Anyone have any obscure arcade titles that may not be mentioned in any "greatest" arcade lists?

Going through the list of arcade titles that came with my retropie build, I've found a few that I've completely forgotten about and hadn't played since the 80's. Brought back a lot of memories and smells of the local Aladdin's Castle.

One was a demolition derby game. Was a 2 player and 4 player. I remember playing the 4 player as it was set up like a cocktail table with steering wheels on each corner. Then there was a monster truck game where there were two big buttons where you'd rapidly tap them to accelerate the truck. Then another one that brought back memories of going to the arcade with my dad was a bull fighting game. Then a gun game where you have to help a person navigate through the woods or town or something like that.

Sorry, not the exact titles probably. Going off memory while here at work. Really cool to see these games again and their sounds still sound familiar.

Anyone else discover titles that they used to play in the arcade, and never seen again since?

This one is not 'obscure', but Wizard Of Wor. I remember being at a parade with the family and my brother and I walked to a party store to get a pop and snacks. There it was...and it was in color, and had speech! We played it a few times and I thought it was the coolest thing ever.

I have Wizard Of Wor on my mame setup, we had one at the local Pizza Hut when I was a kid. Loved playing it.

This guy does a pretty good job showing some good games I would have never played.
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Just played this one tonight at our local barcade. Before my time. Dont remember thos one at all.

I loved the 90’s game SAR search and rescue from SNK. The only problem is that it plays with a rotating joystick like Ikari warriors or heavy barrel. So it doesn’t play well on my MAME. If arcade1up released those 3 games in a cabinet, I’d buy day one.

"Hey guys, we are in the basement!"

Anyone know when the 1944 cab is being released? I thought it was supposed to come out in March.

That’s a hilarious joke on the Arcade1up fan Facebook page. No one knows but so many bitch about it.

That guy “get’s it”! I’m happy some people are doing it right to preserve the authentic arcade experiences. Excellent interview as well, and his clean shop was impressive.

If I understand it correctly, Pacman and Galaga were originally Walmart exclusives. It appears both are now listed at Best Buy with themed risers and a stupid high price of 380. So let's lift the exclusivity and make them more widely available, add very little cost by adding a riser, and increase the price! Brickseek thinks Galaga without riser is available widely in my local Walmarts for $300. Either is a cab I'd be interested in, but I swear I was seeing a couple stores have them at $200 (maybe even $150 at one location) on Brickseek towards the beginning of the year. Anyway, it appears they may be padding the stock of these 2 cabs, so there will likely be a time they come way down in price again. It's hard to imagine demand increased to justify new stock at the msrp when they've clearly been on sale for way less.

My track ball on Centipede just stopped working yesterday. All connections look good, but I didn’t remove the ball itself. Any ideas?

Probably a fluke component failure. I’d contact arcade1up for a replacement, then pull that ball out of the game and try to repair it.

I took the ball out, and it all looks fine. Though if there was a tiny tiny wire or trace on the board that failed, I’m not sure I would see it. I’ll email them. Thanks.

I haven’t pulled apart an arcade1up track ball, but these usually work like an old ball mouse. The ball sits on two rollers. One for up/down. One left/right. Then they usually have a calibration disc with slots spaced around it. Then there’s an optical sensor that reads the disc as it moves back and forth.

My guess would be the optical sensor, if the doesn’t look like a loose connection or broken wire.

Yep. That’s exactly what it looks like. But, I would think if it was one of the sensors, it would at least move the player in one direction. But it doesn’t move at all which makes me think it is a wire, but I may not know what I’m talking about.

Our local Walmart has had the same stack of these for some time. Almost considered getting on for my son's room. Couldn't pull the trigger as it just looked cheap and I can get a 60-in-1 on CL for not much more or make my own MAME.

Price was of course $299 at Walmart and they didn't move during the holiday season. They dropped to $199, and I didn't see one sell. Walmart just jacked them back up to $299 (!!!) and guess what... still sitting. They need to clearance these things and put something there that will move product. They're taking up prime real estate at the intersection of a main entrance aisle and the back aisle, right in front of electronics. To make $0 over months off that spot is horrible utilization of that space.

Just got my protector for my 12n1. I got an email on 1/16/19 they got my request. Must have been a big line in front of me. I'm glad it finally came. I'll install later today. My B button is iffy at times so it will be a good time to check it out. I'm still interested in an upgraded spinner. Are they done w/a version for the 12n1?

Where is final fight?!? That’s the cab for my daughters room

She must be thrilled.

Not sure, she’s 1.5yrs old soooo it’s more for me. probably have to leave it in the guest room until she is older ish?

Now Arcade1up is saying May.

I know, I know. There's a lot of people saying to just mod a cabinet. I was going to avoid it, but then decided that the value to have the games I wanted in one machine was too great. I was waiting for Final Fight myself, and after modding, I played through the entire story, and now I don't need a Final Fight cabinet. Probably glad I didn't wait for it either, cause really, how many times do I need to play the first couple levels before getting tired?

Just too bad some of the console exclusive games weren't arcade games too. Like the other Final Fights, Streets of Rage, and TMNT games. Those games don't allow for unlimited continues, do they?

Got mine for my 12 in 1 yesterday too. Still havent pulled the trigger on modding anything. Its been sitting untouched in our living room for about 4 weeks now, much as I feared.

I haven’t found the golden tee cabinet anywhere in Canada yet, and GameStop USA wouldn’t ship to Canada. I’ll have to wait till May to see if Walmart Canada stocks them, and if not, I may have to find another more creative way to get one north of the border.

In the middle of modifying the SF2 cab.

Just did a full Rasperian install on my raspberry pi.

Now what do I do? I'm sitting here with it hooked up to TV, w/ keyboard and mouse.

Is there a Retropie front end? Roms?

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GREAT. Did this and I'm up and running.

Where's a good place for ROMs?

How do I install/enable the ColecoVision emulator (I'm on Mac).

See my post 2345. I did the groovy gear gamer one and love it.

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Welp, this was a frustrating as hell shitballs of an experiment. Wish I never did it. Relying on YouTube is pointless. Can't find reliable ROMs. Limited documentation anywhere and despite having 40 ROMs on the system, nothing ever runs.

At this point I'd take more satisfaction in busting the system with a hammer.

Happy Easter!

Arcade punks for rom sets.

Buy a pre-loaded hard drive. Check Etsy or EBay. There are a metric shit-ton of options, all pretty much plug and play.

Also, we’ll be moving around the New Brunswick area this summer. I’ve done several raspberry pi rigs and will be building my third MAME machine this winter. Happy to get together over some beers to get you going.

You are? That’s my old stomping grounds. Definitely would like to grab a brew!

ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

Ah that would be alright

We’re excited to get back to the northeast! Judging by the NE ‘for sale’ threads, it’s a pretty active community.

Finding the compatible ROMs to run on the Retropie emulator was not straightforward or intuitive. It was a giant headache. I suggest you keep asking around on the appropriate forums and see if someone is nice enough to load you up a thumb drive with everything and mail it to you, on the down-low, of course.

Well.. yep. MAMEing ain’t easy!

...But it sure is fun...

I thought this thread was full of people saying how much better a MAME cabinet is then an arcade1up is. Maybe one of them will help all the guys stressed over finding the right software.

You can even download front end pre-loaded with everything you need.