make sure you include the taito x2 and nesica systems. also the lord of vermillion, dance rush stardom, chunithm, nostalgia, gunslinger stratos, initial D, mario kart arcade, parapara paradise, etc
I can't wait to see more Arcade restore videos, I remember seeing Alex on Johns Sky Skipper video and I was a big fan of Johns Arcade, but he hasn't made any videos in ages. I current watch Joes Classic Video games to get my Arcade and Pinball repair video Fix.
Please get a face shield next time you or anybody else you know uses a pressure washer and if you want to get rid of water use a vacuum that has no problem with water and if you clean the ceiling or wipe it use the broadest and biggest tool you can handle like a flat mop at least 30 to 40cm wide and wipe the ceiling with it. Then throw the mops in the washing machine and continue with the floor and get a mop press to get the water out.
This is a large, collaborative undertaking, not something to be done alone, and called a "longterm project" without ever giving updates. Well done, guys. Looking great. You get things done.
I was born in 89 and remember razzle dazzle joke shop on Twickenham highstreet. My brother Alex is 14 years older and when i asked, he remembered the rescue cab at the Dazzle arcade. I cant wait to show him these vids. you might have known him haha.
Really warm feeling with Alex in your building adding to the whole Retro vibe. Good luck guys, very excited to see the progress! (ps - I agree Grey Walls would be about right for the main room, allowing some colour splash but dimming things down enough to allow the Games to shine)
You are correct, mopping just moves the dirt around. What you can do is what we do on dance floors in the theatre. Get a wide push broom and a hot wet towel and push the towel around in long stretches. That actually will clean your floor :)
Your area is turning into somewhere that I truly wish I could visit. The history, the fun, the sounds! All you need now are some dodgems to round it off nicely! 🤣 Brilliant work in turning a dream into a reality! I cannot wait to see what else materialises there.
The sounds of an arcade with all the multiple games playing at once is one of the most joyous sounds in the world , on my arcade cabinet I built with retro pi I had an audio playing of an arcade from the 80s compete with all the chatter it was awesome
Such an amazing project. I truly wish to be able to visit your cave someday, you guys did an amazing job with everything else so far. When I built my Home Theater I had prepared a room like this to make an arcade and a ticket booth, I removed an old fireplace made of 3 layers of bricks took me two weeks. But then we had a little surprise that came along and needed an extra room but I did get to keep the HT and squeezed two of the Arcade 1UP machines. Love watching the progress of all your projects.
Really neat that this is going up so close to the Cave! Yet another reason I need to get down there some time. Cool to learn that Gun Fight was the first arcade with a microprocessor also. I recently played that my first time on MiSTer with a friend when we were browsing games, and we played it just because it was simple old-school fun and easy to pick up. That was one of the first two-player games I recorded the session for YT also. Really glad I captured some gameplay now, knowing the history of it. Best of luck with everything going smoothly for the arcade build!
I remember visiting the arcade on the pier in my local town in the early 80's (I am old). It will be interesting to watch the progress on Alex's channel.
I want to go to both when I'm in England the first week of October. I think it'll be too early for the arcade, fingers crossed you will have a cave day while I'm there.
I played on the sprint 8, it was a very large game, with steering wheels all the way around, 2 on each side, i think it was in an arcade game place under a cinema(Bio 5) in Aalborg, Denmark.
I really feel this building should and could encompass all sorts of retro electronica. Perhaps a techmoan section for audio memorobilia too. I cannot wait to see this building develop and hopefully some time in the not to distant future I can arrange a visit too! :)
I would strongly recommend Dragon's Lair as a must and I would love to see Crossbow, Operation Wolf and Paperboy if you ever get those. I'm super excited to see the finished arcade :D
What an awesome idea. Sadly, the opening will be a month too late for me. I’m visiting from the US the first two weeks of September. I guess I’ll have to come back next year!
Amazing stuff, Alex looks like totally the right guy to be doing this, have subscribed to his chsnnell too. stick a coffee shop in the mill and I will never leave 😋
Sounds like an awesome place! I wish you nothing but success. Must haves: Pong, Asteroids, Gorf, Phoenix, Defender, Frogger, Galaga, Missile Command, Turbo, Donkey Kong.
Great to see this building slowly being filled out! Looks like there will be some great classic games there, I love the artwork on that Sprint 2 machine, it looks really 'of its time'. Should do a fundraiser for a full size sit down afterburner cabinet I reckon!
It's all very exciting, the area is coming along nicely, the progress videos are going to be excellent. We actually have quite a few Sprint machines here locally, including a Sprint 4 (one of the machines I used to play with my friends when we visited the local arcade). That Tempest cab is a fantastic unit, one of the very best art out there (well in my opinion). Maybe you can find a Missile Command - as the art on that is awesome.
An interesting video, nice to see the space being used for something. Better than my suggestion of a hotel. Never played arcade games as I have poor hand eye coordination, and felt embarrassed.
In my teen years a local mall had about three arcade games in a space underneath the escalators to the second floor. The one machine I remember that I played a lot was the shooting gallery game. It would be interesting to see one of those type games in the arcade. Unfortunately it was so long ago I have no memory of what the game was called.
I remember quite a few arcades user to have the projector based skeet shooting game, where the projector screen basically took up a wall, and the guns wee full sized replicas of rifles. I's love to see one of those again.
If I can make a case for some late '90s arcade games, it would be interesting to have some of the last few great machines, marking the end of the relevance of traditional arcades once we all started having 3D accelerated machines.
@@divdav Afterburner came out in 1987, though I think that would *have* to be in there anyway. In the late '90s there were some cool driving and snowboarding games in particular, if there would be room for them. If mid-'90s is being considered, there were of course games like Virtua Cop and Virtua Fighter that are stone cold classics.
@@johnknight9150 yeah, I was more thinking of Afterburner as an example of the tail end of traditional arcade machines before 3D began to dominate (with Virtua stuff, Dino stuff, etc).
Ahhh, the classic sign of a mis-spent youth. Atari's BattleZone was my particular poison in the arcade across from my college back in the '80s ... I'd play it for hours. That & the original Space Invaders, where you could set a High-score of 9,999 & walk away, knowing that no-one could beat it ... that was until they upped the limit!
It did, and those are mega-bucks. Pong is a little more achievable for our small operation but maybe one day, or maybe we could fibreglass a replica Computer Space if we could get access to an original to laser scan
My formative arcade games were: space invaders, scramble, pac man, sinistar, moon cresta, return of the jedi, nemesis, r type, terra cresta, 1942, road blasters, star wars, slap fight, out run, virtua racee, ridge racer
Will the 'Bronze age' section include electromechanical games that feature projection screens? Like killer shark one of the first arcade games with a 'screen' that I ever played. Yes I know, definitely showing my age! Now all you need is for someone to open a Pinball museum! How much rooms have you got left? 😀
Recently had the pleasure of visiting the cave loved every second of it I wasn't even alive when any of them where released but it was great highly recommend if you get the chance Edit:if you do go I challenge you to beat my Chuckie egg score of 21510 it's the all time high score on the leaderboard I'm dogonwhe
To follow the progress of the build sub to Alex's channel at th-cam.com/users/OWLT509
make sure you include the taito x2 and nesica systems. also the lord of vermillion, dance rush stardom, chunithm, nostalgia, gunslinger stratos, initial D, mario kart arcade, parapara paradise, etc
I can't wait to see more Arcade restore videos, I remember seeing Alex on Johns Sky Skipper video and I was a big fan of Johns Arcade, but he hasn't made any videos in ages. I current watch Joes Classic Video games to get my Arcade and Pinball repair video Fix.
Please get a face shield next time you or anybody else you know uses a pressure washer and if you want to get rid of water use a vacuum that has no problem with water and if you clean the ceiling or wipe it use the broadest and biggest tool you can handle like a flat mop at least 30 to 40cm wide and wipe the ceiling with it. Then throw the mops in the washing machine and continue with the floor and get a mop press to get the water out.
This is a large, collaborative undertaking, not something to be done alone, and called a "longterm project" without ever giving updates. Well done, guys. Looking great. You get things done.
The builders of that structure could never have imagined the use to which it is now being put!
I love this! Truly making the old mill into a retro destination!
A videogames museum, an arcade, a pool table...this is the best place in the world 🥰
Just need the playboy mansion to open a branch next door
+ a dartboard to reinforce the 80s
Great news. Alex is the perfect partner for this.
Offered up a jamma cab loan to support the build. 👍
I was born in 89 and remember razzle dazzle joke shop on Twickenham highstreet. My brother Alex is 14 years older and when i asked, he remembered the rescue cab at the Dazzle arcade. I cant wait to show him these vids. you might have known him haha.
That’s interesting.
I grew up in Twickenham and used to be in Dazzle all the time.
Might well have bumped into your brother.
Really warm feeling with Alex in your building adding to the whole Retro vibe. Good luck guys, very excited to see the progress! (ps - I agree Grey Walls would be about right for the main room, allowing some colour splash but dimming things down enough to allow the Games to shine)
Thanks much appreciated 😎👍
You are correct, mopping just moves the dirt around. What you can do is what we do on dance floors in the theatre. Get a wide push broom and a hot wet towel and push the towel around in long stretches. That actually will clean your floor :)
Your area is turning into somewhere that I truly wish I could visit.
The history, the fun, the sounds!
All you need now are some dodgems to round it off nicely! 🤣
Brilliant work in turning a dream into a reality!
I cannot wait to see what else materialises there.
Thank you Carl, I can hear the siren on the Waltzers now :D
everyone forgets about the vintage mechanical arcades...they where so awesome to play...
Such an exciting project, I've got loads of love and nostalgia for the arcades of old. Wishing you all every success 👍🕹️
The sounds of an arcade with all the multiple games playing at once is one of the most joyous sounds in the world , on my arcade cabinet I built with retro pi I had an audio playing of an arcade from the 80s compete with all the chatter it was awesome
Such a great idea and really happy Alex is involved
Such an amazing project. I truly wish to be able to visit your cave someday, you guys did an amazing job with everything else so far. When I built my Home Theater I had prepared a room like this to make an arcade and a ticket booth, I removed an old fireplace made of 3 layers of bricks took me two weeks. But then we had a little surprise that came along and needed an extra room but I did get to keep the HT and squeezed two of the Arcade 1UP machines. Love watching the progress of all your projects.
Really neat that this is going up so close to the Cave! Yet another reason I need to get down there some time. Cool to learn that Gun Fight was the first arcade with a microprocessor also. I recently played that my first time on MiSTer with a friend when we were browsing games, and we played it just because it was simple old-school fun and easy to pick up. That was one of the first two-player games I recorded the session for YT also. Really glad I captured some gameplay now, knowing the history of it. Best of luck with everything going smoothly for the arcade build!
I remember visiting the arcade on the pier in my local town in the early 80's (I am old). It will be interesting to watch the progress on Alex's channel.
Can't wait to visit the Cave and the arcade museum when it's all finished!
This is going to be unreal. Neil: you and your team are really making this a vintage computer heaven!
i use a kitchen extractor fan for sucking out dust..just attach it to a plug and and extension lead..put the plastic duct hose out the window..
Love what you guys are doing with this old building. Fantastic!
Wow, Sprint 2! I remember that cabinet so well!
I want to go to both when I'm in England the first week of October. I think it'll be too early for the arcade, fingers crossed you will have a cave day while I'm there.
We'll do our best! I'm sure even if it's not ready we can give you a look at how it's coming along.
@@RMCRetro that would be great! I've never been to England and love arcade games. Would be fun to see how things were done there vs here.
Subbed Alex's channel last week. Looking forward to seeing his arcade come to life and joining the Cave as a retro gaming destination.
Thank you 😎👍
I played on the sprint 8, it was a very large game, with steering wheels all the way around, 2 on each side, i think it was in an arcade game place under a cinema(Bio 5) in Aalborg, Denmark.
As a builder I can appreciate the immense amount of work going into this. Hard, dirty work. Well done!
I really feel this building should and could encompass all sorts of retro electronica. Perhaps a techmoan section for audio memorobilia too. I cannot wait to see this building develop and hopefully some time in the not to distant future I can arrange a visit too! :)
I would strongly recommend Dragon's Lair as a must and I would love to see Crossbow, Operation Wolf and Paperboy if you ever get those. I'm super excited to see the finished arcade :D
Alex really is a top bloke.
Looking forward to seeing this progress.
Thanks for your support mate 😎👍
Very excited to experience this through video!
What an awesome idea. Sadly, the opening will be a month too late for me. I’m visiting from the US the first two weeks of September. I guess I’ll have to come back next year!
Amazing stuff, Alex looks like totally the right guy to be doing this, have subscribed to his chsnnell too. stick a coffee shop in the mill and I will never leave 😋
I'm looking forward to visiting when it's done. Great update vid guys 👍
Truly amazing guys. Loved the little out take at the end. I've watched enough Marvel movies to always let the credits roll.....
Awesome how much ppl you bring together neil
Brilliant stuff, this will be so impressive when its done, amazing work lads 👍🏻😃
Hey! I have a Sprint 2 arcade game too! Not too many left. I have some parts (in the US) and the manuals in pdf if y'all need it.
This is going to be a perfect complement to the Cave. You couldn’t have a better neighbor downs stairs.
Another gem. Thanks rmc
Good luck! Love Sprint 2. Love the "bronze age" stuff. Would also be nice to have an EM to show where things came from. A shooting game perhaps. 🙂
Sounds like an awesome place! I wish you nothing but success.
Must haves: Pong, Asteroids, Gorf, Phoenix, Defender, Frogger, Galaga, Missile Command, Turbo, Donkey Kong.
Oh man... I just noticed you have AstroBlaster - I LOVE THAT GAME. The voice was so cool back in the day.
I saw an old "Astro Blaster" in there. worth the trip just for that . Was a great game in it's day.
It has so many hidden secrets I'm really enjoying playing that one
Cool to see those cabs and great idea to tell the story/history through them. Love the Zoo Keeper, would love to play that.
Loved the spinning wheel on sprint, great game and retro memories.
Noice. That old mill is going to be quite the atraction. A really nice day out. Well done all you guys.
Manchester is a long way from you guys, but would be interesting for you to see what the folks at Arcade Club in Bury have done
Great to see this building slowly being filled out! Looks like there will be some great classic games there, I love the artwork on that Sprint 2 machine, it looks really 'of its time'. Should do a fundraiser for a full size sit down afterburner cabinet I reckon!
It's all very exciting, the area is coming along nicely, the progress videos are going to be excellent.
We actually have quite a few Sprint machines here locally, including a Sprint 4 (one of the machines I used to play with my friends when we visited the local arcade).
That Tempest cab is a fantastic unit, one of the very best art out there (well in my opinion). Maybe you can find a Missile Command - as the art on that is awesome.
Missile command is on the list to get Tony 😎👍
@@TheArcadeArchive Awesome!
Holy Cow! What messy work to restore the place. I look forward to the end result!
Love that ELFL track at the end. 🎶🥰
This should be fun! Just subbed to Alex's channel to keep updated. :D
Alex! great channel guys
Sounds like it's going to be great!
Great video guys really looking forward to it
Very nice to see Chris in his element did you have to cut him off and send him home lol
An interesting video, nice to see the space being used for something. Better than my suggestion of a hotel. Never played arcade games as I have poor hand eye coordination, and felt embarrassed.
Very exciting indeed
Battle zone, tempest, zaxxon,
Robotron, dungeon, Asteroids, original Star Wars, wizard of wor, Tron
I know I live in california, but when you asked what to add ... this was my #1 most wanted thing
I see Space Invaders. Sorted. 😁
This is awesome!!!
My workshop is nearly ready, so game pcb repairs will be offered soon.
Thanks Daz 👍
In my teen years a local mall had about three arcade games in a space underneath the escalators to the second floor. The one machine I remember that I played a lot was the shooting gallery game. It would be interesting to see one of those type games in the arcade. Unfortunately it was so long ago I have no memory of what the game was called.
I remember quite a few arcades user to have the projector based skeet shooting game, where the projector screen basically took up a wall, and the guns wee full sized replicas of rifles. I's love to see one of those again.
Beware of flooding risk at your beautiful location, though.
This is all kinds of excellent. Good luck with the work 👍
Went to go give Alex a sub. Woke the whole house up!
Those walls would look SO cool natural, with no white or grey paint. A lot of work though.
Guessing you will have a joint pass for both the cave and arcade museum, btw love Astro Blaster one of the first talkie invader games 😁
I hope - for everyone's sake that there will be a sit-down Outrun?
Yes, yes and also yes! Absolutely required. It’s a bit big though…
@@ElGordo1945 Music to my ears. Specifically - Magical Sound Shower. Oh the nostalgia.
When I saw the first cleaned wall I heard the Defender of the Crown tune in my head 😄
A couple of Prusa printer boxes spotted... nice!
They've a small print farm of Prusas :)
There will be an extension built for the Dragon's Lair room?
If I can make a case for some late '90s arcade games, it would be interesting to have some of the last few great machines, marking the end of the relevance of traditional arcades once we all started having 3D accelerated machines.
Yeah, I think Afterburner would be a great addition, if there’s the space for it.
@@divdav Afterburner came out in 1987, though I think that would *have* to be in there anyway. In the late '90s there were some cool driving and snowboarding games in particular, if there would be room for them. If mid-'90s is being considered, there were of course games like Virtua Cop and Virtua Fighter that are stone cold classics.
@@johnknight9150 yeah, I was more thinking of Afterburner as an example of the tail end of traditional arcade machines before 3D began to dominate (with Virtua stuff, Dino stuff, etc).
Between your 2 museums I would love to go but I am about 3500 miles away in the United States in NJ
Ahhh, the classic sign of a mis-spent youth. Atari's BattleZone was my particular poison in the arcade across from my college back in the '80s ... I'd play it for hours. That & the original Space Invaders, where you could set a High-score of 9,999 & walk away, knowing that no-one could beat it ... that was until they upped the limit!
Hey, J. Hancock is building a museum too! 🤗
Computer Space by Nutting Associates came before Pong.
It did, and those are mega-bucks. Pong is a little more achievable for our small operation but maybe one day, or maybe we could fibreglass a replica Computer Space if we could get access to an original to laser scan
My formative arcade games were: space invaders, scramble, pac man, sinistar, moon cresta, return of the jedi, nemesis, r type, terra cresta, 1942, road blasters, star wars, slap fight, out run, virtua racee, ridge racer
Absolute classics 😎👍
Well I know that if I ever make it to that neck of the woods, I'm making it a point to visit
You gotta have operation wolf with the uzi light gun!
All you need now is a small bar where you can get a pint of something nice and this would be heaven.
Hope theres sparkly bit in the epoxy floor :)
All the arcades I went to in the 80s were pitch black except the machines, some neons, and cigarettes!
3:25 That's the look of a man who's worked a day in his life.
When you're working with a lot of dust like that, respirators are your friend.
Maybe the guest at the opening could be Billy Mitchel…. that should go down well
Well this is a result! I live across the road!
No Arcade is complete without Daytona USA!
Will the 'Bronze age' section include electromechanical games that feature projection screens?
Like killer shark one of the first arcade games with a 'screen' that I ever played. Yes I know, definitely showing my age!
Now all you need is for someone to open a Pinball museum! How much rooms have you got left? 😀
@rmc you need the wacky carpet every arcade had
A future Secret arcade and a arcade museum very cool
Wow, how long was the pool table left like that for the cloth to fade so badly?
That was dust! It has been cleaned up now and is looking nice and green again
Will you have Williams Stargate? Where is the Mill?
We are in Stroud, Gloucestershire. You can find out more at retrocollective.co.uk
Very exciting to watch.. Ill bring my sausage :)
If that's what it takes!
Get Roy, Moss and Jen to open it for you
Recently had the pleasure of visiting the cave loved every second of it I wasn't even alive when any of them where released but it was great highly recommend if you get the chance
Edit:if you do go I challenge you to beat my Chuckie egg score of 21510 it's the all time high score on the leaderboard I'm dogonwhe
Oh yes... nice one.
Them walls would look amazing if they were all stripped and easier with a sandblaster.
Will be brilliant to watch series and see the finished product …. Being a fruit machine emulation fan the fruit machines fascinate me 😄
Roll on October 😜
I want to have an arcade!