I'm having a mandala effect moment. I'm sitting here absolutely baffled. I was there in July and have a clear memory of playing a 3 player super sprint machine which sat right where the 3 player off road machine is sitting in this video. I watched this video specifically to see the super sprint. I'm speechless. The memory is so clear. I guess it's possible that between his visit in June, and mine in July that they switched machines........ No, I must be remembering wrong.
I'm re-reading comments after someone replied to another comment i made. If only I saw this comment earlier! Me and my co-worker were going crazy trying to figure out what the original cab was for 1942. I *think* I found it but I can never remember what it was!
nice video. mr. do is one of my all time favourites, don't understand the obsession with pac man and people don't like mr. do, it's got so much more variety it's like combining dig dug, pac man and centipede all in one game.
6:18, when I left in 3/23/23 It was still down, It was up and running for a few weeks in late '22 but something on the board burned up (I can't remember exactly what, but It burned up nice and Smokey i remember)
It's a decent collection for a current amusement park. Most of them have completely abandoned classic games. Back 25 years ago I took notice that the classic 80s arcades games & classic amusement parks were going to disappear. So I made a point to spent a lot of time at some of them to play the games while I could, and photograph/video them. Make no mistake about it, a CRT monitor for these kind of games in general makes a gigantic difference. The look of the games is simply not right on modern displays. It would be like trying to watch a movie or TV show designed for a 4K HDTV and watching it on an old CRT. It becomes the opposite problem when games made for CRT's are displayed on modern ones. The look is totally wrong. The "artistic" look to them disappears and the graphics become pixelated. The CRT's smooth the edges of classic games. The brightness & contrast is not the same on new displays, and sometimes even the frame-rate is wrong. Also note, most of these games were designed to be used on 19" or smaller CRT's. When displayed on a 25" or larger, those games don't look right either. There are a few older games that may look ok on an LCD, but the vast majority look day & night different. I'm glad to see an old park keeping some classics. Not a fan of the card system though. It's nice to walk in with some spare change or bills and not have to go through the hassle or expense of getting a card if you only want to play a few games.
Just some insider knowledge, most of the classic games are original! A few were modified cabinets that was done years ago. Unfortunately they don't buy classic games, whatever is left is games that paid for themselves years ago. Source: You can see me in uniform wearing my pool pouch at 0:56.
1:01, its a Dragon Lairs cabinet with an emulator! All I know about it is the board took a massive dump and it was down for an extended period of time and it was converted to an emulator since the board either wasn't fixable, or wasn't worth the time from a money stand point to fix over converting it to an emulator
Depends on the game! Me and the "old dude" would often work the same shifts, I did more of the newer machines and the claw machines (I was almost always the one to work on the claw machines), while he's very knowledgeable in the pinballs and retro games (and everything else, he just left some of the newer stuff for me because they were more basics repairs and if it needed more i could go to him for help) Source: You can see me in uniform wearing my pool pouch at 0:56.
Before i left, there was four full time techs who were very smart, and me, even though i was "part time" i worked full time hours. I was the apprentice and kinda just learned the games via a mix of just me messing with them myselfs and the other techs teaching. At the moment there's four techs dedicated to all the games of the park!
@@S.J.C._Entertainment Yes, it requires a few tests (I'm not sure what all the tests are I just know a written electronic/electrical test is needed and soldering test at the very least. Overall the position is union and most likely the position is going to be given to someone with seniority from the Electrician Department (Within the whole park, they work on everything within the park that's related to Electrical and then some) the position calls for a lot more then just knowing how to fix arcade games because of the outside carnival games that they do the work in house. The openings for the Games tech position is also extremely rare to open up, it's only five game techs right now and they all are 10+ years from retirement all of which have spent many years at Hersheypark.
