That’s cool to hear. I often wonder about how things were in other regions of the world, especially with something like a Marvel property. Good info, thanks for sharing!
Glad to see you're alive and well, Joe. My buddy tried emailing you about interviewing you for a video game mag he works for and when he got no response, we feared you retired!
Someone else mentioned that they had tried emailing me and I didn’t receive it either. I check the account email at least once per day. The spam on that though is wild and if for some reason it got caught up there, well, I don’t even try sorting through that any more. My apologies to anyone I’ve missed.
Another nice video. Love The Punisher arcade game. The funny part of paying 500 all told for the board and repair, is that's about what you can expect to pay for the Genesis version, if you want a truly complete copy that includes the temporary tattoo.
@@ScarletSprites Late release on the console, only console port, and never got a "greatest hits" version. Without the tattoo it's a little more sane, usually about 350 for a copy with the manual. Had it come out two years earlier, and there been a SNES port, it probably wouldn't be so bad.
I paid $1k last year for it on arcade projects. Very glad I got it, Cadillacs and Dinos and AVP is climbing in price also. Glad you got it. I played it as a small child at Raging Waters here in So Cal. Love your channel. Keep up the great work and hoping your family is well. 😊
Cool video. The Punisher Arcade is one of my favorite Brawlers of All-Time. It looks fantastic with those big, detailed sprites, and it just feels super crisp control and combat wise.
It's been a little while since I've caught a video. Always great to get updates and listen to the cool knowledge of all things Arcade. Respect brother! PEACE!
Congrats on the find! Punisher was a favorite of mine in the 90s. My local skating rink had it alongside SF The Movie: The Game, and i put nearly as much time into these cabs as i did with actual skating. I rarely heard Punisher mentioned after the arcade era up until Arcade1up put it on their MSH cab. It is one of Capcom's better beatemups imo, along with AvP. I think they just get forgotten about since they rarely get re-releases nowadays due to licensing difficulties, compared to other capcom arcade titles where there is a new collection release every console gen.
There’s so much stuff that was once semi-easily attainable that is now quite a luxury to pick up. Even just the last ten years have been rough with prices continuing to climb.
Oooh! The Punisher. One of my favorite comic book characters growing up Scarlet. I love how he started off with Spider-Man and continue into a great franchise bro. 8^) Anthony...
This is definitely one of the better post Double Dragon beat-um-ups. I remember when these Marvel comic themed games started making their way to arcades I frequented, but most of these you would see down the Jersey Shore because they had massive Arcades with incredible variety and all the new games. It was always fun to go back to school in September with tales of the games we found over the summer. Games like Captain America and the Avengers from Data East and Spiderman the arcade from Sega. Imagine if things had taken a different turn... and Data East or Saga had maintained the exclusive Marvel license and not Capcom moving forward. Would they still be major players today?
I do recall how awesome going to the beach was for that reason; massive arcades. You saw premium stuff that hadn’t necessarily made its way to the mall or smaller places.
Nice score on an expensive pcb! I remember when I had to desuicide my punisher pcb years ago, the only option was to mod the board by cutting a trace and running a jumper wire plus burning unencrypted roms and dealing with the batteries. It’s nice to see there is a way to keep the board more original. I still have the original roms too.
I know exactly the method you’re speaking of. I read about instances of people now trying to reverse that and drop the original roms back on. Definitely a good time for the arcade hobby, lots of new tools being rolled out.
I’ve been meaning to check that out. I don’t think I’ve ever played the Genesis version. I’d like to do a playthrough to see how good the port was for its time.
My local arcades never had a Punisher game so I didn't get to play this until they put it on the Marvel 1Up 🙁. A shame because Punisher is tied for 1st with Spidey for my all time favorite comic book character. Great vid, dude!
Thanks man! Glad you got to play it finally. It’s a pretty fun coop game if you get the chance for that. It’s a fun theme and another stellar game by Capcom that just flows and feels smooth.
@@ScarletSprites I actually played through the Genesis version not long ago with my podcast cohost. It was definitely a great playthru. Can't remember the last time I beat anything vintage that was 2p.
The CPS1.5 boards are expensive. I bought mine from my friend, plus some other goodies like a Gamest mag, an SSF2 camera, and SF2 ornaments and a Tecmo Stackers PCB for $1000. Getting that for $500 and phoenixing it is a steal.
I thought once you installs the battery/key kits and powered up you were going to say that it booted but now we have another issue. 😂 I'm glad to see that compared to some restorations you've done in the past this was an easy fix you finally got a break. As always I really enjoy seeing your projects and the latest things that you're tinkering with. I will very much be looking forward to your upcoming videos.
Thanks man that means a lot. It was nice to catch a break and not have to deal with anything else. My biggest fear was opening it up and seeing that a battery had leaked on the board. Once I saw that things were pretty pristine I felt pretty good about this.
Is the mega Drive/Genesis version the only port of this game? I guess home systems weren’t powerful enough to run the actual arcade game at the time and licensing probably prohibited it being ported to other systems later on that could.
I’ve never played the arcade original and only briefly played the mega drive version. It seems ok. I probably should give it a proper play through too.
I got an untested Captain Commando that has this openkey board already installed under the C board. It will boot to test mode, and when I exit test mode it will just go back to test mode after showing the game's title and number. The test mode dipswitch is off so I'm not sure why it's booting to test. Is there anything different you have to do during the startup sequence once you have this openkey board installed? Congrats on getting Punisher at an affordable price!
I wish I could tell you otherwise, but no, the board behaves as stock once installed. It’s just giving it a usable key to boot and run. The only thing I’d double check is that you’re using the correct key/region on the OpenKey. Aside from that it may just be a board issue.
I just stopped resurrecting all of my cps1.5's , it's 2 batteries, removing boards, reprogram the kabuki, reprogram the C1, my c&d has died at least 3 times in the last 20 years, my Punisher last time I checked was also suicided, Warriors of Fate and muscle bomber must be dead too, too much of a hassle, Nowadays I just load these games on the groovy mame pc and call it a day.
I’ll probably hold on to it for now. I’ve been fortunate enough to sell off some console stuff to fund arcade purchases lately. The arcade things I’ve sold have either been duplicates from lots or items I know I will never get around to fixing.
Yeah, this was intended to show more of that and it ended up being so simple that I completed it before I even filmed too much. I was also probably too excited to test it out. 😂