damn watching this makes me miss the old arcades of the 80s

Getting cornered by a pickle has gotta be one of the funniest statements made on your channel! Caught me totally off guard. Love the game play vid!

BurgerTime, one of the best arcade games ever released. Endless fun and frustration!

On level 3 there is a "pattern" you can do then you use 2-3 peppers to immobilize them all and they'll stay grouped together. Its basically like having just 1 enemy chase after you but you'll have to position yourself so they don't split up. You then make each layer of burger fall with them on it and you'll rack up points, and extra lives.

Actually learned a lot from this, thanks man. Nice arcade, I wish we appreciated what we had back in the 80s...

One of my favorite games since I was a little kid. I've played the Intellivision, Colecovision, and NES version but never actually played the arcade version. Great video!

I like near the end "damn..I was cornered by a pickle".

beautiful cabinet! and the look inside! first time i ever saw inside one of those. that is truly amazing! great game. thanks so much for the great vid!

I just love your place! So many games that bring back so many memories :) Cheers from Sweden! Dan

had this for the NES, but never got to play it in the arcade. has always been a favorite of mine.

One of my old time favorites and your arcade game is beautiful

I used to play burgertime on nes with my brother all the time. I never knew the guys name was peter pepper though. I recently bought the my arcade mini cabinet and also have the game on a hand held

love this John! just picked myself up a burgertime in a cocktail and hoping to get it cleaned up and working straight.

Can you believe that the arcade high score is almost 8 million?! Incredible!!!

Picking up my Burgertime today! We always watch John's Arcade in the van on the way to pick up a new game. It's not a game pick up unless John is on :)

Awesome video man! I have this game on my arcadesd but I have never been able to get into it because I suck at it...it was helpful to watch some gameplay and learn a few things too! Cheers!

Always loved the uniqueness of this cabinet and one of my favorite all time games. I've recently posted a video of my game-play on this game. Wasn't on factory settings but a great game nonetheless. Good job on that second game and a great video. Take it easy John. Thanks for posting ;)

BurgerTime is a tough game. Utterly ruthless. Thank you for the tips!

I like how you brag up the game ALL ORIGINAL from top to bottom, then you get into about 5 different consecutive reproduction add on's you added to the game! Comical! Good stuff though - thx 4 sharing!

Great stuff, well played!

Dude I was psyched to make 19850 the other day. Nice techniques!

Thanks john. Burger time is one of the few games on our mame cabinet that my wife likes. We both just watched your vid and got a few pointers for playing better !

Great idea John.

I had this game on Intellivision! - fun times!

Im still around watching your videos. I always wondered about burger time but never really saw gameplay of it before. so this was interesting.

The last time I played, via MAME, I was very good at this game. I was able to flip the score. I reached level 22 or 23 (somewhere in that area). I played with the maximum enemies, because when you dropped them all together, you would maximize your score (something like 16,000 for each drop, and there are ways to repeat that for each item on the board). During the last 10,000 points (if I am remembering correctly), leading to flipping the score, you would get a free life for each item that scored. Although that might seem great, it was of little use, because the enemies got so fast that the only way to reach beyond the first few inches of your starting position was to pepper your enemies (they were on top of you in 2 or 3 seconds). So you could have 20 lives. But without peppers, eventually you would just die before you could do anything. So the goal of scoring high in this game is in two parts: 1) Run in a pattern that will get all of the enemies together, and have them chase you to the bottom row of burger parts, and drop them (and get your 16,000 points). Then repeat for every other burger part, working your way up (because if you start from the top, then you get only one 16,000 drop for the column). 2) Never miss a pepper (not easy). When you get to the high levels, that one or two extra peppers will allow you to eek out a few extra points, and if you have a really good game, then your last dozen peppers might allow you to reach the next level (and die on that higher level -- you'll die either way, but at least you have the satisfaction of reaching an even higher level). There comes a point, no matter how perfect your game play is, you will simply not be able to even get started. The enemies just start running faster than Usain Bolt.

Very nice video, John. Subbed to your channel a month or so back due to your awesome video on recapping a WG4700, and have been addicted to this channel since. My wife gets annoyed that I hog the Chromecast/TV in the living room to watch arcade vids, haha. Also great to see some good gameplay on Burger Time. Played it several times as a kid and always loved it. Still haven't run across an original cab in the Youngstown, OH area yet, but really hoping to find one someday as it's one of my all-time favorites. Until then, my MAME cocktail and 60-in-1 JAMMA cab will have to suffice. Great tips on gameplay as well! Will keep watching.

I was eight years old when I played this wonderful game, thanks to MAME we can play these wonderful games that are over forty years old!!! It's a shame that in Italy we don't have arcade games fever like in the USA.

nice play john, i like these revisit, more in depth vids, look forward to more

Awesome video John. I really the gameplay videos

Great video! U done very well at a challenging game, whilst almost continously talking.

I have been looking at videos like this so hopefully I can have some of my own Arcade machines to repair and have fun! I just crave Donkey Kong, Packman, Mario Brothers and more. The biggest part is making that money!

Very nice video!

Nice cab, that game is pretty tough. I never can get very far on it when I play it on the NES.

Cool! I was just playing this last night on Mame and just randomly saw this on the right side of your videos. I was wondering why I couldn't get them to fall when I was doing what you were, IT WAS THE BUN that makes them fall down! I was thinking you could do it with any part of the hamburger. I had no idea the ice cream cones and coffee gave you more peppers. I really know a lot about this game! lol One thing about these old games, they are tough as nails! So there is a lot of respect for those who own high scores, and because of the high scores and no continues that adds to the replay value. As Billy Mitchell once said, "When someone tells me about their new high score today, I usually ask them, how much did it cost you?" The Golden Age of arcades was a little before I started going to arcades, which was around 1986 to the early 90s so many of the classics were on the back wall of the arcade and not played. I love them, but I'm horrible at them!

Eggs are really good on burgers - thanks for the tips I usually just randomly knock down toppings.

John, please do an update video. We all miss your videos. Please let us know if you’re coming back

Huge fan of this game. First played it on Intellivision game system in the 80s

Great tutorial. one thing I notice is the enemies never change direction once they are on a ladder. They commit to the direction.

My local Chuck-E-Cheese has Burger Time inside Enchanted Forest Water Safari

I like this game!!

This is the best KZfaq channel ever!

I use to play BurgerTime on my Intelivision "Cause i love the arcade game sooo much :) I bored my parents to buy this game so long time they finaly do ... haha

Awesome. Great video. BT is a great game but because the music never changes, I get tired of it really quickly.

I like the gameplay and review videos, definitely do more of them. BurgerTime isn't a game I've played much, but I'm familiar with it because of one of my favorite classic game show hosts, Geoff Edwards. He got into video games in the 80s when he hosted the arcade game-based game show Starcade, and he often cited BurgerTime as one of his favorite games. I'm sure the timing of this video is coincidental, but unfortunately he passed away a couple weeks ago, so I'm thinking of this video also as a sort of unofficial dedication to him.

Awesome video, John! I'm going to throw up a "EYES" score here soon for the contest. You should do one of these videos on the Star Wars vector game. Or maybe show us the JROK more in depth. :)

"Cantina Band" playing in the background!

Awesome video John!! Burger Time is also my top 5 games.. I dont have a dedicated cab but I have it on my MAME cab. I like videos like this because your teaching how to play the game, and all the tricks to get highscores. It would be cool to see alot more gameplay vids. Then one day it would be cool to see a video about monitors.. to me thats the most confusing part of cabinets. What monitors do what? what games they go to and why? Different types and connections? or even retrofitting if thats possible? Just a suggestion. Thanks John. from Timmy P in Columbus Ohio.

That music gets stuck in your head.

owned it for 15 years and just put up a 126k tonight and I am super excited about it. until tonight my highest was 68k that I put up 6 or 7 years ago. love BT!!!!

Unrestored minus the cpo, bezel, pepper buttons, and Marquee lol.

God if I ever get my own home I want to have a few machines I worked at arcades as a kid was fun so ya I drawn to this people.be surprised just how much of a gamer I am I worked at arcades fixed a few machine basic stuff computers 25 years of gaming and almost ever console ever made so I fell the geek rush when I see Burger time my only wish was to have gf that like the same stuff any ways great machine

Nice !!!!

Data East produced the original version of the cabinet in the same year. The artwork differs substantially the marquee is a smaller size with completely different depictions of Peter and his foes. The instructions on both the cabinet and the screens of this game do not say that the restaurant in the game has a name. Some references say that the name of the restaurant is BurgerTime, just like the game itself, but other references say that the restaurant can be McDonald's, Burger King, Jack-In-The-Box, Wendy's, Whataburger, Sonic, Five Guys Burgers & Fries, Cook Out or any other famous fast-food franchise that serves burgers. The game itself never mentions that the restuarant where the game takes place even has a name.

Midway cabinets are some of the best, no doubt. They were really creative back the. With the designs.

I used to hit well over 2 million points and so many bonus chefs the game could run for an hour after I walked away. There was a quirk that collecting too many would cause the game to reset so I HAD to stop. Of course, level 22 was so insanely fast I never made it through anyway.

god your mario bros is so beautiful. burger time is so good. ive just figured out how to not suck at the colecovision version, keen to try it on arcade.

Have you played Foodfight? It's one of my favorite classics.

That was dope!!!💊

Looks like a fun game, I really should have played this sooner, where have i been? Great score on which looks to be a tricky little game.

Burgertime. Great choice!

I love burger time

I never knew you could kinda control when the bonuses pop up

"Cornered by a pickle." Imagine...if it wasn't for Burger Time, we'd never have reason to ever say that. And that's just wrong. Thanks buddy and good luck wirh the high score!

Bought a Super Pac-Man game from TNT almost 10 years ago. The game still is like new. Looking for 20th Anniversary Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga next

I swear I saw a puff of smoke come out of that switching supply at 8:17

i play this on the 2600 lol. i wish i had this arcade.

Bob Belcher: ARE YOU KIDDING ME WITH THAT PICKLE

22:55 nice move man!!

In Australia an egg can be a hamburger topping, too. :) Excellent review/game John.

Nya, "Burger time" it's a great game :3 I found interesting what you say about hamburgers and fried eggs as topping. In Spain there are hamburgers with egg, as well as sandwiches, which have a hole in the center through which you see the yolk. We call them American sandwiches! It's very funny to know that in the USA you don't eat that XD (I suppose those sandwiches and hamburgers will be of English origin)

I have two favorite PINS of all time, Circus Voltaire and Funhouse

Tough & challenging game, mostly due to that not-annoying-whatsoever 10-second looping music and alarm sound!

I just got a Burgertime cabinet today! 🍔🍟☕️🍦

yeah, data east should have made chef pepper their company mascot. I could see it now, chef pepper holding a tray with words data east on the tray, with each letter looking like a burger.

You have a LOT arcade games here!

Good

I'm in for funspot! I've played BurgerTime back in the dayz but never got addicted, Eyes was a better game for me

do they still make a free play chip for this game? I need to install it on mine

I have not played this game since I had it on the atari!! After watching this video tried it on mame and got my ass handed to me lol harder than it looks for sure. Matt

This was one of my first videos games I owned and console it was the celeco and I loved Burger time never tried the arcade probably better but the celeco version was good I can't wait to get enough cash so I can start putting up Retro game videos me not having a elgato and no money stops me cold :(

I never knew Ameicans said "aig" for "egg". I like it also when you guys say erb for herb. Do you say hotel there? or otel?

10:07 -- I keep thinking you're saying "Geo 7". :P

Sooo jealous. I am looking EVERYWHERE for a Burgertime cab(for good reason...). Not happening.

How did you bought all these classics arcade games?

Gotta ask, whats up with the pie server on your desk?

Sounds like stun on a bun!

Black Knight.... Dat Laugh! HAHAHAHA.

This game gives me so much anxiety! It's friggin HARD.

Peter peppers name is actually Silvio

How do you get that stuff

Can you do a video for Joust if you have it. Thanks

Made it to level 46 and counting. Tell bryan waggoner im looking for him.

Mapquest says I'm 13 hours 44 mins from Fun Spot. But, oh, how I'd love to go.

Do you ever see any Mappy's?

Can You Do Fix It Felix JR?

its not an easy game, but you make it look much easier lol

Thanks for your game tour. Great video. BurgerTime was my favorite game in the '80s too. I love how you curse during your gameplay - just like old times. These classic games were so simple, yet sooooo challenging. I could never get past level 3, but I was only 9 or 10yo. Also, if you like this food-inspired game, you should try "Food Fight." Burgertime is better though. There was a Burgertime for Atari and the Intellivision home consoles. The intellivision version had a live-action commercial. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qtB6Y7edmL2pfoU.html

hi dear i´m from brazil, i´m learning how to make replicas arcade machines, more near as possible of the original, in this case, i don´t now whatt hardware i can use, cause i want a "turn on machine" without operation system like windows, i don´t now if it´s possible using mame, i´m thinking somethink like C program leanguage, in ARDUINO with sound and video board, or a raspberry Pi, but i don´t no exactly what will work well, could you give me a idea? so thanks dear, sorry for the english errors.

i like the gameplay vids, but i like these style arcade gameplay vids rather than the beat-em-ups mainly because you can die in this and there's a high score... in the beat-em-ups it's mainly just how many coins you have with these, you show us the technique to get a good highscore,.. i've played burgertime a little bit before and knew you could crush the food and throw the pepper, but i didn't really know you want to get the guys to follow you on top of the bun then drop it... knowing and seeing that kind of thing makes the objective more clear and makes me want to play it