Surreal seeing you walk about Manchester. Like watching Mario having lunch with Doctor Eggman.

Awesome trip and great coverage! Cool to see Alex there too.

Brilliant! Finally got it up. Going to be a good watch later when I get home !

Great vid John, the perfect warm up to part two - Arcade Club & Sky Skipper UK reveal.

Great episode of John's Arcade, can't wait for part 2!

Bloody hell the UK video!! Looking forward to part 2 BOOM! 🇬🇧

BRILLIANT I TOOK MY SON THEIR IN 2018 WAS AMAZING ITS GOT BIT OF EVERYTHING IM FROM MANCHESTER SO WAS CLOSE THANKS JOHN AND HARRY GREAT TOUR

RetroGamesParty is a great channel, I discovered it last week and I'm not sure how I missed it. It's cool that you met James Brindle at the show.

John! Now I can see why you weren't at Grinkers last year. What an awesome trip you had to the UK! Thanks for all the great videos! Keep it up man!

Epic traveling arcade wow, cool to see Alex; i dig his vids as well. The pins were nuts too. Thanks for the vid.

Awesome stuff John, the interview with James was very interesting, yeah the Play expo's are a great time, looking forward to the next vid!

great stuff , that continental circus cab was mine , great to see it :)

Saw a clip on Alex’s fb and had to watch the full video It’s great getting a Different perceptive on the British retro gaming scene

If I had a choice of one pinball game - it would be DEMOLITION MAN. Best play-ability ever and perfectly stream-lined lanes and lights. Game was made to perfection. Great sounds. Never saw the movie lol

great video John. Been waiting for the uk stuff since the skyskipper release. Nice to bump into you too. Looking forward to part 2! Glad you enjoyed the scotch egg! Hahaha.

so much appreciation here, and almost every arcade is giving attention. wow! nothing like that here in california. . forgot this was the UK where everyone is bloody kind

I've been waiting for this video for a while. I was there the night you was at Arcade Club.

The On The Road videos make this channel something really special. I also like seeing you guys go to all the fast food places.

Two things amaze me about this video: 1) There are some real classic arcade games that John hasn't even heard of! "Buggy Boy" in this and, even more amazingly, "Shadow Dancer" in the Galloping Ghost video. 2) I say this as a Brit; do not, under _any_ circumstances, listen to John's "British" accent, it makes Dick Van Dyke's sound totally legit.

That Terminator 2 was dope man, dude tons of classic good games. Damn that hard boiled egg looked bomb. Looks like it was a good trip dude.

This was a great video, I loved the Puck Man and of course the Power Drift, Rad Mobile, After Burner and Out run.

Nice to see you in my neck of the woods John. Love your videos, for some reason youtube stopped telling me you released new stuff so I ended up searching manually!

So glad you got to see play expo it’s grown so much since I went 4 years ago, gutted I didn’t go this year would of love to meet you

John with all your experience Fixing arcades. Drill a hole down through the plastic hinge and put a metal pin in it. lol Fix the damn popcorn machine !!! Love you John keep the videos coming.

kool video man dedicated on your channel with ARCADES I LOVED THEM DAYS

Great job and your trip videos are always great!!!

Awesome!!! Like the James Brindle interview there and your walk around all the cabs and tables. Not sure why you picked bag pipe music for landing - assumed you landed in Scotland :o)

Holy Moly! This looks like a good one!

Damn these pinball machines are EFFIN AWESOME!

My two favorite youtubers in one video!

Great video dude. Funny, I was chatting to Harry on the phone and he said he was on route to pick you up. Couldn't make Play Manchester sadly but looks a great event

Awesome vid, I think its the closest ill ever come to being on your channel... my pinballs being looked at by you :) Glad you enjoyed the show. keep up the awesome work

Great to see you in the UK and Play - Retro Revivals is in May if you want to come back :P

That place is heaven on earth.

Sweet! This is gonna be good.

Great quality man

This is an awesome show John! Hope you get a chance to check out the Portland Retro gaming Expo someday as well.

Freaking hanging out with Tom Hardy in the UK... That is SO John! ;)

Pop corn door falls off john falls over reveling he's just been a cardboard cutout the whole time I knew it

going to this place would be a dream come true for me.

Never managed to make the Manchester show, looks way better than Blackpool. Going to go to the next one. Thanks for the great vlog

The terminator pinball machine was gorgeous

John, the moment you put a new video on KZfaq is the moment you get a thumps up from me, MAN!! Great!

I just went to a smaller version of something like this called Retro City Festival in Pomona, California. So much fun!

I was at play expo Manchester and played a lot of what was featured in this video - it's a shame I didn't get a chance to say hi! Still I had a great time and even ended up getting drunk with a load of mancity fans afterwards...

Fantastic video John,I’ll try and find you the recipe for scotch eggs 😎👍 Miss you buddy

Great video John. I noticed a comment at 26:05 saying that Rad Mobile was released after the Sonic game, "obviously", but that is in fact not the case. The first Sonic The Hedgehog game was first released on June 23, 1991 on the Megadrive in Japan, but Rad Mobile was actually released months before, in January 1991. This means that Sonic's first appearance in a game was as the mirror ornament in Rad Mobile. More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rad_Mobile#Cameos

Great video

Ha...Rad Mobile! Encino Man flashback there.

Thanks for reminding me how much bagpipes suck. I'd forgotten. 😋

It's a shame the trocadero closed, you would have loved that place at it's peak.

Chip shop! haha, I want that bubble bobble cabinet!!!!!!!

thank you ..that damn popcorn machine.. great video John ..i do hope someone took you to a chippie

THIS is how an Arcade Expo should be done

Top job, John. Despite the ropey English accent. Great coverage.

As a uk viewer thanks for the trip to the UK And scotch eggs rule. Bet you would like gala pie as well

Take a drink every time John uses his bad English accent. 😅

GREAT VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Damn that was crazy, bro.

Glad you got the ET game for your Atari. I didn't know if you already had it or not. I found it at the same thrift store where I got the Firefox DVD. I hope you enjoy it!

the Transformer Pin looks awesome.. MENTAL😂😂😂

That Mr. Do! is in a Deco cab. These had the mini cassette loaded games. Great little cabinets.

"Oh...oh...oh..." *chuckles* Several nights ago, I was walking through Wal-Mart and saw a very similar model of your broken pop-corn maker. Thought to myself that John might be very interested in knowing about those. (Logic following that if one branch has these, surely they all must.) One difference was this one had a matching stand that allowed for storage of supplies. Could also free up that limited table space...and deal with that wobbly table issue. I suppose that $99 is a good price for one of those. I can't seem to find it on their web site, though. Even though they have a ton of similar models for all kinds of prices. Then, I just totally forgot to pop in and post about them. Until I started up this video and went...well...the first sentence of this posting. ;P Many years ago, a local arcade had that StarBlade cabinet. Really awesome game. But, they've got to be rare. Such huge machines that aren't as friendly in the square footage as most. The atmosphere and FX really complete it. As there is a PlayStation port. (Kind of rare.) It just feels a bit hollow without the extras of the arcade counterpart. 'Chip shop'. That's rather catchy, actually.

Me and Phil from Maximum Powerup at 30:23 playing Bosconian 😀

Nice video!

UK represent!!!

Everyone always walks past Ballys Centaur with no comment, its a great pinball machine, 1981, fast play, 5 ball multiball, great ruleset, wicked speech and atmosphere.

LOL I have a Quake arcade Dedicated cab. 100% working Love it, LOVE it.

Most countries in europe had a few cabinet manufacturers. Like electrocoin in the UK, in Germany you had Hellomat etc etc. Here in Spain there where I think 4,5 manufacturers. They just installed the jamma or original boards. Shipping only the boards and making the cabs here was much cheaper than importing the whole cabinet from the USA or Japan. Some operators had the original cab, but they are very rare.

Spyhunter sitdown is an awesome game. The first game I played that was two quarters. And I loved it. No way is the game too bloody hard. It has a learning curve no doubt, and getting used to the amount of controls. If the controls are working properly, you can develop gameplay to last for quite awhile. And the music gets better the longer you play on one credit.

the ZAXXON beside the PuckMan... my Game.. love it

TO OUR FRIENDS ACROSS THE POND: ENJOY/BE GRATEFUL FOR THE STRONG GAMING/ARCADE CULTURE YOU GUYS STILL HAVE. ARCADES AND EXPOS LIKE THIS ARE DISAPPEARING IN THE U.S.

As if you were round the corner from me. Hope you enjoyed dude.

No Manchester band covers by The Kill Screens? (Joy Division, New order, Smith’s, Stone Roses, JAMES, Happy Monday’s, Oasis, etc) ....j/k thanks for video John!

New John's Kitchen: John cooks Scotch Eggs for the first time from scratch.

That T2 pinball machine at 49:16 is unreal. Is it purely custom, or was it built from mods and addons from various websites?

Loved seeing SEGA games, especially Space Harrier. Missing Turbo Out Run/OutRunners...

When are you going to put the vinyl John's arcade decal on the top of the table it sure would make it look better. love your videos man always waiting for the next one

FYI, the rarest Capcom pinball isn't Big Bang Bar, even before the repro run. There were roughly 13 BBB before the repro. Capcom's Kingpin is currently the rarest at around only 4 in existence. I belive that Chicago Coin is planning also remaking this game as well. There is usually one at Califronia Extreme every year.

As far as I am aware Rad Mobile came out 3-6 months before Sonic and this is in fact the very first time Sonic was in a Video Game.

ah yes, The Flintstones with the backglass of Wilma and Betty blowing Fred and Barney. 39m15s note their legs sticking out the side of the car.

Regarding the mega tech machine. It's essentially a modified mark 1 megadrive that uses the external din connector (not the ext edge connector) for timer control for arcade operations. There's 8 cartridge ports which you can install various selection of megadrive and master system games. The hardware was tweaked to disallow cheaper retail Mega Drive games to be played on the system, and likewise, Mega-Tech games will not run properly on a home Mega Drive console. Also uses Japanese mould for the cartridge. There is however a adapter you can buy to use retail carts on the arcade hardware.

Can you pop-rivet or replace the screws in the top hinge of the popcorn machine?

I saw this guy at the Hangar when I was getting Scotch Eggs ;-)

Glad I watched through... I was about to ask if you got some gas station eggs.

I need my Johns Arcade fix!

I like that, chip shop cabinet! Wonder if there is a Laundromat cabinet!

There are pubs in the US that serve Scotch eggs. I've seen a lot of brewpubs (especially those that have a British theme) serve them on their appetizer menu.

Resume of the trip: John smiled a lot not really knowing what the people were saying to him

1:19:49 Oh no your co-host is dying. T_T Good stuff, scotch eggs yum. :)

I have the sears Atari in the original box that we found on the side of the road when I was a kid about 20ish years ago. Have the E.T. game also. I think it's terrible though!

I know where there is a Silent Hill arcade machine. Horsham, West Sussex. It was in the bowling alley, it was always down, but if it's still there I'm sure they would sell it for the right price..haha. however I remember it being a huge unit.

You remember Thomas. Wow... he did some SERIOUS damage to some of the european collectors before he disapeared.

Hey john are you gonna do any update videos on the hanger?

John did you pop in a "Chippy" for some food? haha great video m8

I just picked up a Rolling Thunder yesterday at 18:48.

You guys must've been somewhere inbetween Manchester and London as you caught a South Western train to Waterloo - Alex's place...? I'm guessing the station you get on at was Alex's local one and though I don't recognise it I'm guessing it's in / he lives in one of the Home Counties...?

You hoping to come back to Play Expo this year possibly? Would be awesome to say hello =D

Based on your description. The 2600 console of your youth sounds like the Tele-Games version of the Light Sixer.

Regarding the switch mode power supply replacement. Go for it. They're just better power supplies period compared to liner power supply. The only caveat is but a decent switching supply. Switch mode power supplies by there nature generate high-frequency noise that can interfere with sensitive electronic equipment, but as long as it decent supply it will suppress it properly. Just be careful.