The #1 rule of pretty much any GnG game is get the knife, keep the knife. And yes, this game is evil, insanely difficult, and addicting. Great job on getting it working again!
Oh what???? That’s literally the cabinet I played to death at our local handy mart 30+ years ago. I have not seen it since. Absolutely amazing to see. Thank you for sharing!!!!
Fun fact about Ghosts and Goblins: It does, in fact, hate you. When it was originally in development, the devs repeatedly asked the testers "So, what did you think about this part?" and then they went out of their way to make that one part even harder. Over and over again.
That is a very interesting cabinet! That is a super cool find! Love the music in Ghosts and Goblins. Its like Satan's Hollow and Little shop of Horrors got together and hatched an offspring!
Like Joe, I'm also lucky to be working at a place playing and fixing arcade machines. We have about 950 machines in total and plenty to still fix, so no shortage of work there...
I played this at our local pizza parlor when I was a kid. Along with Super Mario Bros and Castlevania. It's what spurred me to beg my dad for an NES. Really cool to see it in an arcade cabinet again!
I used to play this all the time as a youngster. Loved this game! 😂😂😂 This & Shenobi would be side by side at my local Asian take away store & would sit there eating Chines food & playing both these games all day! Was awesome! 😂
This version of GNG could be Romstar’s conversion kit version, designed to be installed in Pac-Man or other Namco-style cabinets, Centipede, Defender, and other cabinets.
Interesting that although the game is 'Ghosts 'N Goblins' (Ghosts being plural), the artwork on the control panel reads 'Ghost 'N Goblins'. I got an exteme nostalgia spike hearing that music . . . Oh my . . . - Took me right back to my local arcade in '85.
The CPO artwork looks custom, but there is a funny coincidence here - Literally no chance whoever made the cab would have known this, but one of the sets emulated in MAME is a prototype [Set name gngprot] that also calls the game "Ghost'n Goblins".
The GnG series is probably my favourite arcade game series, but I've never been much of a gamer so I've only ever gotten through it by cheating. It's the art, the atmosphere, the music, the level design that gets me. It all comes together with such amazing creativity... The punishing difficulty was never a plus for me
I have repaired several of these pcb's, bootlegs and originals. There are 3 layers if I remember correctly, sprite background and text. There is also a FLIP signal that flips these layers. Looks like a problem with the FLIP signal on one or 2 of the layers. Even though the game works now, it's still "BROKE" and you might run into trouble in the future. My suggestion is to look at this signal in all three layers, shouldn't be too difficult to repair.
@@Sam-Lawry everyone keeps saying cocktail mode, did you see how the text was right but the picture was upside down? have you ever played a cocktail table? Manual had a "inverted dipswitch" for some reason Thanks for watching!
@@LyonsArcade That's how the cocktail mode works. in cocktail mode it just flips the "play-field" but it leaves the Text where it lays. to test for it you need to be in 2 player mode and it should flip the "play-field" if it's in Cocktail mode.
Joe does a great job with these videos. I always rediscover these games when he repairs them, I fire up the emulator and play along with Ron. Thanks guys
Really neat conversion! Reminds me of the single player Neo Geo MVS I put together from an old “Magical Touch” cabinet. Thought it was a Battlezone cab at first, my dad has one and it made me think of it.
When I purchased my 1st Nintendo game system back in the day I bought Ghost N Goblins never played it before ,I quickly became very frustrated with it ,took it out of the player and slammed it across the room. Later after calming down I finally made it through a few levels. This game will test your patience lol
After watching "The Angry Video Game Nerd Channel" you have to complete the game twice to finish it. The first run through is called an illusion. They make you start from the beginning and do it all over again. After the second play through the game finally finishes. Crazy!!
My Grandma had this cabinet in her movie theatre in the 80s. It was a Ms. Pacman. It had side art only on the lower half, art on the front, and a mini top marquee in addition to the lower one. Pretty sure it was bought straight from Bally who operated an Alladins Castle arcade directly across the mall from the cinema.
Great job filming the CRT. Never seen this style of cabinet before. If you wanted to build one for home use this is a much better style with a CRT. Sure you lose the marquee but I could live with that.
Completed this on original arcade so many times as a kid . Never on the consoles years later now I’m an adult 😂 this and gauntlet personal favs on arcade
Game looks nice in a small cabinet like that. I have a bootleg Gng board and a similar shaped 8-liner cab sitting around. Might have to put one of these together 🤔
maan my favorite arcade Game from my teens 87-88, this sucked all my wages weekly for long time but my best friend and i got to end eventually..empty pockets but we were proud to get to finish..
If you want to punish yourself, this is a great game for that. The dagger is a better weapon in this game, try to avoid other weapons. When you get to the end and beat the boss feeling all good, think again you'll have to do it all over again just to beat the game. 😂
That was a weird initial bug in the game. Not sure how the dip switch would even rotate the scrolling layer and sprites, and leave the foreground layer the right way up! Any game would swap all of them at once so the person playing can see their score the right way up!
I went to a theme park called Alton Towers in England in the mid '80s and they had loads of these caberet games with all different boards in them but they also had side art and an unlit marquee topper. That game was weird! the title was the correct way up but the gameplay was upside down, that is something I have never seen before, I thought it was a bootleg board as I had one of these games and the board was very different, I was thinking that the video was created on the separate boards one for the gameplay and another for the text, that's weird!
I'd just like to say a couple things on the 13" G07 flybacks; the replacement 19" flybacks technically aren't suitable to replace the 13" ones (can overvolt the tube); most people I know leave it alone on the 13" if it's not failed. SECONDLY, the white wire that comes off the flyback and goes up to the screen/focus controls should be routed through the body of the flyback and cut shorter (As noted on arcadepartsandrepair's item page). Also, GLWS! Saw this on CL!
You are correct, but there's a few caps you can change to make the 19 inch flyback work Been capping G07's this way for 25 years never had a issue with the screen/focus control This machine sold within 24 hours Thanks for watching we appreciate it!
had a version of this for one of the 8 bit computers - there was no intermediate stage where you lose the armour but fight on naked - this one went straight to bones
I have never seen a Ghosts & Goblins game that looks like that. Someone at some point had to switch out the boards from one game and put them in another.
You could take the buttons out. Get a bunch of good photos. Get one straight on photo. Take it into photoshop and get to work. Then make a printout and place it over the original paintwork. (DO NOT USE ADHESIVE PAPER). This will help preserve the original work by shielding it from light and give a new high quality result.
I have the NES version, exact same game, it was difficult AF... I never managed to make it past the first level after months of trying as a young teen.
Don't you just love the Cabaret machine? I have three (Missile Command ,Gorf, and Battlezone) and if there is ever a pain in the butt machine to work on? It's a Cabaret cabinet. Back breaking, and due to the smaller footprint, much more heat prone. I've had to do extensive mods like fans, solder reflow, and ribbon cable changes just to keep up. They are fun, but, and especially with Atari Cabaret, the damn things are like a Ferrari, fun as hell when working, a true testament of torture when not working. At least the PCB's are standard, and don't have SMC soldering. But parts are HARD to find. Especially 6502 chips, 2112 SRAM chips. Then new chips and components are not always standard. And God save you if you need a power supply rebuild or a CRT regeneration.
I don't know where that kit came from, Joe but l have learned Ghosts & Goblins came out in 1985 and is part of a series. The cabinet and original game came out in 1980.
I wonder who made that CPO. The art is a giveaway that it wasn't made by Capcom. I had a weird cabaret MsPac once that had really bizarre art.....wish I had taken a pic of it.
I remember seeing a short woodgrain cabinet like that but it had a game that was more akin to beamrider or something but I forget the name of the actual game, it was early like 1978-80.
The 60 in 1 Multicade boards, in the description of them it says they can work off a standard power supply in the original cabinets or it can accept an ATX molex standard 12/5 volt connector for power and it has a 15 pin VGA connector. It also says it has 2 trackball connections. Is it possible to run the board without the original board that the game had ? The edge connector looks like it plugs into the original cabinet connector and would have the joystick and button wires and the power supply and the coin door wires and the CGA or TV output that would go to the original CRT in a cabinet, but it sounds like this board can work on its own without any of the original hardware and could have an aftermarket joystick and button wired to the board through the 2 trackball connectors. Is that possible ? Could you make a cabinet and put in an LED monitor and have a fully functional multicade cabinet with just an ATX power supply and a joystick and button? I don't see anything about how it gets the 1 or 2 players active or selected. I imagine that original edge connector had the 1 or 2 player buttons wired into it. It would be nice to see custom cabinets made on the CNC machine and have these 60 in 1 boards wired up in them. I wonder how smoothly they play. The MAME emulator on a PC runs the games smoothly but I don't know what processor power these boards have.
I've answered your previous remark on the 60 in 1 board as well. It's called an Icade, not Multicade, the Multicade is a different board. The 60 in 1 runs quite an early version of Mame and the games are pretty good but not perfectly emulated. especially the sound is off on some games, but the games are quite acceptable to most people, except Arcade purists. What you say is partially true. You can use a normal pc power supply and hook up the VGA to a monitor, You will still need to wire joysticks and buttons to the edge connector, but then you can play the games as if on an arcade machine. To get around the boards menu you'll need to hook up more than one fire button, though. Also you cannot use the trackball inputs for regular buttons. Those are on there for trackball games like Super Breakout, Many people make or buy cabinets with these Icade boards in them. If you think it'd be nice to see cabinets cnc'd and run these boards all you have to do is look around on the internet, you should find them quite easily.
That design looks like a centuri game like phoenix or eagle maxi. That front plate was probably remade maybe the original coin door got kicked in or damaged
I noticed there was a bit of fold over at the bottom of the screen. Gives everything at the bottom a curl to the right. Other than that, the game looks and plays awesome! I'd have been cussing a lot more had I been playing!
The #1 rule of pretty much any GnG game is get the knife, keep the knife. And yes, this game is evil, insanely difficult, and addicting. Great job on getting it working again!
Yup, if you accidentally get the torch or hatchet, might as well reset and start over. :)
Oh what???? That’s literally the cabinet I played to death at our local handy mart 30+ years ago. I have not seen it since. Absolutely amazing to see. Thank you for sharing!!!!
21:47 that High Scores table 😂
Fun fact about Ghosts and Goblins: It does, in fact, hate you. When it was originally in development, the devs repeatedly asked the testers "So, what did you think about this part?" and then they went out of their way to make that one part even harder. Over and over again.
I always play ghosts and goblins upside down it makes it more challenging
That is a very interesting cabinet! That is a super cool find! Love the music in Ghosts and Goblins. Its like Satan's Hollow and Little shop of Horrors got together and hatched an offspring!
Oh man, I would love to work at your place there Joe!! Doing this kind of work would be so much fun. I think I'd learn so much from you.
Like Joe, I'm also lucky to be working at a place playing and fixing arcade machines. We have about 950 machines in total and plenty to still fix, so no shortage of work there...
I played this at our local pizza parlor when I was a kid. Along with Super Mario Bros and Castlevania. It's what spurred me to beg my dad for an NES. Really cool to see it in an arcade cabinet again!
Ron, you did a heck of a lot better at that game than I ever did. I could never get past the graveyard level.
Me either. I've only ever played it on my old Commodore64 and my Pandora's Box emulator machine.
I used to play this all the time as a youngster. Loved this game! 😂😂😂 This & Shenobi would be side by side at my local Asian take away store & would sit there eating Chines food & playing both these games all day! Was awesome! 😂
That was great, I enjoyed watching the repair and the play time very fun but tough game.
That game always drove me nuts. Brutal.
I remember these cabinets in the 80's in Australia, Mainly in pubs. That cab was used for digital poker amongst other gambling type games.
This version of GNG could be Romstar’s conversion kit version, designed to be installed in Pac-Man or other Namco-style cabinets, Centipede, Defender, and other cabinets.
Amazing gem. I’d love to have this. A mat mania that Todd had would be just as sick
those Arcade Machines still to this day look so damn cool
Interesting that although the game is 'Ghosts 'N Goblins' (Ghosts being plural), the artwork on the control panel reads 'Ghost 'N Goblins'.
I got an exteme nostalgia spike hearing that music . . . Oh my . . . - Took me right back to my local arcade in '85.
The CPO artwork looks custom, but there is a funny coincidence here - Literally no chance whoever made the cab would have known this, but one of the sets emulated in MAME is a prototype [Set name gngprot] that also calls the game "Ghost'n Goblins".
Ghosts and Goblins one of my favourite arcade games next to Renegade..good buy there Joe
Mine was Gauntlet, could play for hours and hours!
The GnG series is probably my favourite arcade game series, but I've never been much of a gamer so I've only ever gotten through it by cheating. It's the art, the atmosphere, the music, the level design that gets me. It all comes together with such amazing creativity... The punishing difficulty was never a plus for me
Nice. I really like GnG in that lil cab,works well.⚡️
I have repaired several of these pcb's, bootlegs and originals. There are 3 layers if I remember correctly, sprite background and text. There is also a FLIP signal that flips these layers. Looks like a problem with the FLIP signal on one or 2 of the layers. Even though the game works now, it's still "BROKE" and you might run into trouble in the future. My suggestion is to look at this signal in all three layers, shouldn't be too difficult to repair.
Also the cocktail table mode
@@Sam-Lawry everyone keeps saying cocktail mode, did you see how the text was right but the picture was upside down? have you ever played a cocktail table?
Manual had a "inverted dipswitch" for some reason
Thanks for watching!
@@LyonsArcade That's how the cocktail mode works. in cocktail mode it just flips the "play-field" but it leaves the Text where it lays. to test for it you need to be in 2 player mode and it should flip the "play-field" if it's in Cocktail mode.
Joe does a great job with these videos. I always rediscover these games when he repairs them, I fire up the emulator and play along with Ron. Thanks guys
Thanks for watching!
Really neat conversion! Reminds me of the single player Neo Geo MVS I put together from an old “Magical Touch” cabinet. Thought it was a Battlezone cab at first, my dad has one and it made me think of it.
Great play through too,btw.😅 That was fun.
When I purchased my 1st Nintendo game system back in the day I bought Ghost N Goblins never played it before ,I quickly became very frustrated with it ,took it out of the player and slammed it across the room. Later after calming down I finally made it through a few levels. This game will test your patience lol
After watching "The Angry Video Game Nerd Channel" you have to complete the game twice to finish it. The first run through is called an illusion. They make you start from the beginning and do it all over again. After the second play through the game finally finishes. Crazy!!
That's right I know who thought up this crazy idea for this game & he truly was a devious man! Ahahaha (insert evil laugh here😂)
cool my friend used to do a lot of conversions back in the day i value he efforts of those whom done such work
My Grandma had this cabinet in her movie theatre in the 80s. It was a Ms. Pacman. It had side art only on the lower half, art on the front, and a mini top marquee in addition to the lower one. Pretty sure it was bought straight from Bally who operated an Alladins Castle arcade directly across the mall from the cinema.
Looks like you're playing an Australian Ghosts and Goblins LOL
Great job filming the CRT. Never seen this style of cabinet before. If you wanted to build one for home use this is a much better style with a CRT. Sure you lose the marquee but I could live with that.
Great game. Great fix. Yep this was a hard one. Always robed credits off of me. You could have gone broke playing it. Bob.
Mega swear! 😀 So flippin hard! They're nice looking cabinets though.
Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.
wow i havent heard those sounds in decades
"every time there is a bag of money something bad is about to happen."
Life lessons from a video game healer.
"i'm ol Greg" "did ya see ma downstairs mix up?" "i'm ol Greg"
To me it looks like an Exidy Targ cabaret... could be wrong, but wow, just thinking of that takes me back!
19:00 Aha! I assumed Targ because of the black T-molding, but it may gave been replaced also
A sink problem?? Donnie has heaps..buy one off him!!! 😁..oh wait he's your brother..just take one..he'll never notice😉
I grew up in a small town in northern Ontario Canada. Every arcade had that cabaret style casing .
Joe, there is another arcade repair channel that thinks only Ron does the videos! Lol, I set him straight
Completed this on original arcade so many times as a kid . Never on the consoles years later now I’m an adult 😂 this and gauntlet personal favs on arcade
This video is awesome.
Pretty sure you're correct on the Missle Command cab.. even still has its volcano buttons, very neat.
Game looks nice in a small cabinet like that. I have a bootleg Gng board and a similar shaped 8-liner cab sitting around. Might have to put one of these together 🤔
That cabinet is an Exidy Spectar or Targ & yes, they did use a Midway coin door on those cabarets.
"Same people that like DEFENDER"....LOLs!!!!! Can't tell you how many quarters I lost on that game trying to figure it out!!!
maan my favorite arcade Game from my teens 87-88, this sucked all my wages weekly for long time but my best friend and i got to end eventually..empty pockets but we were proud to get to finish..
It's really nice
If you want to punish yourself, this is a great game for that. The dagger is a better weapon in this game, try to avoid other weapons. When you get to the end and beat the boss feeling all good, think again you'll have to do it all over again just to beat the game. 😂
That was a weird initial bug in the game. Not sure how the dip switch would even rotate the scrolling layer and sprites, and leave the foreground layer the right way up! Any game would swap all of them at once so the person playing can see their score the right way up!
I found a manual for a bootleg version and for some reason it has a "inverted" dipswitch
I went to a theme park called Alton Towers in England in the mid '80s and they had loads of these caberet games with all different boards in them but they also had side art and an unlit marquee topper.
That game was weird! the title was the correct way up but the gameplay was upside down, that is something I have never seen before, I thought it was a bootleg board as I had one of these games and the board was very different, I was thinking that the video was created on the separate boards one for the gameplay and another for the text, that's weird!
Wow, that one is tough. Hope you enjoyed that, but I don't know why you would have 😄 The things you come out with. Cone on now
I did a cab almost like that into a ms pac. Great vid.
It's not converted from a 1942 machine at all is it?
I never even knew this cabinet existed for the notorious Ghost N Goblins. 👻👹🗡
I'd just like to say a couple things on the 13" G07 flybacks; the replacement 19" flybacks technically aren't suitable to replace the 13" ones (can overvolt the tube); most people I know leave it alone on the 13" if it's not failed. SECONDLY, the white wire that comes off the flyback and goes up to the screen/focus controls should be routed through the body of the flyback and cut shorter (As noted on arcadepartsandrepair's item page). Also, GLWS! Saw this on CL!
You are correct, but there's a few caps you can change to make the 19 inch flyback work
Been capping G07's this way for 25 years never had a issue with the screen/focus control
This machine sold within 24 hours
Thanks for watching we appreciate it!
Are the graphics hand drawn where the buttons are in your experience with Capcom products?
You forgot the classic lesson of Ghosts n' Goblins - get the knife, avoid every other weapon.
Were the dipswitches set to cocktail table mode, or something? So you could play it from either direction on one of those sit-down cabinets?
I wonder if that cabinet was originally one of the laserdisc games with that extra panel being where the laserdisc player used to go.
That is one of the funniest aggravating games ever made ❤😤
had a version of this for one of the 8 bit computers - there was no intermediate stage where you lose the armour but fight on naked - this one went straight to bones
King of the Hill had some truth ti. Remember watching Zenith TV's RCA tv's and Magnavox TVs
Ghosts 'n' Goblins. -Hell yeah I'd be interested! I'd have to hide my excitement.
I have never seen a Ghosts & Goblins game that looks like that. Someone at some point had to switch out the boards from one game and put them in another.
I just love to listen to this guy very funny
Maybe a tempest? Rally X
Could be an irish made atari cabinet
I remember having seen a ghosts 'n' goblins in an upright cabinet in 1985.
You could take the buttons out. Get a bunch of good photos. Get one straight on photo. Take it into photoshop and get to work. Then make a printout and place it over the original paintwork. (DO NOT USE ADHESIVE PAPER). This will help preserve the original work by shielding it from light and give a new high quality result.
Battle Zone Looks like it to me honestly. But Spectar is pretty rare! lol and those start button look like a Wizard of Wor starts lol Looks like mine
if i were going to get an arcade cab it would def be something like, this, nice and small, with hand painted art and at bootleg board, personality+.
I wonder if some of those dip switches set difficulty level? I don't remember the arcade being that brutal
I have the NES version, exact same game, it was difficult AF... I never managed to make it past the first level after months of trying as a young teen.
Don't you just love the Cabaret machine? I have three (Missile Command ,Gorf, and Battlezone) and if there is ever a pain in the butt machine to work on? It's a Cabaret cabinet. Back breaking, and due to the smaller footprint, much more heat prone. I've had to do extensive mods like fans, solder reflow, and ribbon cable changes just to keep up. They are fun, but, and especially with Atari Cabaret, the damn things are like a Ferrari, fun as hell when working, a true testament of torture when not working. At least the PCB's are standard, and don't have SMC soldering. But parts are HARD to find. Especially 6502 chips, 2112 SRAM chips. Then new chips and components are not always standard. And God save you if you need a power supply rebuild or a CRT regeneration.
I don't know where that kit came from, Joe but l have learned Ghosts & Goblins came out in 1985 and is part of a series. The cabinet and original game came out in 1980.
Hilarious Ron. thanks foe the Laughs
Doesn't that version have the double jump?
Rule #1 Get the knife
Rule #2 Get the knife
Rule #3 GET THE KNIFE
-AVGN
I wonder who made that CPO. The art is a giveaway that it wasn't made by Capcom. I had a weird cabaret MsPac once that had really bizarre art.....wish I had taken a pic of it.
I was thinking it was homemade by a/the former owners. Looks hand painted?
you scrapped a vintage power cord :o
11:24 table top game mounted a in cabinet it seems.
I remember seeing a short woodgrain cabinet like that but it had a game that was more akin to beamrider or something but I forget the name of the actual game, it was early like 1978-80.
That is bizarre.
Yes pls yes!
Just remember the 3 rules of beating Ghosts and Goblins:
1. Get The Knife
2. Get The Knife
3. Get The Knife
:)
Hey Joe!!
The 60 in 1 Multicade boards, in the description of them it says they can work off a standard power supply in the original cabinets or it can accept an ATX molex standard 12/5 volt connector for power and it has a 15 pin VGA connector.
It also says it has 2 trackball connections.
Is it possible to run the board without the original board that the game had ?
The edge connector looks like it plugs into the original cabinet connector and would have the joystick and button wires and the power supply and the coin door wires and the CGA or TV output that would go to the original CRT in a cabinet, but it sounds like this board can work on its own without any of the original hardware and could have an aftermarket joystick and button wired to the board through the 2 trackball connectors.
Is that possible ?
Could you make a cabinet and put in an LED monitor and have a fully functional multicade cabinet with just an ATX power supply and a joystick and button?
I don't see anything about how it gets the 1 or 2 players active or selected.
I imagine that original edge connector had the 1 or 2 player buttons wired into it.
It would be nice to see custom cabinets made on the CNC machine and have these 60 in 1 boards wired up in them.
I wonder how smoothly they play.
The MAME emulator on a PC runs the games smoothly but I don't know what processor power these boards have.
I've answered your previous remark on the 60 in 1 board as well. It's called an Icade, not Multicade, the Multicade is a different board.
The 60 in 1 runs quite an early version of Mame and the games are pretty good but not perfectly emulated. especially the sound is off on some games, but the games are quite acceptable to most people, except Arcade purists. What you say is partially true. You can use a normal pc power supply and hook up the VGA to a monitor, You will still need to wire joysticks and buttons to the edge connector, but then you can play the games as if on an arcade machine. To get around the boards menu you'll need to hook up more than one fire button, though. Also you cannot use the trackball inputs for regular buttons. Those are on there for trackball games like Super Breakout, Many people make or buy cabinets with these Icade boards in them. If you think it'd be nice to see cabinets cnc'd and run these boards all you have to do is look around on the internet, you should find them quite easily.
That design looks like a centuri game like phoenix or eagle maxi. That front plate was probably remade maybe the original coin door got kicked in or damaged
I noticed there was a bit of fold over at the bottom of the screen. Gives everything at the bottom a curl to the right. Other than that, the game looks and plays awesome! I'd have been cussing a lot more had I been playing!
Joe, DON’T change the flyback on that 13” G07, or you may not get a full screen again.
There's a few caps you can change to make the 19 inch flyback work
I had a missal command that looked just like that. O ya hi Joe.
Never seen a G&G cabaret before. That is strange
Looks like a normal Australian cabinet
noice..
but that game is one of the hardest games i ever played...
Wow this game is insanely hard arcade NES and Super NES
Never heard of a spectar before
lol 21.41 the highscores hahaha
😂
I feel like I would’ve taken that board out and put spectar back in.
Does Walmart have them back in stock?
I've beat this game on 1 credit a few times, much nastier version than the JP one. Interesting cabaret, never thought 80s Capcom had these
Do you ever sell your repaired cabinets?
That's what we do
Thanks for watching!
Haven't finished the video but this is an Exidy Targ or Spectar cabaret