Arcade 1UP Rampage Midway Classic Arcade Review - Rerez 

That's regretful. The 1 arcade machine I want is the Rampage one, but not if it breaks at level 30 for Gauntlet. $299 for 2/3 working games is a bit steep.

If you call them they will send you a free replacement control bored to fix gaulet

UPDATE : Hey @Rerez, just wanted to let you know the Gauntlet 'fixed' PCB still isn't working: On November 24, 2018, Username : 128kgames, reported this on atariage forums: Posted Sat Nov 24, 2018 9:39 PM Gauntlet NOT fixed: Installed the replacement Rampage cab PCB that is supposed to fix the level 16/31 and various sound issues. While I can confirm they fixed the level issue (I played to level 33 - my cab froze on level 16) and the sound issue for the Warrior and the Valkyrie, they have also BROKEN the sound for the Elf and the Wizard in the exact same way the Warrior and Valkyrie sound was broken on the original PCB (no sounds for insert coin, picking up treasure or food, no sound on exiting the dungeon). So while a major issue was fixed, they simply shifted an annoying issue to another set of characters. I would appreciate it if anyone else with the Rampage cab who has replaced the PCB can confirm the same sound issues so I know its not just me. If 1Up has in fact fixed one issue and caused another, I have to seriously question whoever the hell they have play testing these "fixes" and seriously volunteer to do it for them. atariage.com/forums/topic/275757-budget-atari-and-capcom-arcade-cabinets-to-see-release-this-fall/page-61#entry4163744 I reposted the information on Benjamin Deadmoons youtube page November 28, 2018: And asked him if he could check on it. ================================================= This is the reply i got today. December 5, 2018 Benjamin Deadmoon 2 hours ago Ok. I just finished checking out the set of problems you listed for Gauntlet. Sadly the information is correct.It is now a mixed bag in the sound department. The elf has the worst sound of all the characters. The elf has no exit music nor food or keys. Player 2 has no insert coin sound as well. The warrior and the Valkyrie sound better,but they both have no sound for food or treasure pick up. The wizard has no sound for food or treasure. These new problems are getting to be a bit much. I still really like my cabinets and all,but arcade1up really needs to get things right. The game runs alot smoother and the sound is better than before. I guess I don't know what else to say about it. It's almost like the sound was perfect when I first installed and played the new game board. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TLOol5CPJlo.html&lc He will follow up with them on their facebook page. later -1

@@negative1723 are they going to fix gauntlet? I'm going to buy the machine if they do.

@@retrodino1787 don't know yet. later -1

Who cares, just keep track of it yourself. Most real arcade games didn't keep the score when you uplugged them anways. later -1

@@negative1723 This is 2018. Surely highscores can be saved...

@@br0neh Yes, they can be saved. But then they would have to modify the roms, which they did for some games. But its not always that easy. of course it would cost the company and then they would have to do more testing, etc. these guys cut corners on everything, so yeah, it's not going to happen. later -1

WRONG. No Rom modding needed. The cab is running Mame, which fully supports high score saving with the simple addition of a dat file. I appreciate your IT-Crowd user name, I bemoan your lack of knowledge.

@@andy6576 Nice try. 2 months later you find out MAME is in there, and you're still wrong. Unless the script they used supports the high score save, it won't work. Go do your homework, the next time you try to comment about something you don't understand. The restricted MAME they are using didn't account for highscores, and basically they are reverting to a savestate when the user goes back to the menu for some games. Otherwise, they just revert to a previous state without saving the high score. I wish people like you could understand what MAME is, and how it actually works, without all you guesswork, and haphazard logic. Most original games couldn't write the highscores to be saved, which is why they weren't saved when unplugged in the original games, hence high score save game kits now. later -1

Of course it is, nothing wrong with that. I want them to release a TMNT cab. But Rampage is also very nostalgic for me. Great, if simple game. Street Fighter 2 is also great.

Oh you two let this god company of nostalgia make you cry of happiness

Is that meant to be intentional like it represents goo/drool or is it a crap paint job?

@@cmelft2463 it's just a crappy paint job. Mine is the same way and the paint is chipping off.

@@heyweeks Thanks for answering my question as I saw them in store the other day and was considering buying one, but after watching so many reviews it seems like they are pretty crap tbh as a lot of people are complaining of broken buttons/joysticks etc and now you have confirmed that there is no real attention to detail/quality control with the paint job etc.

I agree mam

My Galaga paint job lasted about 2 weeks. Only because when I received it the joystick was broke and we couldn’t play it. Otherwise the paint would have lasted about a week.

Seeing that really annoyed me. Rerez, I hope you don’t use that with your LCD/LED panels all the time. You will ruin your screens using Windex!

Uhh... he used glass cleaner to clean the glass overlay.

@@ekoms108 No - he took the overlay off and cleaned the actual LCD screen which HAS no plastic overlay on it by itself.

@Mapenis Grips I did that once and it ruined the screen. It didn't make things unwatchable but it definitely didn't help.

Even my close to 70 yr old father knows better.

Warner Bros did buy them in 2009. Where have you been. They also own Atari Games which was the arcade unit of Atari that was split off when they originally sold Atari in 1984. So essentially, Warner Bros owns 1/2 of Atari again just like the old days.

"And stuff like that"

Or joust. 3 players and no glitches.

Afterburner + Space Harrier + and other "floating shooter"

show us where it happened to you in a video

Mine doesn't freeze at level 31, my character starts out stuck in the bottom left corner. I asked Arcade1UP (Via there support email) and haven't gotten any reply.

They have a mk2, ultimate mk3, mk4 unit in europe releasing around christmas. Cant wait for that to come here

Some of them don't have the bug. Hopefully none of them will going forward.

@@theoldar they ALL have that bug, it's a known issue. they have no fix for it yet. sometimes it happens at 16, sometimes 30. later -1

The fix is to get a new monitor from arcade 1up

they are modified arcade roms to work with their interface. And how exactly would you implement that on games that only had them on dipswitches. Its clunky and confusing to most people anyways. later -1

negative1 very easily. On a pc keyboard you can hit f2. Or they could have implemented a control scheme like hold down both start buttons for 10 seconds. 😎 it’s really simple

@@kiodiekin wrong again, do you know anything about arcade machines, or do you just make stuff up. williams games and atari games, and other cabinets all have different dipswitch settings, and ways to access them. you can't just slap some code in there and expect it to work, its way too hard for these guys, and they're so cheap, they would never do it anyways. later -1

negative1 lol. Ya what do I know

@@negative1723 My pandoras box manages dip switch settings just fine, press a combination of buttons on the game select screen and you can alter settings for each game. If these machines are using MAME or final burn alpha it would be simple to add a dip-switch menu as its already implemented in the base emulator. These machines seem like a right rip off to be honest, way overpriced for what they are and the few games they have are modded, so not even the original arcade experience.

​@Paul Clinton Yup, I have six arcade games dating back to 1980 all still going strong!

Mike Are these things really that cheap or were the customers / kids just too hard on them?

@@Ur2ez4me81 I wasn't there when they broke it

Then you're not a middle aged gamer that doesn't have time or space for a full cab or setting up emulation. You also don't want an interesting piece for your casual friends to oogle over. It's cool, but the market is there, i assure you.

I mean it seems pretty cool but spending 299$ on only 4 arcade games is what I don't understand To each their own I guess

Pacfanweb You can mod these and add hundreds of games

I really hope they do a TRON cab.

Some people seem to think that "legally" & "licensed" are magic words that make everything automatically moral and of the highest quality.

@@stephenobrien6983 yeah. I have no guilt using stolen ROMs from a company that defaulted. Hell, I got no problem stealing new shit. These things are marketed towards goobers... and those numbers are astounding.

​@@AllThingsRenStimpy I'll go one further, a company is a legal fiction. You can only steal off of people. Corporations don't have any rights to begin with. While I don't really go after current-gen stuff since that does affect modern developers, everything else is fair game. They do the exact same action but because there wasn't any legal fictions made up for the properties they use (like old paintings or songs), it's somehow perceived as being legitimate. Talk about hypocrisy.

@@stephenobrien6983 I'm pretty certain Nintendo stole their own ROMs off websites, had them taken down... and then sold them as Virtual Console games. Lol. The game hashes are identical to the ROM dump hashes.

@@AllThingsRenStimpy Yeah I heard that too, wouldn't surprise me if it turned out to be true. Emulation isn't a bad thing but corporations are going after it because they want a monopoly on it. Sad thing is, you have people defending those practices because of some inflated sense of self-righteousness. Most of the roms Nintendo took down weren't even their properties but I bet they're using the fact they were published on their console as a justification. These companies could open the floodgates easily but they won't because they want to dripfeed you certain products at certain times. It's a propaganda program meant to mould your tastes to their business model. This can't be done if their audience has an abundance of choice that allows them to sidestep corporate manipulation.

Same, dude!

Considering Arcade 1up's track record so far, I would imagine the store version is the same if not (very) slightly better.