Wow.. my dad got me and my brother one of these system cabs as a unique chrismas present back in 1992 (UK). I recall the awful bowling game, basketball, kung fu and xenon on it. To us we we not too happy with them but thankfully it was a jamma cab and dad got us some other classics game jamma boards such as gradius 3, shadow Dancer, moonwalker and hyper sports. problem was we had to drill and hack in a 3rd button in on the panel as it only had 2 on the cab and figure out how to hotwire it on the jamma connector. Good times. I had no idea until today how rare it was and I look forward to seeing how you get on with it.
I have memories of an arcade machine in a pizza takeaway I used to go to now and again as a kid. Rare treat when visiting mum and dad's friends. It stood out in my memory for having an uncanny resemblance to my Amiga I had back then. I am going to assume that coin op was one of these. It's long gone now! There's a huge touch screen menu there today. No where near as good.
I'd like to see a restored arcade cabinet showcasing all the recent Amiga ports of arcade games e.g. Rygar released in 2019 - I'd like it to be a project that rights the wrongs of Amiga gaming history like games that used "up" to jump or coded poorly. . I'd like to see an arcade cabinet that has fun modern coded versions of original old games - Something about an Amiga holding it's own with other real arcade royalty warms my soul.
When I was a kid I remember seeing magazine ads about how the one megabyte Amiga version of magic Johnson's fast break was identical to the arcade and thinking that was probably not true. Same thing for the soccer game called goal. Turns out that was real because it was the same hardware😂
I have heard that this is not the only game machine that used an Amiga. American Laser Games also used Amiga computers to control a laserdisc player in their shooting games back in the day.
Oh, I just love a trash to treasure. Great to have you back again Neil. Like yourself I have never seen this system anywhere in the wild back then in the UK that I have been too. I certainly do not remember it here in Northern Ireland, or on my many trips to England and Scotland back then. (I have never actually stayed in Wales, just driven through parts of it). Maybe that's where they were all along!
For posterity, I'd love to see some effort made into cloning the PCBs of this system that aren't the Amiga 500. Is there a possibility of making either the gerbers and/or new unpopulated PCBs available to those who want to build their own Arcadia SSS (like me!) if any cloning work is done? I've cloned a few things myself, btw.
Never saw the system but I do remember reading about it and have some of the games as they were also released on disk, Roadwars, Xenon and Space Ranger.
13:50 I was there buying my A500 from Micro Anvika (near the top right of the map) for £400, and it still works. It was its 37th birthday 12 days ago (though I suppose it was made a few months earlier).
Fascinating. Growing up in Turkey we had ton of bootleg arcades from Asia with generic cabinets. I only saw one Amiga-based arcade and it was Silk Worm. I later learned that they hacked the game to make it start with right mouse button which was connected to the coin mechanism. Everything else was pretty much the same. I think some Amiga games can make pretty good arcades, but they would be a bit outdated in 1990 NeoGeo coming out.
Very interesting Amiga arcade machine. Leaderboard Golf sounds most interesting to me as I have the standard version for Amiga 500, hoping also that maybe Out Run could be in one of those chips. Drawing pics with Deluxe Paint on arcade machine would be funny to see :D
Never heard of a Dallas clock chip leaking. The battery in there is something like a CR1616, small coin cell, those don't tend to leak unless you blow them up with a short to 12v
I'm sure they can fail, but maybe not leak as they are encased in the chip. I'm not sure if they can leak through via the pins. The Philips CDi has a clock chip and it fails in time. This may be the same. Failure rather than leakage. I must read up on it.
I've been looking for source code to help with reverse engineering Sidewinder for years. It's just a great game, one if the Amiga's best shoot-em-ups. Thanks for this great video, looking forward to part 2.
What my brother @GLOwormUK didn't mention was I fried our own Amiga A500 trying to plug it into the connections of the Super Select Board in place in of the original Amiga PCB. Doh!
Glad to have you back, Dad 😄 I'm curious to see how difficult it would be to get this to run standard Amiga games. Personally I'd attempt to build the monstrous American cabinet. Unless I missed something, the pieces you have came out of one originally, so they'd fit best with that?!
I’ve exchanged a few emails with Anthony Guter, but he wasn’t heavily involved in this project. The nice thing about making these series is sometimes people come forward during it, so fingers crossed.
I'm glad you're doing this series. I stumbled upon this system in MAME a while back, saw that it was Amiga based and was curious about the history. Waiting to see if you find out any info on how well the systems did, because from what I remember the software library leaves a lot to be desired. I'm guessing it did poorly in the States, but maybe it did better in the UK?
Welcome back mr pepper pig (oink) opps i mean papa smurf Neil :P , imho put the system in original america cab as it originated from there i think that be very suiting
I know what arcade machine I'd create if I had the skills or money to hire people with the skills, oh and the room for it. I'd build a full cockpit cabnet Descent 1,2, and 3 machine
I've never seen one of these. I did see an Amiga-based "arcade machine" in about 2001 - well I think it was a coin-operated drawing game for kids, in an airport somewhere - and I could tell it had an Amiga in because it was displaying the animated "insert disk" boot screen. I've never heard anything else about it though.
Weird: just finished my tea with milk before this popped up and yes, in Holland we can occasionally do that too lol! I presume we will see a little one taking over in a couple of years? 😉 Welcome back, keep enjoying in what you do. Going to enjoy this history lesson now..!
Thirding that! Monstrosity or not -- that's the most genuine version of what you're got. Maybe with a "window" on the side, so you can see the A500 chugging away
Interesting chunk of previously little known gaming history. I never saw these machines in the UK either. I'm still finding people calling arcade cabs / arcade machines "arcades" dementing, but I must learn to let go! Really looking forward to seeing one up and running. Welcome back! Oh, and a proper cabinet sounds like the way to go to me. I actually like that colour USA original flyer version. Looks unusual.
@@joshyland Yes. Seems basic to me. But then I also get a bit thrown when people call vinyl records "vinyls". And don't get me started on Britons calling Generation Z, "Generation Zee"!
I’m glad to see a new video. Does anybody know what’s going on with the arcade archive? I was really enjoying those videos as well and have been checking for several months for a new one.
The Arcade Archive is very busy with visitors and going strong. On the video front Alex took a step back but is still making some with us which will be released soon and Alex chats about it in there. Richard has also been working on some great restorations for AA which will appear soon too.
I very vaguely remember seeing an arcade game at a gas station on a class trip in the late 90s. I found that the on/off switch was accessible and just for giggles* I rebooted it - and there was a Commodore copyright message on the screen before the game came back up! I absolutely don't remember what game that was. My memory of anything that I've seen less than four times in my life is beyond abysmal. *) and already having experienced that some arcade games would give you one free game if rebooted (at our local arcade museum, Breakout and Steeplechase are examples that do that)
I think the second cabinet from the left looks the best. the British magazine one. The American design is so plain and generic, the British one has more character. Second pick would be the Barline electrochoice line. Great to see The Cave back up and running
Ooh.. might it be well worth burning the Mame copy of Xenon onto a few chips ^_^ ...ahh ancient flashback.. I wonder if this is the system they used on Saturday morning TV, when people used to phone in and verbally control a Xenon session!?!
Great video once again! You've been sorely missed. I'd like to make a comment, or should that be cabinet 😂 The second cabinet with the dodgy looking picture looked awesome to me, would be great to see that made.
I can say that in the US there was a Arcadia system released with a game called New York Warriors In fact, my favorite Amiga video game And if you had and Amiga 500 with one Meg of RAM. You basically played the arcade original game if you only had a 512k Amiga they had to release for that but obviously it was limited Was on the system well before the neo Geo and to this day I still play Newark Warriors from Arcadia systems As far as I know there was one other game released. It was a soccer game. I don't have that one
You can open those Dallas RTC Battery chips with hot air and add a fresh battery or just rescue the other bits and Necroware has a PCB. (or there is a mod but the newer hot air method seems safer imo)
Trash To Treasure is always my favourite RMC series so very excited you and the series are back for something I've definitely never heard of before! Long overdue another visit to The Cave and The Arcade Archive too next time. Are there any Patron days being planned currently?
The guest speaker days start out as patron early access booking and then open up to the public, the next one is the end of this month and we’ll have another one shared after that for November 👍
I seem to remember seeing at least one of these in an arcade abd ut was kujekt Xenon was what I played on it, having an amiga at home at the time, I think it was the oddity of playing an amiga game in the arcades!
Love your content. As you've got the North American system, I would go with putting it into the respective cabinet, and hopefully, you could source a UK version to go alongside it.
