Had a chat with my mate about this. What super rare cabinets/setups were in Ireland back in the day that you remember? I know of R360, Cycraft, Radarscope (2 I believe) etc. But was there anything like Ridge Racer Full Scale or those rare Taito or Sega simulators or deluxes or anything? It's a pity there's not too many old arcades photos from here floating around.
I know your man who owns one of those radarscipes, he's awful sexy. The other one ended up in the Netherlands. Basically brothers as in they rolled off the production line together, serial numbers one apart. They went to athlone first, he got that one from there, then the place was demolished.
I've had my hands on the control panel of a nintendo space launcher upright which as far as I know there are none left known in existence.
Sega holloseum and time traveller I remember playing, big huge thing. 3 or two screen rastan 3, and the other taito double triple screens of darius and sagaia.
Those were all scrapped from damsons from bray, along with another 200 odd cabinets. The sledgehammer got there only two weeks before me, pity. All the game boards you can only guess how many, they were sent off to the mame project in England. Was that close.
Atari Cops was a rare one I never saw anywhere else, like mad dog mcgree crossed with miami vice. Probably still there.
Couple of atari pole position 3's, three screen job.
Never saw a ridge racer full-size, the biggest was probably outrun 2 with the 4 half size cars in quirkeys. I'll probably think of a few more weird ones.
I know where the Radarscope is too, I tried to buy it haha but there was no chance, it looked mint. The told me they sleghammered 100s of cabs too, I know a raid went from there not long after I got there to the UK as I think there's a long story behind that. One rare thing they had too actually was Buck Rodgers, never seen one before or after and also a Atari TX1 (I think that pole position 3?)
Darius is cool, didn't realise there was one of them, there was a Dariusburst EX here recently too for a while.
Wow didn't think those two Sega games would have needed up here, know both of them and look cool but seem quirky for its time and doubt they were big earners.
That's cool to know, I know there was a very few of certain original cabs sold like Salamanders too I think 4 or 5.
Would love that outrun 2 SDLX was offered one in Ireland recently for mental money 2 player only, believe it went to the UK.
Some Sega Naomi2 Truckin' sit down fun to be had from Adverts - https://www.adverts.ie/arcade-retro/sega-king-of-route-66-deluxe/31008473
Looks in decent shape too, someone go grab it!
I dont think I played that version but the original Naomi King of Route 66 was a bit of fun especially in the big DLX version.
Looks like it originally had a CRT, I wonder what's been modified to fit the LCD.
Great price for such a large cabinet, I was trying to convince a friend of mine yesterday who's into truck sims to go for it 😁
Think these mainly had rptv for the most part although never seen this yellow version . the one in funworld in limerick was knackered for years no idea if they ever fixed it !
Getting a blue screen on my cyberlead. Pcb or not its the same. Remote board adjustments doesnt do anything either.
Ill have to check the neck board resistors and the PSU for the correct voltage etc
I've not seen one of these for a very long time indeed
http://www.adverts.ie/31254796
I hope someone grabs it, would love to see it restored.
I seen one years back but didn't grab it due to size and never played it, is it any good?
Did you ever figure out what the cause of this was in the end?
The PS1 game Air Combat was my first Playstation game. I didn't realised until now was actually based on an arcade game.
Apparently while porting it over to the PS1 they had to redo it all from scratch.
Dr. Quirkey's on O'Connell St. had a full scale Ridge Racer for a few years if memory serves.
Wow that's nuts if so, apparently they were costing 150k+ at the time but yeah if anywhere had one it would be there. They had some pretty remarkable cabinets of the years if so then as the likes of that, Cycraft, R360 were made in so little numbers.
You are correct, took up a huge space near the stairs.
There's still a big rear projection 18 Wheeler dx cab in the bowling alley in Limerick. Screens proper banjaxed though. They aren't much into maintaining the machines in that place. Last time I was in my son played the Ice Man cabinet and we both could swear someone elses kid had pee'd into it at some point because it stunk to high heaven.
I actually played that machine recently for the first time in a long time there in Funworld, the game itself is actually better than I remembered but yeah machine is in bits unfortunately, last time it had a faulty wheel pot but they fix that this time. Rear project doesn't last 10 years usually not to mind 25 years nearly. What's funny is they have a Ghost Squad too which has a rear projection in a slightly better condition, but they replaced that first before Route 66, surprised they didn't just do both at the same time a few years back, surely would earn more money too. They had a lot of Naomi stuff back in the day there Crazy taxi, Virtua Tennis and a few other bits.
Long time Irish arcade collector here. Got my first pcbs and JAMMA cabs back in 2002. I used to post here the odd time many moons ago, but so much time had elapsed since my last post/activity that the admins must have deleted my account!.. Life, work and other interests just took over...
Anyway, it's great to see there is still plenty of life around here and the Irish arcade scene is still alive and kicking.
Looking forward to getting back into a few restoration projects. 🤙
Joe
I vaguely remember the username alright, welcome back!
Ahh, cheers man! Yeah, good to be back. This wasn't my previous username though - it was EmceeKenna... Going back to circa 2004 - 2008.
I used to frequent the old Jamma+ forums as well from 2002/2003 onwards (JoeM).
Ah cool, there must have been another user with a name similar to your new one.
Welcome back!
Great to see people actually coming back, we lost a fair few unfortunately when boards changed over to Vanilla!
You still have much arcade hardware left yourself?
Thanks guys. 👍
Hi o1s1n,
Over the years I let go of two arcade cabs - Taito Chase HQ (sold in 2003) and Sega Super Monaco GP, upright (sold in 2005). To this day I deeply regretted letting go of those machines so held on tight to everything else. The only blocker with that approach is the classic lack space!.. Thankfully, I'll soon be moving into a new house with a garage and a bit more space..
Anyway, here is the current collection -
*Atari pcbs
Pole Position II
Pole Position
*Sega pcbs
Outrun
Turbo Outrun
Power Drift
Super Monaco GP
Rail Chase
*JAMMA pcbs
Bubble Bobble (bootleg, not strictly Jamma)
Cabal (bootleg)
Champion Wrestler
Double Dragon
Double Dragon II
Jackal
Mercs
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat II
New Zealand Story
Neo Geo MVS motherboard
Pac Mania
Shinobi (System 16, so not strictly Jamma..)
Soul Edge
Street Fighter II (bootleg)
WWF Superstars
MiSTer JAMMIX
*Neo Geo MVS carts
King of Fighters '96
Metal Slug
Puzzle Bobble
*Bootleg multi-game JAMMA pcbs
Pandora's Box 4s
Pandoras Box 6
*Arcade Cabinets
Sega Outrun, stand-up (1986)
Sega Turbo Outrun, mini (1989)
Atari Pole Position II, upright Atari Ireland version (1982)
Jamma cab (for horizontal games)
Jamma cab (for vertical games)
Bartop JAMMA wired
There could be pcbs I've missed out or completely forgotten about..
Cheers.
Fanstastic collection of PCBs and cabinets, some crackers in there. Apart from games I have dedicated cabinets of, I've only about 10 special PCBs left as I don't want the hassle of fixing them when I plug them back in after a while/when they break! I'd say a lot here have built up their collections since you left, and if you haven't seen the price of PCBs have went mental! You could probably sell your Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat II, New Zealand Story for not far off the price of your Chase HQ Cab now.
Wow, that's some collection. I love seeing game lists like that, really get a flavour of the era folks are into with their collecting.
How are you finding that Jammix MiSTer board?
Is your Outrun standup original? That's certainly a dream cabinet right there, can't get more iconic than that.
It's a great time to be selling them for sure, I just moved on a Toaplan Fixeight for 450 quid the other day on Arcade Otaku. Was always a cheaper 100 euro Toaplan game, I think my one was even the Korea version so nothing particularly special about it. Did work perfectly though!
You guys ever see 'Highflow' acrylic cases for arcade PCBs?
They're not cheap, about 120 euro for each set, but they do look really lovely.
There are loads of them too for very specific PCBs.
Very nice but the price is just too far out there. Maybe if it was some game worth thousands but honestly I'd rather just buy more games.
Looking at musashis collection has me thinking here about what I have myself, a great way to spend your lunch :p
Konami
The Simpsons
Asterix
Aliens
Teenage mutant ninja turtles
X-men
Monster Maulers
Sunset Riders
Salamander
Vendetta
Thunder Cross
Capcom
Willow
Ghouls n ghosts
Ghosts n goblins
Section Z
Gunsmoke
Black Dragon
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
Saturday night slam masters
Alien v Predator
Dungeons and Dragons shadow over mystara
Street fighter alpha 3
1942
1943
Nope brain isn't working well enough, back to random
Robocop
Robocop 2
Dark Seal (maybe nuked)
Wonderboy
Shinobi
Super hang on (giant bootleg)
City Connection
Air Buster
R-type
R-type 2
Tonma (converted to m72 multi)
Spatter (dodgy)
Sonic The Fighters
Pilot kids
Dead or Alive 2 (not naomi)
Athena
Psycho Soldier
Commando
Killer instinct 2
Bad dudes versus dragon ninja
Another bad dudes
Bubble bobble
Image fight
Raiden 2
Undercover cops
Street fighter pneumatic
Toki
Dino Rex
Angel Kids
Kung fu master
Vigilante
Ninja Gaiden
Rastan
Double dragon
Double dragon 2
atari tetris
Superman
That must be 90% of it anyway. A bunch of neogeo mvs too, and a good lot extra cps2 games on the way courtesy of Mr Burton :)
For cabinets not so many
an electrocoin goliatha
nintendo punchout that needs top monitor resynched,
a radarscope that needs a power supply refitted
nintendo red tent with a handful of games, gradius, castlevania, Mario bros, Dr Mario, the goonies
After the cps2 stuff arriving, it's just splatterhouse and the punisher and I'm done. Finito.
I wonder if there are services out there what will just cut acrylic per your dimentions/order - it might make sense to protect a high value PCB you have which you might want to have on display. Do folks really want/need the platform stenciled on there too?
Edit - boom! https://cncrouter.ie/plastic-cutting
Ah a Nintendo tent unit, class :)
I had a similar idea but for cps2 boxes. Like the actual kit boxes that capcom packed them in. It's a bit of a pipedream but I identified a few places that could possibly reproduce them, the thing is what's the cost?
Yeah the red tent is cool. It's not the only one in Ireland though :p
I was looking through pictures and this must be a Christmas time one when it was set up
That's some list! Really envious of that Undercover Cops board, any idea which version it is?
Yeah the price of those holders is mad alright, it would be around the same price as what I originally paid for most of my boards back in the day. The guy must be making a huge profit on each one.
Was it Brownfinger back in the day who used to have a acrylic cutter? I remember someone giving me a Jaleco Pony marquee that they made themselves.
I'll check out that link, thanks!
