i picked one of these things up at a thrift shop for $150. It now lives in my living room.
@KeeplookingUP777
5 жыл бұрын
That is an amazing price. Hope the condition is great..? When did you purchase it? Question coming four years later now than your original post...😳😁. Here in 2019.
@99ronmarsh
4 жыл бұрын
Killer deal for sure
@eddie8704
3 жыл бұрын
Dude, that’s a steal! I thought I did good, got mine for $400. Works perfect, marquee light works, side art is beautiful.
@virusinternationalmotionpi2477
3 жыл бұрын
I just got one last night for 50 bucks fully working beautiful crt.
@MotvnGM
7 жыл бұрын
Scan-lines, and even the ghosting on black backgrounds was the best part about playing on a CRT, LCD is OK, but nothing will top CRT's.
@WideWorldofTrains
6 жыл бұрын
I was the Centipede champ in this area from 80 thru 83 or so. They gave 4 tokens every time you broke the high score at the next towns arcade and the high was only 100,000 or so. So when i saw the prize every time I went there I broke the high by only a few thousand so I could keep getting free tokens. Did this all the way up to 1000000 which was my high score
@polybius22
5 жыл бұрын
At 1,000,000 the game resets to zero.
@Retrogaming-yh1lx
7 жыл бұрын
They offered the machine with a CRT for less money? I'm surprised. You should have gotten the CRT, even though they can be frustrating and need more TLC over the years.
@MegaMuffindude
12 жыл бұрын
Congrats on the Centipede! Looks pretty nice! One of my favorites in my collection. Personally, I prefer keeping the CRTs in the machines, it looks better with them.
@mbizzlesnizz
10 жыл бұрын
As a electronic tech with 20 years experience, AND a game collector I tell people to keep CRT's in their games. A used, working CRT arcade monitor is widely available in the US from for around $75-$125. Broken ones can often be found for cheap (or free) and are easily fixed with the DIY info on youtube for those that aren't technicians. The Happ arcade monitor in this video retails for about $350, and I rarely see LCD monitors and LCD televisions last more than 5 years in my business. Compare this to a 30 year old CRT monitor that is still kicking. You also have to factor in that the CRTs were used 24 hours a day for these games, while most LCD TVs are home use and don't get nearly the amount of playtime, but die much sooner. CRT's do get burn-in, but it can't be seen when the game is in play - it is mostly noticeable when the game is off. And if the game is going in your home, you won't be running it 24 hours a day and causing more burn-in. LCD displays also have mercury in them, so they are not environmentally friendly by any means. Buuut...most counties in the US require that all displays (CRT or LCD) be recycled anyway, so neither of these should be ending up in landfills and hurting the environment. CRTs are more reliable, longer lasting, easier to acquire, cheaper to fix, and equally bad for the environment. I recommend collectors and my customers to keep CRTs in arcades, at least until the LCDs drop in price and become more reliable. The only pros (currently) are that they are about 25lbs lighter and most (depending on model) are more energy efficient.
@banj0smah0mie
10 жыл бұрын
While I agree, it probably isn't wise to recommend others to use DIY a method for CRT repair - if you don't know what you're doing, it can be incredibly dangerous to attempt.
@mbizzlesnizz
10 жыл бұрын
"Incredibly dangerous" is greatly exaggerated. As long as one has the common sense to unplug the machine, the worst that one can get is a very unpleasant shock that would be fatal to only those with heart conditions. Additionally, all DIY videos are all going to start with a warning of the dangers of working with electronics and going to inform the user of these dangers.
@banj0smah0mie
10 жыл бұрын
mbizzlesnizz Discharging a CRT? That's not in even the intermediate hobbyist's range, the "very unpleasant shock" one would receive coming from a lack of experience as well as inappropriate tools for a dangerous job - high voltages aren't deadly (and I don't think I ever said they were), but even after a long time, CRT's can still act as a capacitor with enough charge that can arc out and shock you, and this isn't even when taking implosion into consideration. Not that it isn't impossible to do by yourself, but handling an old CRT is certainly on another level than your usual soldering/wiring hobby jobs. If someone is interested in a project that involves dismantling one, I would, for the first time at least, consult a professional in your area.
@presidentsnow7315
9 жыл бұрын
...my all time favorite arcade game!
@broken1394
Жыл бұрын
Excellent choice - i got it in my top 10.
@nookie077
10 жыл бұрын
It's his money so if he wants LCD then it's up to him. But personally, I feel like it's the equivalent of buying a classic sports car and fitting modern spinning rims on it. And those graphics don't! look better without the old school rasta scan lines.
@PrivateIdentity
10 жыл бұрын
Exactly, if he is going to do that he might as well just run the game on an emulator. And those games look horrible on LCDs.
@TotalRaMpAgE981
9 жыл бұрын
Ludlow Lamonsoff, Master Of Centipede.
@iteratedofficial
4 жыл бұрын
@the gangsters sam brenner😂
@Jamie.Laszlo
10 жыл бұрын
If I had a choice, I wouldn't want a LCD screen. Give me the old tube monitors with the pixels any day. The 1980s graphics look too "boxy" on a LCD screen. The old school pixels actually round off the edges of everything. For example, Pac Man looks more round when pixelated. Plus, I like the curve of the older screens.
@demonchacer
12 жыл бұрын
centipede never gets old. i play it alot more than any of my other games.
@4real0316
12 жыл бұрын
I grew up in the arcades, playing every game you can think of. I also owned the arcade games on several different consoles over previous decades and I think the Centipede arcade game with the lcd looks awesome. Kudos CGR I wish every day I went to work I could slave over a sweet arcade classic like that.
@akshizzy77
12 жыл бұрын
One of my friends has a centipede machine laying around in his basement. It's pretty cool, this makes me want to play it now.
@KA-eu9sy
7 ай бұрын
I want one. Teenage years. Quarters. Fun, I remember. I want one!
@KeeplookingUP777
5 жыл бұрын
Ultimate Favorite Arcade Game!!! Centipede Rocks!!! Would Love this in my Home! Lol Yes!!
@malmel2872
8 жыл бұрын
seriously, he removed the CRT and replaced it with a LCD monitor? BLASPHEMY
@KyleRichoux
10 жыл бұрын
It's fun for the whole family! [explosion] [BOOP]
@WebVManReturns
12 жыл бұрын
I remember a James Bond film was loaded with those Centpede machines.
@eddie8704
3 жыл бұрын
Never Say Never Again
@ironman1478
12 жыл бұрын
the room he films this stuff in is the coolest room ever
@leeboy2k1
12 жыл бұрын
Installing an LCD monitor for low rez retro games is just plain wrong Mark. The sprites were made at a certain resolution by the artists to be displayed on the correct amount of phosphour lines. When you output to a fixed pixel display, the image has to be stretched to fit every available pixel, otherwise the image would be in a small window in the centre. Also it removes the gorgeous black unused scanlines that were present and correct for the intended look of the art/gfx.
@Greg_Ulmer
12 жыл бұрын
Oh, one more thing. If you're going to pay a bunch of money for an individual, original, retro arcade game, you gotta keep the crt monitor. The one upside to having an original machine is that it's a collector's item, so you should keep it with as much of the original parts as possible.
@JesseH76
12 жыл бұрын
I LOVE the graphics on the side cabinet for centipede. I'm a big fan of the retro artwork.
@fahadkhanye
12 жыл бұрын
when I was little I had the ps1, the n64, gameboy, and a whole other collection of other systems but all I ever wanted was a true arcade machine in my room. I always dreamed of having one and thought to myself, I would be the coolest kid in school if I had an arcade machine in my room
@MetalJody1990
2 жыл бұрын
Maaan I wish I had a Centipede machine in my house. All I have is MAME. I just scored 31386 on my PS Vita and that was super difficult. Can't get far without a trackball. At least the colors looked extremely vivid. It's pleasing to see on an OLED. The game is fine on a mobile device, but it would be freakin' wonderful to have the real deal in my living room.
@astrotter
5 жыл бұрын
I have Centipede cocktail cabinet I inherited from my grandfather's Holiday Inn lounge, but the picture tube is broken and the trackballs are stuck. I'd love to resurrect it -- best arcade game in history, imo.
@celinesenden4142
5 жыл бұрын
😭😭 i miss classic game room
@PhilFeedback
12 жыл бұрын
centipede has always been one of my favorites!
@weichiang89
12 жыл бұрын
You don't choose between playing any of those two... you combine them to make THE awesome CENTIPEDE FRENZY!
@RequiemVortex
12 жыл бұрын
I for one want a modern remake of this game. The Human Centipede Arcade machine would be immensely popular in my opinion.
@Frankfurtdabezzzt
12 жыл бұрын
I played that with a CRT Monitor installed, and it looked just fine.
@WebVManReturns
12 жыл бұрын
"Rock the trackball, Rock the trackball!" Oh, that would be an awesome song!
@NerdKore64
12 жыл бұрын
Bout damn time you scored some arcade machines to review.
@ChadQuick270W
12 жыл бұрын
Excellent. Spent many quarters on Centipede. I hope you plan to add a Millipede arcade game as it would look great right next to your Centipede machine.
@Teeheehee093
12 жыл бұрын
Anything with the word ''centipede'' in it can't be taken seriously by me anymore. Thanks alot Tom Six
@yandman26
12 жыл бұрын
cgr made me care and enthuse about centipede :)
@MaximRecoil
12 жыл бұрын
It isn't a matter of input lag; LCDs are ugly, especially when displaying the simple graphics of classic arcade games. Centipede is 256 x 240 (240p) resolution, and 19" LCDs start at 1024 x 768 resolution, so it has to be stretched/scaled to fill the screen, which has inevitable artifacts. Also, LCDs are designed to show fine details. This makes e.g. the Pac-Man sprite look blocky/jagged instead of round. Try 8liners for a new chassis mounted on a burn-free tube.
@MaximRecoil
12 жыл бұрын
Arcade monitors in most classic arcade games have the same resolution as typical CRT TVs (~15 KHz, AKA: "standard resolution"). The reason for arcade monitors' higher quality image is the pure RGB connection and [usually] non-interlaced video signal from the gameboard (~240p). TVs from the same era were normally fed an interlaced NTSC signal via an RF connection, which results in vastly inferior image quality.
@Chaoitcme
12 жыл бұрын
Nice. I remember playing this as a kid at Chuck E. Cheeses.
@ThyLord666
11 жыл бұрын
Centipede was fucking awesome!
@flightofthebumblebee9529
2 жыл бұрын
It sucks.
@TheFloodFourm
12 жыл бұрын
The other day I went to an arcade with a 25 cent centipede game. It was the best moment of my life.
@sonicmario64
12 жыл бұрын
I've actually played the original arcade cabinet in a pizza restaurant in Corydon, Indiana! :D
@Zorn27
12 жыл бұрын
This is why I love CGR! Keep doing a great job Mark :D!
@mannym777
2 жыл бұрын
You need to get back into this again
@Oche76
12 жыл бұрын
Awesome Mark...super cool.
@bobnudd
12 жыл бұрын
Got myself a original dragons lair machine and would give my left hand for a spaceharrier but we dont have that many good companys in the uk selling , great vid m8 keeo em comming :)
@NeonXtremeE
12 жыл бұрын
I love the way this guy talks. He makes me laugh! Keep doing those awesome reviews dude!
@broken1394
Жыл бұрын
This is an Apex arcade game and the cab is stunning.
@SvenOkonomi
12 жыл бұрын
NOOOOO I thought I escaped from its retched clutches in the 80's, but centipede haunts me still. Like an angry pirate ghost, it demands quarter and wont go away!
@frbrosch
12 жыл бұрын
michigan, home of amazing arcade machines...and cars.
@akshizzy77
12 жыл бұрын
I love CGR Mark always has something funny to say, and it always makes the game look fun even if it isn't.
@BrianPicchi
12 жыл бұрын
You should easily be able to change settings like the number of credits required and difficulty with the dip switches. No arcade repair experience necessary. Beautiful machine by the way.
@MaximRecoil
12 жыл бұрын
... or look for a classic original monitor that is burn-free (such as a G07 or K4900). Or you can do a tube swap on one that has screen burn. Or you can look for new examples of a Happ Vision Pro CRT monitors (they stopped making them a couple of years ago, but new and like-new examples are still out there). I have a Missile Command, Ikari Warriors, and a Street Fighter II that all have new Vision Pro CRT monitors in them, and they are beautiful.
@Captain-Obvious
12 жыл бұрын
Pretty cool. I would've gone with a Millipede arcade machine myself. Centipede was a great game but Millipede was quite a bit better. The arcade version of Millipede was an absolute joy to play (If you were any good and I was!) because the precision of the rollerball was significantly improved from Centipede. This meant you could often snatch victory from the jaws of certain defeat with some deft maneuvers. Centipede was a great earlier game. Millipede was how I mispent my youth.
@davidalexander7725
4 жыл бұрын
Steve is one of my favorite games
@electricadventures
12 жыл бұрын
Wicked choice for an arcade cabinet. Both excellent artwork and really good fun game. Closest I can get to it is playing with a Wico track ball on the 2600, Atari 8-bit, 7800 or Coleco :( Excellent review as always, thanks.
@GeorgesChannel
12 жыл бұрын
have fun with your machine...i got jealous now..:) Review a Pheenix machine, if you find one, that was my all time favourite game! But Centipede, Dig Dig, Pac Man, Vanguard..etc..never will die.
@denBlackie
12 жыл бұрын
you also have a frenzy now ? awesome :D Now make classic Arcade Room !
@WastingMyPotential
9 жыл бұрын
No, no, no, please no LCDs...... Nice game though.
@starfighter7804
6 жыл бұрын
crts suck
@LocalAnonOnTheInternet
12 жыл бұрын
Looks like it's time to make a trip to the Classic Game Room, just to play arcades for free!
@leoabreuphoto
12 жыл бұрын
Nice CGR upgrade.
@clubtj
12 жыл бұрын
Incredibly cool, no doubt. But the best value is to make a MAME cabinet yourself or buy an old empty cabinet and go from there. I put one together for less than $700 and it has hundreds of games. It's not the flashiest, but it works for me.
@theawesomegamr
12 жыл бұрын
WOA THE ARCADE MACHINE! nice, ive never seen one of those before, but ive seen alot of others including the pong one :D
@WebVManReturns
12 жыл бұрын
I paid $1 for Atari Anthology on PS2 and Centipede looks just as good on my LCD T.V.
@garion333
12 жыл бұрын
That cabinet is in amazing condition.
@leeboy2k1
12 жыл бұрын
Continued..which also adds depth, making the overall image more 3-D. Also CRT's have much faster response times, resulting in very minor smearing..if the phosphours/tube is good, not to mention the coulur fidelity is much more natural to the human eye. Lastly CRT's have a shadow mask grille over the phosphours, which aren't perfectly square, this makes the sprites less jagged/square, giving the sprites/tiles a much more shaded cartoon finish.. CRT ftw!
@Packerscorner
12 жыл бұрын
Man....do I love this game!! I need one in my man cave....I mean my someday man cave!! Awesome!!
@99ronmarsh
5 жыл бұрын
2 of my favourite games ever
@rainbowcemetery
12 жыл бұрын
you can see the dip switches in the upper-right @3:28, check them out on your other arcade boards to enable freeplay
@leeboy2k1
12 жыл бұрын
Yes, I own 5 crt' t.v.'s and 2 arcade machine's 1x(sega naomi sitdown) and 1x (atomiswave) with quad sync CRT, does low res 15khz 256x224 upto 1024x768.
@FluffyGameplay
8 жыл бұрын
I love Centipede and Millipede!
@janchapman1969a
12 жыл бұрын
most video games have a free play mode. just use the dip switch setting. if the game doesn't have a free play mode, just wire a button through the coin return slot to press to "insert a coin"
@mrsockesocke
12 жыл бұрын
i envy you mark, such a nice game on such a nice arcade cabinet...wish i had it too lol.
@theawesomegamr
12 жыл бұрын
WHY THE HELL ARE PEOPLE SO MAD ABOUT THE LCD MONITOR? WHO CARES, BE QUIET JEEZ. JUST ENJOY THE VIDEO...
@ifrit35
12 жыл бұрын
I could not agree more. Especially with an original PCB
@bobopatchigglerrulez
12 жыл бұрын
"It's fun for the whole family" *dies* "#@$%!"
@DocSicnarf
12 жыл бұрын
or you can keep the coin door unlocked and just hit the lever on the inside that the coins move when they are inserted. That is probably the easiest way. My friend had a space invaders cabinet and that's how we used to do it.
@IGIAISI
12 жыл бұрын
this artwork on the machine is good for a tatoo
@TheFabFour99
12 жыл бұрын
everyday you go to work? best job ever
@Captain-Obvious
12 жыл бұрын
Yeah Millipede was one of those games if you did master it (and I would roughly term mastering it as gettting to the point of having multiple spiders on the screen) you could almost never stop playing. It was too intense and made other games seem slow and almost boring. The key though is to not really target the millipede coming down so much as to always be clearing a path of the nearest mushrooms so you had room to manuever.
@ArgoDave
12 жыл бұрын
Are you going to do a review of the Frenzy machine? I loved that games and it's predecessor Berserk.
@jupreindeer
12 жыл бұрын
a) Millipede is the sequel. b) They added so many new elements that it sets itself apart, just like Galaga did be different from Galaxian.
@Nettacki
12 жыл бұрын
You know they made this into a slot machine? It'll be released sometime in May.
@TimTams_64
10 жыл бұрын
lol how do you ever get any work done mark?.
@ac5015
12 жыл бұрын
Off subject Angry Birds Space released today. Sorry folks no vectrex release as of today.
@funky3ddy
12 жыл бұрын
There actually is a "Centipede" remake called "Human Centipede: The Game", it's a Flash game. Google it, it's on Newgrounds.
@Unlimited1Ups
12 жыл бұрын
Nice pickup, rich guy. ;)
@mechaluigi7
12 жыл бұрын
I wish I had an arcade machine...more specifically a Galaga arcade machine!
@chenrikl
12 жыл бұрын
I love how Atari calls it an amusement machine.
@LeShark75
12 жыл бұрын
Very nice machine.
@MyNostalgias
5 жыл бұрын
I've heard that LCD monitors are nothing like CRT and different resoultion and colors kill the "spirit" of the 80's. But I want to try using it in the one I've been working on. So do you happen know what kind of LCD monitor can be used or at least what is the diagonal size of the standard LCD-screen for the aracade machines like Centipede? Thank you in advance!
@ocarinag33k
12 жыл бұрын
Your facial expressions are always so... Stoic.
@jupreindeer
12 жыл бұрын
I've invested a few dollars out of this and that paycheck for a Ms. Pac-Man. E-Bay's been great on acquiring the various guts for a decent price. However, the actual body and CRT are on the waiting list. Simply put, no room for them...YET.
@sinistermoon
12 жыл бұрын
Look into DIP switches. Those are what will allow you to set the game to free play and other things. Not hard to find on the board at all. Either way, nice looking Centipede.
@Ninten70
12 жыл бұрын
Do you have a Killer Instinct Arcade Cabinet? Hopefully I would love to see a Review of it!
@fszron
12 жыл бұрын
He has the top 3 scores!
@NotWatching666999
12 жыл бұрын
I thought an Arcade CRT monitor was actually a higher resolution than a typical CRT television.
@Trisky
12 жыл бұрын
how much did this cost to buy?
@BigDaddySeany
12 жыл бұрын
Honestly... if you are going to invest in an refurbished arcade machine in the first place... why not have a CRT? I still have an old tube TV that I plan on refinishing in the future precisely for retro games.
@CarnEvilCrazy
12 жыл бұрын
Centipede rules.
@aaowens97
12 жыл бұрын
Are you going to review the Rolling thunder and frenzy Arcade machines too?
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