Repairing a Completely Destroyed ATARI Centipede Arcade Game From 1980, Will It Run?

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[@pcachu]

The starting condition of this thing was like two or three steps above just finding a wooden milk crate in the dumpster with a piece of masking tape that has "CENTAPED" written on it in sharpie. I had a love/hate relationship with this game. It was always cool to find, but I was always terrible at playing it.

[@fred_derf]

Nice to get more than an "it's broke" out of Joe, he's got a ways to go to get to _Ron-level_ but he's off to a good start. If he keeps at it maybe he can get a channel named after him… 🙂

[@Zerbey]

I was thinking that, Joe needs to give more insight it was great to hear something other than his catchphrase!

[@Zerbey]

Beautiful restoration, both of you! Please ask Joe to appear in more videos it was great to hear something other than "it's broke". Centipede holds a special place in my heart, it was the first video game I ever owned, on the 2600.

[@joshfenton5522]

It’s really cool to get to hear more from Joe! Love the channel, boys. Keep it up!

[@LyonsArcade]

Joe does most of the work! thanks for watching!

[@djmips]

@@LyonsArcade He's also funny! Just like you and Donnie.

[@arcadefussell3185]

I call those "Beautiful Disasters". Looks like the games I usually find. I know the 45 minute video was just a snapshot of the journey that machine went on to get to where it is now. It's so rewarding to see and hear the life come back after all that effort! Thanks for saving it!

[@user-tb5ns7hc5i]

The cabinet itself and side art were in great shape. Hard to believe that side art was not already replaced given the horrific condition of everything else.

[@lucyxchan6808]

Yeah, friend of mine jumped that rabbit hole...i've seen everything...dead Rats, imploded monitors,completly whitefaded decals, rust...everywhere and completly desintigrated bottoms...the most " fun" i had with an Tron that had dryrotted cables...i replaced every Single one while my friend tried to get the defective Mainboard to Boot...it's been a few years...

[@naytch2003]

Give ol Henry a thumbs up people..for taking the trouble to make an audio mention on the channel 🐁

[@jimechols4347]

Great job guys! Thank you for keeping these machines alive so we always remember how the good times in gaming got their start!

[@cburgess5294]

Seller to Joe: "it's pretty rough". Joe to seller "Don't worry, I know a guy". Come on Joe, come on now!

[@Nunya_Bidnez]

Must be Rons favorite game. HE IS Good!

[@johns6265]

There's no way anybody could work on a cabinet in that shape without love for the games, I'd have walked away as soon as I saw the cabinet was mostly empty space.

[@ThomasGrillo]

Thanks for sharing this. That cabaret cab would be perfect for use in the home environment. :)

[@pacthesir]

Please keep saying "It's broke" It gets me every time and brings me joy!... for some reason...

[@gfy69]

Wow guys! Nice job was amazing to watch. Bringing in a shell and having the parts in house to make it whole again.

[@markfleming7705]

love how joes got an answer for everything :D

[@LyonsArcade]

He knows what's important

[@youvsyou945]

Turned out to be a great looking game! Good job y'all, as usual. Thanks

[@TheTkiller9999]

I hope you feel better.... and your voice feels better

[@LyonsArcade]

Thank you Theodore, I feel and sound much better now, this video was filmed a little while ago! Thanks for watching!

[@RalonsoF1]

Such a beauty of an iconic arcade machine you put back to shine again! You guys are just awesome, how you love those old machines, that I remember all the time as lovely moments of my sweet childhood! If you'd consider to sell this arcade cabinet, just please let me know! Love you, dudes! 😊

[@TheKurtsPlaceChannel]

Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.

[@LyonsArcade]

Thank you Kurt's Place!

[@b.o.4492]

I love Centipede. You’re saving history. This is quite a project. Side art is nice. Put that puppy in shag carpet and you won’t even see the bottom water damage at all.

[@swettyspaghtti]

Them dang spiders were the worst ! Great vid Joe

[@LyonsArcade]

The spiders aren't that bad if you get past them, what always gets me is those damn things that come out and turn the mushrooms so the centipedes drop straight to the bottom. PAIN IN MY NECK!

[@naytch2003]

Micro Farad 😆..Nice having Joey guest starring in a video..another great arcade repair series coming up

[@LyonsArcade]

We're getting him out of his shell :)

[@naytch2003]

@@LyonsArcade Can you buy trackballs from Walmart? 😁

[@luke144]

Good game. You have some centipede skills man!

[@stegarv66garv64]

Great game classic job well done sorting the mess it was in 👏👏👏👏👏just got my sub from liverpool England 👍👍👍

[@donkeykongarcadescores3876]

Great video as always!

[@EpicB0y]

I love it, repairing that is a fabulous challenge!

[@NeedlessJ93]

Great video guys! Hmm, I haven't heard Schyster in a while, reminds of WWF wrestler Irwin R. Schyster. And what a coincidence he worked for the IRS 😉

[@LyonsArcade]

hahahahaha Most aptly named Wrassler ever! Thanks for watching Jason C!

[@OQTIZZLE_ORLANDO]

Good luck on your endeavors. Don’t let anyone get you down. We are all just trying to survive in a day where everyone hates everyone. You can do this.

[@LyonsArcade]

Yeah it's like cynicism and snarkiness rule the day anymore, I'm just trying to enjoy these games and make people chuckle a little bit, everybody takes everything so seriously! Thanks for watching Orlando!

[@elitster]

Centipede is my favorite arcade game of all the times!!! Thank you!

[@AllanSitte]

So... Joe bought a Centipede cabinet in fairly good shape. Then put in a new (old) set of components to make it a game cabinet again. Good job boys. Another successful restoration. Thank you for sharing your exploits.

[@williamsudbrink4187]

Great restore! And now we know where Ron's quarters went back in the day.

[@DuckAlertBeats]

That machine really does look sweet. Nice work!! Pretty decent Centipede skills too :)

[@LyonsArcade]

Thank you DuckAlert!

[@Nunya_Bidnez]

This was always my favorite game. I can still hear the track ball noise and sounds of the game in my head. I wish i could afford to buy it

[@LyonsArcade]

It's about as good as it gets, such a masterpiece of a game.

[@toddmartin6572]

Wow!! Joey seems to be really picking up on your knowledge over the years! Love it!! Keep being a great influence and teacher joe… I’m in Michigan and would love to visit yas..

[@randynovick7972]

Joe is the master of understatement. Oh! Ron! I got a bottle of that blue goo that kills elm trees! I'm gonna kill me some elms this weekend!

[@LyonsArcade]

Go for it buddy, by the way my whole backyard is STILL CLEAR after poisoning those suckers a year and a half ago. This was a big mystery to me until I found that stuff, now my yard is good, so I figured I'd spread the word in case somebody else was running into it....

[@scottgm321]

I’ve used it on all the hackberry and other weed trees in my yard this spring. Works great

[@chriscravens4915]

You guys took a cabinet that looked like crap in the beginning and made it look like a work of art, beautiful…👍👍👍👍

[@LyonsArcade]

Thank you Chris, it was fun!

[@chriscravens4915]

Nice to see a classic restored to its former glory…👍👍👍

[@LyonsArcade]

Thanks for watching Chris!

[@chriscravens4915]

@@LyonsArcade Yw

[@pdc023]

Pretty neat watching new life breathed into old classics.

[@arthurok327]

Howdy my Friend, Your gonna have some fun bringing this game back to life and back to it's pristine shape.....I can't think of a better classic arcade tech to get the job done, and done right, than you Joe !! Great game too, Stay Calm and game on my Friend, Peace

[@LyonsArcade]

Thanks Arthur, that's very nice of you to say! PEACE

[@chriscravens4915]

I love these old arcade machines, they are awesome and fun to work on..👍👍👍👍

[@LyonsArcade]

Yes they are!

[@donaldhoot7741]

New video STARring Joe! Great! Thannks!

[@LyonsArcade]

Joey's the man!

[@pezjohnson]

Another great arcade save! Wait a minute?!? Was this an actual Joe video? I mean it IS called Joe's Classic Video Games. Nice work, guys.

[@TimmyJoe633]

Forgot how tricky this game got, used to play it at school on a BBC Micro in 1980's england 😄

[@NivagSwerdna]

@1:00 Joe is a man of vision!

[@NivagSwerdna]

@6:58 C'mon people just change the flyback. Nice to have some Joe Monitor stuff

[@LyonsArcade]

Joe Knows!

[@filasophies4423]

That part was free!

[@scottgm321]

What a disaster and epic recovery. Thanks for the video.

[@DoItMyselfGarage]

Liked how you were "culling" the boards to use the best ones first. We've watched you save worse, but understand you wanting to use up the "better" ones first if you can since the original board was missing. Keep up the great work. Someday I will find one of these old games or maybe even a pinball machine and bring it home to work on.

[@LyonsArcade]

Part of it is a "first come, first served" thing too, so if I'm going to sell the game to somebody, I want it to have the best board I have in it... no use putting a crappy one in there and leaving a good one on the shelf :) I may never get another Centipede, who knows? Then the next best one will go in the next one I need one for, etc. Thank you for watching DoItMyselfGarage!!!!

[@anthonydenn4345]

Nice job. That flyback you showed with the crack, reminded me of a chassis I bought on ebay. I bought it broken. Pluged it in to test it and the flyback started to go on fire. A small flame was coming from a crack in the flyback casing. Replacing the flyback fixed it. But it showed me that it's not really a good idea to leave these cabinets switched on unattended.

[@crunchyfrog555]

I realise that these sort of examples don't always crop up, but I LOVE the more in epth nature of going from a wreck to working.

[@mdouglaswray]

Good tip about flyback transformer - same advice for old tvs.

[@joonaskoski7998]

"Lookin' kinda rough, Joe"

[@LuvADuc]

Ron! Listen to Joe! "Gotta have the vision!" LOL Thanks for the video.

[@victorsvarietychannel2459]

What a great classic game. Brings back memories

[@LyonsArcade]

It really is something special....

[@64ssmalibu]

Awesome, mine and moms favorite. How different is the arcade version from the 7800 version? Other than not having a trak ball . Great video guys.

[@Nunya_Bidnez]

lol Ron. "I think I can fix that. Thanks Joe" lol

[@Austin.D]

My grandfather has a centipede Arcade cabinet in his garage right next to a Street Fighter Il cabinet he would always have it turned on to free play every time we go over there to visit

[@LyonsArcade]

Your Grandfather was cool!

[@ocsrc]

That's a classic Everyone wants this one for the game room and the graphics on the side are excellent condition

[@ocarsful607]

hi ron could you say hi me ( steve taylor in the uk ) i like watching you vids the juke boxs are the best ones i think and like the the way you say micro ferret ( poor spelling ) i have i laugh wen you do , all the best steve taylor

[@patricknicolucci5073]

My favorite arcade game! Fix it Ron its so awesome !

[@joshfenton5522]

Oh yeah! This is gonna be a transformation!

[@LyonsArcade]

Let's do it :)

[@irieman442]

What the hell!!!! LOL pretty good game play there at the end. You don't know how many times I have said... That's not worth fixing, too far gone. I'm wrong every time. Nice one.

[@1pcfred]

It is worth fixing if you have 6 game boards on your shelf.

[@techwolflupindo]

That is very good deal on the cabinet in that shape. I repaired them out on site and those cabinets get tore up all the time in locations.

[@NUTTER8291]

Hi love watching you videos with Admiration but after watching this I'm wondering how you get all the programs for the chips and the cabinet decals RESPECT

[@naytch2003]

Henry the mouse did it people 🐁

[@LyonsArcade]

Now he's probably loose in the building!!!!

[@wackyworldofwindios3476]

Good Morning Ron.

[@LyonsArcade]

Good Morning Dano!

[@ginkumpow3726]

lol watching you play, I'm hearing in my mind the song 🎵 pinball wizard 🎵

[@teflon5821]

Great video and great job on the centipede I'm a new sub have you run across a Defender yet as I did not see a one on your channel maybe I need more Geritol cuz I could have scrolled right past it LOL great content👍👍🎅

[@LyonsArcade]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYu1fGWgrtqKsLM

[@teflon5821]

Fantastic thanks for the link, I believe the Geritol has kicked in👍😄🎅

[@davidbowers521]

I second,, it's great hearing more from Joe than "It's Broke" or "It's FIxed" Nice tag team presentation, even if Joe sounded like he had a little too much glee knowing the shape of the wiring. And taking what was really just a decent looking cabinet that had been parted out and essentially parting it all back in, just like that Flight 2000.

[@LyonsArcade]

He made me fix all that wiring! Can you believe it????

[@lurkersmith810]

That game is one of the reasons why I don't know about the pinball machines that came out in the post EM era! (Asteroids was my gateway game.)

[@evanseven]

Amazing!

[@Zepphd2]

Do the replacement stickers have the same texture as the originals? If I remember right, the texture was kinds grainy feeling like really dull smooth sand paper.

[@waynegram8907]

JOE CLASSIC, any reasons why the flyback with the "white knobs" has drifting issues? The computers that have an ISA build in burner cards have the benefits and advantages of doing what compared to those USB external burners can and can't do?

[@jk180]

Joey! Great job. ;) Ron needs a break.

[@naytch2003]

Ronnie is busier than a one armed paper hanger 😁

[@jk180]

@@naytch2003 Left side or right side? LOL

[@naytch2003]

@@jk180 well he's left handed so must be his left hand that's still there lol

[@marinkagreen9415]

You will need a good truck to help carry that ton of work you’re getting yourself into

[@LyonsArcade]

Isn't that the truth Marinka! Thank you for watching!

[@user-de9ks7so5m]

Where do you get your new fly backs?

[@crashoverride200]

Question to Joes Classic Video Games. In the late 80 early 90 there was a space invader where it was "Real 3D " basically it was pre recorded flight scenes out of space it was kinda nice game do you have any of those ?

[@eddie_saunders]

You know it's going to be good when it starts with "What the heck???" 😂😂😂

[@LyonsArcade]

hahaha yeah we were confused, lol

[@ballsrgrossnugly]

Fun fact, I made an EEPROM reader/writer out of a breadboard and an arduino. Even used it hack my mate's ECU for his son's BMW because they are locked to the car. We managed to unlock it and re-burn a new map to it. Fun little project!

[@1pcfred]

I made an EEPROM reader/writer out of low level logic chips on a breadboard. There were no microcontrollers back then. I didn't have a computer at all. The IBM PC was still a few years off. There were Apples back then. I was never a fan of Apple though. The Trash 80 was around then too.

[@chriscravens4915]

Love it!!!!…..👍👍👍👍

[@LyonsArcade]

We do too!

[@ocsrc]

Damn you are good at this game Wow

[@LyonsArcade]

I'm o.k. but there are a bunch of people much better! Thanks for watching as always

[@jusdewu00]

I just bought a table top off Ebay and the ball is moving but the shooter isn't .. I am mad. can I fix it.. is it worth it or should I send it back to the seller?

[@viscountalpha]

"you might have to repin that a little bit" 😂😂😂

[@KaziiTheAvali_inactive]

joe look something got into it "it was henry"

[@chriscravens4915]

I like centipede, I wouldn’t mind having that cabinet, too bad you guys weren’t in Indiana, I buy some of your cabs, I’m a big arcade collector, I have some in storage and 2 arcade 1ups

[@LyonsArcade]

They're fun to collect!

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

Hi Joe, do you think there's a niche market for exact cabinet replicas, without the electronics? If yes, what do you think such a cabinet could sell for?

[@LyonsArcade]

They sell some from time to time, it kind of depends on how exact of a replica it is :) Just a bare cabinet you can order usually for about $700 shipped maybe $800 from Arcadeshop.com .... but it doesn't have any art, etc. We are selling this one working for $1499 in our area at least that's about as high as it gets :)

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

@@LyonsArcade I was just wondering if I could put my wood working skills to good use. But it looks like that niche has already been filled. Thanks for the quick reply!

[@retrogamestudios7649]

I'm gonna sleep well tonite knowing u two didn't follow thru on your nuclear reactor repair careers

[@LyonsArcade]

You'll have your snark to keep you warm

[@davidmarks509]

Who was the guy talking, when working on the monitor board. Sounds like someone else?

[@Mrshoujo]

Working for Joe means job security and every day being interesting! Between all those Centipede boards, you have the parts to at least get all of them working and then settle to using the few usable right now.

[@RodsPinballVideos]

Is anyone making an overlay that doesn't crack around the front where it curves down?

[@LyonsArcade]

Not that I'm aware of. It's the laminate that cracks and nobody has definitely figured out why that is. Some people claim they can put them on and they won't crack but I'm not so sure, we get them on pretty good around that bend. I never have them long enough to see them crack but i've heard about it a lot online!

[@livingdeadbtu]

I see the pocket programmer shows that the EPROM is a 2716. Can you still get new ones or are all the ones you have like a date code of 1982 to 1995? I have seen (and used/designed) piggy back boards/emulators that use newer Flash chips that pin out to an older EPROM package/pinout. Have you ever had to use one of those? Any problems if so? We used them for 2564/2764 once they started getting hard to find and our stock of usable old ones began to run out. .

[@livingdeadbtu]

The burn gates eventually wear out and will not burn.... or they won't erase. and then you have an unusable chip. Sometimes it was something as stupid as a nick/chip in the glass or microscopic sticker goo. On stubborn chips we would let them live in the eraser for a while and move them around under the light so angle of the light going into the window would vary. (to get around any nicks/chips). and CLEAN CLEAN CLEAN that window REAL good!!!! (we used flux stripper) It literally burns open the gate to make a 0 ( or is it a 1??? I forget - that is a part of my unused memory of a bygone era.) Never really understood exactly how the chip "heals" in the eraser.

[@livingdeadbtu]

On some chips we would notate the value in the stubborn chip - like "location 05FF - expected FF - Found C5" and mark it as a "bad chip with C5 in 05FF" (actual notation on the chip, in the somewhat bad but not ready to toss pile - "05FF=C5"). There is a program out there with C5 in that location. It once resided on that chip and will not remove. If the rest of the chip is good and C5 belongs there - guess what? You can use it for that!!!! (UGH - we were getting desperate at the end to start doing that!!!!!!)

[@livingdeadbtu]

We also had ones where the pins would go a little gray and we would polish them up with a nail file before they would work, but I figure you know that old trick :)

[@2011Savere]

This is awesome; but why go through all the trouble when you can get the Arcade1up with the original mods?

[@LyonsArcade]

The Arcade1up is made of cardboard and about 3 feet tall, I'd rather have the big nice real one

[@atari2600b]

Are you the Joe I keep hitting up for work at the coin-op?

[@wanghotangho5803]

Laundromats only had obscure Stern games like Astro Invader and Cosmic Guerilla that kids would draw over with crayons and spill Lik-M-Aid sugar all over

[@chriscravens4915]

I can’t believe someone would destroy that machine like that…..

[@LyonsArcade]

People are crazy man!

[@chriscravens4915]

@@LyonsArcade Yeah they don’t care, they just destroy stuff unfortunately….

[@vannahsa3]

JOE!!!!!

[@atari2600b]

Man I'm serious though you gotta get in the habit of dousing things in solvent. I usually dump flask vodka on the board, get scrubbing, rinse in the sink then dry with a 2nd rinse with iso. Maybe a 125F oven bake if there's SMD IC's with the BGA

[@WX4GPS]

How did these games allow you to clear out the high scores and reset them to a factory default?

[@LyonsArcade]

You just went into the test menu and did it from there... the top three scores were all that Centipede saved after the power was turned off.

[@robertsissco2439]

I know the cap itself is marked and needing two tools to replace can get annoying, but I think not using a flathead screw on the negative pole on the Big Blue is just a missed opportunity.

[@LyonsArcade]

You're the first person to ever think of that, and I think it's a damn fine idea, LOL

[@coasterbp]

7:05 OMG i thought my mother in law was the only one in the world to use the word SHYSTER.

[@LyonsArcade]

That's a good one, also "reprobate" lol

[@DaveMcAnulty]

This game's trackball bit 6 year old me's hand. Will never forgive it, or use a trackball again :D

[@DK640OBrianYT]

As a sidenote, do you good people know, that Shango006 demonstrated, that the internals of CRT's (Anode, gun, catode, plates) with safety and explicit certainty can be easily ressurected/restored with one of these crt-testers/restorers and be brought back to vibrant colors once again? If you're interested to expand the lifespan of one of your CRT arcade-machines coming in for servicing, go search his channel for the specific upload. I remember watching it thinking, that it was groundbreaking stuff, but can't honestly true to God say I can point that exact video out just like that, but if you fall short, let me know asap, and I will dive in to find it. It may take me some time though, so be patient okay?

[@LyonsArcade]

the great Shango006 would be the first to tell you that it cannot be done with 'explicit certainty' :)

[@DK640OBrianYT]

@@LyonsArcade True. But the method did prove to work so well beyond expectation. "Why throw a dull CRT out, when all it needs is to vaporize the superficial debris", was the reasoning behind why my brain electrocuted and forced me to write you.