Galaga Quarter Scale Arcade Cabinet | Nostalgia Nerd

[@Nostalgianerd]

Grab a Galaga machine from bit.ly/2YDKJJe

[@CorkyMcButterpants]

Well done mate! Looks like they've de-listed the game cos you keep pronouncing it wrong. lolololol

[@mariodykstra6555]

And they de-listed it again!

[@deangelolangston199]

I dont mean to be off topic but does anyone know of a way to get back into an Instagram account?? I was dumb lost the account password. I appreciate any tips you can give me

[@quentinquinn8205]

@Deangelo Langston instablaster :)

[@deangelolangston199]

@Quentin Quinn thanks for your reply. I got to the site on google and I'm in the hacking process now. Looks like it's gonna take quite some time so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

[@Larry]

Did you manage to unlock any secret cars in Ridge Racer with it?

[@MontieMongoose]

Why do you have a 400 lb black panther in your house?

[@TobyDeshane]

Nyyah! 💀

[@alexdhall]

Because *everyone* needs a miniature house panther! 😸

[@Eferor]

I was able to play on the arcades as a kid for a short time (im 30), and man, this bring the nostalgia with smells and all... thanks for this video, greetings from Argentina!

[@dj_paultuk7052]

I used to play on late 70's arcades all the time. My parents used to run a pub, and all the older games machines were just sent down to the cellar. So i was Mr popular with my mates as we all played space invaders etc for free all day long.

[@Eferor]

@@dj_paultuk7052 You lucky bastard hahaha... thats what I call a great childhood

[@GreatSageSunWukong]

My brother fixed arcade machines in the 80s we had em all over the place, and vector graphics things like battlezone would be chaned up outside on the landing as they were a bit risky. Them vector monitors had a tendency to set themselves on fire.

[@BilisNegra]

You've packed so much into this without making it overly long! I've got more enjoyment from this than from many a half-hour video, and best part is that it actually felt like half an hour of pure enjoyment! I'd say "keep up the amazing work", but there's no need, I guess, you always deliver.

[@khizarjamil7664]

Always Galaga was pronounced "Gallagher" as in Noel and Liam!

[@70monkey]

It is.

[@Jivolt]

Are ya mad fer it?

[@GreatSageSunWukong]

GAH-LAA-GAH! And the other one is Gap-lus as in luster. I've never heard anyone say the two like you have and I played em all first time round in the arcades.

[@bryndal36]

Ah, the memories of Track % Field. The fun, the blisters on teh sides of the fingers, the sweaty brows, the cramps in the shoulders. It was an awesome game.

[@petrolhead0387]

@The Lavian I used a clipper lighter or a felt tip pen. I miss those days, using this hack to break the bricks in mortal kombat.

[@TheRetroFuture]

Love the new box!

[@Solitaire1]

I used to be very good at that game. Parents had a bowling lanes and we had a Galaga in there and it was my favorite. Took it to Stage 255 a few times whereupon it went to Stage 0, you could still move and shoot but no more enemies would come. The vending company put a new chip in it that fixed that bug and I went many hours one time before I was tired and gave up the game to someone else. Had extra ships lines up across the bottom. I forget what my score actually was counting the rollovers but somone looked it up and told me I was over the world record as it stood at that time. No way that I could prove it nor really cared too. I just liked playing Galaga. I might actually pick up one of these units when they come out for display just for all the nostalgia it brings back. Thanks for making me aware of its existance.

[@MattFowlerBTR]

I am now deeply enjoying Gaplus on my MAME tabletop (PiCade), thanks for the info that it existed!

[@TheAnkMan]

I played it back in 1985 when I first saw it. Was not too excited about it compared to Galaga. I would compare Gaplus to Galaga like Blastroids to Asteroids (1979). While I was in pizza parlours and other public places with a mate the German government decided in April 1985 to remove all video games from public places outside dedicated arcades. I had just the legal age to be allowed in. He was two years younger so suddenly his love from playing arcade games was taken from him. I can only imagine how hard that must have been for him and others too young to be allowed in arcades and bars. So I could only tell him about Gaplus. Thinking about it now I think it was cruel to tell him about all the games he was missing out.

[@TMS5100]

Real arcade emulation, accurate cabinet. Well done.

[@kalebschmidt100]

"It's alright, he's not actually ferocious. Look at him... Lazy piece of sh- " That killed me.

[@ScottParisi]

Cool review. I'm in the pre-order for all the machines AND got a note saying I'll be getting Galaga next week.

[@caprilaser3]

No drinks on the machines please Dave 😆 Love Galaga👍🏼 Hopefully one day i will end up with a full size one in my home arcade 🕹

[@BillAnt]

Though vaping is allowed, no more burned cabinets. ;D

[@channelzero2252]

That sounds like something to aspire to. Get a couple of mini arcade machine, a mini fruit slot machine and throw in a mini jukebox, complete with mini records (something sorely lacking from all those MP3 mini jukeboxes) (no need to make the mini records playable, just put them there to look like they're playing) and then you can have a mini fish and chip shop experience at home. Seriously, I would do that.

[@davidmcgill1000]

Only lacking a mini air hockey table and terrible carpet.

[@UpLateGeek]

At first glance of the thumbnail, I thought Octav1us found your new arcade cabinet and collapsed against it in spasms of excitement!

[@Nostalgianerd]

That's a distinct possibility.

[@blind_neighbourhoodNerd]

Awesome video dude!!

[@enjoythepig]

My best friend is a Galaga freak. I think this is one of those games that if you loved, you really loved. There has to be a certain type of personality that prefers games like this and Asteroids, over the people who prefer games like Ms PacMan, or Donkey Kong. At least those last two offered some level variety. But $150 to make my best friend perhaps the happiest he's been in 30 years, well worth it!

[@SloofmanPlays]

Love this game! should definitely be considered a classic up there with Pacman, Asteroids etc etc

[@andy6576]

These things are hugely, MASSIVELY over-priced for what the are. 130 quid? Not a chance.

[@ryanmalin]

Go buy a PS4 from a pawn shop for that many pounds

[@youdontneedtoseehisidentif4939]

My problem with them isn't the price - although I wouldn't buy them for that price even if I could afford them - but that they're so limited, to my mind seeming wasteful and more like ornaments than games machines

[@andy6576]

Well this is it exactly. If I simply want to PLAY Galaga, I use my lovely arcade stick and Mame (with HLSL filter goodness for that CRT look). So yeah, these things are basically ornaments, albeit very cool, interactive ornaments. If they were 50 quid, they'd be worth it as an impulse buy/cool thing to have.

[@fourdee4d]

Agree, its a glorified emulator, with cheap buttons slapped on. Native with care to mechanical buttons and input latency, would be worth it... Until then, we can simply get a rpi zero, do it better ourselves.

[@TobyDeshane]

You wouldn't be buying this as a "way to play Galaga". You're buying it because you're a fan, and you appreciate the craftsmanship and care for detail compared to a full size cabinet. It's like buying a Marvel action figure of your favorite character for $10-$20 on the peg at Walmart, or buying a high quality sculpted bust of that character with detail going down to the texture and stitching of their costume. Nobody NEEDS that, but for the effort put into it, and the market it's aimed for, it's fair.

My dream, buy 10 micro machines and create my mini arcade house !

[@FatNorthernBigot]

...and fill it with midgets, so it works "to scale". A modern 5p would make excellent scaled-down 80's 10p.

[@davidandrew3006]

Just as long as you keep that seaside town vibe to it's respective time period.

[@BearfootBob]

loved that game BITD. That theme song is among the greatest!

[@BuzzaB77]

I was just in Arcade Club tonight, glad to see he had tempest in now. so addictive.

[@cgraham6]

I imagine those tiny controls would have your hands cramping after a while. The little cabinet works as a conversation piece, but for just playing the gamean arcade pack on a modern console works much better.

[@Nostalgianerd]

By the way, if you fancy giving Galaga '91 on the Master System a go, you can grab the adaptation from www.smspower.org/forums/14677-Galaga91ForMasterSystem

[@adamhenry6793]

I'd enjoy one!

[@swanningabout]

Ga-lager? Oh do fuck off!

[@brianm6337]

Get the quarter scale Ninja Turtles for your arcade.

[@sodar42]

Have you ever played Deluxe Galaga on the Amiga? Best Galaga ever. There was even a PC port called Warblade.

[@TheAnkMan]

Was the original Galaga ever on any SEGA system? From what I know and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaga confirms it there was never an official port for neither the Commodore 64 nor the Amiga. I had both back in the day and can only remember some poor clone on the C64. Might be the same for Galaxians. Then there is also Galaga'88. Never liked it but was big fan of the original Galaga.

[@CJWarlock]

Cool item and episode! Good to know such hings are made and are being made. :)

[@Shipwright1918]

Awesome mini-cade! I can only hope somebody gives Asteroids or Asteroids Deluxe this sort of treatment, those would have to be my all-time favorites of the classic video coin-ops.

[@Lucasrainford]

Having called it Galaga for the last 38 years I just can't get my crust round the Galarger pronunciation, anyway. Great vid m8. Loads of nostalgia for me, especially the mirrored Space Invaders set up! (be interesting to see how they will pull that off!) I remember as a kid looking forward and down and seeing the screen and was confused as it was was reversed, then realizing it was mirror I'd been looking at all this time.... great times :)

[@kennynunez6792]

Well done, good review.

[@MightyZarquon]

You Bas***d! You're costing me money! KZbin recommended the video, I watched the video, now I NEED to have one.... not only that, but I also want some of the others ,and would absolutely be interested in some 90s arcade games too.... but Galaga is a must have for me... it'll go on the shelf beside my NeoGeo Mini and others. I'm glad this one has a battery built in. Thanks for the review. The fact you mention Micro Switched controls, and the aforementioned battery is all I need to hear.... it's pre-order time! (The mini Fruit Machine is a great idea too, I'd buy one... or two...)

[@numbers9to0]

Glad that the giant panther didn't attack dave.

[@CJWarlock]

@10:51, right side of the screen - what's up with the empty Amiga 600 case and the black-colored Commodore 64? :)

[@Lost_n_Found_1]

I want a quarter scale Tapper, or even Root Beer Tapper. Also, a quarter scale Ivan "Ironman" Stewart's Super Off-Road would be sick! Next, I'm thinking light gun games, hahaha

[@francoisjarre1664]

But, the coin slots don't light up and the screen has a blue haze all over - how sad considering they got the other stuff down.

[@segagagagagagaga]

Alf Stewart: "Flamin' Gala Ga"

[@hdestotallyunoriginalgamin3555]

I do loves me some Galaga! Great to see these mini cabs being revised and improved with an eye on increased accuracy.

[@hvipomgb3969]

I have always wanted the Galaga, Ms. Packman. Sit down bar duo box. with controls on both sides. and screen switches for each player. without the cigarette burns on the top of course.

[@dr.trichome6419]

Love the nostalgic cat.

[@wasabinator]

I always pronounced it ga-lah-ga in my youth as well, but I since learnt Japanese and they write it as ガャラガ (pronounced: gya-ra-ga) which is very close to ga-la-ga rather than ga-lah-ga. Since it's the Japanese who invented it, I call it ga-la-ga now.

[@abucketofelves]

Was always more of a Galaxian fan myself

[@jamesgrimwood1285]

After seeing so many poorly made attempts at these things (the kind made by people who have clearly never actually played a video game in their life before), it's nice to see some that actually appear to be made properly. And a company that listens to feedback and improves things? What is this madness!

[@Nostalgianerd]

Exactly. If you're going to replicate the arcade, do it properly, rather than pushing out something that approximates the arcade original at a distance.

[@18000rpm]

Wish they used an OLED screen or better LCD that doesn't look so washed out (I know it looks ok straight on but still).

[@bengrant1305]

18000rpm I think all LCD screens look washed out when being filmed

[@nneeerrrd]

@@bengrant1305 nope

[@bengrant1305]

Franko show me a video that doesn’t

[@nneeerrrd]

@@bengrant1305 pay me and I'll show you. Or you can put your hands at work and use search

[@bengrant1305]

Franko or you can prove your point rather being a troll

[@dennisserlis5437]

Nice review i just picked this up and i will probably get pacman and the rest. I was wondering about the options menu in Galaga i was pressing both buttons as you mention while powering on the unit but nothing happens, not sure what the exact sequence is.

[@Zichie]

Have you seen the much cheaper and basically pocket sized world's smallest arcade machines I have all of them I love them!

[@TexasCat99]

Pronunciation... Especially if going by Japanese. It will be: GA LA GA. The way everybody has always called it. GALa-GA sounds horrible, in English and Japanese.

[@eithan]

It reminds me that this game contains a neat bug we used to exploit back in the day: if you leave the two most left blue enemies circling for about 10 min avoiding shooting them, the game will eventually continue at a much easier mode where enemies won't be able to fire at you for good. We could play hours like this until resetting the score to 0 :-)

[@jrs4516]

galaga is the soundtrack of my early childhood.

[@laertesl4324]

Galaxian was the first video game I ever played back in the early 80's.

[@RussellRiker]

I had no idea I've been pronouncing it wrong all these decades. I even worked for a bally's aladdin's castle as a kid.

[@youdontneedtoseehisidentif4939]

Love your kitteh

[@Charky_Creations]

The way I pronounced galaga and galaxian are the same... But not the lager version. Gah-lah-gah and gah-lah-xi-an. Guess that's what I get for being in the north ;)

[@bryndal36]

The way you say it is how I've always know it called.

[@nneeerrrd]

10:36 go home Octav1us, you're... pretty already. Give her a lift home, anybody? :)

[@ChrisJorenby]

What's the music you use for this video?

[@treksterjsc]

Thanks for a fun entertaining review! I realize you're correctly pronouncing the name but I've been pronouncing it in the more common naming convention since it was new in the arcade so I will most likely stick to that inaccurate Annunciation. 😉 I didn't read every single comment but I was wondering can you set the dip switches to fastfire?

[@Ni5ei]

Pehaps the'll release a bundle version of all 7 machines. Now only $999 !!!!

[@BillAnt]

What a deal, sign me up! xD

[@jamesavery3559]

thank you for the show, here's a funny one for you i am watching your video on my rebuilt mr do arcade machine that i use for most of my game's.

[@Nostalgianerd]

I like your style.

[@jamesavery3559]

@@Nostalgianerd why thank you very much!

[@B3tanTyronne]

Like the similiar pacman one, the cost of these is what puts me off as I cannot warrant spending 130 notes on one of these when for the price of 3 of them I can get a bartop arcade machine from ebay. Quaint is nice but its not going to get cash out of my wallet.

[@GreatSageSunWukong]

B3tanTyronne you could buy a jamma cab for that money

[@B3tanTyronne]

@@GreatSageSunWukong Thing is, Galaga is okay for a quick blast but not £130 quids worth.

[@gavinc74]

Would be great to have a Gauntlet version.

[@blakegriplingph]

That Lammily doll on the thumbnail tho. I've actually heard of her from Mr. Mouse of Xentax of all people, who brought the crowdfunding campaign to my attention. EDIT: Allwinner V3? Sure is a trend for most companies to use either that or MediaTek SOCs in the case of the PlayStation Classic. You should stick up a small heatsink on it as they tend to go pretty hot based on my experience with Allwinner-powered devices.

[@reggiep75]

We bought some classics a few months ago for 'the offspring's' (daughter) Xbox and Pac-man, Galaga and Dig Dug were in the pack and I told her of how these were the nice bleepy games I played as a kid and she laughed at them but she was hooked in no time. Games back then had to have playability to rely on people coming back and blasting coins into then and not shiny shit and bloom to entice people who later realised the game they got was complete toilet. I'm thankful to have lived thru the strongest era of arcade and computer development.

[@Z3R0FiR3]

Cute Kitty!

[@recursiveidentity]

But can it do the fast shoot hack?

[@mikefawc22]

I wish they’d make 3/4 scale I know it’d probably cost like 1000 bucks but as long as they made it real coin op with op free play it would worth it

[@wilholloway7876]

I would LOVE to see a "GAP-LUS" quarter scale made. I LOVED Gaplus, even scored over 500,000 on a real machine.......

[@WINTERMUTE_AI]

LOVE IT, let me know when I can buy it from Amazon Prime.

[@paulbrown638]

I was wondering if there would be a discussion of the name's pronunciation, and I wasn't disappointed. 😝

[@calmac3723]

I didn't realize there was such a big issue pronouncing vowels and consonants but now he has bought it up and clearly, you have heard this discussion before I am now second guessing the queens English, this is quite disturbing and a threat to the monarchy as we now know it. 😆

[@mikethedigitaldoctorjarvis]

"Look at him!"..."lazy piece of sh**"....🤣

[@Jivolt]

$129.99 pounds ($160 USD)? Yes, please! Galaga. Still the greatest video game of all-time. It’s sad that I never noticed the Y-Wing and X-Wing influence.

[@BillAnt]

One thing you probably won't hear from her in bed "It's damn cute! Look at that tiny thing!" at 6:33 xD xD

[@KevinCarlyle-q6y]

Does the machine save the high scores

[@FatNorthernBigot]

You totally missed a chance to double-up your ship.

[@TheAnkMan]

He also didn't know where to position the ship(s) in the first challenging stage to shoot all 40 of them for a 10,000 point bonus: right in the center. I don't blame him as he was too young or not even born when Galaga came out to have experienced it first hand. I was in my young teens when Galaxian (first game with real colours btw.) came out. And he was right saying something like video game technology evolved so quick in within the two year gap between Galaxians and Galaga. And in my opinion that went until around 1987 where it slowed down. Every new game after Galaxians blew me away. 1980 there was Battle Zone and Defender. Leaping forward to 1984, Marble Madness let everybody's jaw drop.

[@FatNorthernBigot]

@@TheAnkMan the challenging stage with double ships is arcade nirvana. marble madness was a game Changer.

[@brandonreina4219]

Numskull Designs may release the Nintendo Super System miniature arcade machine in 2021

[@bungalowfeuhler1541]

If it’s in any way physically possible, any machine attempting to simulate an arcade experience should require payment to play. Only allowing yourself to play it with the coins you’ve got jingling in your pocket keeps you from getting bored with the game. Sure, it’s your machine and you can easily just open it up to get your coins back. But a little self control will turn this machine into a great after-work treat. Dimes would suit it beautifully.

[@kailomonkey]

When they do an OutRun one I'd have to part with some money. Although I'm not sure how playable it would be with a tiny wheel and paddles.

[@garystevens6831]

Ga - Lager, time for the pub...

[@swanningabout]

If you're "totally" honest? Never Understood that phrase 😆

[@Nostalgianerd]

You must be a politician.

[@kailomonkey]

It would be great if you could load any MAME game into one. It would be worth buying one well put together quarter scale cabinet to house countless games. Otherwise a bit pricey...

[@richard-hawley]

I'll a pint of g-lager and a packet of crisps please.

[@jeenkzk5919]

Richard Hawley smokes and road beers!

[@horrorkesh]

What are these friend things you speak of

[@alexcross5753]

REREASE THE PANTHER!

[@galandilvogler8577]

10:59 Sindy in ethylic coma. Videogames get you addicted to alcohol confirmed.

[@WhatHoSnorkers]

Good job sir!

[@UberNeuman]

Dave must be sacrificed to the great Feline God!

[@alexdhall]

Kitteh must be served. Dave makes a *great sacrifice*. 😹

[@kailomonkey]

Why didn't they make a special version with the coin. Also they should make collectable dolls of 80'd kids to stand playing the game.

[@ArcadeFreak-gw5rp]

I'm looking forward for ms pacman

[@JJ_Khailha]

The correct pronounciation is with the emphasis on the first A. “gAlaga”

[@NimonBePraised]

Ga-La-Ga sounds better

[@Nostalgianerd]

Yes, although it reminds me too much of Oasis.

[@steve24822]

First time I have ever heard it pronounced any other way today.

[@daveboogie1]

I had a few Ga-Largers last night, can you please re-edit this vid with proper pronunciation please,

[@destruxandexploze2552]

I know it’s proper is GUH-LAH-GAH but I still think GAL-UH-GUH has a better ring to it.

[@mariodykstra6555]

I always pronounce it GAL-aga.

[@retroguy4616]

Galaxian, Galaga, Gaplus, and Gatsbee would make the complete set.

[@millermonsterair]

those are really cool, but not worth what is being charged to get them. ill wait until theyre a bit older and pick some of them up when theyre less than half the price they are now...

[@GigTube]

in the age of raspberry pi cabinets with every arcade ever made on one board, these things are kinda pointless.

[@rickyricardo6725]

Does the cheat work? Do you know the cheat? It’s in the original arcade

[@Nostalgianerd]

It will work, as it's the original ROM.

[@rickyricardo6725]

Have you tried it?

[@XavierGr]

Gal'aga doesn't make sense to me at all. You say G'alaxy so it should be G'alaga. Gal'axian is stressed on la because a) of Gal'axians e.g. the people of the Galaxy, and b) it has one more syllable so the stress is moved.

[@TheAnkMan]

As mentioned in news-commentaries.blogspot.com/2018/04/retro-consoles.html I do not like scaled down versions of video game consoles or arcade games. In this case get a scaled down Galaga cab with a 5" LCD you otherwise find in smartphones. Inside a modern PCB with a modern ARM Cortex or similar CPU microprocessor running the MAME or some other arcade game emulation - and ONE single game. When Nostalgia Nerd played on it it looked painful with the tiny knobs and buttons. For me it's just something to put on a shelf and look at. Although Dave might like it he'll lose interest as soon as Cindy comes along to play with something else. But those who really want a Galaga cab, get one. LGR had an episode recently he showed off his 1980 Missile Command cab. Sure you might pay an arm and a leg IF you even find a Galaga cab. For everybody else who just wants to play Galaga and other classics, head over to www.mame.net/ to get an emulator and find pages like www.ankman.de/mame/ to grab some game roms. Playing on a PC or Mac with an ordinary keyboard or joystick shall deliver a closer arcade experience than the tiny controls on the mini cab. Peter: Don't get me wrong. Awesome episode as always. But I just cannot see why mini cabs and consoles are such a hype today - well over a decade already. Looking forward for more Dave and Cindy tales too. :-)

[@jumhig]

Galaga and Ms. Pacman use the same cabinet shape.

[@producerevan88]

Is that Barbie doll getting turnt up in the arcade, on some good ol' milk, in your thumbnail? 😂

[@Nostalgianerd]

She's swapped the milk out for Special Brew.