Mystery Marquee $5 Challenge [SOLVED]

This is probably the easiest mystery marquee that we’ve done. Would imagine it only taking about a day for someone to get. Super popular classic arcade from the 80s.

First person to email us at arcademarquee….at….gmail….dot….com or through our contact page with the correct answer receives $5 cash mailed to their door.

Answer: CLICK HERE

Contrats to Robby L. for the win!

Click on the “Mystery Marquees” category to see how many you can solve!

2020-07-03T01:40:06+00:00July 1st, 2020|Mystery Marquees|

Vs Platoon Arcade Marquee

We recently were able to get a good scan of Nintendo’s Vs Platoon. A very rare game, in fact we’ve never seen one in the wild. Gameplay doesn’t look particularly compelling, but a must have for the Die Hard Nintendo collector. Check out the marquee HERE, and a play through below.

2020-06-18T20:28:45+00:00June 18th, 2020|Arcade Marquee, Products|

Mystery Marquee $5 Challenge [SOLVED]

This one should be fairly easy so we are setting it to a $5 challenge. Gotta love the jello bowl Madonna armor bra. First person to email us at arcademarquee….at….gmail….dot….com or through our contact page with the correct answer receives $5 cash mailed to their door.

Answer: CLICK HERE

Congrats to Anthony R. for the win!

Click on the “Mystery Marquees” category on the right to see how many you can solve!

2020-05-28T23:19:36+00:00May 26th, 2020|Mystery Marquees|

Vs Nintendo Castlevania Arcade

There’s something super satisfying about seeing a very clean Nintendo cabinet. We recently sent out some Vs Nintendo arcade marquees to Dana, and were happy to see some pics of the final product. If you are in fact in need of a vs Castlevania marquee, please check it out in our store HERE. Also, we now sell the plexi for vs Nintendo cabinets HERE. Thanks again to Dana for sending the picture, and check out this video of vs Nintendo Castlevania vs the NES version.

2020-05-08T17:59:45+00:00May 8th, 2020|Arcade Marquee, Product Photos|

Tron Arcade Marquee

The Tron arcade is one of the most iconic games from the 80s. Everything about the cabinet and art was extremely well done. Gameplay was and is mediocre, but that doesn’t stop today’s collectors from paying big bucks to own one.  At auction Tron’s generally go for over $2,000, and project cabinets can go for over $1000 (*Captain’s Auction Anaheim bidding data). Check out the marquee in our store HERE, and a video below for the playthrough.

2020-05-02T19:28:08+00:00May 2nd, 2020|Arcade Marquee, Product Photos|

Mystery Marquee $5 Challenge [SOLVED]

I honestly don’t know how difficult this one will be for people to solve. I personally did not play this arcade very much as a kid, but it was mildly popular. First person to email us at arcademarquee….at….gmail….dot….com or through our contact page with the correct answer receives $5 cash mailed to their door.

Answer: CLICK HERE

Congrats to Lee W. for the correct answer!

2020-05-04T06:44:54+00:00May 1st, 2020|Mystery Marquees|

Iron Maiden Pinball Re-Theme

It’s been a dream of many a pinball players to re-theme a pinball machine, but few have actually taken the leap. Tyler has decided to re-theme his Iron Maiden Stern into a Persona 5 pin. Check out his story below:

There were a few parameters to picking a theme:
It had to have a strong enough soundtrack to support 12 songs.
It had to have enough video content available to pull from for the LCD display without having to do much heavy lifting since I’m new to video editing.
It needed to be complex enough to map concepts to the deep Iron Maiden rule set.
I intentionally avoided themes popular enough that they could possibly be made into a commercial machine.
Persona 5 fit this pretty well. The soundtrack is one of its strongest features and the game contains over 100 hours of HD content (plus an animated series spinoff) to pull assets from. It’s also niche enough that there is zero chance of a commercial machine using this theme.

The basis of the game is that you direct the life of a teenager in Tokyo by day and dungeon crawling at night.

Initially I was intending to include map a different dungeon to each mode, but the cast of allies is a lot more compelling than the cast of villains so I am now planning on each mode being focused on a different teammate. There is a system in the game where you build “social links” with allies so the soul shard will be completing that ally’s social link. 2 Minutes to Midnight will be mapped to an ally that turns out to be (spoilers) a traitor.

Two allies in particular narrate during combat so most of the non-mode call outs will be pulled from their voice lines.

During the ordinary life segments you can perform activities to upgrade five attributes (intelligence, guts, proficiency, charm, and kindness) that are required to unlock upgrades. Power pops/targets/ramps/etc. might map to these well since there are 5 and you’re building them in parallel with the rest of the game.

You traverse deeper and deeper into a side dungeon called Mementos throughout P5, so each tomb treasure will be converted to a new level of Mementos.

Running out of characters! I’ll add more later!
Tyler

2020-07-23T19:00:05+00:00April 13th, 2020|Pinball Translite|