Atari Assault Arcade Restoration

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Atari Assault Arcade Restoration

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Mike Murray restores an Atari Assault arcade cabinet for the Time Rift Arcade in Bedford, TX.
In 1988, Namco released Assault, a multi-directional shooter arcade game later licensed to Atari Games for North American distribution. Players pilot a caterpillar-tread self-propelled gun through eleven stages, battling foes and dodging attacks. The game features a twin-stick control scheme akin to Battlezone. Its storyline follows humanity's search for new planets due to Earth's overpopulation. Upon enslaving the natives of a distant exo-planet, tensions rise as the planet's inhabitants rise against their human oppressors, with the player controlling a native protagonist determined to bring peace to their world using the self-propelled gun.
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@TimeRiftArcade 4 ай бұрын

Mike Murray restores the amazing Atari Assault arcade game. Mike calls Assault his favorite "Atari game", even though it was sold by Atari in the USA but licensed from Namco Japan.

@ph0n1k Ай бұрын

just discovered this chanel, intenat subscrivbe. great work. a question any reason why you dont use flatscreens in the resorations??

@TimeRiftArcade Ай бұрын

@@ph0n1k Because they do not faithfully recreate the effect of a CRT. Not even close.

@dradeel 4 ай бұрын

Even when you don't get "the 8-bit guy", you still get the familiarity of the 8-bit guy. Neat! Loving these arcade restorations. Takes me back.

@LeeLee-gy7gp 4 ай бұрын

It is his brother

@Brian-Burke 4 ай бұрын

@@LeeLee-gy7gp I love how their voices are similar.

@HamburgerAmy 4 ай бұрын

this channel is like ordering a david off ebay and getting 2 in the box as a surprise.

@ChairmanMeow1 4 ай бұрын

i know they're brothers but its still nuts how similar they look and sound

@Brian-Burke 4 ай бұрын

@@ChairmanMeow1 I know! haha

@EasyMac308 4 ай бұрын

I really like seeing Mike and David both putting out videos for this project.

@jordanbisasky4586 4 ай бұрын

There must be a part of our brain that loves seeing old things get restored

@WendysAnime 2 ай бұрын

I love you, you handsome person :D

@Malabus73 20 күн бұрын

Nostalgia is feeling pleasure and pain at the same time.

@HypherNet 14 күн бұрын

Maybe it somehow soothes our deep fear of aging ourselves? Seeing something old become young again brings us hope for our own renewal

@powderb2009 4 ай бұрын

Mike sounds incredibly like his brother. i was playing this in the background while playing video games and flipped back and forth just to check to see who was actually there speaking. Both channels are great.

@Jason-lx3zu 4 ай бұрын

Even the vocal inflections and word choices are eerily similar. I have a hard time telling the difference between the two.

@orrmus 4 ай бұрын

Has his own channel too. The Geek Pub.

@Studio23Media 4 ай бұрын

@@Jason-lx3zuYeah, to me the voice isn't all that close, but the inflections and timing of Mike's speech sounds exactly like his brother!

@sulrich70 4 ай бұрын

Very common

@guyh3403 4 ай бұрын

Sometimes my sister sounds like me. But only when drunk. Is that a good thing?

@MegaDeox 4 ай бұрын

I had no idea I can get another 8-Bit-Guy for the same price! What a bargain!

@shannondonaldson5881 4 ай бұрын

Obviously there is a familial resemblance between the brothers but it really comes through when you hear him do the voiceover on the video. Cadence and tone are nearly identical.

@tonycosta3302 4 ай бұрын

Definitely agree with the CRT over an LCD. If you’re going retro gaming, nothing beats original equipment.

@MrAntice 2 ай бұрын

The games were designed on computers with crt's, and made to run on machines with crt's. Everything look so bad when you take these gems and run them with a LCD screen due to the differences in sharpness. These games use pixel art sprites. they need a touch of fuzziness to look good.

@TheRogueMaverick 12 күн бұрын

Unfortunately, we will get to a point where it's necessary. I wholeheartedly agree on CRTs for games prior to the early 2000's. It is unmatched for sure! But sadly, it's not to last. CRTs are no longer in widespread production and the people who know how to repair them are reducing in numbers. I mean, it's happened before. How many programmers know FORTRAN? How many know how to work with vacuum tubes? I hope that some people can make specialized CRTs for arcade cabinets, but who knows...

@MrAntice 12 күн бұрын

@@TheRogueMaverick There are people who make radio tubes for the niche hobby market. It is quite possible that once the sell price becomes high enough, someone will revisit the issue and start making new ones based on old tooling. It will be very expensive to recreate the tech tho. But it's still possible to do so without reinventing it. There are still plenty of people alive today that have lots of experience with these devices. damn. Someone is making the tubes even today: www.thomaselectronics.com/

@TheRogueMaverick 12 күн бұрын

@@MrAntice - Awesome! And I don’t doubt there’s still a lot of knowledgeable people! I’m just aware it COULD one day be an issue.

@MrAntice 11 күн бұрын

@@TheRogueMaverick My last comment got eaten by KZfaq it seems. took me a few seconds to realize what I had written. There are a hundred small and big issues that we will have to figure out when it comes to keeping retro stuff alive as far as reproducing stuff is concerned. For these really old Arcades, it's not too bad. The boards and stuff can be reverse engineered fairly easily, So even if they are broken, we can at least reproduce them. But younger stuff, like old laptops with early lcd screens have issues that will kill them without any apparent solutions for now. Some of these devices look like they are melting.

@PyroX792 4 ай бұрын

I briefly dated someone that worked at an arcade and I can tell you why those wires are like that. The staff at this arcade didn't have any real tools to fix things. They were lucky to have a screwdriver on hand. When you got people yelling at you because they can't play the game they played for you do what you can to get that machine back up and going. Sometimes that's cutting a chunk of shorted wire out and hand twisting them back together with a little tape. Whatever it takes to get it up and going in 5 minutes or less. In the moment you don't really care if it'll last several years, all you care about is it working until the end of your shift.

@Brian-Burke 4 ай бұрын

This is awesome. Thanks for posting. I can totally see that.

@AFFL1CTED1 4 ай бұрын

That still doesn't make any sense to me. Just give the customer their money back and maybe a little extra for an additional free play on another game so you don't lose a customer. Then put an out of order sign on the cab. Fix it properly when time permits. I've never met anyone in my life that would have been that upset over a broken arcade game but I guess that's just me.

@MegaDeox 4 ай бұрын

@@AFFL1CTED1 You have to remember they were mainly dealing with kids.

@HaralHeisto 4 ай бұрын

@@MegaDeox It still doesn't make sense though - these cabinets were expensive, they were a sizable investment that paid themselves off over thousands of plays. If a machine broke, you refund the credit and put the machine out of service. You don't risk your investment on having the floor staff (who generally would be barely older than kids themselves) trying anything more complicated than using the service key to unjam a stuck coin drawer, or power cycle a machine.

@danieldbeavers 4 ай бұрын

Channels like this and TronicFix make soldering and doing correct wire splices look easy, but it isn't. It's a skill that takes time and practice to cultivate. They probably have years (if not decades) of experience working on circuit boards. The average arcade probably didn't have anyone who could do proper electronics repair, so you'd be in the position to find somebody who could and get them on the schedule to come work on your cabinet. That would probably take weeks. Bear in mind that when this cab was in use, virtually nobody had email or cell phones. You're leaving a message on some guy's machine and hoping he calls you back.

@battra92 4 ай бұрын

Per the LCD/CRT debate, I can absolutely see a time when putting an LCD in place of the CRT will be necessary as supplies of good tubes will be even more difficult to find. For now, I say that if you can repair the CRT, then go for it.

@elphive42 4 ай бұрын

CRTs have a lot of subtle artifacting that are iconic to the way they work. I would say repair as long as possible, then replace with a high-resolution flat panel and scaler capable of generating those artifacts as accurately as you can.

@green929392 4 ай бұрын

I agree completely, It's way better than a nonfunctional machine.

@HaakonAnderson 4 ай бұрын

I think it can even depend on the game. Some games benefit from a brighter higher resolution screen in ways the devs never envisioned.

@FeynmanFan 4 ай бұрын

I think eventually we'll be at a point with stuff like Retrotink and high-resolution that the CRT can be visually emulated, but we're not there. But no CRT is better than no machine.

@pyroxene4768 4 ай бұрын

I've always hoped that one day we might have 8K HDR LCDs that can curve to look like a CRT. Put one of those behind glass, put a CRT filter on (they've gotten REALLY good in recent years, phosphor grid simulation should look great in 8K HDR) and it could be indistinguishable from the real thing.

@stephencurry8552 4 ай бұрын

As someone who restores: cars - motorcycles - bicycles - furniture - I find this channel to be very satisfying. Putting a machine which provides enjoyment to people is even more satisfying.

@Choralone422 4 ай бұрын

+1 to keeping the CRT. It's always best to keep that in place if it's possible. The way a CRT displays the image does make a difference compared to an LCD, especially for those of us old enough to remember when everything was CRT based!

@christophersteen1873 4 ай бұрын

I donno man, burn in really shoots the quality and brightness arguments right in the head, these old CRT's also use an insane amount of power and heat, they really should be replaced.

@Zveebo 4 ай бұрын

Nah, that’s a terrible take. Unless you can find an equivalent new old stock CRT, keeping the CRT is absolutely the right plan. LCD is a poor replacement.

@lcdjr85 4 ай бұрын

@@christophersteen1873 The business is based on appealing to nostalgia. Games that are as authentic as possible help greatly in fulfilling that need, and customers who are really in to that will just drive to the arcade that still uses real CRT's. I get it if the tube is worn out and a replacement can't be sourced, but that obviously isn't the case here. There is a time and a place for modernizing for the sake of a few dollars on the electric bill, but there is also a thing called "the cost of doing business" when you're running a business based upon vintage technology. Otherwise, they'd might as well build a bunch of custom cabinets running emulators. But that would be missing the point entirely.

@kimpearson5465 4 ай бұрын

I love how happy Mike is about this game!

@chuffa1130 14 күн бұрын

Thank you for trying to keep it as original as possible, keeping the CTR monitor and repurposing it, does keep to the authenticity of the early '80s

@jeremyf1901 4 ай бұрын

I love these restoration videos!! Seeing how excited he was to get this cabinet made my day.

@ReggieCotton 4 ай бұрын

I'd like to see Mike do some videos on 8bitguy's channel. His excitement and enthusiasm is infectious. He might rub off on Dave.

@MelvinMasterson 4 ай бұрын

Agreed. Mike always seems so happy while David seems indifferent and sometimes even depressed. Don't get me wrong. I like David's stuff. Just pointing out the differences between the brothers.

@tobyminerBTC 4 ай бұрын

Mike on 8bits would be so rad!!!!!!

@williamsanborn9195 3 ай бұрын

He actually did! He made a video of replacing the motherboard of a Commodore 64 with a Raspberry Pi several years ago. It was very cool! 😊

@kevinmeville2631 4 ай бұрын

I. Love. This. Channel. Discovered this from David’s channel. I always enjoyed his restoration videos but these old arcade machines are next level. Total comfort watching. Thank you.

@lcdjr85 4 ай бұрын

Guys, I am so happy to see that this channel is doing so well! Everyone wins here... We get our restorations itches scratched, you all get your machines ready for service, and it builds some hype for the business! I'm sure the repairs take a while longer when dealing with taking video and doing post-production work, but I truly hope you keep them coming. I live in the DFW area and am looking forward to the launch!

@Bonzi_Buddy 2 ай бұрын

Assault is a great game. One of my favorite from back in the day... not the golden age of arcade but rather that second life it had in the late 80's going into the 90's.

@EDHBlvd 2 ай бұрын

Dude THIS GAME WAS AMAZING. I remember playing it in arcades as a child.

@the_Sleepy_Druid 4 ай бұрын

Assault was also one of my favorite games. I was 14 when it came out. Man time flies. Great restoration!

@mr.redeyes2583 18 күн бұрын

What a magnificent Assault restortation! :D

@Abzocold 2 ай бұрын

Ugh, so jealous. This was my favorite arcade game in 1989. My dream game room would include a regulation pool table, Theatre Of Magic pinball game and Assault arcade game as absolute must-have items.

@seandupuis7376 2 ай бұрын

Assault is one of my Top 20 Games of all time. Beautiful restoration

@DarrLaw 4 ай бұрын

I am going to keep posting on every one of these videos just how much I enjoy them, because I want you all to know how much your effort is appreciated! I know it's a labor of love, and there's a capitalist component to your arcade. But it truly feels like you're also doing a serious service to lovers of nostalgia, and for that, I say a hearty THANK YOU!

@mswcap 15 күн бұрын

Wished I lived in Texas. Would become a regular customer of your Arcade. Keep up the great work!

@jayhays8267 4 ай бұрын

Wow, That is a VERY narrow cabinet. BTW Mike, Your other channel "Geek Pub" inspired me to build my own cabinet for my X-Arcade tank stick. For someone with no woodworking experience, it came out GREAT!

@leol6406 2 ай бұрын

This channel is really helping to motivate me to restore a old cinematronics cabinet with ghosts and goblins game installed. Thanks Mike and David!

@stephentg1 18 күн бұрын

As long as there are working CRTs in the world, keep them in these machines. Part of the authentic experience.

@tappersreviews4677 4 ай бұрын

Nice. Assault is a great game. I remember playing it many years ago when I lived in NYC.

@FCV0511 4 ай бұрын

I absolutely adore these restoration videos, and thanks very much for not replacing the CRT monitors with LCD ones! There's just something about the warm glow of a CRT in the dark that can never be replicated by the alternatives. Mike, you and David have inspired me to start tinkering with electronics. I can only hope to be half as competent as you someday!

@Malabus73 20 күн бұрын

Such a pleasure seeing you restore this machine.

@Neal_YouTube 4 ай бұрын

OMFG I LOVED THIS GAME! I was also pretty darned good at it to the point that when my friends watched me play it, they would freak out.

@FishDS9 4 ай бұрын

Congratulations Mike! I could tell in your reactions that you really appreciate this game and it was fun watching you clean and restore it.

@Jorge_Ramirez 4 ай бұрын

8:55 Drifting controllers, My old nemesis

@SkaterDeeVlog 4 ай бұрын

I swear the algorithm knows what I’m thinking because I was trying to remember the name of this game only a few days ago. I remember riding my bike to the Hill’s department store down the road just so I could play this and Afterburner after school and on the weekends. Absolutely loved this game, I just wish I could experience the original arcade hardware again. Might have to figure out a way to build my own MAME cabinet and controller setup… Awesome vid, thanks!

@SP-vl1jh 4 ай бұрын

Love that you guys are giving these old games a new life.

@zantetsu8674 4 ай бұрын

Holy mackerel!!! Assault is also my favorite arcade game of all time! This is so awesome! I love it so much that I implemented an optimization in M.A.M.E. to allow its rotating grapics to be smooth in Assault instead of choppy like they used to be (because of the pixel order that the M.A.M.E. renderer had been using that was not cache-optimized. I fixed it like 13 years ago ... was in the process of building a M.A.M.E. cabinet but never finished sadly).

@zgolkar 4 ай бұрын

I have the utmost respect and admiration for people who dedicate so much effort in these works of art and preservation.

@CMM1215 4 ай бұрын

Looks absolutely wonderful! Looks like a really fun game, too, especially on those nice hunky dual sticks!!

@robinmaes58 4 ай бұрын

It’s very cool to see these arcades come back to life and get to be enjoyed again

@bicivelo 2 ай бұрын

I love the intro. Even the audio which is slightly stretched magnetic tape 😅 very authentic!

@slythietoves2277 Ай бұрын

This happens to be my favorite game of all time, GJ guys.

@vulcanbrady 4 ай бұрын

Mike’s genuine enthusiasm on this one made my day. Keep making videos, I really enjoy your content!

@zigbeed 2 ай бұрын

Wonderful seeing restored classical memorabilia.

@SatanicJamnic 4 ай бұрын

This video is just so perfect. You guys are so awesome. Game was in horrible shape and ended in perfect - so the satisfaction of watching is gigantic. Edit, quality is as good as 8 bit Guy's and even the game was much cooler than I anticipated. Just nergasm. Thank you guys. That would be my dream to watch this videos even more often.

@dunebuggymike 4 ай бұрын

I need to make a pilgrimage here the next time I'm in Texas. This looks really cool.

@MrButtonpresser 4 ай бұрын

Such a familiar voice, and just as enjoyable to watch.

@Kordanor 4 ай бұрын

It's funny how usually brothers look alike. They don't. However, they sound alike :D Not when speaking normally, but whenever there is a bit of emphasis on something, like at 5:42 or 8:40, the way they change their pitch and cadence is exactly the same. In any case: enjoyed the video! Great job with the Cabinet!

@markinnes4264 4 ай бұрын

Incredible job , restoring this game! It's never been better!

@natazer 2 ай бұрын

Something so special about arcade games from the 80s. The backdrop to so mamy great memories with friends.

@kstarler 4 ай бұрын

That looks absolutely fantastic! Also, to weigh in on the CRT/LCD question, many game designs were based on how a CRT behaves, and an LCD may not behave the same way. The go-to example that comes to my mind are graphics that show as transparent on a CRT but show as matte on an LCD. By changing the screen, you may be changing the way a game looks and even how a player interacts with it.

@williammorrison6092 4 ай бұрын

This is amazing I love these restorations and seeing these Machines come back to life

@kranibal 4 ай бұрын

. Wow! that was an amazing transformation! The amount of work and effort to restore such machine is incredible!

@seanlavoie2 4 ай бұрын

This looks like a game play experience that you couldn’t replicate at home . . . Or it would be super complicated. Really impressive.

@allluckyseven 4 ай бұрын

Awesome job. I love how the CPO looks now, and I'm shocked that you could find new old stock controller shells! That's just crazy.

@jasonhardin3264 19 күн бұрын

I loved that game. I played in a lot back in the day.

@tylerbowling 4 ай бұрын

I am really loving this series. Y'all are killing it!

@quattroconcept4 4 ай бұрын

Reminds me of my Elite Dangerous setup with those dual sticks. What a beautiful machine.

@Xqrement 4 ай бұрын

This is quickly becoming my favorite restoring channel, you can tell everyone working on this project are very passionate for this kind of stuff and not just the 8-bit Guy. Wish I could visit the arcade once it's all set up!

@wildcatlh 4 ай бұрын

Something about restoration videos (at least ones I can trust are real) makes me smile. Even better when it's a game I remember playing in the arcade.

@linuxstreamer8910 4 ай бұрын

thanks to the restore of the control panel i can finally play this game

@DrieStone 4 ай бұрын

Can't wait to watch this. This is one of my two favorite games of all time (Major Havok is my other). I'm glad someone is giving it some love!

@zata1197 4 ай бұрын

Man every time I see you guys do a resto like this it makes me want to try it myself. I think I could given the right cabinet

@drgroove101 4 ай бұрын

Impressive professional restoration job! This game looks like a ton of fun to play!

@jeffm5056 4 ай бұрын

My buddy up in Dayton, Ohio has an Assault. I've never seen it anywhere else. Nice job!

@deang5386 4 ай бұрын

First time ever seeing this arcade game. Looks like fun with the twin stick controls.

@FintanMoloney 4 ай бұрын

The work you do on restoring these machines is phenomenal. You have amazing skills and love seeing the machines from start to finish. Next time i'm in Texas I'll be going to the arcade when it opens.

@paulanderson929 4 ай бұрын

Such a good restore. Hope to make it out to the arcade someday.

@Wingspan_5 4 ай бұрын

These videos are incredibly satisfying.

@SRQmoviemaker 3 ай бұрын

One of the first arcades I remember playing. Great video and love the resto.

@sepplee5812 4 ай бұрын

To be able to cheer and celebrate a game like a kid when you’re full grown is priceless. Keep up this enthusiasm. I could feel your emotions when watching this and felt as happy as if it was my game you were restoring. 😊

@timhoover1416 4 ай бұрын

Nice resto, thanks for bringing us along.

@Red5. 2 ай бұрын

Keep the restoration videos coming, really enjoying it

@whatilearnttoday5295 4 ай бұрын

Your intro is how the world is meant to sound.

@cchaz003 4 ай бұрын

I was just re-watching the other two restorations this morning - what a treat to have a new one drop right now! Thanks y'all!

@jonwitkin5043 3 ай бұрын

I played this at the local convenience store for a LONG time when I was in my younger teens - So fun and so many memories! (and quarters :) )

@greenmagicdragon 4 ай бұрын

I love these arcade machine restorations by the Murray brothers on this channel. So wholesome.

@mcolville 4 ай бұрын

Damn dude, good job. This was one of my most coveted games. Not even because I loved playing it, just it was SO cool and different compared to other games, and only one arcade near me had it.

@alexrobles7744 3 ай бұрын

Assault was just an awesome arcade game. It was so great seeing it restored to life. Wish I had your skills and I could get the robotron I had about for my brother years ago working lol.

@Jonny_O 4 ай бұрын

Happy birthday, Mike

@francescodipalma5684 4 ай бұрын

Awesome job, the finished product is incredible.

@ricky_pigeon 4 ай бұрын

i was born the year this game came out and it looks impressive for the time.

@RXR25 4 ай бұрын

I love it every time this channel uploads

@garshanarny 4 ай бұрын

Somebody is doing a stupendous job editing these videos. It's an ideal way to enjoy such a diligent restoration. I'm so glad to have this channel.

@gafakyusef6201 4 ай бұрын

I love the sound of the "mortar" (when you tilt the tank) explosion. Thanks for posting, and happy belated!

@andystandys 4 ай бұрын

Awesome job. That is a gorgeous machine. I love the colour scheme and marquee graphics. It's a nice, compact size, too.

@That_Random_Guy_Official 4 ай бұрын

Can’t deny the best videos are restoration videos 👌🏻✌🏻

@smokingiscool599 4 ай бұрын

6:15 A video on common arcade repair hacks would be cool. The zip tie idea is neat, and there has been a couple other mentions of hacky but effective solutions in a couple other videos that were really interesting.

@ZeroWalker26 2 ай бұрын

I love these restorations. Breathing new life in to old classic arcades are just pure joy to see and also the transformation from old,dirty to clean fresh is just so satisfying.

@BloodyIron 3 ай бұрын

REALLY appreciate all the work put into this detail!

@FrancesBedoya89 4 ай бұрын

LOVING this channel! I came here from 8-Bit guy. Subbed after the first restoration video. ❤

@TECHiSuppose 4 ай бұрын

Another fantastic rebuild! That is a cool and unique looking game.

@kenturkey1971 Ай бұрын

It looks beautiful! I don't remember ever playing that game!

@O.Salah1 4 ай бұрын

I like the moment of joy after seeing the arcade ❤

@Iamwangdong Ай бұрын

That is the best restoration yet

@jenkoroots 4 ай бұрын

I love your genuine enthousiasm during your video’s! You explain well, spend a lot of time in these great quality video’s and the end product is simply stunning! In my opinion this is the best channel on KZfaq already 💪🏽 Keep on going!

@c0wg0d 4 ай бұрын

I'm absolutely loving these restoration videos. I hope we see more, and I'd love to get a tour video of the arcade too, since it will be very difficult for me to travel to see it.