Commodore Amiga Arcade Machine? | Arcadia Systems Trash to Treasure

In 1987 Mastertronic hatched a plan to create an Amiga 500 based arcade. After many years of hunting I've managed to find one, and in this series we'll restore it and tell the story of the Arcadia Super Select System.

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● Chapters
00:00 Introduction to the Series
01:35 Mastertronic History
04:35 Arcadia Systems Inc is created
06:00 Unboxing the Arcadia Super Select System
11:44 Arcadia's road to release
21:49 What next for our Arcadia?

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[nickspeakman]

@RMCRetro. I worked on this system at Binary Design… converted our 8-bit Mastertronic game “180” to become “World Darts” and then converted the American stuff (Road Wars, Aaaargh etc.) to UK 8-bits. It was a massive mistake from the start and ultimately nearly killed Mastertronic. Virgin bailed them out. Happy to answer any questions.

[anjumf]

Great to see you back on YouTube again!

[Robin-iens]

Hey Neil! Missed your uploads — hope you and your family are enjoying life!

[VladoT]

Great that you continue with this half documentary / half restoration videos. They are great!

[commndrchf]

welcome back Neil, now patiently waiting for the second part to this restoration video, dont keep us waiting to long 🙂

[TheImperial]

Love a Trash to Treasure and an interesting in-depth history lesson. It's great that you are documenting and preserving this history for all of us.

[GLOwormUK]

Wow.. my dad got me and my brother one of these system cabs as a unique chrismas present back in 1992 (UK). I recall the awful bowling game, basketball, kung fu and xenon on it. To us we we not too happy with them but thankfully it was a jamma cab and dad got us some other classics game jamma boards such as gradius 3, shadow Dancer, moonwalker and hyper sports. problem was we had to drill and hack in a 3rd button in on the panel as it only had 2 on the cab and figure out how to hotwire it on the jamma connector. Good times. I had no idea until today how rare it was and I look forward to seeing how you get on with it.

[SuneSalminen]

For me as a young teenager in the late 1980s a huge part of the attraction of the arcades was that you could go there and see amazing graphics, sound, technology that was way superior to anything you could possibly get at home. I don't remember ever seeing an Arcadia System then, but being familiar with the Amiga I'd probably just have walked right past it. Because what's the point if you can play the exact same games on the Amiga 500 that you or one of your friends have at home, why would i pay to play Xenon. Maybe it would have turned out better if they had launched it with a couple of system exclusive, killer games.

[boatofcar]

Welcome back, Neil! Glad to see you out of the gate with some never before seen Amiga content too!

[nicholas_scott]

I heard back in the 80s that some arcade machines were “amiga powered”. But this is fascinating that it’s literally a stock a500 at its core.

[roskelld]

Hang on, I need to grab a coffee first and then I’ll settle in for a watch.

[Midcon]

Neil - congrats on making it through the parental leave successfully! And it's great to see you back at work! Some day, it'd be great to see your daughter see the cave and react - what a cool thing her dad put together!

[ZombiesMDingo]

Good to see you back, hope all's going well for your family.

[mikerichards]

Welcome back Neil. I remember hearing so much about this machine around the time Xenon was released in - dear lord - 1988, but never saw one before.

[natswii]

I'd like to see a restored arcade cabinet showcasing all the recent Amiga ports of arcade games e.g. Rygar released in 2019 - I'd like it to be a project that rights the wrongs of Amiga gaming history like games that used "up" to jump or coded poorly. . I'd like to see an arcade cabinet that has fun modern coded versions of original old games - Something about an Amiga holding it's own with other real arcade royalty warms my soul.

[jeremygregorio]

When I was a kid I remember seeing magazine ads about how the one megabyte Amiga version of magic Johnson's fast break was identical to the arcade and thinking that was probably not true. Same thing for the soccer game called goal. Turns out that was real because it was the same hardware😂

[necronom]

13:50 I was there buying my A500 from Micro Anvika (near the top right of the map) for £400, and it still works. It was its 37th birthday 12 days ago (though I suppose it was made a few months earlier).

[jamiec]

Fascinating stuff I’m here for the journey not just the destination

[KlutchCustoms]

I have memories of an arcade machine in a pizza takeaway I used to go to now and again as a kid. Rare treat when visiting mum and dad's friends.
It stood out in my memory for having an uncanny resemblance to my Amiga I had back then. I am going to assume that coin op was one of these.
It's long gone now! There's a huge touch screen menu there today. No where near as good.

[gregsmith]

Glad your saving these rare arcade machines one cabinet at a time.