Amazing Prototype Arcade Cabinet “Rescue” | Show & Tell
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- čas přidán 20. 07. 2024
- As rare arcade cabinets of the 1980s go this might be one of a kind. It's a prototype sourced from the family of the developer himself and kindly shown to us today by Alex.
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Thanks again for showing off the cab Alex, and welcome to the mill!
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Done!
Extremely honoured to showcase this prototype arcade game by the late chris Oberth on Neil’s channel.
Also very excited to start this new arcade with such passionate enthusiasts Neil & Richard.
It’s going to be amazing and I hope to meet everyone that comes down when it opens.
Good luck with the Arcade Alex, I hope you know a good builder to get the room up to scratch.
Exciting news! Well done Alex!
@@arcadeages3917 thank you
Congratulations on having to your dream come to fruition. Unfortunately, I’m across the pond, but I wish you all the best and will. Watch your channel for updates. 💪💪💪
I'll be there :)
And that board that Alex played at my house was bought by me BY ACCIDENT! I bought it from an arcade operator thinking it was a Scramble boardset (they look almost identical) I think I got lucky that day!
So glad you did buy it because I still wouldn’t have know what it was called.
Such a good little game.
Man, that parallaxing looks great in this game. Very effective with that many layers.
Yep, creates a nice sense of depth doesn't it.
I think it's really more of a creative use of a single layer. This seems to be using a linescroll trick, i.e. scrolling individual scanlines (horizontal rows of pixels) at different rates. This is the same trick that was used to create bending roads in games like OutRun. The limitation of the linescroll method is that because it's actually only one layer, there's never any interaction between the layers: they're all occupying a different place on the screen rather than overlapping each other.
Conversely, Moon Patrol uses actual overlapping layers, which you could argue is "true" parallax scrolling. The faster, "closer" layers appear on top of the slower, "further" layers. They're fundamentally different approaches and personally I'd still have to give it to Moon Patrol for being the first, but it absolutely looks fantastic here.
@@vaguerant I was going to point this out too. Moon Patrol is in interesting example because the two background layers don't just scroll horizontally at different rates, they also shift vertically, which really enhances the effect of driving over a hilly landscape. It's surprisingly sophisticated for such an early example.
Man, I watched that auction when it was live and couldn't believe how little action it got and that it went so cheap. Really happy it got into Alex's hands. Such an underrated gem of a game. Chris made some really fun games. Glad this was saved.
The arcade sounds so cool, congrats. Everything you folks do sounds so fun. There should be Caves in every country! It would be cool to see the differences in things like the time capsule shop.
That parallax scrolling looks really nice.
This game was in my youth club back in the 80's !!
I've been trying to find out what it was called for years as I had forgotten the name. Thank you, time to hunt down the rom and enjoy it again 😁
That’s so amazing
I had exactly the same where I couldn’t remember the name of the game but I remember playing it.
Hope you enjoy playing it again after all those years
That looks really impressive for 1981/1982. The ROM dump in MAME still has single-pixel bullets, at least in version 0.239.
It just keeps getting better.
I was lucky enough to have my inaugural visit to the cave today and spent quite a lot of time playing this. It’s surprisingly intricate for an arcade game of this era and I found it quite addictive as well as challenging. I look forward to playing more of this curiosities once the new arcade is established. As a side note what an amazing job Neil has done with the cave. The attention to detail, and the scale and quantity of exhibits is amazing. Add that to a warm and friendly welcome along with bucketloads of nostalgia and it really is a highly recommended visit. Thanks to all there.
Fantastic discussion. Alex is such a knowledgeable guy and his enthusiasm for gaming and in particular gaming shines through. I need to get to the Cave more than ever, particularly when the arcade is up and running.
Afterburner II was famous for the added large pin audio jack. It was just you, the F14 and multiple bogeys
Great to see a prototype arcade machine, and fun to see a lesser-known game as well. Best of luck with the arcade, Alex.
Thank you
Alex is such a wealth of knowledge when it comes to this stuff. Always good to hear his passion for arcade machines. Cracking video
Great news, guys. Exciting stuff! What a treat for people to experience Alex's rare games.
Cheers Pete
Hope to see you when we open.
I don't watch all the vids this channel posts, I wasn't a microcomputer user but my god I appreciate the work, effort, ethos and philosophy going on here.. Wonderful stuff.
Thank you Keith very much appreciated
Exciting news! I'll have to pop down again once the arcade is up and running. Alex is a top bloke, met him a few times at events.
I played the released game on MAME and wow.. it's so fast! Being an old geezer, I don't have the reactions to play it properly. Rescuing downed parachutists is hard enough, but enemy 'copters shoot at you too. I'd imagine you'd need a bag full of 10 pence pieces to get good at this.
What an amazing project.....Alex is a top guy.
Can't wait to see this developing and visit one day 👍
Fantastic news, the arcade and the build of it are going to be wonderful viewing (and even more to look at when I finally get a chance to come all the way over there and visit of course).
Alex is a great guy and has some fantastic arcade cabinets with a lot of history behind them, my modest collect pales in comparison.
Keep the fantastic content coming, thank you.
Thanks Tony
You’ve got a fantastic collection and from someone so far away in Tasmania it always amazes me the arcade games you did get.
Then again your nearer to Japan so maybe they used Tazz as a testing ground.
Thanks for your kind words buddy.
@@TheArcadeArchive I have been very lucky with the cabs I have come across, I need to spend more time fixing them. New job has settled down so hopefully I will have some time get some CRT fixes done soon.
Very exciting that Alex is heading up the Arcade at the Mill, it's going to be a great summer designing and building the perfect Arcade experience for everyone visiting. Stay tuned, this is going to be epic and very unique...
Alex is a awesome guy ... Congrats . Ill be poping down to see you all soon :)
Surely it 's going to be called 'The Arcave"?
Nice to see Alex working with you - great man
Cheers dave
Visited the mill today and can say it was an absolute pleasure to meet Neil (RMC), Alex and Richard H (who I have known and worked with for over two decades).
Well worth a visit. Seeing the WHSmith room is like stepping back in time. The whole place is overwhelming in a fantastic way. If you are in the Stroud area this is a must visit attraction :-}
im lucky enough to chat with alex now and again and he is an absolute legend, so excited to watch this journey i cant wait to visit the arcade!
Looks almost 3D, very well done
The crossover I never knew I needed. Awesome video. Hopefully many more to come on both channels once the arcade opens! Congrats.
Great to see Alex on here - love his channel and arcade.
It was Alex that introduced me to this great game From Stern I had never seen it or heard of it before, its such a playable game it has, like many of the great classic arcade games that Risk Reward element which is so addictive, and that Parallax scrolling is just awesome
So happy to hear that Alex is living his dream, the most passionate guy ive met when it comes to the classic arcades and he is a dear friend im super excited for him and his passion and dedication to the hobby and the history of Arcades and video games is going to make this project a huge success, a fantastic video Neil and Alex and I can't wait for more content and videos covering the Arcade
Thanks for your kind words and support mate it means a lot.
Can’t wait for you to come down and see it once it’s finished.
With the arcade opening elsewhere in the building, have you had any more thoughts about what you'll use the secret arcade space in the Cave for?
Yes we need to change that plan now, my back is already thankful we won't be carrying arcades up to the top floor! I'll get thinking
As a kid of the 80's, there is nothing like playing a game on a arcade cabinet. The whole atmosphere cannot be replicated at home. Thank you for this wonderful video. My favourite game of all time is Phoenix. :)
Great video! One thing that I love about the whole cabinet experience is the sound. They always have whacking great speakers these things, which just really adds to the whole appeal.
This project sounds brilliant. Best of luck to you Alex 👍 I'm looking forward to following this project as it progresses.
Wow what a team up, congratulations Alex
The parallax in this game is more like line-scrolling, the parallax in Moon Patrol is multi-layered, with layers moving in front of each other, not just above and below on the screen.
Greetings from California, wish I lived closer because I'd visit both places immediately and often! Congrats to the progress on both of your adventures!
A cave and an arcade. How cool!!!!
Thank you Alex a great story to live on for the next generation of Arcade gamers
Alex is a top guy and I can’t wait to get to the museum 🔥👍
what a awesome idea for a arcade look forward to see how it turns out
Great guy Alex can't wait to see and visit the arcade
Alex is an absolute legend and a great collector. And has some amazing cabs in his collection.having Alex’s arcade in the cave is going to be amazing. And very much looking forward to seeing the progress and eventually visiting the cave.
Great video and love the channel.
All the best jay
Thanks for your kind words Jay
I would love you to come down and visit once we are open.
Congratulations Alex, best of luck to you. Even more of a reason to visit the cave. Thanks for the video guys
Wow Alex that is amazing. Great opportunity. I wish you lots and lots of success. And lots of fun in the process.
Thanks mate your support is much appreciated. 😎👍
Good luck Alex, I had no idea!
Can't wait to visit again, especially with the arcade up and running. I might not leave this time though
Lovely cabinet and no better person to have it in the collection / museum than Alex. 👍
Awesome news, Alex is a top bloke and I wish you guys every success. Will definitely plan a road trip to visit 😎🕹️
A fancy version of Choplifter. Cool.
That parallax background effect is gorgeous.
Oh wow Alex is on the channel :) even bigger reason to come visit now
I hadn't heard anything about this will done both of you and I can't wait to visit again.
Thanks Richard
Hope to see you when we open
The difference is that this game only uses 1 layer. The way they achieved the parallax effect us by shifting the background left or right depending on the scanline. You will never see one background object move over the other
Moon patrol actualy uses at least 2 layers. You have 2 background mountain layers which move over each other. I'm not sure if they used a third layer foe the ground. They might have used the shift trick for this. Both techniques can be very impressive but the technique here does not need multiple layers to function.
Rescue doesn't actually use parallax scrolling.
If you look closely, you'll see that none of the background layers overlap. It scrolls in strips. It's done by scrolling the entire background while the electron beam is between lines.
Looks like it has a single background layer and a sprites layers.
Nice Video Neil. I've never seen this game before. Interesting hearing its background story.
Looks like a fun game to play. Indeed reminds me of the Choplifter game with the "save the people" feature. The parallax scrolling is indeed impressive for a 1982 game. Thank you for showing this prototype!
Am pleased to hear of the plans for the Mill. An excellent idea :)
I remember playing this in the arcade.
Love this game it looks so smooth too …..brill episode x
Looks like a fun game. I've never seen or played it.
This is really amazing stuff Neil--I love that parallax effect! -Boat
the pseudo-parallax is a really neat effect, but it is 'pseudo' - it's not layers because they are not overlapping (i.e different screens on top of one another). Instead it moves a few lines of the same screen at different speeds. A similar effect can be seen in Jump Bug from 1981 where the clouds at the top move more slowly to give a feeling of depth. If you look at Moon Patrol on the other hand, it has backgrounds that actually overlap. Nevertheless very cool game.
Stern Electronics is still around today, they were also a Pinball company at the time of this cabinet. That was bought up by Data East, which in the 90s became Sega Pinball, which was dropped in 2001 and was renamed back to Stern Pinball.
Love it! 🔥🔥🔥
Great video and a great bit of history on that game. Well done all :-)
Brilliant guys 👍👌👋
As a PC gamer, that scrolling would've blown my mind back in the day! It's so smooth and parallax effect looks awesome. Arcades were more of a thing for my oldest brother, but by the time I was playing games in the late 80s/early 90s, they were pretty well on the way out here in Sydney, Australia. Timezone did try to make a bit of a comeback in the late 90s/early 2000s, not to mention Sega World, but that didn't really take off, and Sega World only lasted a couple of years before they shut down.
Anyway, I can't wait to see how the arcade turns out. It sounds like a really fun way to use the space!
Anteater is a fantastic game.
looks a cool game and i need to organise a vist to the cave.
I am being distracted by the Cheesplant.. I can't think of anything more 1970s/80s lol. Unless you are cultivating Pampas Grass outside lol
I’m so coming to this when its open.
me, out loud, when you said Alex was going to open an arcade on the ground floor: Whaaaaaaaaat
love the parallax effect
Rescue is very similar to Choplifter, in concept. I don't know about playability as I haven't played Rescue yet. I've only played Choplifter on the SG-1000 and then the Master System version. Rescue is graphically a lot more impressive than both of those, that parallax scrolling is amazing and super smooth.
I'm terribly sorry for disproving your theory, but there is just one layer scrolled in parallax fashion using beam chasing and adjusting the offset.
You can talk about layers when they overlap on at least one raster line. When you look closely you'll see this is not happening here.
Hi guys. Firefox had an earphone socket too. I was always too scared to try it out though, i thought the arcade owners would think i was up to something!
Alex gets everywhere 😂
Haha 😂
The parallax is excellent!
That headphone socket feature is actually pretty forward of it's time.
In Japan especially many Music Game Arcades have headphone sockets so you can plug in your (hopefully really nice) headphones while music gaming away on the arcade cabinet. Sure something like "Rescue" would not need this but the idea is actually more solid as you go forwards in time and got "reintroduced" with last bastions of arcade game genres that take advantage of these types of things. Of course Japanese arcades are not also exactly as noisy, opting for silent or quiet attract modes rather than loud ones memetic in west as I understand and one view is to be polite and not let your gameplay be too loud for everyone around you.
Few Japanese rhythm games are also fitted with cameras and video out ports to shoot your "skill play videos" to share online after you cut it and cleaned it up to best it can be, which I think is somewhat of extension of the headphone socket feature as this was something "Hacked on" to machines before it became much more supported by the game makers for the players.
Bit excited.. Not gonna lie! 😁
A very interesting episode and machine. I wonder how this arcade (which is great!) will affect the planned secret arcade - will they be combined downstairs and the upstairs space used for something else?
Sprint 2? Holy shit I'm there. That is one of my fondest arcade memories! And of course it leads onto Super Sprint which is without doubt my favourite arcade racing game of all time. It pains me to this day that when I had the chance to buy a superb condition Super Sprint arcade cab in the mid 90s I had neither the space nor the cash as a broke student at the time.
I have 'Rescue' on my Atgames Ultimate Arcade stand up machine plus all the old classics like Seawolf etc
So made up for our good friend Alex. The arcade has been a dream of is his for so long, so its great to see this finally happen. I can't wait for it to open and pay the Arcade and The Cave visit. Right I'm off to MAME to get some Rescue practice in!!
Looks good and would be a fun game to play. So many people are used to cabinets meant for two players so it is understandable that the joystick on the right would be mistaken as the one for player 2. I wonder what chip(s) are used for the graphics. Perhaps a 6847?
pretty cool game
i was interested to see the seeburg logo with stern's seeburg does definitely do jukeboxes (or did.) i had no idea they were ever affiliated.
Rescue reminds me a bit of Krakatoa on the Speccy. You have to rescue people from the sea with a helicopter in that as well. :)
Great game. I just played it on MAME its very much like the fast paced Williams Defender.
great idea to have an arcade there - as long as there is a sf2/3 and an AVP side scroller im sold on it lol
Do I want to go to England for the rich history and culture? For the food, landscapes and people? No. I want to go to England for the RMC!
I’ll get you a plate of chips and gravy, a mug of tea, and we’ll play some Manic Miner 👌
An arcade is the best possible option, IMO. 👍
I used to play this as a kid in a taxi rank that was down the road. it has a bug in it, or an intentional cheat built in. I forget what you had to do, but it had to be done within the first three levels, or maybe the first level. If you did everything right then you'd be given what i think was 256 lives. The down side is the enemy bullets would move at lightning speed, so you couldn't avoid them. It was a good way to get a long way on it, but you could only ever get so far by doing it. The older guys who'd come in and play the games would offer me 10p to 'do the method' for them, so they could play it with all those lives. The down side was a 'dead leg' was in store for me if i failed to do it.....
I need to run it on an emu some time and see if i can recreate the cheat again.
brilliant, subbed, i played asteroids at the ice rink in peterborough in 1980 or 1981 and never played another arcade machine, thinking about it i didnt like spending money on something like that and would rather save and buy my own games
Seeburg? I only knew that brand from the jukeboxes!
SWEET
He must been in a war getting those highscores in Rescue with that arm scar! Just kidding, and all respects, awesome video!
1:32 So my rant :) if that is a pool table that is going it, then it MUST and that is MUST have room on all 4 sides for you to use a full size cue and to NOT hit the wall :) its a pet peeve of mine. Having grown up in the 80s and we had one of those table top snooker tables in the backroom. The amount of times you'd hit the wall it was super annoying.
Then last summer my partner found a holiday home to rent for a week that had its own outhouse "games room". She said it had a pool table in it. Ooo, excited I got. Then arrived and paid a visit. They had small cues and full sized ones. I discovered I could only use the small ones because on one side you'd hit the wall, the other side you'd hit the window. Annoying.
But I guess if you don't have the space small cues are fine :)
Don't panic! The pool table is now upstairs in the lunch room. It was not easy moving that thing!
@@RMCRetro Is it a coin op one? Always want to see them open. Half opened the one on holiday but as wasn't supposed to didn't go further.