Mortal Kombat Arcade Restoration Does NOT Go As Planned... | Game Dave 

Wow, this is even more special than having a straight up MK machine.

I kinda want to see Dave grow a mustache like that now.

So glad you saved the original art. Its like watching arcade archaeology. Would be cool to see a Double dragon restore. But i really like the MK in a taito cabinet it gives it some history. That Double dragon bezel art is a cool discovery, i think it would be cool if you used that instead.

This was rather inspiring. Nice job. And even if you don't turn it back into a Double Dragon, you still have something unique that represents the machine's entire history.

The editing, passion and time lapses. You could really feel the work that went into this. This video is......"superb."

Some day I hope to have some arcade cabs in my game room. Some day! Good to see you back Dave!

I think I'd rather see it turned back into a Double Dragon cab, honestly. That button layout is wack for MK. I'm getting finger cramps just imaging doing Sub-Zero's slide on that thing. lol

I find it really interesting with it being a conversion cabinet and I love them! It looks super interesting and I like that little piece of history

This is an awesome restore job and glad you actually kept the side art on it.

What a superb video Dave! Goodluck on the future restoration and cant wait to see it finished 🙌

The Taito / MK combo looks great imo. Authentic and the side art is almost mint.

Dave, great video! I appreciate how you went all in to preserve the Taito artwork. I look at these machines as works of art to be preserved so I hope you get around to making it a Double D once again. I look forward to getting into the arcade hobby when work settles down in a few years. I want to restore cabinets to their original glory! Have fun with the machine and take care! P.S. I use to have an '04 Sentra, no shame ;)

Great rescue... I’d leave it “as is”... there’s history in the conversion

Awesome find. I love the fact that it was Double Dragon. More cooler in my opinion.

5:51 OMG NO, PICKLE RICK 😂

Bring back the Double Dragon Machine!! The Memories!

Good job. So glad that your making videos regularly again. Hope the little ones doin good.

Cinemassacre was my introduction to the youtube gaming community. All these years later Game Dave is my favorite ( and the game chasers) Thanks Dave your the man.

I’d restore it to the double dragon original as well

love how you restored what was left to restore it it weird to see taito on the mk cab but cool to hear it was a double dragon one :-D so much history to this machine

Great job restoring the cabinet. I enjoyed watching the process of it.

Congrats on the find! Enjoy it to the full! Happy sliding down that slippery slope of nostalgia joy brother.

Great reatoration project! Can't wait for part 2 getting digitally distracted :-D

This guy is the epitome of a nerd. The look, the movements, the way he talks. Even the bad humour that only he finds funny. I didn't know there were any left in the wild these days

Hey hope everyone’s safe and healthy!

I built an arcade machine completely from scratch and I made to resemble a Neo Geo MVS. However, I designed it to do A LOT more than an original MVS. I soldered the buttons to various controller boards. That makes it compatible with ALL consoles, both old and new!

Always glad to see new videos from you in my feed.

I was wondering why the shape of the cabinet looks familiar. Back in the 3rd grade coming home from school i would hit the corner store to play some Double Dragon! Nice video.

Haha, I was just introduced your channel. Love your style, bro.

That's epic. I hope to see this project grow and spawn two cabinets.

As someone who's done arcade restoration/conversion, that's great work! the sideart was restored beautifully.

A Double Dragon cabinet is great for swapping out jamma boards. You’ll notice on the front of your cab at the bottom there is a slide out drawer and originally that is where the double dragon jamma board would be located. If that’s the case it’s easy to swap out different jamma boards like changing a nintendo nes cartridge. The challenge is someone could have rewired your cab and mounted the MK boards and jamma harness inside the cabinet instead of using that slide out drawer. Given that the MK boards take up more space that’s probably what they did. Nice job on saving the double dragon art!

Great find Dave and story. That certainly took a lot of work to get that paint off and stickers. Breaks and snacks much needed.

Please make a part2 this is dopeb would love to see the final results

I agree that it is a classic but the MKII cabinet would be a dream come true for me as well. Great video!

Awesome job restoring the cabinet!

I love how he ended the video with the main move in video game history that birthed the ESRB.

Wow! You have to do it Sir! Get Double Dragon! Definitely find another cab for Mortal Kombat but Double Dragon has to come back.

TNT Amusements will help you restore your MK machine, Dave. They'll even restore the Double Dragon cabinet where the MK later put on.

Dang! that was pretty satisfying to watch.

Fun tip, stickers can be removed a lot easier and percisely with heat, like blasting it with a hair drier or heat gun and just using your fingernail. They typically come off clean with no residue if they arent super old and gunky.

Ahhh entire days spent scraping paint and stickers off cabinets is something I've done all too often. I do love doing cabinet restorations! Usually I'm stripping paint off metal parts and getting the rust of to give them a coat of paint to get them looking close to new. I don't like completely renewing everything on a cab though, I like them to look like they've had a bit of a life. Often I find some peoples collections of absolutely pristine, geniune dedicated cabs, while lovely, don't represent what I grew up with at all! Which was a mish-mash of tatty converted old machines and generic cabs made by local firms. I'd say keep it as it is, it's a piece of history. Not everything needs to be dedicated!

DO IT! FINISH IT!

The screen graphic. Just flip it to the dragon side and add the MK yellow instructions to it. Double Dragon / Mk dragon crossover is aesthetic.

You're back!!!

Very cool find. I would try convert it back, love the look of the Double Dragon cabinet.

Awesome video Dave! Its really cool that you chose to take the harder path and restore the cab. Not sure if anyone mentioned this yet but WD-40 takes stickers off with ease. Good luck on what ever you decided to do with the cab.

My first cab was an empty Donkey Kong that I turned into a Fix it Felix replica Mame cab. the guy that sold it to me had a full arcade in his garage and told me it definitely wouldn't be my last... Then I found a 4 slot Neo Geo big red that I restored, then I got a cocktail that I put a 60 in 1 board in. I haven't really gotten anything since then, but if the right Candy cab came up for sale locally....

I hope you do find a Double Dragon board for it! and eventually an original Mortal Kombat cabinet!

have you ever watched johns arcade? he does a really good job on his videos, he even did an MK restore

Should try to source a candy cab. The ultimate jewel in arcade video game collection. Then you can convert the cabinet into an emulation station, customize it with your fav sanwa/seimitsu/hayabusa button/sticks and you are set for life. 100% guaranteed to satisfy guests and yourself with any type of arcade itch.

Good on you restoring this. It looks awesome. If you ever wanted to make this a dedicated double dragon, a marquee and pcb wouldn’t be hard to come by. Either way, glad you’re keeping it original 👍🏿

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Convert it back to a Double Dragon cabinet ❤

One of my first cabinets circa 1999 was a street fighter that I turned into a mame cabinet then later restored back into what it originally was, A robotron

Fantastic work. Exactly what I would’ve done. Preserving the original dedicated Taito cab.

At first I didn't click this video, but then later I did and realized it was from THE Game Dave! I was dissapointed at myself I hadn't clicked the first time!

You should have used the Double Dragon border for your MK machine. That's pretty cool

Dave, Taito didn't make Mortal Kombat. You should get your money back.

Don't worry Game Dave, I'll never unsub :) And I'll always watch you, you're one of my favourites. Speaking of favourites, Double Dragon is one of my favourite games EVER. My DDII NES cart is one of my prized possessions. PLEASE! Turn this back into a Double Dragon cab! You could even dual boot it, just rig up the screen art so it can be easily flipped around and you can play MK at the 'flip' of a switch and cardboard xD What a cool find!

I wouldn't mind a part 2 it might take a very long time but it would be worth it

Congratulations game Dave! I unfortunately don't have room for something like that in my house.

Well that’s a neat restoration 😁👍. I’ve heard using lighter fluid and orange oil is a neat way to help remove stickers. Maybe try that the next time you do a restoration that involves removing stickers.

One legendary game under another. That's pretty epic. I'd want to restore the Double Dragon game just for authenticity.

Im a simple nerd, i see GameDave videos i click play

If you're to keep this a Mortal Kombat, PLEASE keep the Taito stuff! It really says a lot about the history of the machine, and I think makes it even more interesting than regular ones and other conversions

That’s my quarter!!...got next!

This was a lot of fun to watch.

Dave, pro tip for stickers use a heat gun. Great job!!

Did a good job mate. Looks ace

You don’t have to adjust the horizontal coil. Should have pots on the monitor for that. Be sure to use tv adjustment tools. Also if you re I’ve the control panel art you might still have double dragon control panel artwork on there. It’s a slippery slope so enjoy. Also since it’s a jamma connector you can buy different jamma boards or even buy a multi board for it.

Did you try looking under the vinyl of the control panel to see if original art was still there? And check behind the marquee for the original that's what I did and I lucked out I was given a few machines from a local vendor that was just throwing away a ton of games from his wherehouse at the dump! :( some in slightly used condition one of them I got was a deer hunter USA converted Z/dynamo style Street Fighter 2 cabinet and underneath and behind was the original art for Fighters History even had the instruction manual and 2 player 6 button holes layout hiding as well I didn't even have to drill so much fun. But my main goal and passion in arcades is to have a MK cabinet preferably not converted but hey I'll take what I can get. Slippery is right man.

I always enjoy the effort you put into these videos. Good stuff!

Score!!! Make it a double dragon cab again for sure 😍😍😍

“See ya later Benjamin Danklin. We hardly knew ye.”

Fantastic video, you must must must turn it back into Double Dragon. I played one of these exact cabinets as a kid in my hometown arcade.

It looks awesome Dave.

Dude i enjoy so much your videos. I hope you can restore that DD cabinet to its former glory, not that I am a nice man, just that I would love to see part two of this video for my personal amusement and....digital distraction.

holy smokes - what a TON of work yikes well done

Great video sir. Thank you

It's still cool not many can say they have an arcade, converted or not.

there was some cool stickers! :c ... by the way... awesome work!!!

As an arcade collector, I wholeheartedly support your restoration efforts and slide into multiple arcade machine ownership. Just know something going in... if you buy a pinball machine, that's it, you're lost. No one owns just one pinball machine. And those are a lot trickier to repair and a heck of a lot more expensive.

is it the future yet ..... i'm kind of excited i hope you end up with both machines in this process, mortal kombat arcade brought back some crazy memorys, just like you i was more of a MK fan then a SF fan back in the day. and double dragon iv never got to see the arcade of that but i used to rock it so much on the old NES so would be cool to see it in action on the OG arcade. keep up the great videos dave, and heres hoping for your future arcade setup.

You should restore Double Dragon and make Mortal Kombat into a supergun. :D Thanks GameDave. I enjoyed this video quite a bit.

I love mortal kombat and double dragon. I’d be happy either way.

I always assumed you’d be a Ford Raptor truck guy 🤙

The dragon bezel will look good with mortal kombat originally titled "dragon attack" which did have two dragons on the control panel. 👍

Pro-Tip: Heat gun makes sticker removal easy.

I remember seeing Double Dragon 🐲 at a store behind my parents house in 1987 It was rememberbale I turned 9 that year 🙏☯️😎

You can easily add MK2, MK3, UMK3, and MK4 to that machine. Just get a 6 in 1 JAMMA Switcher and you'll have all your MKs in one machine!

I remember as a kid in the 90s I had MK2 and UMK3 I also had Super Street Fighter 2 for the SNES but I always played the MK games barely Street Fighter

Amazing video amazing find amazing work!!!

It looks really nice. If you can - I'd go for a full double dragon restoration. Perhaps sell it and get an MK Cabinet with some of the profit.

My first and only machine is an asteroids deluxe cocktail cabinet. I tried so hard to get Ikari warriors one day when it popped up, but it fell through. One day I will have another.

Thank you for making this video. I think you have opened a rabbits hole and probably you’ll start buying Japanese candy cabs. You collect famicom boxed games. I am calling it.

I got scared shitless when I saw you using paint stripper with no protection. Lol.

My high ass came back I CAME BACK for a second viewing. Come on man, we NEEDs that parts 2 you know! You going for that double Deez? You gonna use one of those beepboops I sent you on the facedbooks?

My first arcade game was a SFII:WW board in an Atari Kangaroo cab with a Sony PVM-2530 for a monitor. It’s more fun that way

Nice Ghostbusters shirt! 🙂🙂🙂