My 1980 Atari Missile Command Arcade Machine! 

First he bought a tiny Atari arcade machine, then a big Atari arcade machine, next time on LGR we're liquidating Atari's buisness assets

If you get enough machines, please make a new channel called LGRcade. :)

The woodgrain compels you! Nice purchase Clint.

This video smells like an old bowling alley.

According to Wikipedia the developer Dave Theurer suffered from nightmares in the midst of the cold war of US cities being nuked, so he got the idea for this game.

Hey LGR, I used to repair arcade machines for a living. I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have about your missile command or any other arcade stuff you get curious about

i'm willing to help you get the coin mech working, worked at a video arcade in portland for 7 years now in nc myself

Clint 2 weeks ago: I bought a mini Atari Machine Clint today: I bought a BIG Atari machine Clint 2 weeks into the future: I bought Atari. Just all of Atari.

I actually dont care much about arcade itself, but I am SO glad to hear this sheer happiness in LGRs voice :зз

I love watching these with captions, [laughs in walnut] is my new favorite line

F@&*ING MISSILE COMMAND!!! ( what a great 10 year anniversary present for ones self, congrats! )

Fun fact: Atari in Finland is also associated as an acronym for Professional and Prone-Criminality Supervision unit. (Ammatti ja TApa RIkolliset)

YES!! I had 3 years ago. Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, and a Millipede machine. All heated the house very well 😉

Before you know it, you'll have a housefull. it's what happened to me!

I’m glad the CRT is in good condition. Lots of arcades don’t maintain the screens and they end up looking really sad after a while. The arcade on the Santa Monica pier was surprisingly unmaintained.

You should watch John's Arcade but take it from me, once you buy one they multiply. Started with 1 and I'm up to like 35.

Missile Command is such an existentially jarring game. You don't beat Missile Command, you are just prolonging the inevitable.

I'm in the middle of writing a version of this for BASIC. One of my favourite arcade games. Great choice Clint 👍

Now it's LAR Lazy Arcade Reviews xD But nice purchase, and have fun with it!

i think this is the game played in Terminator 2

I was absolutely hooked to Atari's Star Wars game. I guess the later version, where you had to climb into. With a cockpit and sht. I felt like Luke in his X-Wing.

"Factory Original Atari Installed Woodgrain: The LGR Story" Could work for a memoir title. You did that, Clint, not me. Cheers

Back in "the day" of this game, 3D movies were the rage in theaters (think Jaws 3D). Grab a set of old school 3D glasses (red/blue lens) and play the game with them on. The explosions are amazing with the glasses. At least it was for a young teen back in the early 80s. Maybe today as a jaded 50-something with everything UHD, it may have lost some of its luster. I hope not though....

It is now OK for today to be Monday. Thanks for this LGR

"I'm not sure where I'll put this in my house" I vote bathroom

My earliest memory of Missile Command was seeing John Connor play it in T2.

I saw you have a stack of old receivers and audio equipment on your desk. Do you think you'll do a video about any vintage audio equipment in the future?

Congratulations, welcome to the arcade cabinet in your house club! Be prepared to discover how many 30+ can throw down.

Let's get LGR to get a Dance Dance Revolution machine!!!

"I will sleep with you!" Women the world over just got a shiver.

First year of college at Penn State Beaver Campus we had a space invaders game in the Student Union. Next year there was a true "arcade" in the basement with this machine and a few others. I wish i had all the money i put into those machines now.

We're so glad to see the beginnings of the LGRcade

I own a Golden Ax machine. Hearing it blair at parties is awesome .

oh yes he finally got a real one :D

I'm like that for pin tables... man, I would do unspeakable things for an Elvira & The Party Monsters table. Congrats on your new Atari bride!

That booming bass-y sound is what I remember most about old school arcade cabinets. I love that it really takes me back

Great! I love it! I hope I'll find a working Wizard of Wor arcade machine (cocktail) I used to play as a child. =)

This is such an awesome game. Wish I had one. Atari should start making FPGA full sized replica cabinets. Be a better use of their time then whatever they're currently doing. And remember: every time you fail, millions of people die.

Aww that's awesome! When I was growing up, my dad used to fix pinball machines all the time, but I always hoped he'd get an arcade machine one day too, but he didn't! The one I remember the most was an unusual machine called Hyperball, that had two "guns" that shot the pinballs out at targets. It wasn't a classic pinball machine at all. It was SO loud, it was amazing. Even without the music on, the sound of the balls hitting the back was incredible! I was so lucky being able to grow up with things like that in my house... (I thought everyone had oscilloscopes in their dining room!) my dad was an electrical design engineer (now retired but still tinkering with stuff!), and he used to get his hands on the coolest things to repair and play with, and things that people would THROW AWAY because they were broken, he would fix and we could play with!! He used to fix classic Jukeboxes and stuff too! It's because of his passions that we had computers all my childhood though, :D The first computers he had, he built himself! I'm waffling, but this sort of brings back memories of the cool stuff my dad used to bring home!

Damn I wish I was able to get one of these but I have like a 250 sq ft studio apartment in the fourth floor with no elevator so I think I'll pass until I can get a proper place of my own eventually

Something about that THE END game over screen is chilling, even all these years later.

You and Brootalmoose-Ian should go to an arcade together.

5:35 Haha, you gotta hang out with musicians more, they LOVE their worn, chipped, and ripped-in-places instruments so much, a restoration actually LOWERS the price! It's a different mentality where having natural color fade or wear is considered a sign of authenticity and aging like fine wine - to the point some "relic" guitars artificially kinda like fashionistas rip, bleach and damage new jeans to make them look distressed. So, keep the wear on cabinet - especially the woodgrain part, it's something you don't really want to restore with putty or filler - at most it will take a new finish to protect it. The restoration Joe did seems to be just right, without adding new or out of place components. Oh, and huge props for buying locally, small arcades and game shops need support!

You should check out the MiSTer FPGA open source classic console, arcade, and computer preservation project! There are already tons of classic computers, consoles, and arcade games preserved and reproduced at logic gate level. Games like Frogger, Donkey Kong, Galaxian, Pac-Man, Ghosts ‘n Goblins, Joust, Lunar Lander, 1942, 1943, Centipede, as well as Apple II, Amiga, Macintosh Plus, C64, Atari 2600, NES, SNES, Genesis, and more! MiSTerFpga.org

Seeing those manuals took me back to the days that I worked at an arcade. Hope you're good with a soldering iron! Congrats, Clint.

THAT'S SICK! I would love a Defender arcade cabinet.

This was one of my favorite Atari 2600 games, and even after watching your video I still think the port was very good, the arcade had so much more!

That’s amazing and gotta love the wood grain

Easy to learn, difficult to master. That was the underlying charm of all the classic arcade games. And that's why these low-resolution CGA games are better than today's games.

Please tell me where that footage of the arcade is locate at the beginning of your video (0:59). I need to make the pilgrimage there to see V.I.N.CENT.

Missile Command is awesome. :D I didn't remember that it had 3 fire buttons. I'd want Omega Race

That is a thing of beauty Clint

My life long dream is to one day own authentic cabinet for Capcom/DataEast's "Commando" the very first game I ever played as a 1 year old baby because my late grandfather owned one (that much to my disappointment he sold years later)

Wife: "Sweetey please go to bed already." Clint: "Just a few more rounds of Missile Command and I'll be there honey."

Excellent choice for a first arcade cabinet! We have some brilliant folks preserving this old arcade tech now, but older machines like this with large analog portions are the hardest to get right by emulation, including FPGA which is also handling things in the digital domain. The trackball behavior in particular in machines like this is incredibly hard to dial in correctly by other means. I saw you got Raiden also, being a longtime fan. (I am too!) A great pickup also- but just keep in mind that the ones with hard to replicate analog internal components will be the most important to keep originals for, if they are favorites of yours- like the legendary Missile Command! Cheers!

Nice find! I got an Asteroids Deluxe cocktail version, which still saves the top 3 scores. With cherry woodgrain, which I haven't seen that often. I'm not that good at missile command, but it is a good game. I need to get the multigame kit for my Asteroids Deluxe machine at some point.

Yikes at Super Mario 64 selling for $40 loose. Even worse is Smash for $45. Oof.

Oh man, I remember playing Missile Command on my Atari XE back in the day! How about that woodgrain, huh? * chef's kiss*

Sick dude. I love arcade games possibly more than any other form of retro gaming. There's just something fascinating about the gameplay and way they evolved. Like relics of a truly bygone era. Used to play them in the hotels my dad would take us to on his weekends in the early 2000s (Holiday Inns used to have mini coin-op arcades in them when I was a bab. Used to play the shit out of Smash T.V., MK, and the TMNT game). I were ever rich enough to by a cabinet or two I would have to go with a refurbished one of the old vector Atari games (Asteroids, Battlezone, Star Wars, Tempest, Major Havoc, etc) I would KILL to see those games in action with their intended visuals, but there's no retro arcades near me. Either that, or (if I were absolutely loaded) a cabinet of I, Robot. There are few others I would consider like Berzerk, Space Dungeon, Pac-Man, Robotron, Defender, Smash T.V., and some other Williams/Midway titles, but damn if I could see true vector graphics. I know there are lasers and Vectrex hacking, but neither really fits the bill.

I would love an original MK2 or Pac Man arcade. I think Pac Man was the first arcade I played at the local laundry mat when I was a little tater tot. Im hungry.

Sweet Fucking Mercy, that machine is *_gorgeous..._* It's been so long since I last played Missile Command. It's one of those games that if I'm gonna play it, I wanna play it like this, arcade machine form, and nothing else. I'm not that great at it, but it's fun, when it works properly. I've had the unfortunate displeasure of being forced to use a trackball that only moves left/right, of which the owner didn't give a shit (and also had the credits set to two coins per credit), so it never got repaired. I had a string coin back then and I used it to give myself credits, though I did occasionally drop in an actual coin because the owner would check every now and then to see if people were doing anything he didn't like. No, I don't condone the string coin cheating mechanism, but for this instance, it was a necessity due to the owner being an idiot and not taking care of his property. Also, this was a bar setting, so the (whatever the fuck the name of the arcade commission is called) would have no bearing on the string coin use since it was outside of an arcade/competition setting. Also, I was young back then and with someone 21+; as long as I never approached the bar (with exception to ask a question), I was fine. They also had shrimp nachos. Yeah. They were good too, but expensive as fuck ($11 at the time which made for an expensive appetizer). They also had blueberry Fanta. Bottled. I drank six of those. Tart, bitter, sweet.

Also first game that forces a player in a morally grey decision making, Save your cities or your bases?

:D

Wow, surprised that it still has its original CRT.

Let's be real. You just wanted the perfect excuse to pull out those pink and blue lights you just bought.

Holy crap man beautiful

btw LGR, ive played that very same Cabinet you played at Galloping ghost, it is pretty legit :3

You have chosen....wisely.

If I could have any classic arcade game Missile Command would be it. With Asteroids a close second.

Games were great in the 1980's...a huge wave of video game creativity for this new genre of entertainment...I may sound old when I say they were the good old days

is it true that if you play the notes from rush tom sawyer you win the game ?? :D also great arcade macheen :D

Awesome! Love your channel buddy

My good friend Bob Sacamano is good friends with a guy named Cosmo Kramer and Kramer can solve your space problem so you can get more arcades. The solution? Levels. Time to go vertical, LGR.

Nice!!!! I'm happy for you. I really want a cabaret version of Asteroids. Nothing beats a true vector experience!!!! It's going to cost me though.....

I am a big advocate for the Arcade 1up, but there is something truly magical about actual arcade cabinets! Especially Atari ones! You don't know who played that exact cabinet, maybe even Nolan himself!

Congratulations Clint. 😄 Great find indeed. 👌👍 ...woodgrain... 😍

I wonder what's on YT... "LGR added a video 12 seconds ago" CLICK!

LMAO "Such a peaceful first round every time"....such a peaceful nuclear attack.

I'm honored to be number 98. First time I come in under 100th in an LGR video. Best of luck, Clint! Love your work!

I live near the galloping ghost arcade. It's HUGE. And fucking loud.

Don't know if you were into it back in the late 90's/early 2000's, but it would be amazing if you could make a video about Dance Dance Revolution. Best wishes!

The smoked plexi is for trying to hide screen burn. Now you need a comfortable bar stool and use it as a piggy bank. Finally Arcade games are gods over cheap console ports.

Man, that's super neat, I wish I could afford one for myself, can't even on actual cabinets around here, no arcades around

Yes it IS 15 minutes of Clint playing Defender. YES it IS worth it.

haha duuude! welcome to the club? Pro-tip - don't ever EVER get into pinball.

Nice grab, dude. I'm still on the market for a Robotron 2084 but I first need to add a pinball machine. Would love a Monster Bash pinball, first, though. Also, Galloping Ghost is awesome. Doc is a cool dude and the staff is great, too.

I’m definitely on board to watch some LGRCade 👍

Years and years ago we used to have a little caesar by our house. One of those that you could actually go in and watch them make good pizza. Not the cardboard garbage the make now... anyway... they used to have arcade games up there. Centipede. Donkey Kong. Pac Man. And many others. They had a missile command too. I spent many quarters and weekends playing that. Love... absolutely love the sound of that game. Thanks for the video.

My dad works for a vending company. He bought a hallowed cabinet and centipede, millipede, and missile comand game boards that didnt work from the company he works for. I dont know how he did it but he set that cabinet up so you can interchange between one of those three games. Kind of wished i went to school to be electronic technician like he did. I would of rebuilt so many of these by now.

Now I’m just curious how you got it home from three hours away. 😁

Do not forget to listen to "The Rush - Tom Sawyer" when you play the game!

you should open an arcade in your area...800 sq feet?...yea bro time double that..try for a tempest machine next..that was my fav...great content as usual!

LGRcade...

"I will sleep with you!" Also the captions make your videos that much more entertaining. [storage-conscious chuckling]

[laughs in walnut] [ ] [groans of inadequacy] Love the closed captioning!

Congrats! My dream cabinet is an original Dig Dug. Some day!

Wow small world... Or RU-vid I mean. You're the first Channel that bought something from Joe's classic arcade. Coincidence he be the judge.

My PC Engine Core Grafx II came today......Space Harrier is awesome on PC Engine....I feel your passion, sir.

BTW: If you ever want a real pinball thing, but space is an issue, look into the cocktail form-factor pinball machines or the uprights like Baby Pac Man! ;)

That game actually looks fun!