Star Wars Disaster! Our Arcade Blows Up on its 40th Birthday

Atari's Star Wars arcade machine is 40! But I can't show you it until we repair the arcade as unfortunately just as i'm about to film a video it all goes wrong. Can we get it fixed by the end of the video?
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[@zero0ryn]

Always nice when they come back from the dead 😊

[@TheArcadeArchive]

You wizard

[@duncanself5111]

Brings back memories of playing the cockpit version at Felixstowe arcades in the 80's. Good times

[@senilyDeluxe]

At the Arcade museum Seligenstadt, Fridays are also Fix It Fridays. Sometimes Saturdays and Sundays too, but you can't rely on that. That Sprint2 board looks like bad RAM (from the far). Maybe install a crowbar on that 5V circuit because 14V on the 5 is bad news. CuriousMarc got less lucky with tons of chips fried. Although I fixed similarly bad ones. And no, our Atari AR-3s don't have crowbars either.

[@conorcatchpole3565]

Loved how you brought it down to the Spectrum and the Vectrex!

[@TheArcadeArchive]

Haha yea always nice to see the home ports. Thanks for watching

[@wolfbeast80]

Couldn't think of a better to finish off my birthday! I am looking forward to more content.

[@TheArcadeArchive]

Thanks Mathew Always nice to see you in the comments

[@wolfbeast80]

Thank you, much appreciated 🙂

[@MrStevenskiChan]

There was definitely a proper Speccy port of Star Wars. It came with 2 tapes one with the game on and one with the Star Wars music on. This was because the game had no sound! There was even a note in the box which said as much. It was revised later on though and sound was added (just sound effects, which weren't that great). Still, visually it was a great port for the time.

[@bobbus_74]

Nice work John! Glad to see this beauty back up and running.

[@properjob2311]

loved that game - especially the sit down.

[@electricadventures]

Definitely Murphy's law in play there :) But it was quite interesting to see both the diagnostic process and repair. A wonderful arcade machine, that most of us arcade addicts would love to have in our personal collection (I have my top secret build my own project underway :)). Sounds like lots of progress being made on some of the old classic machines, that Sprint 2 is looking gorgeous. Two of my cabs are appearing in the Dark Mofo winter festival as part of a display. As part of the deal, I am getting 1/2 dozen CRT tubes and a pile of CRT chassis's, so lots of fixing projects will be happening over the next few months here.

[@TheArcadeArchive]

Oh wow some interesting things happing for you Tony. Star Wars arcade project and taking your machines to a event ?

[@eobet]

When filming a CRT with a phone, I find that setting the recording framerate to 24 works much better. It’s in the corner of the iPhone, but I bet an Android phone can do the same.

[@TheArcadeArchive]

Yea that works for videos like this but when I film live and move the camera it’s takes a while to catch up. It’s the nature of the topic I’m covering I’m afraid.

[@hhgttm]

I was at the Arcade last weekend and played that machine several times. I promise it was working the whole time I was there! Star Wars was a highlight as I owned the Amiga port. But the real thing in the atmosphere was brilliant. Such a good game and it was amazing to see the Arcade for real and everyone was so lovely - thank you to Alex and Holly who were there that day.

[@TheArcadeArchive]

Glad you enjoyed the museum it’s always my pleasure to show people around and explore the history with everyone. Look forward to seeing you again

[@hopwon]

Love it. Star Wars, I think, is one of the best ever arcade machines. So much so I'm just about to make a replica machine. Would love some advice or measurements of the plastic bezel? :). Thanks for the great content!

[@TheArcadeArchive]

You’re more than welcome to measure the one we have in the museum. 👍

[@pajaco6502]

If you don't shoot anything in the Trench Run except for the exhaust port (when the message pops up) you can get a "Force Bonus" for more points ;)

[@TheArcadeArchive]

Great tip 😎👍

[@LurgsHowToGuides]

Amazing video. I loved the sit in cockpit version when I was a kid. I obviously still had the bug as I now have the Arcade1up version which is way smaller than the original but still a great piece of kit. I was gonna donate as I can’t get to you but you don’t have the SuperThanks enabled. Keep up the epic work keeping alive the old classics. Star Wars is probably my all time favourite arcade machine with Spy Hunter and Dragons Lair after. I also had Starstrike on the Spectrum which was amazing, how did they get away with it as it wasn’t licensed and was basically Star Wars!

[@TheArcadeArchive]

Thank you so much for your kind words it’s much appreciated. I’m not aware of the super thanks option I’ll look into it. I do have a patron if you did want to help the museum or come down and visit and I’ll give you a full tour of the retro collective. The Star Wars 1 up cabs are very impressive and more importantly they work 😂 Thanks for watching 😎👍

[@LurgsHowToGuides]

@@TheArcadeArchive You can enable it on your channel and it allows people to donate money direct to you. Google take their cut but it’s quick and easy, I’ve got it enabled on my channel and have had about 10-15 donations, it all helps. Have a retro classic long bank holiday weekend.😎

[@TheHighlander71]

I've always been impressed (still am) with the Commodore64 port of this game. And with today's technical options it easy to run the game smoothly as well. Awesome.

[@ArcadeAzrall]

Always great to see a fault being fixed so swiftly! What a great bunch for Fix it Friday! Is there room for any more? Would love to help where I can.

[@TheArcadeArchive]

Hi Allan always welcome mate you know that 😎👍

[@pacscalatorarcade5736]

We have one of those in our arcade with the Amplifone monitor and absolutely love it! So glad you guys were able to get this one working again there’s nothing like turning the game on and seeing it back in action for the first time after trying to get it working awesome job! 👍🏻

[@TheArcadeArchive]

Thanks buddy I’ve got some great volunteers helping out at the museum and I’m always amazed at their skills and knowledge in fixing these machines.without them I don’t know what I’d do.

[@NeoMK27]

Great recovery. Do you have plenty of spares parts for the Vector cabs especially? Seems a nightmare to keep them all going, so I’d say they are in the best place possible!

[@TheArcadeArchive]

Well we don’t really no, I’ve had to turn to the community or abroad really as they are scarce.

[@paul_smith66]

This was my favourite game in the arcade. Before the days where you could just put more money in to contiue your game. I once played a single game for 6 hours. Went into the arcade at 4pm and they closed the arcade at 10pm. HAd to turn the machine off whilst I was still playing. When you're approaching the exhaust port you can fire from way further back than you think. Once your missile is away you can concentrate on shooting the flak that's coming at you. It was a sad day when this was taken out of the local arcade.

[@stephenelliott7071]

The stand-up Star Wars Cab doesn't work...Maybe replace it with the sit down cabinet then 😲

[@VladTheImpaler454]

God bless the John's of this world

[@mlann2333]

Stick a 5v1 Zener across that 5v line to protect everything downstream of it in future !

[@johnnyretro1975]

them sounds are iconic amazing memories of this game in my dinner hour at school in the 80s so many great memories in our local café it was the sit down one that version is amazing you can get in the middle of everything with the sounds all around you thanks so much for this vid well done have them guys fixing these they are like gold dust them guys

[@TheArcadeArchive]

Thanks Johnny always nice to see you in the comments. Star Wars has so much nostalgia for everyone and it’s still a great game to play today. Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching

[@mindexplorers]

This is the game that got me into game programming - all holiday money spent on one of these machines in Falmouth one summer

[@TheStevenWhiting]

As mentioned on the other vid, I used to play the cockpit version in Wight City on Isle of Wight. Don't think I ever played the standup much as never saw it much. Might of been one in the Brighton arcade down on the beach but sadly don't remember that arcade much. The Spectrum games I find funny as I have a very clear memory of them. Not because I played them as we only had a ZX81, but because I have a very clear memory of standing in the front room of my childhood home in London and finding a 48K in its case. Assumed it had come off a magazine but stood and said to myself "This is why I don't like computer games. Look at the front art work. When I look at the back it will look nothing like that". I had no imagination then :) eventually got an Atari 2600 junior, was alright but nothing special. Then eventually a second hand Master System. Then eventually convinced my dad to get a Mega Drive and then I was hooked.

[@TheArcadeArchive]

I’ve you grew up on the isle of white you should read Greg Mott book Pushing buttons: memories of arcade addicts. He grew up on the island and has written a fabulous book about the arcades over there, comes highly recommended 👍

[@TheStevenWhiting]

5:12 Nice and clear explanation. Wish I'd gotten into electronics. Would think I would have being an IT Engineer but my excuse was I was put off it in 1994 at Uxbridge college. All because they had the old analogue oscilloscopes in our electronics lessons and I just never understood it. The digital oscilloscopes look so much more interesting now.

[@TheArcadeArchive]

I wish I had learned more about electronics too at school, instead my dad wanted me to get into construction 😩

[@davidretrogamesplayedbadly3533]

Remember seeing the starwars cockpit machine as a nipper, utterly awesome and still a personal favourite in the arcade and the zx spectrum. Gutted it's broken 😢. Great to see it fixed mate. Would love to play starwars on the vectrex. Look forward to the sprint 2 vid.

[@TheArcadeArchive]

Hi Dave, hope your well mate. It was a good excuse to fire up starstrike on the speccy and it was really enjoyable to play through again, timeless classic. Thanks for watching mate

[@nerdygeezer78]

Crazy to think they didn't release this game till the original trilogy was coming to a end...... Return of the Jedi is 40yrs old this month aswell. Cracking game and well done John on fixing it 👏

[@TheArcadeArchive]

3 years is a long time in video game development things changed a lot.

[@timeforbikes]

Cool, I am glad at the outcome. When we were there a couple of weeks ago this was my sons favourite. The screen was epic - so crisp and bright! Hopefully it is still going strong on the next visit.

[@TheArcadeArchive]

Glad you enjoyed the arcade Thanks for coming and Hopefully it will be going strong when you come back. 😎👍

[@wolvesaywe1155]

Return of the Jedi is 40 years old this May .

[@Mars-l9b]

Oops, I missed the thumbs up button at first and hit the thumbs down.. YT said it sent you a message, lol.. bit aggressive.. anyways, thumbs up, as always!

[@TheArcadeArchive]

Thanks mate 😎👍

[@gingerhippygaming7962]

I said it before arcade cabs are like a classic cars take alot to keep them going

[@magicknight8412]

Wish my computers were as simple to fix as that! So relieved it was fixed! Good that there will be so much documentation on the boards. Still love this game. I played 3d Starstrike on the Amstrad to death and never realised it was a star wars port :)

[@TheArcadeArchive]

Oh really that’s funny, well I guess if you hadn’t seen or played the arcade version you would know.

[@malmes999]

BIG game in the 80's Arcade loved playing it down the arcades had to que to get on it they only had the sit down one at the time.... thanks for sharing.

[@TheArcadeArchive]

Glad you enjoyed it Jimmy

[@SwainyAtRetroAsylum]

Glad you got it fixed so quickly mate. I had great fun playing it whilst I was there 👍

[@TheArcadeArchive]

Thanks Dean glad you enjoyed it

[@OGDuffy]

Too video as always and my fav game matey 😎🍺 Was so good seeing the repair and it firing back up !!!! I would have loved the original machine but really do not have the skills to maintain it so I went for the 1 up which I play all the time !!!!!!

[@TheArcadeArchive]

I think you’ve made a good decision getting the 1 up cab Rob as it will never break down and it looks really authentic. Thanks for watching as always my friend

[@OGDuffy]

@@TheArcadeArchive cheers matey 😎

[@hunta2097]

Great editing on this one, Alex!

[@TheArcadeArchive]

Oh thanks Steve I appreciate that. Glad you enjoyed it

[@bign3ck]

When I played this in the arcade as a child, it blew me away so much I couldn't sleep that night, this was one of the games that got me into gaming.

[@TheArcadeArchive]

Your star wars was like my space invaders absolutely brilliant

[@ThomasGrillo]

Congrats on getting this wonderful piece up and running! I remember playing this game when it was brand new in the arcades. :)

[@Jpetersson]

Dawph Vayduh!

[@RetroRewind77]

Great video dude

[@Rob.Coleman]

Do you want to borrow my Arcade1UP version 😁. Huge 👍👍 to John, really interesting watching him fault find and bring it back to life 👍👍.

[@eliotcole]

I absolutely loved this when I was a kid. But no-one can tell me that there's a better arcade Star Wars than *STAR WARS: ARCADE* on the SEGA MODEL 1. ... But the arcade original pod racer was amazing too.

[@jumpingeneral]

Hey Alex can you film repairs on fix-it-Fridays and show us weekly ?😎🥃

[@peakrider4886]

Loved this game as a child. Didn’t really have arcades in my home town so it was a real treat when we were on holiday. I spent hours in the cockpit version on Bridlington seafront. I was lucky enough to get the Arcade 1Up version a few months ago which is great, and has pride of place in my mancave/office!

[@jumpingeneral]

Great channel 5 stars ⭐️👍

[@TheArcadeArchive]

Thanks mate 😎👍

[@stephenwhite506]

For the trench run, I believe George Lucas was inspired by The Dam Busters.

[@coyote_den]

Ow my eyes. I did not realize this was HDR, but my MacBook Pro sure did!

[@paul_7078]

Atari ST port was the best of the home versions at the time.

[@retroimportgamer513]

Such a cool cab the Star Wars one, I thought it had bit the dust for a bit there, such fantastic skill to be able to fix them, hats off to the guys, it's like rocket science to me. Something about vector graphics that's amazing, the game is still great now. Room tour sounds exciting Alex, all the best 👍✌️

[@TheArcadeArchive]

Thanks James Always nice to see you in the comments. Editing game room tour now 😎👍

[@adriansinclair5062]

Fabulous video. That game takes me right back to Stafford college student union in 1986. Whenever I now play that game, blowing up the death star and the music I weirdly taste the then famous sausage rolls we used to eat when playing this game (and outrun!). Fantastic nostalgia.

[@TheArcadeArchive]

So much nostalgia for so many people, thanks for watching

[@TheHighlander71]

I can imagine it's a great atmosphere being there with a group of people fixing up and restoring arcade cabinets. If I lived closer I'd be there in a heartbeat.

[@TheArcadeArchive]

Thanks mate Would be great to see you if you could make it one day

[@c7261]

Maybe it's the ghost of the transistor? 😱 Lovely video mate. I've really noticed a bit jump in editing and production value. These videos are looking great and I wanted to thank you for all the time and energy you put into them 🙏

[@TheArcadeArchive]

Aww that’s very kind of you as it takes so much work and it’s always nice when you get comments like this l. Thank you 🙏

[@eobet]

The volunteer repair segments were amazing to see! Very detailed yet they made it absolutely clear what was going on. More of that, please! 👍🎉

[@TheArcadeArchive]

I’ve been filming our fix it Fridays so plenty more to come 👍 Thanks for watching

[@Ed-eq5kd]

Great video Alex, top work by all the helpers, what a great community

[@TheArcadeArchive]

Thanks Ed see you soon mate

[@JMurdochNZ]

Glad to see it was a relatively minor issue. This one was a bit before my time, but looks very cool.

[@TheArcadeArchive]

Still holds up today I think anyway. Thanks 😎👍

[@retrorobbins]

love the game ,

[@ryanricardo]

👍

[@backacheache]

It's Vector graphics were amazing too en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_%281983_video_game%29