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Mogura Desse is interesting because it not only passed the legal requirements, but it tested every part of the system via play. By buying it back, they didn't just buy back their loophole, they bought back testing equipment. And also, if I recall, Battalion 1993 hasn't been dumped. For some reason, I think because the ROM was inside an early SOC of the time, nobody's been able to extract the game.

Man, good memories. I miss the era of arcades. I know they were often unfairly difficult, but god, the graphics and the sound were mind blowing at the time. And the music! So much creativity on display.

Being born in the mid 70s I to remember the buzz around arcades, I just wish I was able to go back in time to when space invaders came out just so I can feel what it was like to have this new technology come out.

Fun fact , Bubble Bobble never had an original cabinet and was made to be a conversion

How good I had it back then in the 70s and 80s. Riding my bike to the arcade with a bunch of $1 bills. Not a care in the world.

I very much misunderstood where you were going with the title but what a pleasant surprise this video was! Definitely a hidden arcade world many of us never saw!

That original space invaders was addictive as hell. Cost 10p in 1980 london arcade on westbourne grove. Counting the shots to get 300 for overhead spaceship. Getting killed on 9990 so you got highest score - miss it by one kill and it goes back to 0000

OMG! I didn't know the history behind this... I love Arcades! Thank you!

Pro here... couple problems: JAMMA standard isn't considered 4-button, it calls for 3 action buttons and a start. Golden Axe was system-16 pinout, not JAMMA so bad example of an easily converted game. Die Hard arcade WAS JAMMA and Frogger wasn't unless you include bootlegs.

Nice mention of the Jaleco Lo-Pro... it's a brilliant cabinet.

7:29 beast-mode activated

this is something totally new to me. i never heard of these secret test mode arcade boards before. facinating. keep it up dude .

Fascinating, I had absolutely no idea about this!

Maaaaaan, I was always attracted to the games with the weird control surfaces. Tempest, Gauntlet, Xenophobe, anything with a gun or motorcycle attached to it. And trackballs. Trackballs are genius. 'Member when a game in the arcade used to hold it's own space? The pinballs and standard cabs would hug the walls but the fancy games were spread out in their own curvy islands. And Ski-Ball and Airhocky had their own end of the room? And everything was dark and blacklight and sneaky! ...crap, I think I miss arcades. on a therapy level... (...iceball can suck a bgOdcks...)

I was watching something else, saw this dropped, and I'll go back to what i was watching when I'm done with this!

Love your content, thanks for everything.

What's funny about JAMMA is that if you ever played the NeoGeo MVS, The Nintendo Playchoice 10, The Sega Naomi, The Sega Chihiro or The Triforce arcade systems you have unkowningly ran to the same ieda. I don't count the laserdisc based ones since I never ever saw one that worked.

In the spirit of arcade test boards the OG Master System had a built in game called Snail Maze which you could access by holding Button 1, Button 2 and UP on the D-Pad without a cartridge plugged in :-) Keep up the awesome work!

These games should be exhibited at a video game museum or an arcade somewhere, with facts about them on the cabinet!