CAX, last month. It looks really cool! Thanks for the feature, I'll try to swing by this awesome place, the next time I head down south. If you're ever in nor cal, look me up.
Awesome video John :) I love your road trip videos. I love battle zone and my dad used to have that game in his workshop but I can't remember what happened to it and I remember in my grandparents garage years ago it was full of old 70's pinball machines,it also had space invaders,breakout and a boothill original cabinet and he even had an old AMI continental jukebox that beautiful cabinet with the glass dome, but the good news is they all went to a guy in wexford here in Ireland for restoration. I didn't know you passed out omg! but im glad your OK :)
How did i miss this? i was in Glendale this time last year! There was an old arcade across from the mall, but it looked like they were in the process of closing down.
glad to hear your okay john, Def a scary thing to pass out, great video very entertaining and nicely shot. I'd love to buy or download the got alot of time ahead of me track playing on the flight back home. great tune!
Awesome video ,kool to see this guy is doing well. And very kool to see all those unique games....RazMaTaz kinda sparked my curiousity... Never heard of it??? Anyway thx... Glad your still alive Jon,,,keep on keeping on ,"""LONG LIVE ARCADES""later
Missed you last week, glad you're doing better. Wish the hospitals around here were as nice as the one you went to, my experiences with them have basically been if you're conscious you're healthy enough to get rushed out the door.
Amazing he's gone through all the arcade crashes and is still going. Is anyone making new monitors for these old units now because what will happen when all the old ones die? Flat screens just aren't the same. Having said that just seen the restored Star Wars cab that has an LCD. So I guess there is something that gives the effect of CRT?
LOL @ Moonwalker. I remember less than 90 days after I bought it new they were selling for less than the cabinet was worth. Haha, so glad I only bought one.
I know its a bit late but hope your feeling better :-) Enjoy your vids here in the UK, as arcades where never that diverse here you have very interesting vids.
I remember an arcade in Blackpool Lancashire United Kingdom in 1987 that had several Williams Star Rider sit down cabinets I think one of them might have worked like you and Gene said it must have been rare was difficult to maintain and came out after the Laser Disc arcade buzz was past it's heyday
Thank you very much for taking a tour of this amazing place. Now I know where to go on that long distance road trip, once I have my nearly inexhaustible source of money for that home arcade. (But, not in this lifetime.) A few prices did res up enough to see and there'd be no way I could budget any of them. But, one can dare to dream. At least, that's still free. And, I could easily fill a bit of my wish list from titles in that place. It's great to know that in some respects, the arcade is still surviving. And, how true with these 'bar-cades' coming about. I have visited one in Vegas. I do hope that's more the exception then the rule, though. As that place was obviously nabbing anything they could and placing it into operation. Machines in there were running the gambit of conditions. Dead controls. Poor monitor quality. Maybe audio. Beat up bodies. And a few space takers that were completely dead. A place you would want to avoid at all cost. As they were just a bunch of games with one foot in the virtual grave that were all begging for tons of TLC. I, too, once had a fainting spell. Came from an all night programming session of intense problem solving. Then, come about 9 am or so, I dared to stand up. Had just enough sense to aim for the comfy chair as I fell. Never did another one of those all night'er sessions, again. Things aren't fun. And...R.I.P., notoriously fragile Laser Disc player. Going to try for a rebuild, a replace or just swap out for the all digital version? After all, it's amazing the player lived all these years, as it was. Though, I can't help but be drawn to an early conclusion of it being a laser read issue, having no idea of what it's not doing and pulling experience from players like a DreamCast and PSx.
Thanks John, fantastic video... glad you ok! holy crap... i had no idea that the prices had reached that level $2000 - $5000. i bitch when the games are $600.... over here only the pins are that expensive... cheers till next week
I thought I was getting sick, but about 2/3 through I realized it was motion sickness. I guess I'm getting old. Still, this video fascinated me, especially the scenery. My parents lived in Glendale when I was born, but they moved so soon afterward that I have no memory of it. I grew up a midwesterner. I've been told that if things had gone just a little differently, they never would have moved. It's one of those little turning points that changes everything that follows. To this day I've never been there, so it's kind of like a window into what might have been "home" in some alternate reality. I don't like crowded cities but I love the natural scenery of the southwest. It's just incredibly comfortable to me.
That video was awesome John, I would love to find places like that over here, but the prices would be ridiculously over the top... Glad to hear you are ok mate...
Great vid as usual John. Glad you're ok after you fainted. I think its all the stress from the Journey cab restore ;) I wish the Pac Man/Ms Pac Man/Donkey Kong dedicated cabs were as plentiful over this side of the pond. All we seem to get in the UK are generic Silverline, Video Wizard cabs etc. Yuk!
Star Rider was awesome, I have been trying to remember what that game was called ever since I found your page......Another one I haven't seen around is Firefox which was also a laserdisc game.
Gene talking about star rider reminded me of a similar game I saw videos of on youtube, SEGA's GP Race. It was a laserdisc game but had bitmap graphics overlays for the cars, overlayed on top of LD footage of a real track, very interesting concept! (I believe GP Race is supported by Daphne but there's no sound, couldn't tell you on Star Rider though.) That warehouse though, wow! Talk about classic arcade heaven, huh? :P Yikes, didn't know about the hospital stay, good to see you're ok though! Great videos man.
John's Arcade Game Reviews & Tech TNT is pretty bad ass. I grew up not far from it and visited quite a few times. We used to get a kick out of the dude's badly produced commercials on the public access TV channel. I almost freaked the other day when I saw them advertising here on youtube.
Back in 1992 I was offered a sit down star wars cab for £50 from an arcade in great Yarmouth England. Unfortunately my family were moving to much to out it anywhere. I wonder how much it would now be worth if the Stand up is +$4000! They were throwing stand up cabs in a skip out the back! How things change
Skaters are never down for long. Great video, saw some games there I'd long forgotten existed, I'm gonna have to watch this one again and start noting down a few titles. You must have come away with something, even if it was just a marquee or a PCB.
Really enjoyed the vintage arcade tour. I'm guessing your blood pressure was low, at the time you got out of your car, and you stood up a little too quickly. Happened to me once, just getting up from the couch, too quickly. No fun. Glad you're fine. I think I played Star Rider in an arcade, back in the early 80s. If memory serves, you rode a motorcycle on a track that was floating in space.
Hey John, can you recall the name of the pin that was being worked on in the background of the video, around the 15:49 mark? Later on in the video you can hear him starting it up and playing it. 17:20 - 20:00 The reason I ask is because my late grandmother on my moms side had that same pin, and I have been trying to figure out the name for years. The sounds are exactly what I remember hearing as a kid.
Gene seems like a pretty cool guy. In the "Man Vs Snake" documentary, he was one of the experts that figured out why Dwayne Richards' Nibbler cabinet was running too fast.
At 8:44 with that lady sanding down the bondo... I want to know what she's using to keep dust from going everywhere because it seems like chunks are coming off instead of dust!! perhaps she sprayed it down with some kind of liquid??? I mean look at it!
Star Rider = favorite LD game of all time. My local arcade had the sitdown version. It was "inspired" by the speeder bikes from Return of the Jedi. Nice, trippy CG backgrounds. Star Rider is considered the Holy Grail of laserdisc games. It's also one of the games that will be supported by Dexter, and it's actually the main motivation for the creation of Dexter.
great vid. best of all was the great music and video montage, very atmospheric and just perfect. sorry to hear about your incident. too much exposure to simple green fumes, probably ;)
Star Rider looks awesome, doesnt look like it is emulated in Daphne, I hope this can be emulated one day so I can at least play it (laserdisc dump, roms, etc)
Dehydration in combination with getting up too fast causes a temporary drop in blood pressure, leaving the brain without enough oxygen and it shuts down for a second, then the next couple of heartbeats bring it up and you recover (iirc there was a related evolutionary failsafe mechanism that keeps blood for vital organs as long as possible, don't remember all the details but I bet mr. google knows)
Damn nice set of games, but wow, checking the prices on their website. Insanely high retail prices. $2,000 for a Donkey Kong not restored. $4,000 for a Dragon's Lair. No wonder Gene did not have a working Laser disc player for you, if he is moving those for $4,000 keep on selling. But I guess you have to charge those types of prices when you hire staff to get the work done. Thanks for the great video.
i wanna track how much games my kids play at home to show them how much money they would have been spending on my retro arcade build do u have any suggestions on a good counter?
All these places you go to John in LA are close to my home ..I seen a Arcade two player from Sega Genesis. . I'm not sure what game it is but I can get it for free it's on a rental lot in the backyard property owner said I can have it if I want it free. I'll take a photo of it and see if it's worth keeping
When he said "yes its broken" I felt that
I have been doing free lance component level arcade pcb repairs for Gene for almost ten years. Man sends me boxes of broke boards to fix especially Konami boards.
That Simpson pcb might have been the one I fixed. I know for a fact any TMNT he has sold in the last 2 years have been repaired by me.
Niceguy60.....do you have an email I can contact you at? I'm up in the bay area and am interested in having some games repaired.
I LOVE ARCADES....I CLOSED MY ARCADE 1995 ...HUNTINGTON PARK CA..THE V.A.S OWNER......THIS MAN IS A ROBERT....
John you make excellent videos, please don't stop!
Totally agree about "the young" (I feel old) guys wanting 90's stuff. Love my 90's era arcade games.
Wow 77 that's the year I was born! This guy is old school forreal!!!! Awesome!!!!!
great episode & what a place Gene has and what a nice chap letting you snoop around
It is wonderful to see there are people who dedicate their time fixing arcade machines and keep the golden age's legacy alive.
Awesome video mate.
That's cool seeing Star Rider again. I remember playing that in an arcade on St. Annes Pier near Blackpool in the UK.
Must have been late 1986, maybe 87, on our family holiday there. It looked amazing and I remember being fascinated by it, but it was the only time I ever saw or played it.
Until I found it again on UA-cam it was almost a case of "Did I imagine that game or did I really play it?"
I don't remember being any good at it, but the backgrounds were so vivid and colourful and the little robot guy with a single eye giving you instructions at the start. Shame it did so poorly.
Hey john last week there was a huge arcade auction in Orange County 30 mile outside of LA lots of crazy stuff there over 300 games that they auction off. It was a shame you didn't go there. I think I saw that guy at another auction a couple of months ago.Great job on video
This was so cool. I've been wanting to drive up there for awhile now and have a look. Very cool video man.
Really good to see you back on your feet my friend. Stay strong and keep putting out your awesome videos!
Thank you! :)
John's Arcade Game Reviews & Tech did you pass by 20th Century Fox Studios because Disney now owns 20th Century Fox
That was totally bad ass supershop. John's basement is also super duper bad ass ! I would like to visit you John some day and have a few drinks with you bro. And play some games ofc. Cheers from Sweden!
Great Video dude !
I am jealous of the guys who will watch these in a 100 years John and enjoy them as much as we have, stay safe man :)
Was looking for arcade games because I was having nostaglia moments, 😂 and I came across your page...love your channel! Subscribed!
Wow, great video (as always, John). Man, I grew up not far from there (long beach), my brother lived a block from the Chinese Theatre a while back. I'm so sorry to hear about the medical incident, but I'm glad you're alright. As far as Star Rider, I don't recall ever seeing it, but Matt Ownby (Creator of Daphne & Dexter) was talking about it at CAX, last month. It looks really cool! Thanks for the feature, I'll try to swing by this awesome place, the next time I head down south. If you're ever in nor cal, look me up.
That warehouse is huge! a treasure cove.
Really awesome video John!! I mean really awesome!!! Also Glad to hear that everything is well and your ok after getting out of the hospital.
Awesome video John :) I love your road trip videos.
I love battle zone and my dad used to have that game in his workshop but I can't remember what happened to it and I remember in my grandparents garage years ago it was full of old 70's pinball machines,it also had space invaders,breakout and a boothill original cabinet and he even had an old AMI continental jukebox that beautiful cabinet with the glass dome, but the good news is they all went to a guy in wexford here in Ireland for restoration.
I didn't know you passed out omg! but im glad your OK :)
Gene is such an awesome dude! another awesome video john
Awesome vid man. I've been meaning to check that place out. I've bought quite a few boards from Gene. After watching this, I'm def heading out there.
Thank you John, for this awesome video. Great montage also!!! keep it up!
Awesome video of that place, i was thinking you'd have bought the iRobot cab, glad you're ok, sounds like a vaso vagal episode to me.
local arcade here in Kc, mo had the battlezone game like that, loved that game. The arcade was called Funway Freeway, ten later Aladdin's castle.
All those games played man wow!! Also Glad to hear that your are alright and everything is going well for you man
How did i miss this? i was in Glendale this time last year! There was an old arcade across from the mall, but it looked like they were in the process of closing down.
I love the videos, I have to watch in parts or else I get motion sickness :( but I tough it through , its well worth it
Nice Tour John. For Neo Geo. I was a huge World Heroes Series fan
glad to hear your okay john, Def a scary thing to pass out, great video very entertaining and nicely shot. I'd love to buy or download the got alot of time ahead of me track playing on the flight back home. great tune!
Thanks! That song is on our album. Search for "The Kill Screens Science Fiction Movie"
+John's Arcade Game Reviews & Tech thanks will do!
Wow, Jean is a games guru! Thanks for making this vid, felt like we were poking around and discovering with you.
Awesome video ,kool to see this guy is doing well. And very kool to see all those unique games....RazMaTaz kinda sparked my curiousity... Never heard of it??? Anyway thx... Glad your still alive Jon,,,keep on keeping on ,"""LONG LIVE ARCADES""later
Missed you last week, glad you're doing better. Wish the hospitals around here were as nice as the one you went to, my experiences with them have basically been if you're conscious you're healthy enough to get rushed out the door.
Amazing he's gone through all the arcade crashes and is still going. Is anyone making new monitors for these old units now because what will happen when all the old ones die? Flat screens just aren't the same. Having said that just seen the restored Star Wars cab that has an LCD. So I guess there is something that gives the effect of CRT?
Star Rider was fun! One of the tracks had a Sinistar fly by.
Aww man i wish i knew you were coming out here! I live in burbank! Except i am on the east coast for work!
How could you not know about Star Rider haha I've had a couple in years past! You need to go to CAX next year!!!!
Awesome video John. Dont want to sound cheesy but you are entertaining as shit. Keep up the great work.
Awesome video John thanks! I really want that I Robot to but kinda hard as i'm in the UK!
Yeah, I wanted it too. :) He is shipping it to Japan.
LOL @ Moonwalker. I remember less than 90 days after I bought it new they were selling for less than the cabinet was worth. Haha, so glad I only bought one.
I know its a bit late but hope your feeling better :-)
Enjoy your vids here in the UK, as arcades where never that diverse here you have very interesting vids.
I went to L.A. over mid-winter break this year.
I literally lived right up the street from this place and never went to check it out...amazing.
I remember an arcade in Blackpool Lancashire United Kingdom in 1987 that had several Williams Star Rider sit down cabinets I think one of them might have worked like you and Gene said it must have been rare was difficult to maintain and came out after the Laser Disc arcade buzz was past it's heyday
Awesome video John!
John knows his games!A true gamer!
Thank you very much for taking a tour of this amazing place. Now I know where to go on that long distance road trip, once I have my nearly inexhaustible source of money for that home arcade. (But, not in this lifetime.) A few prices did res up enough to see and there'd be no way I could budget any of them. But, one can dare to dream. At least, that's still free. And, I could easily fill a bit of my wish list from titles in that place.
It's great to know that in some respects, the arcade is still surviving. And, how true with these 'bar-cades' coming about. I have visited one in Vegas. I do hope that's more the exception then the rule, though. As that place was obviously nabbing anything they could and placing it into operation. Machines in there were running the gambit of conditions. Dead controls. Poor monitor quality. Maybe audio. Beat up bodies. And a few space takers that were completely dead. A place you would want to avoid at all cost. As they were just a bunch of games with one foot in the virtual grave that were all begging for tons of TLC.
I, too, once had a fainting spell. Came from an all night programming session of intense problem solving. Then, come about 9 am or so, I dared to stand up. Had just enough sense to aim for the comfy chair as I fell. Never did another one of those all night'er sessions, again. Things aren't fun.
And...R.I.P., notoriously fragile Laser Disc player. Going to try for a rebuild, a replace or just swap out for the all digital version? After all, it's amazing the player lived all these years, as it was. Though, I can't help but be drawn to an early conclusion of it being a laser read issue, having no idea of what it's not doing and pulling experience from players like a DreamCast and PSx.
Thanks John, fantastic video... glad you ok! holy crap... i had no idea that the prices had reached that level $2000 - $5000. i bitch when the games are $600.... over here only the pins are that expensive... cheers till next week
That was so cool seeing the street fighter games in there.
Wow I love all the Arcade's
I thought I was getting sick, but about 2/3 through I realized it was motion sickness. I guess I'm getting old.
Still, this video fascinated me, especially the scenery. My parents lived in Glendale when I was born, but they moved so soon afterward that I have no memory of it. I grew up a midwesterner. I've been told that if things had gone just a little differently, they never would have moved. It's one of those little turning points that changes everything that follows.
To this day I've never been there, so it's kind of like a window into what might have been "home" in some alternate reality.
I don't like crowded cities but I love the natural scenery of the southwest. It's just incredibly comfortable to me.
well done show man. Great job. Ur the best bro. Keep doin what ur doin.
Great video as usual! Glad you are ok!!
That video was awesome John, I would love to find places like that over here, but the prices would be ridiculously over the top... Glad to hear you are ok mate...
Great vid as usual John. Glad you're ok after you fainted. I think its all the stress from the Journey cab restore ;) I wish the Pac Man/Ms Pac Man/Donkey Kong dedicated cabs were as plentiful over this side of the pond. All we seem to get in the UK are generic Silverline, Video Wizard cabs etc. Yuk!
Star Rider was awesome, I have been trying to remember what that game was called ever since I found your page......Another one I haven't seen around is Firefox which was also a laserdisc game.
Gene talking about star rider reminded me of a similar game I saw videos of on youtube, SEGA's GP Race.
It was a laserdisc game but had bitmap graphics overlays for the cars, overlayed on top of LD footage of a real track, very interesting concept! (I believe GP Race is supported by Daphne but there's no sound, couldn't tell you on Star Rider though.)
That warehouse though, wow! Talk about classic arcade heaven, huh? :P
Yikes, didn't know about the hospital stay, good to see you're ok though!
Great videos man.
oh, and John, you should visit Stop N play at Port Richey, Florida, on US Hwy 19
Great vid john. You should visit tnt amusements next time. Probs will be more local for you . Glad to know your better now
Yeah, I'd like to visit TNT also. I'll try to do that this year. :)
John's Arcade Game Reviews & Tech TNT is pretty bad ass. I grew up not far from it and visited quite a few times. We used to get a kick out of the dude's badly produced commercials on the public access TV channel. I almost freaked the other day when I saw them advertising here on youtube.
Oh man, I'm just now hearing about you fainting! Glad to hear you're okay! LA looks like such a neat place, would probably lose my mind in that store!
Vintage arcade is the best and you passed by Warner Bros. Amazing things you get to see in Hollywood
Back in 1992 I was offered a sit down star wars cab for £50 from an arcade in great Yarmouth England. Unfortunately my family were moving to much to out it anywhere. I wonder how much it would now be worth if the Stand up is +$4000! They were throwing stand up cabs in a skip out the back! How things change
Fainted ? Give pizza to the man !! The video was worth the wait, will "mame" Irobot to see why you were that excited for ^^
Passed right over that Metal Slug 2 Neo Geo cart. That things gotta be worth a small fortune.
Any clue what that black cab was that you stood next to when looking at the millipede (9:30 ish)
Skaters are never down for long. Great video, saw some games there I'd long forgotten existed, I'm gonna have to watch this one again and start noting down a few titles. You must have come away with something, even if it was just a marquee or a PCB.
I seriously left there with NOTHING. LOL. I didn't need anything. I was gonna get a NEO GEO cart but they were all lame. ;)
***** I already had that cart, though! :)
Superb collection of games "Only in America!"
A quarter on a string was great in that old frontier game back in the day, da da do , da da do , da da do!
I saw you passed an X-men cab. Love those. Any chance you can ask Gene if he can get his hands on a 6 player CPO?
Wow, didn't realize they went for that much! Guess I should finish up the artwork for my own repro then to help the masses!
wow, outrun cabs all over the place , awesome place:)
The Simpson Arcade, the best beat em up.
Candy cabs are really hot right now in some California arcade circles!
I kind of thought he might be wrong. :)
HAHA Nice.
Half of Captains Auctions was in those warehouses..
i can't believe how many parts and stuff was in there.
Another great vid John. Are you planning on doing anymore arcade game reviews/walkthroughs cos those are really cool?
Keep up the good work!
Really enjoyed the vintage arcade tour. I'm guessing your blood pressure was low, at the time you got out of your car, and you stood up a little too quickly. Happened to me once, just getting up from the couch, too quickly. No fun. Glad you're fine. I think I played Star Rider in an arcade, back in the early 80s. If memory serves, you rode a motorcycle on a track that was floating in space.
I noticed they mentioned robin William's. I wonder if this was record ed d before his death.
Also glad you are okay BTW, maybe all that stress and traveling you know, take a break every now and then...🤗
Great vid! How 7 people can find a way to justify a thumbs down is beyond me...
I have a few haters. Ohs, well. :)
Same here. There's a guy who dislikes whatever we put up. Sad life they lead. :)
I'm going to have to contact these guys to see if they've got a Exidy Fire One ROM card, they seem to have everything else
Hey John, can you recall the name of the pin that was being worked on in the background of the video, around the 15:49 mark? Later on in the video you can hear him starting it up and playing it. 17:20 - 20:00 The reason I ask is because my late grandmother on my moms side had that same pin, and I have been trying to figure out the name for years. The sounds are exactly what I remember hearing as a kid.
That machine is a Gottlieb Vulcan, I think.
I own a Gottlieb Grand Slam and it’s based on the same mechanics. They tend to reuse the mechanics, making multiple pins that sounds the same.
Gene seems like a pretty cool guy. In the "Man Vs Snake" documentary, he was one of the experts that figured out why Dwayne Richards' Nibbler cabinet was running too fast.
Dear John i wonder I'm can buy new in production of the original old arcade game machine?
Wow just Wow I thought your gaff was impressive John, damn Gene's place is like heaven! ***** impressive!
At 8:44 with that lady sanding down the bondo... I want to know what she's using to keep dust from going everywhere because it seems like chunks are coming off instead of dust!!
perhaps she sprayed it down with some kind of liquid??? I mean look at it!
I wondered the same thing. It is like a cheese grater.
hmm.... maybe she didn't let it sit for 30 minutes to harden, perhaps it actually comes off like *cheese* (lol) while still a little soft
+Gregory Themelis that's a rasp.
got a few empty cabs from gene, gave me a good deal, and he let me play in the nice side showroom
John's Arcade Game Reviews & Tech you seriously didn't know about star rider? I remember playing it in the arcades.
No, I didn't know about it. Really neat game.
Star Rider = favorite LD game of all time. My local arcade had the sitdown version. It was "inspired" by the speeder bikes from Return of the Jedi. Nice, trippy CG backgrounds. Star Rider is considered the Holy Grail of laserdisc games. It's also one of the games that will be supported by Dexter, and it's actually the main motivation for the creation of Dexter.
Awesome video.
1:29
a good view of my work, right before you go into the Pru tunnel.
Pretty awesome !!
great vid. best of all was the great music and video montage, very atmospheric and just perfect. sorry to hear about your incident. too much exposure to simple green fumes, probably ;)
Yeah, I need to stop drinking the stuff. I have been puking green. ;)
Oh, and thanks for the compliment on the music montages. I had a lot of fun trying to make that COOL. :)
Star Rider looks awesome, doesnt look like it is emulated in Daphne, I hope this can be emulated one day so I can at least play it (laserdisc dump, roms, etc)
I have heard the DEXTER project will be adding it.
wow nice video john :)
Dehydration in combination with getting up too fast causes a temporary drop in blood pressure, leaving the brain without enough oxygen and it shuts down for a second, then the next couple of heartbeats bring it up and you recover (iirc there was a related evolutionary failsafe mechanism that keeps blood for vital organs as long as possible, don't remember all the details but I bet mr. google knows)
Damn nice set of games, but wow, checking the prices on their website. Insanely high retail prices. $2,000 for a Donkey Kong not restored. $4,000 for a Dragon's Lair. No wonder Gene did not have a working Laser disc player for you, if he is moving those for $4,000 keep on selling. But I guess you have to charge those types of prices when you hire staff to get the work done. Thanks for the great video.
Just a few years late, but I'm glad your ok John
i wanna track how much games my kids play at home to show them how much money they would have been spending on my retro arcade build do u have any suggestions on a good counter?
Great vid
All these places you go to John in LA are close to my home ..I seen a Arcade two player from Sega Genesis. . I'm not sure what game it is but I can get it for free it's on a rental lot in the backyard property owner said I can have it if I want it free. I'll take a photo of it and see if it's worth keeping
great place CAS and it's about time you guys visit us her in Glendale,ca
hey John.. im goin to LA in march and wanna play some retro vintage arcade games from the 80's.. where is the BEST place to go there for this???