0:38: There’s going to be an arcade once again in the Apache Mall in Rochester, MN (which is BTW not even close to being a dead mall). The Machine Shed, who had locations in that mall and Centerplace Galleria downtown and now has a stand-alone location near the downtown area is bringing machines back. It will open September 1st.
Arkanoid never had a dedicated cabinet. It was only sold as a conversion kit, so you can find it in any type of cabinet. I have one that's in an original Astro Blaster cab that was then converted to Mr Do, then to Arkanoid. That blue and white design is gorgeous, though.
i remember playing Robotron waaaayback in the 80s, me and my friend would double up he would do the moving while i would do the shooting. ahhh, good times
It takes quite a bit of skill and knowledge to keep these machines going, especially the older ones. Very nice to see so many old games looking and working so well. I have a Gottlieb Big Casino and Bally Sun Valley bingo games, along with a couple IGT slots. I really enjoyed repairing and restoring them. Also brought back the memories of checking newspaper machines for quarters to take to the bowling alley to play pinball.
We have a restaurant that has probably 10 or 15 old arcade machines. I was partial to the pinball machine - mostly because I was somehow actually good at it. It has a nice mix of older games like Astroid, and some of the newer stuff before arcades died. Plus their food has large portions, and the price isn't bad - just stay away from some of their experimental food... Not everything can become fried food lol.
I wish I had known about this. I love playing old arcade games. Growing up in the 70s and 80s, I spent so much time at stand alone arcades and remember so many arcade games at the local (El Paso, Texas) bowling alleys and our skating rinks. I live in Phoenix, now, and would have gone to this.
This event happens every years you can always catch it next year 🙂 Also you'll want to keep an eye out for ZapCon in Phoenix. It's another convention in Phoenix but its focuses completely on arcade games. It has an amazing free play arcade area. Thanks for watching!
Enjoyed this video, my husband and I often talk about the old Arcades that used to be in Shopping Malls and how fun it used to be. My husband's eyes lit up when you showed the Star Wars Arcade Cabinet as he used to play that. "Sighs" memories, lots of good times, sadly now everything is home console gaming.
Fantastic - they have a similar event in Margate, Kent each Spring called Geekfest. As well as arcade machines they have games consoles from the 80s onwards. Looks like you folks were having a good time :-)
game on sure looked like a hell of a lot of fun!! that dig-dug cabinet (I think it's a cabaret) reminds me of the ones 1up arcade is planning on putting out seems to be about a similar size. those NES Nintendo-inspired cabs though, wow man seeing them up close that's pretty amazing! love the gold t-molding that he used on those looks pretty sharp!
You have an incredibly soothing voice. Also, i think these type of videos are better without the background noise. For me the ablity to focus on the image and hear the narration. If the background noise is there it is more chaotic. But that just might be me.
Oh man do I ever want either that Zelda or Mega Man cabinet... I looked up that new TMNT beat em up game and apparently it just came out this past April. I wonder where you could actually find one to play? Maybe someplace like Dave & Buster's?
I grew up in a restaurant with a bunch of arcade machine we had about 10 regular machines and about 6"Cherry Master"s😋(and yes the naughty ones) as well as billiard tables and pinball. I have been looking for a cocktail version of the old Popeye game for a while now.
That vector graphics "star wars" game was in a large flea market. This vendor had an arcade. I use to go into back in the early to mid 90s. I have doubts it is still there. And this flea market is still open during this covid craziness. Then again i live in texas. This flea market is called busseys. No i'm not going to anywhere like that anytime soon. But yeah that was a cool game.
Serious suggestion. Don't do a seamless entry into an ad in the middle of the video. If it didn't take so long for me to get out of full screen, thumbs up, go back to the home screen of TH-cam, and (nearly) end the video, I would have never realized I missed half the video. I'm not saying don't do ads, or even not to do them in the middle. Just try to prevent people from thinking it's the end of the video.
Maybe the guy who made up the Ducktales, Zelda, and Mega Man cabinet can work on Vs. Wild Gunman. We saw Wild Gunman in Back to the Future II and now we can see him make Vs. Wild Gunman.
Maybe another reason why malls are dying is because they are so boring. Nothing but clothes, shoes and jewelry. No more arcades, no more toy stores, no more hobby stores. There is nothing fun to do anymore.
6:02 older vs newer high tech? lmao, i saw the video screen ones back in 2000-2001 when I was in Japan. I guess you could say old vs very old. 8:21 use the force
I'd never even heard of, let alone seen, a 'cocktail' pinball machine. The most unusual pinball machine I've ever seen is Atari's (yes they did produce a few) Hercules: th-cam.com/video/8Q3CMnc5Jp0/w-d-xo.html Yes, it's yuuge, that's a cue ball!
I got to be honest I miss video game arcades That's What attracted us to the mall really to be honest when they took all the video game arcades out of the mall that ruined everything I think you know why they said they couldn't keep them supposedly that they can afford the arcade they weren't bringing in the cash that they were supposed to that's total f****** b******* I missed the true arcade the real deal the street fighter the Mortal Kombat Double Dragon the original one I miss games that were video games I'm talking about the playthrough games
so much nostalgia. the diner near my house used to have a asteroids lowboy, and there was a intencity arcade at the mall up until like 2003.
got love for classic arcade games!
Ms. Pac-Man is such a classic arcade.
0:38: There’s going to be an arcade once again in the Apache Mall in Rochester, MN (which is BTW not even close to being a dead mall). The Machine Shed, who had locations in that mall and Centerplace Galleria downtown and now has a stand-alone location near the downtown area is bringing machines back. It will open September 1st.
Suddenly, IAN! It's interesting how much videogaming and dead mall/urbex crossover there is...
Arkanoid never had a dedicated cabinet. It was only sold as a conversion kit, so you can find it in any type of cabinet. I have one that's in an original Astro Blaster cab that was then converted to Mr Do, then to Arkanoid.
That blue and white design is gorgeous, though.
i remember playing Robotron waaaayback in the 80s, me and my friend would double up he would do the moving while i would do the shooting. ahhh, good times
It takes quite a bit of skill and knowledge to keep these machines going, especially the older ones. Very nice to see so many old games looking and working so well. I have a Gottlieb Big Casino and Bally Sun Valley bingo games, along with a couple IGT slots. I really enjoyed repairing and restoring them.
Also brought back the memories of checking newspaper machines for quarters to take to the bowling alley to play pinball.
3:50 Zelda, Ducktales and Megaman cabinets, great designs and artwork.
We have a restaurant that has probably 10 or 15 old arcade machines. I was partial to the pinball machine - mostly because I was somehow actually good at it.
It has a nice mix of older games like Astroid, and some of the newer stuff before arcades died.
Plus their food has large portions, and the price isn't bad - just stay away from some of their experimental food... Not everything can become fried food lol.
Where at
@@Cbsaiyan - Filling Station Pub & Grill - g.co/kgs/CuWka6
Awesome overview of the convention, really eojoy this video 👍
pachinko rocks! love the sound of the balls falling
This brings me back to Long John Silver’s Arcade at Kildonan Place Mall in the 80’s and it’s later name Phantom Amusements, good times!
Those custom arcade cabinets of Zelda and Ducktales...I want those too! lol Wow those looked great!
I wish I had known about this. I love playing old arcade games. Growing up in the 70s and 80s, I spent so much time at stand alone arcades and remember so many arcade games at the local (El Paso, Texas) bowling alleys and our skating rinks. I live in Phoenix, now, and would have gone to this.
This event happens every years you can always catch it next year 🙂 Also you'll want to keep an eye out for ZapCon in Phoenix. It's another convention in Phoenix but its focuses completely on arcade games. It has an amazing free play arcade area. Thanks for watching!
@@RetailArchaeology when does Zapcon usually take place?!
Thank you so much for showing me that brought back some memories can't wait till your next adventure
Enjoyed this video, my husband and I often talk about the old Arcades that used to be in Shopping Malls and how fun it used to be. My husband's eyes lit up when you showed the Star Wars Arcade Cabinet as he used to play that. "Sighs" memories, lots of good times, sadly now everything is home console gaming.
Fantastic - they have a similar event in Margate, Kent each Spring called Geekfest. As well as arcade machines they have games consoles from the 80s onwards. Looks like you folks were having a good time :-)
Great video thank you for posting , Nice looking Ghostbusters Pinball 👌
Those Nintendo themed custom cabinets are great!
game on sure looked like a hell of a lot of fun!! that dig-dug cabinet (I think it's a cabaret) reminds me of the ones 1up arcade is planning on putting out seems to be about a similar size. those NES Nintendo-inspired cabs though, wow man seeing them up close that's pretty amazing! love the gold t-molding that he used on those looks pretty sharp!
You have an incredibly soothing voice. Also, i think these type of videos are better without the background noise. For me the ablity to focus on the image and hear the narration. If the background noise is there it is more chaotic. But that just might be me.
I loved the cruisin series of games
Oh man do I ever want either that Zelda or Mega Man cabinet...
I looked up that new TMNT beat em up game and apparently it just came out this past April. I wonder where you could actually find one to play? Maybe someplace like Dave & Buster's?
My favs are Robotron, Moon Patrol and Bump 'n Jump.
never heard of this i now have a reason to visit pheonix
I grew up in a restaurant with a bunch of arcade machine we had about 10 regular machines and about 6"Cherry Master"s😋(and yes the naughty ones) as well as billiard tables and pinball. I have been looking for a cocktail version of the old Popeye game for a while now.
That vector graphics "star wars" game was in a large flea market. This vendor had an arcade. I use to go into back in the early to mid 90s. I have doubts it is still there. And this flea market is still open during this covid craziness. Then again i live in texas. This flea market is called busseys. No i'm not going to anywhere like that anytime soon. But yeah that was a cool game.
Those arcade cabinets look awesome.
There is a Zelda arcade cabinet at High Scores Arcade in Alameda, CA.
My dream cabinet would be a 1984 Atari Marble Madness with the Trackball
Serious suggestion. Don't do a seamless entry into an ad in the middle of the video. If it didn't take so long for me to get out of full screen, thumbs up, go back to the home screen of TH-cam, and (nearly) end the video, I would have never realized I missed half the video.
I'm not saying don't do ads, or even not to do them in the middle. Just try to prevent people from thinking it's the end of the video.
2:04 A wild Pat and Ian appear! Quick someone throw a Pokeball at them! :P
Maybe the guy who made up the Ducktales, Zelda, and Mega Man cabinet can work on Vs. Wild Gunman. We saw Wild Gunman in Back to the Future II and now we can see him make Vs. Wild Gunman.
$24, how many Golds is that equivalent to, since the Faxanadu house/store theme was playing on the sponsor part?
Honestly, I wish we still made CRT monitors in general; the arcade games were better and the old monitors themselves were awesome, too.
I have that Karate Champ game. Mines in way better shape, very fun game though!
Maybe another reason why malls are dying is because they are so boring. Nothing but clothes, shoes and jewelry. No more arcades, no more toy stores, no more hobby stores. There is nothing fun to do anymore.
Love that Zelda game.
Ha ha Ian, love that podcast :)
Did that Dig Dug in the Moppet cab have an SNK rotary joystick installed?
Did you find Polybius?
Rick Harrison from Pawn Stars on the left in the beginning.
Still patiently waiting for a Cruis'n Blast Switch version...
6:02 older vs newer high tech? lmao, i saw the video screen ones back in 2000-2001 when I was in Japan. I guess you could say old vs very old.
8:21 use the force
I'm in phoenix as well, is there any up and coming expose or arcade bidding sales this year?
There's the Game On Expo Aug 5th-7th 🙂
@@RetailArchaeology thank you
any idea how much that zelda cabinet is?
Cool
Baby Pac-Man or was it Pac-Man Jr. was a cocktail table pinball machine.
Baby Pac-Man doesn't really count because it's sort-of a hybrid between a pinball machine and standard arcade game.
Never saw Dr. Mario as an arcade game.
A number of popular early NES games were adapted to the arcade and put in cabinets. The PlayChoice-10 at the end is one more example of this.
Anyone else buy an arcade 1 up? I just purchased a Galaga/Galaxian machine!
I'd never even heard of, let alone seen, a 'cocktail' pinball machine. The most unusual pinball machine I've ever seen is Atari's (yes they did produce a few) Hercules:
th-cam.com/video/8Q3CMnc5Jp0/w-d-xo.html
Yes, it's yuuge, that's a cue ball!
I got to be honest I miss video game arcades That's What attracted us to the mall really to be honest when they took all the video game arcades out of the mall that ruined everything I think you know why they said they couldn't keep them supposedly that they can afford the arcade they weren't bringing in the cash that they were supposed to that's total f****** b******* I missed the true arcade the real deal the street fighter the Mortal Kombat Double Dragon the original one I miss games that were video games I'm talking about the playthrough games