Adam's cool. Know's his stuff.

Man that is so cool. Pretty amazing you got to actually put together a game for a guy that was making games when you were a kid. That's pretty much the coolest "thank you for the great games you've made" statement you could have made to Will Wright. Sim City, I spent a good bit of my childhood playing that game on various platforms, but mainly on the PC. Will is a visionary. You may not always like his games, but you have to applaud the mans ability to innovate.

This is why I spend time following and supporting your channel. Great job John.

I was a Broderbund fan as a kid and knew about Bungeling Bay, but never really played it. I never imagined it was as deep as it is, but all those elements Will mentioned (ships supplying the factory and a battleship being built) sound awesome. You're pretty fearless. I'd have no idea how to ship a game across the country, and you didn't either, but you just did it and made it look pro. Good job all around. And Adam's such a great guy.

THX John for this "Mystery Arcade Video Series", the final video was like a christmas present. you did an EXCELLENT job :).

This game is surprisingly great, deep for a VS game, thats wild it had 7 EPROMS, The marquee looks legit nice work. Love the interview.

Amazing job your attention to the little things is what makes your videos great,many others would have left a note saying you have to pres 1+2 to game the game started

Dude, you're on a roll with these interviews, etc.! Thank you!

I was just wondering as I was surfing KZfaq and this pops up!! Thanks Jon!!

That Vs. Raid on Bungeling Bay arcade game cabinet was originally used for Heli Fire (1980), Space Firebird (1980), Radar Scope (1980), Space Demon (1980), Donkey Kong (1981), Donkey Kong Jr. (1982), Popeye (1982), Mario Bros. (1983), Sky Skipper (1982), Donkey Kong 3 (1983), Punch-Out!! (1984), Super Punch-Out!! (1985), and Arm Wrestling (1985) cabinets. This hardware is based on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).

EXCELLENT JOB ON THE CAB!!! I have fond memories of playing Raid On Bungling Bay on my C64. Great game!

wow awesome vid john how cool to work on a game for will have a great guy like adam to help and loved the interview woulda loved if you asked him how his experience with ea was lol hope to see more vids like this and I love the fact your not afraid to do long vids instead of super over edited 15 min ones id love to see some newer games to do you have any future projects planned for more recent arcade games

Hey John just received my John`s Arcade T-shirt in Cardiff Wales U.K . and a video upload in the same day excellent.

Great Job John! I was really surprised when I found out you were making the game for Will Wright! I grew up playing Sim City on SNES, thanks for paying him back for all the great games he made for both us and the next generation! You ROCK!

Great video sir! Very interesting. Well done for keeping quiet for so long

This was an epic video. You did such a great job. To impress the creator of the game plus a legend like Will Wright is crazy awesome. Great Job John!

John! Keep up the great work!!! Thank you!

Amazing job on the cabinet! Great video!

Hah great job doing this, never heard of this channel before but got pointed to it. Respect to you and for Will and his years of fine work (especially the 80s and earlier 90s stuff.) It was funny watching you not understand the mechanics of this game. I've had it since it came out back in the day on the NES. I wish it had that starter map as that was either cut out or thought up after for VS. Next time shoot those jets down.

Finally! i saved this video for saturday so i could enjoy the whole video and not worry about work. SWEET!!!

Very awesome!!!! Loved the interview as well!

Hay John just wanna say thnx for reading my viewer mail as soon as I get my mk2 I'll definitely Google all your suggestions to get an mk1 pcb in my cabinet thnx again keep the videos coming xoxox Michelle

This was so cool! Will Wright seems to be a pretty cool guy too! That little game is very clever, It goes to show how developers put a lot of thought and a lot of love into creating challenging games with the technology of that time. For us above 30 it was all new, we got to know a world without video games and with them. **dies from nostalgia**

Will Wright! So cool. I'm surprised that you managed to keep it a secret for so long, I wouldn't have been able to :)

bin waitin for this one John.

this was your best vid so far achievement unlocked :P

That's super cool John Never heard of this game before looks like a lot of fun with alot of depth than meets the eye.

Cool! Never knew this was a VS game. Played this on my C64 and loved it.

That was very cool :) I remember seeing the game in a store front running on C64 back in the 80's. Didn't know there was an Arcade version.

Very cool! I'm a huge fan of nintendo arcades, never knew this ever existed. You did a great job on it!

wow that was awesome! I was racking my brain trying to figure out what game it was I never would've guessed Raid on Bungeling Bay, but the end result looked amazing! Oh so that game was called Vec 9? I don't think the name ever came up on that video! Awesome videos as always man.

That is the BEST MARQUEE I have ever seen. It just looks so fantastic, you did such an awesome job on that marquee John.

43:00 You show us all the successes and failures. That's why I like your videos.

Very cool, I remember playing C64 version back in the day and it had a radar in the bottom left of the screen to assist in finding targets.

Lmao at you with the shrink wrap... Shrink wrap is a pain in the ass sometimes and gets the best of us all!

Hudson Soft did the Famicom version, which was converted to the Nintendo VS. System.

what a great gift :) good work on that john

Top stuff John!

I played the hell out of Bungeling Bay on my C64, fun game. I'm going to have to try out the Vs version, I wonder if they kept the parade at the end after you win. Nice job on the cab!

Think about it, what you and Adam can do. So cool. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Very cool John!

What if: Will Wright had a kid called Phoenix,and the kid went on to be a lawyer. Wow,just wow.

Love it. Stellar!

The switching power supply adapter for pole position would be great.

Excellent video! A wild guess John, maybe the game had a dedicated harness that would come with the original ROM which had P3+P4 permanently shorted pressed as a part of security feature? Japanese arcade manufacturer really take security seriously. I have no knowledge on old arcade machines, but I know the new PC-based Konami arcades has several security dongles, harddisks encrypted and the game software are (kind of) hardware specific - even if you decrypted the harddisk and got the software out and got the security dongles check out of the way, it still takes a while before you can "build" a machine that can run the software.

It's about freaking time!

Great build as always Jon! Keep on restoring the classics. I will keep on watching!!

When Will Wright talks about the advenced mechanics of the game (ie: enemy gathering resources, radars tracking your position etc) he's referring to the original C64 version he programmed, which was much more realistic and elaborated. The NES port (and the VS version) is just a dumbed down port featuring cartoonish graphics and simplified gameplay, resulting in a very easy and very different game from the original!

you did en excelent job on this one one of your best video also superr ratarr

Debug trips? I didnt know that trips had programming in them! XD

Hi john ! What a nice video again !!! Love your job ! I saw your new channel , and i have a question, you're restoring arcade games, you 're building a PC gamer, and my question is, what about the consoles like nintendo NES, sega Genesis and other retro consoles ??? Do you have a project to restore consoles like you do for the arcade games ? I think it could be nice to see you restoring retro game consoles ! A French fan .

SimCopter is cool and so is Streets of Sim City, especially how you could load a city you made in Sim City 2000, which was the best version in my opinion.

I got my John's Arcade t-shirt from Teespring today! Woo hoo! Everyone in the house is so jealous of me. Now I have to put it up to be wrapped for a Christmas present for me.

Did you have trouble with the shrinkwrap? :) That looked hilarious wrapping it up in high speed, lol

Adam, a fun video of yours would be making a hello world application on a microcontroller then programming it

like that good work

Officially,the,longest,video,I,have,ever,watched,through,fully.

For the kick harness Mortal Kombat question: Contact Ito over at RetrowareTV. He's has a Multi-Mortal Kombat setup and he's pretty knowledgeable about the wiring harnesses.

Another nice vid. Could you please add links you mention in your vids in the description, for lazy people like myself, thanks ;)

I have 6 machines an john I really would like an opinion on them: •Centipede •MAME cabinet •4 slot Neo Geo •Pacmans arcade party (has alot of classis namco games) •Black Hole pinball •nintendo duel system (red tent)

about time.

Hi John, do you happen to know the dimension of the INSERT COIN label that you customised? (the BroderBund one). I am thinking of doing something similar and would like to know the dimension of it. Thanks

Glad it wasn't Wild Gunman, that's been beaten to death and the game you chose is much better. I probably will never need one but on request is Adam planning on selling his coin boards with that tweaked code?

fantastic

This is really, really fucking cool.

Did the pole position pcb prototype get completed?? Where’s my copy ??? Any ideas to finish it or what’s the deal ?

Hey John, is that plexiglass tinted on the cabinet? It looks dark on screen but maybe it was just the room. Just wondering whether most Plexiglas was clear or tinted back then. I'm building a mame bartop and planned on using clear plexiglass.

Wow, that was from October! But I wish you would've shown us and Will your process of scanning the Famicom graphic for your bezel here. Even though you don't have the game cabinet to put a bezel on anymore, will you make a reenactment video of that scanning and enlargement process for both us and Will, please? (Also, FFR, when you wrap something like this, since you're not actually using a shrink-wrapping tool, will you avoid mislabeling it "shrink-wrapping," but only call it "wrapping"?)

So... Super Breakout goes away? I smell a third You Tube Channel!! John's Storage!

Why is the water read that the blood of your enemies that got slaughtered in your Warfare against there red blinking buildings!!

This game release only japan worldwide and USA

Any chance you can bring back the Tito's for the letters section John? I just tried my first "Tito's and soda." It's a good one

So, John, is there a lot of videos where, with some viewer mails that came to you a few or several days before a given video, you waited until one or more videos down the road to read them? How do you decide which letters to read during which videos? Do you just go by first-come-first-served order and sometimes have to get through a backlog and therefore letters may get pushed out past the videos they came just before, just for that reason, or do you have a specific method for sometimes hand-picking them out of receipt order?

Ed Fries on Skype. George Gomez gives you a tour. Steve Ritchie interrupts your epilogue. You built a game for Will Wright. WHO'S NEXT?!

best JA video yet

hey john! when u went to logans hardaware, what is the name of that new vector game because I wanna lokk for one

Minor detail John, but the dents in the front grill needed addressing. I know you picked up on it in the restoration but I think let it pass, as the grill was fixed. Otherwise a top job.

What ever happened with the pole position board mentioned at the start? EDIT: 2015 "be done end of the year" Feb 2019 update video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oJ5_lbWAxqink5c.html :)

Did you toy with the idea of using the blue/green camouflage art from the NES cover and cartridge?

17:20 LOL!

John Needs to Start Working on the machines He Has, They're Sitting there getting sun bleached i don't know how many machines are STILL sitting there? you still have the Yellow machine to restore, and its going on a year now.

That guy who wrote in said you left VEC9 to discuss another pinball game? I remember you going to that Killer Queen 10 player game...but who's counting.

John you need a second mic for your guests! Adam here, George Gomez previously..

Adam your the man love you and no your not no brother :)

Whoa, so this game was produced by Nintendo, created by Will Wright, published by Broderbund, and ported by Hudson soft. I mean, there's so many signals in the brain that the network of video game production is so much more closely tied than I could have ever thought. I mean, if Big Brother is at all a reality, then clearly video games have tied into a certain team spirited mentality, yet clearly have been, since the very start, all pretty much one derivative network with similar investors and goals. Really, you might even abstract this to the conclusion that any console wars, at any time, any game developer battles, any company going under or rising to the top, has really just been a series of plays by the same investor this whole time as if to fuel a drama of mascots and teams, simply being a play created to control the mind into sedation of gaming, and furthermore a feeling and series of reasoning for having chosen which games and teams to end up with yet nevertheless being enacted and not participated necessarily. Am I too far off to come to this conclusion after realizing these ties having been in a limbo and dance from then to now?

1:07:14 Houston we have a problem!

15:29 Who is using Dial-Up in 2015?

I ayez the shit out of this game on my C64

Even though you described here in the video that this free-play chip will not only "coin the game up" but start it playing, why is that so much "better" than just having the button that's parallel to one of the coin sensors "coin the game up" and then having to press a player button like normal even though games with free play built in don't auto-start the playing? Why is that difference such a "big deal" (besides for those games that require a very short "coin pulse")? Also, hehe, you don't remember if you had the CPU in it with the 7th ROM chip? Obviously it's not gonna work without a CPU, huh?

Is that Diet Coke with Splenda? Where the heck did you get that? Thought they stopped making it.

random observations: you are from Chicago, live in Mass. you have a patriots table in your basement and now a Yankees hat?!

Will Wright always makes a hard of hearing face...

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John didn't make Raid, and Adam made the game work. Please hold off with the 'I made a game' - phrases :)