John: "Alright Jay, We've got the Strapon" - Sept 21 2020

Please don’t stop making videos on here John we really missed you man, love arcade stuffs

Now this is what I'm talkin about! Bundles of wires and chips, getting in the thick of the repairs, blood, sweat, and tears, constant troubleshooting, and so much reward in the end. Arcade repair at its finest!

Tim and Jay are freakin’ awesome! Lots of good info here, thanks John! SO glad you are making videos again. 😁👍

Love seeing you back in this channel. Been following for years watching you restore these games.

John. DUDE. I'm telling ya, OFFLOAD ALL OF THE +5 in that Paperboy to a modern switcher. Replace the power input headers on both boards with square pins, replace the connectors, and use trifurcon pins. That ARIII struggles to properly power that bottom board even when it's working. Also, your fan is in the wrong place. It's supposed to be mounted on the back of the cab blowing upwards onto the ARIII's heatsink when the door is closed. But, if you offload the +5 you won't even need the fan. :) You do need to fix the connections on that transformer assy and make sure your ARIII is at least passing +10.3 to "power OK" on the cpu board. You've got my number dude, call me if you need to!

Lmfao @18:32 John making sure if it’s recording 😂 I like how he looked at the Camera 👌🏻😝

Love that the vids are back John! Also glad to see I Robot working again👍🏻

Welcome back John. Take your time with these videos. We're patient. No more burnout!

Hey John! 2 weeks ago, I went to a retro arcade that used to be an old bank vault in New Jersey. They had so many games and the inside was really cool! Can you please check it out on your next on the road video? Keep up the good work!

Damn good video John, great content, great editing, and very good explanations! The fans appreciate your hard work

Always watching your videos while fixing stuff und I just fixed my last action hero this minute! So i guess thank you, John 🤘

...About that Red Alert game: Upon firing it up in MAME after the mention, I learned it's based on the early Irem game WWIII (...you unfortunately read right, that's the roman numeral for 3). It does have the advantage of the HC-55516 sound chip, enabling the voice of a military higher-up narrating your mission with each new stage; that's an advanced thing for 1981.

Glad to see the I robot and the nba fastbreak back in the row, good vid man

"I have my Super Breakout I wanna bring back down here" - wow, I didn't realise you hadn't got rid of it!

John your doing such incredible work with these videos. Keep it up. Bravo.

Just as you fix one, another goes down! Its like spinning plates. Then the dam camera - nightmare. Just another week in the arcade I guess. So glad you're back John. 👍

Nice to see new videos BTW... Keep it up dude!

Can't wait for a year-end review and a tour of the basement again.

Cool to see this vid as the otherside to that day, when I saw the TnF etc in Jays van that niht i didnt realize it was yours, then they filled me in. Looking forward to checking out this vid. Oh wait this is the strap on vid we watched at dinner hahahaha Right on. So it was the Power Brick, yea i rebuilt my PP2 Brick and replaced all the quick connects on the fuse block and on that 20A fuse I went with solder instead to deal with the extra heat. Great to see your Paperboy coming along, really got a lot done. Take care man, -Mitch

YAYAYAAAAAA JOHN!! IM SOOOOO GLAD YOUR BACK!

Your pong monitor is flickering into vertical collapse... 48:57

3:30 "So long, old friend." Hope your Frogger had a good run in the arcade and enjoys his new home.

Love the new content! Thanks for keepin' on keepin' on!

Soooooo Great having you back!!!!!!

X2 is a crystal. Not a cap. It's probably part of the clock signal for the audio.

WWF pcb is missing a resonator and will be the reason speech isn't working, it might be 640khz but double check with someone that has the board (schematics don't exist).

I see that Major Havoc is working again!

Hey John, 3:28 !! That song sounds really, really good! 👍

Poor Tigers used to be a glorious Tron. Buddy has one sitting in his garage, he wont let it go.

John's arcade....moulded with John's grill /kitchen.... pure gold ! 💖

Awesome a feed and a show,nice one John

LOL @5:37 "pop out the back, 'Hey guys!""

If you want to talk about ramps and arcade games on vans, you should have seen the work we had to do to get a Time Crisis 2 off a van a few weeks back. Ended up having to take the CRTs out to make it light enough to take it down the ramp. 😅

It took COVID for john to come back. We're happy to see u sir. 💯

Loved the video. When you poured your beer and drank it it reminded me of how joe senagalia drinks his beer.

Hey John, just went to your parents garage sale and your sister directed me to your channel. Keep up the cool videos!

You don't need to replace a fuse holder if you are going to replace a fuse holder use surface mount fuses on a stripper circuit board and solder your connectors not crimped. But really they just need cleaning with some green emery paper wire wool or fibreglass eraser or a green scouring pad and bending the terminalsin to make sure they were tight fit to the fuse and solder the connectors. Replace the hot resistor for 3 4 watt resistor only looks like a 1 watt resistor at the most not enough

GDI: Game Domain International if you are curious

John, you DID NOT use warm white bulbs in the Radical GI. You used SUNLIGHT. After watching, I used the sunlight bulbs in my Roller Coaster Tycoon and I love it. Warm white bulbs SUCK. You loved the sunlight in your other games. Don't stoop to the old crappy looking orange glow of the warm whites.

Always start troubleshooting from the wall (outlet), and work your way through sequentially.

If you dont wannn see john and jay on the road picking old arcade stuff just giiiiit! Git right outta here! Lol I would definitely watch that show! Great vid john keep em comin!

Nice brisket Jahn. Cental Texas style :)

That Computer Space Ball is probably simple as a tube.. I'm assuming that monitor has vacuum tubes in the circuitry... One of the tubes that would be in the vertical circuit.. You should keep spares on you..

looks very intresting love the games in the video

Really nice video. Maan, that poor camera :( ugh, here we go again.

So weird I just picked up a red alert that was converted to silk worm, It took a while to figure out i didn't recognize the cabinet profile

For the number of games you have down there, I would recommend installing a loading dock ramp or elevator system.

That ipa looks amazing!🍺

this car looks like a Sprinter from Mercedes. there is a Solution to keep things in place with Metal Bars, which you put in position from the bottom to the Top. a friend of mine use this for carpenter business.

X2 on that WWF might be a crystal. Speech sometimes requires -5 so make sure thats there.

That was like a video game work out.

Nice place good machies!

Barn Town is good stuff. Great food as well.

You should get battery backup/alarm on the sump pump.

Loading up arcade machines on a Harbor Freight ramp, no thank you lol. Thought it was going to snap in half.

Have enjoyed your videos to help learn old boards. I cannot find a schematic for a merit chicken draw poker game anywhere. The screen displays random graphics from the game filling the screen. Trying to find a schematic for crt100 ?? Any ideas?

That’s a nice tan for being “in the arcade” 🤣

So sad we won't hear Track&Field sounds in your basement! Luckily I purchased an Hyper Olympic board for my game room :-)

Another video to enjoy!

I saw an Arcade1up!! Build that thing man

Can you show us more of the crazy climber? Thanks

Well that looks like a safety cap it's across terminals what the X2 means maybe 0.1uF won't do any harm

It’s cool to see NBA Fastbreak, and I, Robot back in the basement.

That offer to be a cameraman is still open jahn ;)

If you are getting low voltage off the brick it's the transformer. A power surge can short them. I'm half way through the video so curious to see.

whoa letting the T&F go John? crazy.

Hey John, we hope to see you soon.

Took me a hot minute to realize “M-C Master” was McMaster-Carr😂

I wonder if John’s spends more time fixing the games or playing them? 🤔

1989 I have been loooooking for freeeeedom ;)

Have your buddy get an inverter generator and get some of those games mobile/ remote

This isn't meant to sound rude but wouldn't sweeping the debris off of those steps make it a bit safer moving the cabs up and down? Kept thinking someone was going to slip on it

Let's get some popcorn going next time. ✨🌞🦖😎

Hopefully you have a backup sump pump as well. A must for the basement arcade! I have the SumpJet which I highly recommend. Also, who won the 1/4 scale Pac-Man?

Does your camera have wifi that you can preview the image using an app on your phone? Go ahead and buy a new camera and write it off as a business expense on your Schedule C. You need a second camera as a backup anyway. Are you amazed or impressed as to how much you were missed while you were away?

are you ever gonna put your new kill screens songs up?! i need more lol ive been listening to science fiction movie for years

I remember a song from a video a few years ago with a women singing. it wasn't a finished song at the time. I know it was very transient sounding( i think thats the word?) i just know it was an awesome song. what was it and is it available?

better call Wynn to do the Laundry 😅😅😅

Check all the chips that have to do with sound or replace your power source, lol.

Does John even have Street Fighters II? That's a must to collect. It's a classic.

That MK II monitor was such a BITCH to fix and now it's dead again!

Question: When you sell your games to friends do they get a good deal or do you charge them what the game is worth?

Vocoder sweet

Rule 1 check your fuses, wires and connectors. How many times have we all skipped this easy check.

Computer Space Ball monitor freaking out at 49:00

Hey john, I think you should pull out the computer space , I really can’t see anyone playing that thing, although it is cool and is one of the first games out when you have limited room you need to have stuff your gonna play and people are gonna play. Don’t get rid of it just pull it out of the basement and put it in the garage, or that pong clone that monitor looks like it’s gonna crap out any day now anyways.

Did you not rejuvenate the Golden Tee monitor?

Sad to see Track and Field go..😰😰😰

I saw it ons Tim's channel. My wife would kill me if I'd sold the Frogger, and probably burn all the other machines

what kind of camera are you using John

Is that X2 capacitor a safety capacitor?

A connector inside camera maybe off now

Surprised you’re moving out T&F. Very Hot right now

Frogger, Two Tigers and Track & Field are all gone?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

43:50 is that a Dreamcast in the back?

You can play donkey Kong and crazy Kong please

Hell ya!!!!!!!!!

Is this part in the members section? LOL 11:09

WOW Frogger gone ! Track & Field gone ! Does computer space ball really get more play then the above ?