They Started Parting Out This Pole Position Arcade Machine, Let's Save It! Pi-Position PCB Install

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[@FloppyDiskMaster]

I watch this channel enough that sometimes when I walk into an empty room I'll call out "ladies and gentleman this is Joe's classic video games back with another cool arcade game repair video for ya this evening"

[@LyonsArcade]

You're a Stud!

[@georgeshelton6281]

What never got replaced was the video arcade game machines TV screen. It didn't get renewed. So that way, you won't be seeing the screen flicker. Another thing is: the formula one race car is colored blue, not red. If it crashed: its parts would fly off the race car.

[@Sophie-cat-]

Or someone who isn't getting laid😅

[@dannymatthews855]

I appreciate your videos on Pole Position. I've linked to Amazon for 3 purchases today to provide support for your channel. Thank You

[@LyonsArcade]

That's very nice of you, Thanks!

[@firehawk6188]

My favorite arcade repair channel. Keep it up Joe and Ron! You guys are awesome. I'd have burnt that thing. It's ROUGH!

[@LyonsArcade]

Thanks for watching Firehawk!

[@firehawk6188]

Always will.

[@kander2]

The breadth and depth of your knowledge never ceases to amaze me. And you can solder!

[@boblow2186]

What a great fix. I remember when they were new in the arcade. The pe pe peeep is just about hard wired in the brain along with asteroids and defender The sounds just bring back the memories. Great job as always keep up the great work big👍

[@peterjv8748]

Boom! Pop's artwork on the PP2 cabinets! Keep up the great work, guys! I'm still watching after all these years.

[@Glammazon]

Thank you, Joe, for bringing back a part of my childhood.

[@fallwitch]

Wow I used to love playing Pole Position. Thanks for a fun watch!

[@LyonsArcade]

Thanks for watching!

[@Bob-sd7qr]

Hey Ronnie, thanks for the video! Great job cleaning that thing up. They do make art for it, but it's about $180! Keep on posting! ✌️

[@ItsaRomethingeveryday]

Sup yall, just dropping by to check out another great vid from yall 🙂 i really enjoy the camera work in your video, along with the relaxed easy to follow narration, And these games were classic ad always

[@markjackson1444]

Great work as usual Ronnie. …. Drive on driver. 5 stars.

[@LyonsArcade]

Thanks 👍

[@RSCOZZY]

Many memories of the 80's on various holidays in arcades playing the stand up racing machines. Used to drive my parents to boredom, and running them out of 10 pence peices 😄👍 Great video lads 🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@antonnym214]

The best way to do the throttle during game play is keep it floored, and shift to low for corners when you need to slow down.

[@antonnym214]

Awesome video! I love me some PP2! You did a great job, and I think we're looking at the future, with these replacement PI boards. What a great use for that hardware!

[@sideburn]

Arcade Jason’s the man. I have his Vectrex Multicart and some custom asteroids he modded to make the ships and rocks do different stuff. He’s been doing a lot of cool stuff lately.

[@LyonsArcade]

Yes he is a good dude

[@MrRlwillis1977]

The Seaside track vaguely resembles a check engine light.😆

[@rjwontheloose9037]

My first arcade was pole position II sit down version ... loved it

[@computerkid1416]

I love this channel! I'd love to own a Pole Position 1 or 2 someday.

[@LyonsArcade]

Thank you computerkid1416 we appreciate you watching!

[@meltysquirrel2919]

I also drive it Bill Engvall style - here's your sign! 😅 Another good one and great to see a new way to fix these!

[@JB-ro7kv]

I test your amazon affiliate link with purchase of a brother laser printer :) Thanks for all the entertainment over the years!

[@LyonsArcade]

I see it on there, thank you J B!

[@cheeto4493]

What are you using for marquee lights now? Are you still using the florescent tubes/starters or have you switched over to an LED strip?

[@LyonsArcade]

We try to put bulbs and starters in if the original fixture is still working (ballast isn't burnt up), but if we have to replace the whole fixture or it's missing we put LED's in, we don't really like LED's much

[@dannygarzon3523]

Enjoyed your vid brother keep them coming.

[@jumpingeneral]

With that new reproduction board being made does that mean the 3 pole positions in my neighbors barn can be brought back to life ?😎

[@carlstanland5333]

Take them to Joe’s! They LOVE some Pole Positions! 🤪

[@DigitalConfusion]

Came out real good.

[@ethanspencer152]

Love a great Pole Position video! Best arcade game ever!

[@LyonsArcade]

It's very fun, but you have to put some time in on it to get good at it :)

[@ethanspencer152]

@@LyonsArcade That's why you gotta start early! I myself have been playing since I was about 9 or 10, and now I'm 18!

[@jumpingeneral]

Great job guys love the video! You guys are #1 … you 2 should be running this country 🤝

[@LyonsArcade]

Thanks for watching, We appreciate it!

[@fletcherchambers7175]

Enjoyed seeing an unconventional "repair". I'm a huge Pi fan, super cool seeing it lashed to some old-school tech.

[@MrButtonpresser]

Those game cabinets were everywhere back in the day. I always turned the wheel the wrong way.

[@georgeshelton6281]

Now, that's the stuff I want to know about. Especially if you want your stereo cabinet restored. Such as the tape cassette player, record player, music CD player, the radio, and the stereo speakers, get restored. This means creating all replacement parts for your appliances. 🔊

[@dvv45]

Great work as always Ron! That’s a cool board.

[@orangenationarcade]

Top 5 favourite games for me! 1. Kickman, Pole Position, Elevator Action, Jungle King, Spy Hunter. Thanks for the great video!

[@theatheisthammer]

A group of you should get together and have the arcade boards scanned so people could buy replacements and just transfer the chips

[@christophersustar2797]

When’s that Midway Joker ball getting some love?

[@LyonsArcade]

It needs a backglass and we haven't been able to find one unfortunately

[@imnitguy]

No need to wipe off any of the grime on the monitor until you know it was worth the spray and paper towels. Good job guys, was looking at taking this on, glad to find your video. Regarding not having the original board, jeebus, who wants it? That is the reason these are in such low numbers. The original boardset was junk.

[@elitster]

Bravo!

[@wackyworldofwindios3476]

Good Morning U-All.

[@LyonsArcade]

Hello Dano!

[@waynegram8907]

JOE CLASSIC< did someone add in an inline Fuse for the H.O.T transistor? Mostly the H.O.T transistors don't have fuses in most arcade monitors. I'm guessing your combined tied together the H sync and V sync lines together?

[@se7enity648]

The cabinet is made from chip board and not MDF.

[@jpcounty69]

Just found your video and doing the same thing with an old PP. Can you clarify the wiring you had to change? Did you simply jumper/combine the two wires and run them to pin 11? THANK YOU!!!

[@JackTheGamer3]

How did you get the breaks to sound like the port in Namco Museum 50th anniversary? I thought that was just an emulation issue

[@senilyDeluxe]

Hey! That's the same model Raspberry Pi I'm watching this video on - it's hooked up to an early 1980s TV! Why do a tube swap, especially when the burn-in belongs to the game! C'mon people, you can't just swap a tube that has Pac Man burn-in in a Pole Position! 🙂 I fixed a few Pole Position (II) boards, but they were low hanging fruit. A battery-eaten PAL here, a bad RAM there... there's a PPII I can't fix, it's doing the good old SELF TEST - PASSED reboot loop. The 8002s are good, the support logic tests fine, it's gotta be that other PAL...

[@mfranzusan3014]

That's gotta be the best fix I've every seen for an elderly game. Cabinet with no board set (in their case, a double board set) replaced by one board a fraction of the size and a micro SD card?! I bet we'll see a lot more Pole Position games working for the future!

[@LyonsArcade]

They could have made the board much smaller too, they just made it the same width as the original so it'd fit in the case. It could be a third that size.... Thanks for watching Mike!

[@timmooney7528]

@@LyonsArcade The wiring harness connectors appear to be the deciding factor for it's size.

[@sirkaos]

ya got "focus you bleep" from AvE ! hehe

[@86FxBdyCpe]

Well Ronnie, not sure how long ago you guys did this repair with the new board from Jason. But according to his website, this board is NOT AVAILABLE. 🤔

[@labnine3362]

Before a move to another state, I had to sell my Pole Position cab and this was during the great recession. It was in beautiful shape but I only got $200 for it. *crying*

[@izzynutz2000]

No matter where I went if I played Pole Position 1 I always got pole position and high score on every game I ever touched

[@LyonsArcade]

Talented!

[@izzynutz2000]

I had a friend who knew the guy that designed the game and there's a certain way you drive around the track that always gets you Pole Position and get you through the added time marks that always gave you first place

[@antonnym214]

P.S. I'm functionally sub-par sometimes. I'm the one who accidentally called you Sean a few times in comments. I see now that it is Ron. Sorry about that! All good wishes.

[@XLordLeamingtonX]

You can order complete overlays for every arcade game in existence from Galloping Ghost Reproductions in Brookfield Illinois.

[@Zepphd2]

Making me begin to wonder if the deer was really at fault? 🤔😆🤣

[@stringerfilms.]

Pull the plug out!.... but He ain't dead yet! 😅😂 WHATCHU TELL HIM TO TOUCH IT FOR??

[@XeTe-ts7iw]

Se os olvidó ajustar el monitor. La parte superior tiene una gran franja negra.

[@larryrohring]

Who made the electromechanical arcade game like this using a tape loop and 8 track sound ? and what was it called? I found it… Chicago Coins Speedway! I use to hate fixing that game on location at camp grounds and arcades!

[@chazhaze3d]

I have recently came across a cockpit PP1 that had been converted to some off road racing game from 1989. The control panel with steering wheel and shifter has been replaced with something that looks more like a Star Wars controller. Do you know anywhere I could find replacement parts?

[@jeromewink557]

The guy with the truck probably grabbed this parted chassis out of your garbage and just sold it back to you.

[@ShawnBernard70]

It's one of those Japanese TVs

[@jr6676]

Sir, no one should be touching anything in back. HE SAID TOUCH IT IN THE BACK.

[@dh-_1011]

This is cool. I spent much money on this stupid game! Aladdin’s Castle back in the day!

[@andrewward5737]

The little board is a Pro Micro arduino compatible board.

[@LyonsArcade]

Thank you Andrew!

[@jankro1]

Yhe firs programmer on that new board was a Finnish guy, i see🇫🇮

[@chriscravens4915]

I just want to know why mine has a bar inside the cabinet…..

[@chriscravens4915]

I have a pole position arcade cabinet and mine is in way better shape than that one but there is a metal bar on the inside of it but idk if it’s holding it together or what, mine isn’t beat up like that

[@AvengerII]

Before watching the entire video, I know this was a LICENSED game. This was NOT an Atari original! It was a Namco game licensed to Atari just like Pac-Man was licensed to Bally/Midway but was in fact a Namco original. The Pole Position II game was also a Namco original. Ironically, Ms. Pac-Man WAS developed by Midway after reverse-engineering the original Pac-Man gamecode! Namco let that slide and assumed ownership of the Ms. Pac-Man code. (They kinda had to thank Midway for developing Ms. Pac-Man. The real sequel to Pac-Man, Super Pac-Man, didn't do that well in arcades but Ms. Pac-Man was a huge hit!) I had the Atari home computer port (Atari 400/800 series, compatible with the later Atari XL and I think XE line of Atari computers) of Pole Position. Nice game, decent port! The best racers I ever played are still the mid-1990s Sega racers like Virtua Racer and Daytona USA.

[@LyonsArcade]

This is the Atari Pole Position, not the Namco Pole Position

[@AvengerII]

@@LyonsArcade It's still licensed by Namco! Heck, the old game cartridge I owned for the Atari computers MENTIONED the game was under license from Namco! The Namco license/TM reg comes up on the old Pac-Man machines sold in the US (unless they're bootleg), too! It may be an Atari cabinet but the game code and actual machine that executes that code are licensed Namco product.

[@ArcadeJason]

lol yeah the reason it takes so long and is 16 gb is because it is an image of a working card. so long story short it is writing 16gb of zeros lol

[@LyonsArcade]

I thought that might be the case, lol

[@MasatoKay]

Pole abuse is a crime

[@jeromewink557]

The Pole Position 1 bezel is much cooler. PP2 looks stupid.

[@lileveretteyoakumiii]

Yodelayheehoo

[@LyonsArcade]

Hello Lil Everette!

[@boyce919]

Oh hi Everett... Did Todd ban you or what?

[@lileveretteyoakumiii]

@@boyce919 yes

[@DkViking1]

​@@lileveretteyoakumiii You mean Todd from TNT Amusements?

[@lileveretteyoakumiii]

@@DkViking1 Yes

[@piratestation69]

To bad you guys can't fix pcb's.. i have a few games that could use some help.

[@LyonsArcade]

We fix our own sometimes but it's complex

[@piratestation69]

@@LyonsArcade sometimes they're easy fixes as bad roms or bad sockets. Its getting parts that make things difficult. They boot which is good just sound issues.

[@jasonsteverson4609]

Hey Ron and Joe!! Looks broke...they're all broke. Shake a tree and 4 or 5 broken ones fall out and land on a pile of other broken pole positions. Just sayin.

[@LyonsArcade]

It sucks, I think they've probably parted most of them over the years...

[@jasonsteverson4609]

@@LyonsArcade yep. Glad that new tech has got us over the hump to saving a few of them!

[@DJMarcosArenas]

🥲👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻.

[@Zerbey]

First arcade game I ever played, pumped a lot of 10p coins (I grew up in the UK!) into this machine but I was never very good at it either. Beautiful restoration as always.

[@pishedasafart]

Yep, from the UK too, the "prepare to qualify" and the countdown to race sounds bring back the memories..

[@RGBtheRhinoOverwatcher]

@@pishedasafart Joe do Dead to Rights for the PlayStation 2 review and gameplay video.

[@YootubeUK]

Iffy Atari boards & the monitor was the reason my Atari Star Wars went, the most tempermental machine I ever owned and I'd never want a vector again. I do love the channel Joes Classic Video Games! (and I stilll don't know your name, Mr. Narrator & Fixer!)

[@naytch2003]

It's Ronnie the other guy is Joe

[@LyonsArcade]

Star Wars is a very tough game to keep running, if you do your own repairs and are at a pretty high level you can keep it going but it's not uncommon for it to break often. You can so called 'bullet proof' it to an extent but it's a pretty complex, antique machine at this point. Pole Position is a little easier because the monitor isn't vector and people have figured out how to make those run pretty well, the board set is a thing though.

[@YootubeUK]

@@LyonsArcade I sent boards to people with experience, they came back worked for a matter of minutes and failed again and that was various boards too. It took the fun out of it. Glad that PP is a little more forgiving, I always loved PP, PP2 and TX-1. Hello from the UK, where pins are a bit cheaper but videos more expensive!

[@badmonkey0001]

For those old enough and around arcades at the time it was released, we cannot hear the muffled "prepare to qualify" without repeating it in a weird voice ourselves. It's instinct. It must be done. I realized that when a few people all did it at once in a bar. I've reflexively said it many times while watching this vid. Thanks for that.

[@MightySquirrel724]

The board you plugged it into, is an Arduino Pro Micro. They're fantastic little boards. I use them as cheap, ultra low latency arcade stick encoders.

[@LyonsArcade]

Thank you Mighty Squirrel!

[@MightySquirrel724]

@@LyonsArcade You're welcome!

[@SiaVids]

I know all about the fixing of Operation Wolf machines, not straightforward as you say. The best machine I worked on was the sit in version of Afterburner II, it was so abused with so much wrong but when I finally got it fully working it was such good fun and well worth the pain. 😀

[@saskia6750]

Brilliant stuff by Jason,i remember watching his launch of this board,wicked video guys,thank you for filming for us you guys did a greeat job bringing her back to life x

[@LyonsArcade]

Thank you Saskia! See you on the next one....

[@RGBtheRhinoOverwatcher]

@@LyonsArcade You should do the first console video game video: Namco's Dead to Rights for the PlayStation 2 - Action-Packed Review and Gameplay!

[@jamesyarno7011]

And for those who want to understand the "Touch it in the back" phrase: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4nNlIqkq6yFpdk&ab_channel=noname

[@LyonsArcade]

Some of the funniest crap I have ever heard in my life, we're so immature though we're not supposed to think that's funny James. James, i'm going to have to admonish you for posting that... James..... you're admonished.

[@leem4017]

Is that image burn on the monitor? ‘GAME OVER’

[@LyonsArcade]

yes it shows that most of the time the game is over, and eventually burns it into the tube. You can put a better tube in if you want but it just burns in again, lol

[@brianbirtcher431]

Where is your shop located at sure would love to come in and look around

[@LyonsArcade]

We are in downtown rock hill, SC come on by!

[@MrRlwillis1977]

"Focus you bleep" came from AVE. THAT guy is responsible for my "addiction" to KZbin.😆

[@jameshead8919]

Awesome, looking for an upright cabinet as I write this! Thanks for filming and sharing this!

[@LyonsArcade]

Thanks for watching James!

[@OdyBeRidin]

"Touch it in the back" gotta be a nod to the Jerky Boys! Why you tell hime to touch it in the back, his hands are all smoking now!!

[@irieman442]

I have played this game a lot as a kid. I think all of them were set to a million miles per hour. Hearing all of the sounds made memories come back. Prepare to qualify. Prepare to crashify. I don't think I have ever known of somebody being good at this game. Who are the characters in the boot up screens? I never noticed them before. People put weird stuff in these games. Nice to see one come back.

[@DeadlyVenomKing]

Last time i played that pole position game was like 1984. i was 7

[@FrenchPincab]

superb restoration work :)

[@LyonsArcade]

Thank you French Pincab!

[@KirksCORNER-1983]

I'm looking for an original tmnt, GI Joe OR mk 1 or 2 arcade to buy for my bed room.

[@garystevens6831]

I'm probably completely wrong, I wonder if the following would work for a gas pot problem.... - put it in the sweet spot, then take a resistance reading. and get hold of a resistor with that value. - add a relay board that connects to some spare GPIO pins if there are any spare on the pi. (I have a spare if you want it) - write a timed script that would switch on the resistor first, then switch over to the gas pot after the pi has done the calibration. Just a thought, like I said, I could be wrong! 🤣

[@BoxChevyCaprice22]

I have the sit down version of pole position 2. Has the steering wheel, pedals, shifter, glass screen, rolls easily, cabinet in really good shape, needs all electronics, wiring, pretty much empty like this one. I’d pay someone to help me get it up and running again but nobody in my area works on them sadly. Still cool looking to have

[@Lazarus7000]

The "Whatever" is another commodity microcontroller, I forget what it's called but I used one once to make a keyboard protocol converter.

[@Tech_481]

That chip that you didn't know what was on the pole pie was a Arduino Nano it's a microcontroller that basically tells everything how to do stuff lol

[@tourstagez101]

Was that a Tag Team Wrestling bezel hanging on your wall??? How rare is that game!!?? LOL

[@John-qf8ud]

Remember the atari football where you could pinch a blood blister on the palm of your hand? Lol I played injured more than once😂

[@pliskenmovie]

That's a pretty good interpretation of the actual Suzuka track. I used to play PP1, but never had a local arcade with a PP2 cabinet.

[@divasmom65]

Keep in mind you can convert to a switching Power supply much more reliable

[@Glammazon]

I used to watch the demo of a Pole Position game at an arcade next door to an ice cream store around the corner from the Child Study Centre building.

[@markushavers2283]

The small board on top is an "Arduino mini" i think. It will manage the input from the controlls.

[@derekmccord3798]

Seaside is the Long Beach F1 circuit

[@trashcanman9020]

Reminds me of a Friday night pizza hut dinner

[@Josh-po6oh]

that board is cool for pole position pie position

[@jedikiah02]

Is there a link to where the Pi position came from?

[@rrotwang]

It's missing the brake pedal