I Finally Found a rare Nintendo Playchoice-10

I Finally Found a rare Nintendo Playchoice-10 | Tech Nibble

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#Nintendo Playchoice-10 arcade cabinets are hard to come by, I've had saved searches active for years and this week I finally came up with a result. This superb example will fit right in at The Cave.
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@RMCRetro Жыл бұрын

Hello Cave Dwellers! If you enjoyed this video I'd love for you to take a moment to subscribe to the channel, thank you! And if you'd like to visit The Cave and try this machine out for yourself you can book a trip at retrocollective.co.uk - See you there! Neil

@programaths Жыл бұрын

In Italy, there was a Nes system working with lives instead and the amazing thing was that lives carried over games. So, much more complicated than a timer. And that was weirdly located, the machine was on the shore with a military net above, like in a mini cave done just for it. I never met another player there. Each time I went to play, there were nobody around ^^ It was also dirt cheap to play, do not remember the exact amount, but low enough to even play 5 minutes without feeling screwed.

@cadburybunny Жыл бұрын

At 10:02 ... izzat a 1969-1989 Canuck Quarter? It sure looks like the ones I used to plug into machines here in Canuckistan!!

@thebongmaster Жыл бұрын

hove you got a RM Nimbus in your collection yet?

@MD4564 Жыл бұрын

You have a number of options. 1. Install wheels so it can move easily (or use a trolly to help with moving)> 2. Install your own little (DIY) lift for larger objects.

@TBMartin Жыл бұрын

Haven't seen one of these in 20 years. My favourite metal nightclub in Southsea had one of these tucked away in a corner for us metal/goth heads to play on while partying the night away to the heaviest sounds around.

@beetooex Жыл бұрын

Nu metal era!

@hicknopunk Жыл бұрын

That is because 20 years ago everyone took the video boards out to put in Famicom titlers.

@TBMartin Жыл бұрын

@@hicknopunk No its because the club closed down 20 years ago.

@shorerocks Жыл бұрын

Thumbs up for the metal nightclub.

@fensoxx Жыл бұрын

Just a tip for those oversized screw holes in wood. Glue a few toothpicks in there. When it dries cut off the excess and you’re then all set to screw back into it.

@sierraboney1394 Жыл бұрын

Very nice cab! Two Hantarex MTC9000 monitors, looks like the 20" has had a new lopt/flyback transformer recently so should be good for ages! That board you said is for adjusting the monitor is actually the RGB inverter board (you'll notice that both monitors use one), used as such because the RGB outputs from the PC10 pcb are inverted from normal. The adjustment boards are plugged straight into the chassis in this cab. Sometimes they are on extensions routed through to the coin door for convenience. :)

@bobbus_74 Жыл бұрын

I remember playing on a PlayChoice at the local British Legion. When I'd go there, my dad or uncle would bung me a couple of quid so I'd pop it in the Playchoice and have a go. At that time, I didn't know anyone with a NES so it kind of just felt like a lower-spec arcade machine. Watching your time remaining deplete before your eyes was slightly anxiety-inducing though. 😄

@retroimportgamer513 Жыл бұрын

That's a wonderful piece of history and it looks in amazing condition. Picture quality also looks great and the RGB aspect really seems to make a difference I agree, at the time I would not have been tempted to put money into one back in the day but now it's an awesome thing to have The Sega one would be a great accompanying piece 👍✌️

@InfectiousGroovePodcast Жыл бұрын

I used to love the PlayChoice10 machines! We used to go to a Big Boy restaurant as a family sometimes and that's the only machine they had. It was cool in a way because we'd try a bunch of Nintendo games we didn't own at home.

@Monster-gr8on Жыл бұрын

What an incredible find. Congrats!

@rahkuaschount Жыл бұрын

Welcome to England, where the newest building is 600 years old and was made at a time when the tallest man was 3'

@rickylovesyou Жыл бұрын

All that's missing now is a star wars sit in cabinet, a few various candy cabinets from their respective publishers and a hydraulic powered space harrier cabinet. 🥰

@sellectivecollective90s Жыл бұрын

Great cab have one myself that's currently away for rebuild managed to score a NOS control panel overlay awhile back so can't wait to get it back 🤩

@traviswright456 Жыл бұрын

Congratulations, this is holy grail at its finest. Don't ever get rid of this. They are becoming more rare by the year.👍🤙

@davidfranzkoch9789 Жыл бұрын

Very nice! Thanks for showing us this rarity!

@RMCRetro Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching David!

@joshmiller887 Жыл бұрын

I’m in the states and I’ve never seen one of these cabinets. Amazing! Thank you for sharing!

@Daz555Daz Жыл бұрын

Whilst I absolutely hated this pay for time model on the Playchoice at the time I do love that this great bit of kit is being preserved and will be enjoyed by many at the Cave.

@mdonoCFC Ай бұрын

Love these!! Such a nice guy too

@Auxodium Жыл бұрын

Well done! Great work mate!

@freedomvigilant1234 Жыл бұрын

I remember one of these Arcade Cabinet's in the Shakespeare Pub in Kendal, Cumbria, UK. The game I played was Gryzor.

@MrJgsmith Жыл бұрын

❤️ this channel. Thanks for making great content

@matthewmartin238 Жыл бұрын

Love seeing more arcades added to the Cave!

@Jef_Vermassen Жыл бұрын

Played a lot on this cabinet when I was a child. Back then our local hypermarket: 'GB' (Grand Bazar) had these on free play to promote the NES. It wasn't that popular (and I was happy with that, more playing time for me! :p). So every week or two when our family would go for some shopping I'd spend the entire time playing on the cabinet. Thanks for making me revisit those memories! :)

@hobbified Жыл бұрын

My favorite pizza place in the US in the 90s had a PlayChoice-10 machine, but yes, it was a different style. The two monitors were more similar sizes and the front of the cabinet didn't rake back like that.

@DrBagPhD Жыл бұрын

Genuinely envious. Here I am struggling to source a single CRT TV and I see you acquiring this gorgeous cabinet. Looks to be in solid nick!

@mrb3991 Жыл бұрын

HI Brilliant Cabinet, My Uncle used fix arcade machines , although he never repaired one of these, I did get to play in free mode on the first Asteroid machine with a track ball, thanks for the video

@firestar3x Жыл бұрын

What a monster of a machine!

@peanutismint Жыл бұрын

Great video! Remember playing on these a lot growing up. I was also glued to one of the rare Super Nintendo ones you showed at a ski lodge we visited on holiday; I’d love it if you could find one of those and give it a look!

@charlesdebarber2997 Жыл бұрын

Fun Fact: The Punch Out!!! for the PlayChoice-10 is the only game that came out for it with a battery backup. The version of Punch Out!! on the PS-10 has that to record scores, while the actual NES version doesn't. So, it is unique in that way to the actual NES rom.

@RMCRetro Жыл бұрын

That’s a great fact thanks Charles

@vileslair Жыл бұрын

That monitor looks absolutely pristine, what a great pickup!

@binkman853 Жыл бұрын

Congrats! Nice looking game. Never saw that cabinet style in the US. Enjoy.

@charlies5217 Жыл бұрын

I remember one of these machines in the Queen's Bowling Centre in Rhyl, great video 👍 I remember playing Mario on it. the machine and the building are long gone so great to see one again.

@Dazreil Жыл бұрын

One of my favourite memories as a kid was going to a country pub with the family. In this pub they had one of these and the land lord put 4 hours of time on it for us, this was before we got a NES, so me and my brother just played Super Mario Bros for hours for free.

@mogwaay Жыл бұрын

Awesome, really need to make plans to visit again... I remember the overnight P&O ferry to Shetland had one of these and I remember being really confused by itat the time, I was like "hey this is just a NES" and I had a NES and I didn't need to pay to play it.however being stuck on a boat overnight for 14hours did encourage me to cough up the quids! Would be fun to try it again.

@justanotheryoutubechannel 9 ай бұрын

Wow, this looks absolutely beautiful, I grew up in England but unfortunately 15 years too late to see one of these, so I was only aware of the American releases, this UK model is new to me. The small monitor makes a lot of sense and looks quite good, I always thought the American models with twin full-size CRTs were horribly wasteful. The colours look incredible on the RGB monitor, it’s really sharp too, I was stunned by the image as I’ve never seen an NES running on a CRT with such quality. I find the colour palette is usually too garish, especially for games like Mario 3, but most of the footage you showed worked well with the colour change, especially on that gorgeous monitor, I’ve been using a top of the range Trinitron as my main CRT for years and while it is beautiful, it just doesn’t quite match the resolution and quality of an arcade monitor like this. It almost makes me want to look into getting some professional tier monitors, but I can’t justify the £500+ cost of the £200 to get my NES RGB modded. *EDIT:* I also want to compliment you on your CRT filming, it’s incredibly well done, I almost never see such accurate off-screen footage from a CRT, it’s very sharp, artefact free, and none of the colours are distorted.

@deepakmorar7747 Жыл бұрын

Brings back lot of memories

@funkoidi Жыл бұрын

I have it on good authority that my Brent Leisure cab (compact) was built by and purchased from a company in South Wales back in 1987. That detail came from the owner of the operator that mine was branded by 👍

@Laserdreamz Жыл бұрын

Very nice, would like one of those NES selectors you used to see in department stores. I had a latter revision megatech machine in the early 2000s, had wiring inside for megadrive 2, never got it going though, inexperience and little internet access.

@aner_bda Жыл бұрын

Really awesome cabinet! I would love to have one of these at home.

@BrassicGamer Жыл бұрын

Great to see things like this being given a home.

@io4439 Жыл бұрын

The Cave space is filling rapidly!

@jamesragsdale3069 Жыл бұрын

Mr.Baxter thank you for your work! The 4 slot neo geo machines were pretty common in the US. Or at least in the southeast. A local campground had a VS machine with the lightgun, and that was really cool.

@MatSpeedle Жыл бұрын

One of my earliest gaming memories is playing Super Mario 2 on one of these. Was probably down Southsea, back in the magical days when the streets were lined with epic Arcades

@Ed-eq5kd Жыл бұрын

I remember playing this with mixed appreciation of the system. On the one hand, using a proper joystick and buttons was a more premium arcade experience. On the other, the games felt a bit of a let down, particularly my all time favourite Double Dragon. At a time when we looked to the Arcade for cutting edge graphics and sound, this didn’t deliver. However, in the cave, it’s a great addition 😊

@zemaj0 Жыл бұрын

Excellent video did the games run at PAL or NTSC games I wouldn't put money in this as a kid but now I would love to try it now

@gamesessions Жыл бұрын

Wonderful memories of playing on this every Summer in my youth. We used to go to something called Play Scheme at my local sports centre where we’d be dropped off as kids and get activities to do every day in summer and they had a Play Choice 10 there. I remember Kung Fu, Contra, Punch Out and SMB2 were the popular ones, think it might have had Golf on it too. Great memories, and it was eventually replaced by a Mortal Kombat II machine, which was also great!

@milk-it Жыл бұрын

That's quality A-level gaming. Awesome purchase and addition to the Cave, Neil!

@ebridgewater Жыл бұрын

00:04 Oh God, that slide will scratch the back of the unit 🥺

@JopieHaargel Жыл бұрын

It was painful to watch...! And then scraping it up those stone stairs.

@ncot_tech Жыл бұрын

0:09 - Come on Barry, pick the end up. To me... To you... to me... to you.

@earlbrown4398 Жыл бұрын

Fond memories of seeing these at Motorway Service Stations!

@Wanton110 Жыл бұрын

You could slap a Weylan-Yutani logo on that Players Choice and paint it in that Aliens grey/green colour and it would look like it's straight off the movie set of Alien/s

@electricadventures Жыл бұрын

Very nice addition to the cave (I am amazed any of you can still walk after lugging that up the stairs though!!). It would be a nice way to play NES games, my hands don't like the NES controller, so being able to use arcade controls would be excellent.

@HAGSLAB Жыл бұрын

That thing is awesome! :)

@estrichleger5833 Жыл бұрын

When I was 8 or 9 I played on one of them in France. It was a little restaurant. That was a great time.

@ShapeyFiend Жыл бұрын

This was the cabinet we had at my local Supermacs in Ireland. The Playchoice version of Mario 3 (and The Wizard) came out a good year or more earlier than the PAL version so I spent a lot of 20p's to get to that first warp whistle and not much further.

@PixelsAtDawn Жыл бұрын

The only time I used a Play Choice was when dragged into a hotel bar by my parents on holiday. It was the only arcade unit in there, and kept me from being a bored child that day. Thanks Play Choice!

@althejazzman Жыл бұрын

I've had my original NES modified for RGB output and the colours are so rich with the shapes so sharp. I would highly recommend it for that arcade visual experience in the modern age.

@bigredracingteam9642 Жыл бұрын

Yeah I'm surprised to hear that some actually prefer the look of the composite out.

@tangentfish Жыл бұрын

I love your channel so much.

@RMCRetro Жыл бұрын

🙏 thank you

@jeffredd9965 Жыл бұрын

My parents had this playchoice 10 and sit down cabinet hard drivin in their pub back then. good days

@M0L0TOV Жыл бұрын

That's interesting you mention the cabinet being made in the United Kingdom. I like it how when you look at the Super Mario Bros. 3 PCB you can see one of the chips is made or distributed by Sega of Spain.

@arcanescroll Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure how common they were here in the US, but I played one that looked just like that in Nevada back in the days. Was at a department store or something like that. I remember playing it while waiting for my grandmother to finish shopping.

@JamiesHackShack Жыл бұрын

Fun memories of playing one of these at the local Rose's dept store with some of the fresh popcorn they always had popping! :-D

@OMorty Жыл бұрын

That model of PlayChoice 10 seems nicer than the one I've seen all across the US!

@hammondeggsmusic Жыл бұрын

Hah cool I forgot about these. I vaguely remember one in an arcade - but mostly a sit down 2 sided thing in a donut store where one side was super Mario and the other side was rbi baseball. Even in 1990 it was always being played by someone during lunch in high school, you’d constantly hear the wail of the ball sound effect all the time!

@timsurman3354 Жыл бұрын

So glad you put labels covering the eprom window, that was making me twitch 😅

@EdCourtenay Жыл бұрын

I used to work for a company that rented video games to pubs, and the Playchoice 10 was a popular machine (as well as the similar Sega Mega-Tech system). The major problem with this unit was that punters would play it at varying levels of intoxication, and would invariably try to balance their pint glasses on the top - which would equally invariably fall over and pour their contents into the void where the top monitor is located, destroying the PCB for the monitor. It was such a regular occurrence that we kept a spare monitor in our vans so that we could do an on the spot repair job.

@shorerocks Жыл бұрын

I can smell that, ha ha.

@LawmanArcade76 Жыл бұрын

Congrats . About the MegaTech, good luck finding games for a reasonable price, sadly they skyrocked too. And when I saw your UK Playchoice, I immediately thought "hey, that looks like my mega tech with the small crt" :D

@RMCRetro Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Thankfully the MT I've found has a good selection of games with it. Here's hoping it all works out.

@pseudotasuki Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you covered up those windows. Accidentally erasing one of the EPROMs would be a major bummer.

@theadamtron Жыл бұрын

I recall seeing one of these machines at a Roys store in Norfolk as a game demonstrator on freeplay, only the zealous store owners had set the timer for like 2 minutes. It was barely enough time for the game to load!

@retror.d.1630 Жыл бұрын

You’re a lucky man! I regret not getting one of these when they where affordable! I was too young and broke I guess 😏

@MrDintheD Жыл бұрын

It was an interesting concept. Good for those who couldn't afford getting an NES when it first came out, but not so good years later when the NES became more widespread, the games library grew, and prices eventually came down. Also, video game rentals probably contributed to making these strange arcade boxes disappear. Barcade in Detroit has one. Prior to that, I hadn't seen one in almost 35 years (at Showbiz pizza).

@gregwalsh2354 Жыл бұрын

Wow. I remember being amazed by this machine as a kid in The Boathouse pub in Chester. I'd stand there bewildered at the Nintendo games praying my parents would get me an NES 😁

@ArcadeCabNBud Жыл бұрын

Did your parents get you the nes in the end ?

@gregwalsh2354 Жыл бұрын

@@ArcadeCabNBud They did indeed! I'm pretty sure this was my first exposure to SMB2 as well. I was in awe!

@GenerationPixel Жыл бұрын

That's a lovely thing, and I can only imagine how much Alex was drooling over it 🤣

@CSIG1001 Жыл бұрын

i remember seeing these in the arcade and playing them , the joysticks were alot smaller with a ball top. maybe sanwa

@plast3r Жыл бұрын

I would love one of these myself deffo a good addition to the cave neil

@clivejones5880 Жыл бұрын

I owned one back in the day, I had at at home and played many a game of Contra on it. I actually wanted a Sega Megatech because there was one in my local pub but ended up with the Playchoice after the operator had sold all the Megatech's.

@netzer442 Жыл бұрын

Never seen one in the wild. Good stuff!

@mattcalpin1924 Жыл бұрын

I'm a massive MegaDrive fan & used to own a MegaTech machine years ago. Me & a friend had to haul it up 4 flights of stairs to my flat at the time, he was owed many beers for that one... I will say, unless Neil is considerably taller than me (I'm 6'2") the MegaTech is quite a lot bigger than the Playchoice. In both height & depth if my memory serves me!

@SwainyAtRetroAsylum Жыл бұрын

I used to play on one of these in my local pub. Probably before I actually played on an NES console. I hated the time limit, it would have cost a fortune to finish any of the games on it.

@sebastianflesjandersen939 Жыл бұрын

The PC10 looked totally different in my country and it had a ZAPPER as well. - The PC10 colour palette is really popular, - when I play my Analogue Nt mini Noir (or MiSTer etc) I always choose PC10 or wavebeam 😁

@spooforbrains Жыл бұрын

You've done well there, even considering the price. Very little resto work needed

@jerryspaghetti07 Жыл бұрын

Great video, I love mine but might have to let it go due to space.

@skyway73 Жыл бұрын

I know exactly what you mean about choosing to put your money in "proper" arcade games BITD. I do remember playing one in Southend in the 80s though, we had a NES with Super Mario Bros at home and it was fun to show off all the secrets we had found in front of strangers in an arcade 😊

@lilwyvern4 6 ай бұрын

The idea behind the Playchoice 10 seems pretty solid: have a demo unit to advertise games available for the NES, kind of like one of those kiosks you'd see in department store in the 2000s. Unfortunately, there's no way they'd stand toe-to-toe with dedicated game cabinets at the time. If you put this in a store like a Blockbuster or as a side attraction in a convenience store, I could see one doing well.

@Jayfive276 6 ай бұрын

In the late 80s and early 90s I played (mostly Mike Tyson's Punch-Out) on these machines in the kids room at a river-side pub in chester, at Victoria Coach Station in London and at a bar in a camping resort in the South of France.

@dvv45 Жыл бұрын

Seen one a couple of years ago,when I picked up another game from a sellers collection. But play choice was not for sale. Still want one.

@cammyboy011 Жыл бұрын

I've put my back out just watching you all manhandle that thing up the stairs 😆

@SullySadface Жыл бұрын

Ohhh, that explains the Action 52 branding on those plug and play joysticks at the mall.

@OidHunter Жыл бұрын

We have a working Playchoice 10 at our local computer museum, my son and I had fun playing Mario

@OidHunter Жыл бұрын

Just realised you mentioned that you helped restore the same one at the museum 👍

@RMCRetro Жыл бұрын

Yep and it's still going strong there in Swindon Museum of Computing, well worth a visit

@retrodave79 Жыл бұрын

In Spain we have a very similar PlayChoice but MUCH MUCH more interestig, I have one at my house, and all the parts, the games and even the stickers in the glass have the SEGA logo, yep, a Nintendo Arcade machine and cartridges by SEGA Spain (SEGASA).

@MrButtonpresser Жыл бұрын

Time based gaming? I've never experienced that before. Nice machine.

@MrSirViking Жыл бұрын

I have seen a Super Mario cabinet when i was younger. Thought it was strange as i thought that Nintendo mostly did consoles and not arcade machines. I have also seen other selector machines. Not from Nintendo, but like once that must have been from like Neo Geo or SNK as i remember it had one of the Super Sidekicks games on it. It was just like a standard brown one screen cabinet that under the joysticks in the middle had a silver button to press to select games. And when you got to the game you wanted you put in money.

@draggonhedd Жыл бұрын

My local airport had a Super System! They had a tiny little arcade off the main stairway that had like 10 machines in it, one was a playchoice 10, and one was a Super System! I remember those wacky SNES controllers.

@RMCRetro Жыл бұрын

Oh wow nice to say you’ve tried such a rare beast

@app0the Жыл бұрын

Seeing you pull out those boards with missing EPROM stickers was worrying haha. The modern white LEDs blast out enormous amounts of UV compared to the good ol' CCFLs so take care to put some stickers on and/or backup the chips :P

@davidbanner9001 Жыл бұрын

I really don't think that was very expensive in todays market and indeed the condition etc. I had to add the following additional comments after I saw your full video. That I never liked the play choice 10. Time limited and basically a home console. I really didn't see the point of playing them at the time, just like yourself. But it's still great to have this machine in the cave.

@bryndaldwyre3099 Жыл бұрын

That Player's Choice cab looks a bit like the original Marvin the Paranoid Android from the old tv series of Hitchiker's Guid to the Galaxy.

@scottgamedev Жыл бұрын

I can confirm that the Magnum Pleasure Centre in Irvine, Scotland, had a Nintendo Super System still playable in its lobby until at least the early 2000's, but was sadly moved/lost when the Magnum itself was finally demolished in 2017. I constantly wonder if a Scottish arcade collector has it hidden somewhere in a deep, dark cave somewhere in Ayrshire... hopefully safely!

@jxchamb Жыл бұрын

Magnum Pleasure Centre?? That sounds real scary. Parking lot was probably filled with dudes trying to get couches in their vans while wearing a cast.

@MikesArcadeMonitorRepair Жыл бұрын

Those monitors look amazing! Congrats on the pickup.

@kevinfishburne Жыл бұрын

I played a PlayChoice back in the day but only SMB and Castlevania. I remember each time thinking it was weird that the games were 99% the same as the NES at home. Castlevania in particular struck me, as I was expecting it to be some kind of "arcade" version with different shit. Was a bit surreal in how pedestrian they were, since they were (unknowing to me at the time) basically the same as the console versions but on an arcade CRT. Whoever put Castlevania on the one I played did a good job. It was fun with a joystick and arcade buttons. Mario was more difficult, but interestingly different.

@CB-yb1jl Жыл бұрын

When you hit king hippo in his open mouth his trunks drop exposing his weak spot on his belly marked with an X looks like a bandage. Low punch him in this area for a quick KO. Very nice machine!!

@charlesdebarber2997 Жыл бұрын

I think the UK ones are really cool. Ours in the US had three types. I have the converted Punch-Out!!! cabinet version and adore it. They have many NES games added to it by fans in the same style. I recommend the Facebook fan group for the Playchoice-10.