FPGA Tempest & Major Havoc Arcade PCB and Free Play Bar & Arcade Rhode Island Tour!

[@johnnyretro1975]

I LOVE THE PASSION YOU GUYS HAVE WITH THIS WELL DONE ALL

[@GillPinball]

All FPGA work done around the world is wonderful! I just wish there were some CRT manufacturers left... :(

[@FlannelGuy_1978]

Happy to see pumping out videos again -- all is right with the world!!! haha

[@ArcadeJason]

i have had an early proto of this fpga for about 4 months now soon i will do review also Scott really deserves some high props for this

[@bulletpoint728]

Your channel rocks John! Thanks for the bonus video!

[@edwardgreenjr167]

And my plans for a Major Havoc cabaret gets that much closer.... awesome video John!

[@simonperry8569]

Nice work, John. Love the on-the-road vids. You and J-Lo bounce off each other really well.

[@nrnoble]

Thanks for the video. I bought one and it work as promised. Plug it in and it just works as if it is running the original Tempest PCB. No problems.

[@vidi0t]

Best arcade ever. I need to move to Rhode Island now.

[@MAGAIVER]

That place had almost all of my all time favorite arcade games, it only needed xevious to have them all. And for 5 bucks a night, I would be there every night. Amazing place I`d love to visit it.

[@33kingnaz]

On The Road video's are back!!!!! This place looks great i gotta find my way there soon.

[@lancairw867]

Wow! Free Play looks great and what a deal! May have to make a trip up to the New England area from Tennessee. Need to hit The Hanger, Fun Stop and Free Play👍🏻🕹🕹🕹

[@quuhod]

Fantastic arcade and great idea with the Freeplay, wish someone would do that here in London.

[@DMETS519]

So many awesome games at this place "free play". I wish I lived closer to Rhode Island now. If there was a place like this on long island by me I'm sure it would do very well. For now we have "Dave and Buster's" and a lot of redemption arcades at some malls and they really suck compared to a place like this. Great video John.

[@ChinFu535]

I played Robotron at a Retro Show an few month ago and totally fall in love with it. I wonder, why its not get much of play! Its an amazing Game!

[@MikeGervasi]

Glad you dug the CV. I scored that from a guy in PA, shopped and pimped it out and gave it to Jay so we could have it for the Arcade. It also has the rare sample playfield.

[@Johnsarcade]

+Mike Gervasi it's awesome

[@Malario80]

It's like an arcade disco! Awesome!

[@MrHiggibaby]

My hometown and I’ve only been there once! I just convinced my missus to come with the Friday after next! Can’t wait, he has some cool games!

[@SuperApaxton]

We have a Freeplay here in Arlington, Texas.

[@rfigueroa1247]

You know what’s cool too, I go to this place all the time and noticed the same guy in your vids. Did not know you knew him and whatnot but I found it interesting

[@burn646]

That’s crazy we have a barcade they made a couple at least years ago here in the dfw area called free play that is doing very well!

[@allglorytogod12]

lol, I remember putting a lot of quarters in a Bosconian, I loved the concept.

[@bitrot42]

Well done Jay and Scott! A great arcade, and an awesome FPGA project... The spinner on that Tempest _really_ needs some lubrication. Put some light oil on it, and it won't make that "brrrrrr" noise at all.

[@Arcadehollywood]

YEP!! I would love a Tempest FPGA pcb!!! Cool stuff As long as we are on the subject...it would be cool to have an FPGA solution for alot of other games also...

[@acidpurewarrior]

Arcade Hollywood galaga and bosconian fpga needs to happen

[@Arcadehollywood]

Sign me up!! Arcade SD is a nice option for Galaga but yea that would be a great thing to have.

[@electronash]

There are already lots of arcade cores, including some vector stuff. Thanks to a good friend, it's now possible to run many of these on the DE10 Nano board (which is very similar to the board in John's vid, but with HDMI added). And yes, there is already a Galaga core. ;) It would be trivial to make a Jamma (or vector) adapter for it, as the "MISTer" project adds analog RGB and audio already. (making an adapter for a vector cabinet is a little bit more involved, but not much.) Quite a few of the cores can run on the stock DE10 Nano, but others need an extra board with standard SDRAM on it. (as it was easier to port existing retro cores that way, rather than getting them working with the DDR3, which is a pain. lol) The SDRAM board is cheap though, and the design for that and the VGA board are open-source. github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki

[@MrTBoneSF]

I have that same shirt Scott that has. He must have got it at CAX as well. Definitely Sega vector games would work great with that board. Tac-Scan and Star Trek would be great with the Tempest spinner.

[@ramshambo2001]

Great video that FPGA, discusso was very interesting

[@vintageceilingfans]

I like the dividers between the games.. Very smart move.. Don't have to worry about people spilling drinks on games..

[@rallogump]

That arcade looks awesome!

[@HelloKittyFanMan.]

It's cool that "him" was able to do that!

[@haikarate4]

You guys need to open up in central Mass so I don't have to drive so far. Lol Oh well, we'll get out to The Hangar at some point to check it out.

[@Live4Ibanez]

I'd give my leg to have a defender. The people there are crazy. At the free play arcade in Dallas, robotron and defender are ALWAYS being played. It's hard to get a game or two in

[@Riz2336]

Great arcade and that's cool about the vector games.

[@xTheNameisEthan]

Circus Voltaire is one of my favorite pins ever

[@RogueCylon]

Loved playing the Williams games in the day. Don’t understand either why they’re not popular, I guess most people gravitate to the 90’s games.

[@wolvenar]

It's no damned wonder we all can't find good arcade games to buy now, you two are buying them all up. J/K Great to see arcades like this being brougbt back.

[@shovelhedded]

Oh man, cool place. Would love to visit. John, arrange a meetup there instead of Funspot!

[@Johnsarcade]

;)

[@utubepunk]

That place is amazeballs! 😍😍

[@Flanneryshanedward]

If you got the havoc guy and Adam in the basement at the same time the popcorn machine would start working by itself and the table would start wobbling 😁

[@VGA_Guy]

As part of your year end review, you need to have a compilation of every "Hey Guys" you said this year.

[@jamesguralski5156]

Lol I bought my revenge from Mars from Jay! I've been to free play also... awesome! He's trying to open a free play in Worcester Massachusetts! Covid kills all fun for us!

[@chrisbullock6477]

I'd love a CAPCOM CPS3 board or Cabinet. Or some of the late 90's early 2000 AtomisWave Arcade Machines

[@Coolness_Inc]

Is there a website to order the fpga when it is ready?

[@SuperJustinChannel]

God, can I just say your home arcade has come a long way since I first started watching your vids in 2009. Otherwise this is looking to be a swell arcade. Might have to make a stop here since it's closer to me compared to Funspot Arcade.

[@kintozero3169]

32:26 get this man and Adam in the same room please!!!

[@fookutube501]

Hows the hanger bar doing, is it still going?...What jay should do is put,the "not so good game" next to the popular games,to see,what the stats would be in a week

[@evilash570]

Awesome, Awesome, Awesome!!!!!!!

[@kevlo9]

Good job filming Jay :)

[@jayleone5142]

Kevin Kallbreier thanks!

[@Yoeddy1]

What kind of laser is Jay using that makes the red and green fireflies on the walls/ceiling?

[@johnsweda2999]

Hi John what happened to the English Tour I thought you would have filmed it!? I like the sign who designed that

[@Johnsarcade]

+John sweda it's all coming. Need time to edit those. This was one clip, easy to edit

[@johnsweda2999]

Instead of having a different connector board? Tempest and majorhavoc or anything else, just make the one bored and supply a different connector to work with your connector surely this would be better would lower his costs and easier for the end user.

[@PurpleFoxArcade]

I see Super Mario Bros has that empty bar on the right side of the monitor. Mine does too. I thought it was an issue.

[@mattrichardson4351]

so happy for ya mate .. hey dont you know the guy that made Major Havoc??

[@theSammyM333]

Does Jay have his own trading card? He should. What a superstar!

[@jayleone5142]

Thank You!

[@HelloKittyFanMan.]

How are you making that Radical! skate board giveaway without fear of trouble from copyright infringement? Did ya actually get permission from the owners, or what did you do?

[@Bobbydog66]

Wonder what Jeff Minter would think of that tempest recreation.

[@juntistik]

JOHN WHERE IS THE FUNSPOT FOOTAGE?!

[@richardmarsh2317]

I have never seen a Space Zap that allowed you to enter initials. (12:40) ROM hack/upgrade?

[@richardmarsh2317]

When I visited the arcade for the first time last night, I noticed the same scores on Space Zap as were shown in this video. The scores in that game are usually erased after power is turned off.

[@anthonytheappguy4426]

(55:49) Woah. This is a super fast time-lapse.

[@danielquinn9738]

Is he selling these yet? All the bugs worked out. I'd love to throw one in my tempest

[@caivsivlivs]

what ended up happening to the fpga tempest?

[@delsarcade]

I'm curious how the sideart on MKII looked. Did it have that black space on the bottom like TOG's repro?

[@Johnsarcade]

Yeah, I should have looked!

[@ajjr1228]

Is that at the Colosseum? I'll have to come visit sometime, I used to go down alot.

[@jayleone5142]

ajjr1228 yes it is!

[@HelloKittyFanMan.]

26:00: "...The biggest joystick ever!" Huhh... how quickly you forget about the Trons, Gorf, Solar Fox, and Satan's Hollow!

[@keithciaccio7987]

$5 and $10 is a banging deal!

[@fusium]

Thank you buddy

[@jamesavery3559]

thank's a wonderful video..oh ya i think i asked this before do you have any laser disk game's? ps i play major havoc too {mame}

[@joesmoe71]

He said the magic word... CINEMATRONICS! If there was ever a hardware set that needed an FPGA upgrade it's them, especially his idea of making it compatible with regular B&W vector monitors, the Cinematronics ones are like they were designed by Satan himself

[@Scythe42]

Nice place!

[@howardmalone3]

looks like the techno bar from terminator

[@toniclementegarcia6656]

Hi ! Is that the original major havoc pcb with a modification to work on a different monitor? So no MAME involved at all ?

[@Johnsarcade]

It's FPGA which is not emulation. It is the hardware on a chip. Not an original PCB.

[@juntistik]

JOHN WHERE IS THE UK FOOTAGE?!

[@M-NX]

Will u do a new chicago Video this year???

[@Johnsarcade]

That's the plan. I have a lot on my plate! :D

[@M-NX]

cool, hope with lot of food..🤓🤓🤓 love them

[@Johnsarcade]

ha! :)

[@fookutube501]

Yay "road trip" time to breath air, instead of being at home

[@HelloKittyFanMan.]

Heh, 25:03: John: "Do people play Golden Tee?" Jay: "Nonstop!" The viewer: "Oh, really? Well, uh... I don't see anyone playing it right now!"

[@azaz...]

omg return of the jedi!!!!!!!! i forgot about that game!!!

[@portercarr7197]

I saw this guy at the Hangar when I was getting chicken wings.

[@HelloKittyFanMan.]

22:50: Wow, what a "RARE" game!

[@Devalis]

Totally need an FPGA solution for Nintendo Vs.

[@richardmarsh2317]

What is parking like near this arcade?

[@Johnsarcade]

+Richard Marsh it's in a downtown area. There is public parking.

[@richardmarsh2317]

John's Arcade Game Reviews & Tech - I visited the arcade last night and found a place a few blocks away that charged $6, another parking lot much closer to the arcade was charging $10. Quite different from Amherst where you pay nothing to park. It is just something I need to factor in along with the cover charge and the distance I need to travel.

[@andrewbutler9533]

Tetris player blinded! Classic.

[@MrHarney]

Thank you

[@Sugarkraft]

Great video! Gonna check out that arcade! I’m glad Popeye is there ;-) John, how can we contact Scott Swazey? Also, did you give up on the tournament at FunSpot? 5 months and no vid 😳

[@Johnsarcade]

I know. I need to edit those videos. Those require time and I am trying to get MKII done. This one was easy. I did it all in one take. :)

[@speechmachine]

badass!!

[@funcamp_ltd.]

30:13 You messed up his game!!

[@Meachumz]

XtraFlatt lmao

[@thegreatjonzini]

I'M BLIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;)

[@eric197341]

Lol!

[@tartgreenapple]

Hahaha!

[@johncribbs8382]

somebody please open a freeplay in Ontario. CA

[@CaesarNeptuneStudios]

Too bad that Im not 21 xD. Man being 16 and loving arcade games is not easy.

[@cpnnpr]

Very fucking cool John!

[@SilentMott]

Where the fuck is everyone?! I live near providence and HAVE to see this place survive!!!!!

[@Johnsarcade]

It was a week night.

[@TuffyDK]

Nice work indeed (Y)

[@AlexZander688]

That Tempest FPGA looks frickin' amazing. Looking forward to when those will be available for purchase. I've got a Tempest with a pcb that is down. I would like to have it repaired eventually. But it would be great to have a multi-vector FPGA to use in a Tempest cab. Great looking arcade. Except for the spinning disco ball, WTF is up with that? I would not want that distraction any where near arcade games.

[@timothyloughman5027]

I love to play joust..... I could ware that game out.......

[@SionynJones]

I suppose at the end of the day all your doing is generating the same voltages that hardware would make to drive the monitor. The designers right if it implemented properly I don't see how you'd be able to tell the difference. It's just like wine it's all subjective. There trade off's for sure I mean how many gates would really need to emulate a game hardware 100% there probably too many variables too dynamics. There trade's offs in any system from what I've seen this great system and great way to preserve history. Awesome job.

[@trab8989]

That guy at 30:12 lol

[@MaxellAdGuy]

#johnsarcade #retro #arcade

[@Steven.Cartwright]

OMG check out 30.12 you totally ruin that guys game of Tetris LOL wonder if he was pissed off? lol

[@howardmalone3]

LOL

[@Malario80]

Haha i noticed also xD

[@thedillestweed2644]

Does he have something to hide? Why does he take notice when the camera goes on him? If he didn't want his face filmed then he shouldn't have turned his head and should have just kept playing.

[@eric197341]

Disc of Tron was my shit!

[@CaptAwesumNo1Zone]

John if you want to get good at a fighting game get good at Street Fighter 3 Third Strike

[@TJ_Actual1]

You sounded surprised that people play Golden Tee all the time lol. Come on now haha

[@deralfenderson]

The "talking head" has a name. Rudy. You're lucky you escaped with your life after insulting him like that!

[@Johnsarcade]

Ha! I knew that. :)

[@howardmalone3]

are you going to review the new wave toys mini arcades when they are released would be real disappointed paying $160 for something with a $30 Pi in it every one is excited about how cool they look but no one has even asked about the specs of what they are running on they are doing a centipede and a tempest one to me tempest would not look like the real deal being their is no vector monitor and that's what they are claiming its the 100% real arcade experience in 1/6 scale

[@Johnsarcade]

I backed the Kickstarter. I'll be talking about the Centipede one. :)

[@arkaikan]

hmm only 49% of rare were owned by nintendo and it actually was made only for arcade and was supposed to be released on the ultra64