Zaccaria TRON Arcade Game Restoration And Repair - Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luuU2e3Hysg

Zaccaria TRON released in 1982 under license from Bally/Midway.

Part 2 of unknown…

 

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Zaccaria TRON Arcade Game Restoration And Repair - Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YGl-400LEU

Zaccaria TRON released in 1982 under license from Bally/Midway.

Part 1 of unknown…

 

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Arcade Club Launches In Haslingden

New Arrival - Namco Rally X (1980)

Namco Rally-X (1980) Joins Our Collection

In 1980, Namco released a four-way scrolling car chase maze-style game called Rally-X.  In the same style as Pac-Man, you run around collecting the flags, avoiding the bad guys and progressing through levels.

 

The screen is set into a maze and a radar and score – this is a style we’ll see again on the upgrade to this, inventively called New Rally X and then on Bosconian – a rare to find game.

Personnally, Rally X grates on me a bit, I like the game but ultimately i’m looking to convert it to New Rally X as the game is just more fun and the music is better.

I don’t remember seeing Rally X in the arcades back in the glory days but always saw New Rally X.

The game was found via an eBay auction with a dead monitor (flyback arcing like mad), so i’d been saving a Hantarex MTC900 14″ for a rainy day so gave it a service and cleaned up the machine.

Its been done just in time for Play Expo for our monster arcade – along with the Northern Lights Pinball guys there’ll be around 250 video games and pinball machines there.   Check out the event and see our videos on it if you missed it.

For now, enjoy this little video.

 

NERG 2014 (North East Retro Gaming Events)

Return to NERG

This weekend, July 5/6 2014 saw us at Gateshead International Stadium once again for NERG!

100 arcade machines, 50 pinballs, tons of consoles and computers and traders galore.

This year NERG was supporting the Bright Red charity fighting against blood cancer.

Here’s our walkaround video of the event.

 

NERG Future

NERG will return next year on July 20th and 21st 2015 at the same location, full details can be found on the website, and yes, we can confirm here we will be providing the bulk of the machines again.

 

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Day At The New Arcade - Ben's Day

Ben Joins The Team

Long time friend Ben Ridsdale has been sequestered onto the team for a while so we gave him the camera and said “follow us around at the arcade” and here’s what he came up with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzLa9l_EHZw

Not everything was filmed or usable but we hope you like our efforts to show you what’s going on

James was investigating an Atari Paperboy machine that kept resetting itself, which seems to be voltage related at first but then has some corrupt graphics to deal with.

Also we had a look inside the Super Off Road donated to us nearly 2 years ago by Ben Roscoe (ben76) – time flies when you’ve nowhere to keep a machine that size.

The left speaker on the OutRun Deluxe isn’t working, well, you can hear the music very faintly but its hissing like it should so the amplifier is probably working but nothing is getting there.

Crazy Taxi also got a once over, the one we picked up last year still doesn’t have any top end sound working but also the test and service buttons inside the coin door don’t work so there’s probably a wiring fault – have you ever had a NAOMI upright apart?

Some cab-tris was played to get to some things, we still haven’t found Return Of The Jedi in the clump of machines – a ladder and a zoom lens did find it but we couldn’t access it – it needs its power section sorting out as it resets when warm.

And lastly, to fix some Battlezone boards we brought the cabaret cab back to the old lair, as its a full rig with vector monitor, power supply board and loom, it should make sorting the problems out a bit easier.

We’re still loving the ghetto style wiring in that machine from the Play Blackpool event – it might not be factory – but it’s original and it works!

 

Arcade Build Blog: Why we're not getting a SEGA G-LOC R360

We’ve been getting a constant barrage of emails etc about this particular game and we’d like to dispel a rumour that is going around at the moment.

We can state with absolute certainty that we are NOT getting a SEGA G-LOC R360 at the new arcade.

There are a couple of reasons for this:

1) Design

When the designs for the build were done, we made a decision to close the ceiling in at the standard room height of eight foot (2.4m).

The doors from our loading bay are lower than this at standard door height.

We also have a supporting beam which runs horizontally across the building and comes lower than 8ft.

2) Placement

A SEGA G-LOC R360 would therefore require a specific space and could only be in one half of the arcade which would limit us considerably as we wanted to create an environment that could be changed regularly to keep the layout fresh and interesting.

3) Public Events

We just know that events are going to want this machine if we had it – given the OutRun Deluxe take 3-4 people to move it this would mean more.

We’ve chosen not to pursue one because of the size and transport requirements involved, the more of the bigger games you take, the less variety you can have unless you use more and more trucks to move things.

4) Power requirements

These beasts are BIG and have powerful motors and require a fair old bit of electricity to throw you around on them – and given that most people just spin around in it for 2 minutes you can imagine how much power it would draw.

We have a fairly meaty power supply at the new place but you have to balance out load and that’d mean a whole extra installation.

5) Lastly, availability

Ever tried finding rocking horse poop?  Yep, these are as rare.

Like with a lot of dedicated classic arcade games, unless the cabinet could get converted to something else then in a large number of cases, the game got smashed up.  That’s why there’s not that many Space Harrier sit-ins and Star Wars cockpits about anymore.

So that’s our 5 reasons we’re not going to be having one, now there’s an official blog entry about it, anyone asking, I can just direct them here.

Hope to see you all soon.

 

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