QUESTION 1: Name 5 trackball games you can play at the Galloping Ghost Arcade.
A: James White was the first to answer with these five titles: crystal Castles, Reactor, Centipede, Millipede, and Marble Madness!
QUESTION 2: Name four members of Team GGA that represented us by playing Mortal Kombat (2011).
A: No one had the correct answer for this one. We would have accepted:
Soonk, Han, Jeremiah, 16Bit, Dizzy, Medina, Moe, Fill Pops, Slips, Wafflez, or PPJ!
ESWAT has been upgraded to an original dedicated Dynamo cabinet with new cabinet art.
Friday, June 16th:
Gradius IV is back up and running. We restored and rewrote ROM chips, and soldered on a new battery for the RTC chip. Expect major repairs to several games in the near future.
Thanks to Q*bert creator legend Jeffrey Lee for bringing in this Chicago Tribune newspaper clipping from May 5th, 1982 about Tim Skelly, creator of games like Reactor, Armor Attack, Star Castle, Rip Off, and many others!
Galloping Ghost Arcade mugs are back in stock! Get them while they last!
Cabinet Repairs
Xevious and Black Widow had joystick issues fixed
Gauntlet: Dark Legacy got a new marquee
Super Street Fighter X Grand Master Challenge got all new Cherry D44X microswitches. Thanks to Paradise Arcade Shop
Street Fighter Zero 3 Upper got a new Naomi IO Board, fixing input issues
We found a new, seemingly undiscovered set of roms for the recently added game Q*Berts Qubes. The game plays horizontally instead of vertically. New art for the title screen and attract mode. It was in a factory cabinet with all original art work, a horizontal monitor and it was on an original Gottlieb PCB. Hopefully we will have more information on it in the future
TRIVIA THURSDAY: Be the first to answer trivia about the arcade and arcade history for a prize!
Q: Who won the first T20?
A: Zerst won the first T20: Congrats to Tim Foley
Q: Name five, three player games that we have on the arcade floor?
A: Congrats to Geoff Lucas for his answer: Ghostbusters, 3 Stooges, Rampage, Xenophobe and Mercs. We also have Alien Storm, Power drive, Judge Dredd (prototype), Rampage World Tour, Moonwalker, Gain Ground, Hot Rod, Pit-Fighter, Rampart, Laser Ghost, Ironman Ivan Stewart’s Super Off Road, Sega Sonic The Hedgehog
We always offer help to people on arcade repairs. Last week we had Tim Foley working on his power supply and sound board for his Q*bert cocktail table.
Improved the old side art on R-type with just a heat gun and a block roller.
TRIVIA THURSDAY: Be the first to answer trivia about the arcade and arcade history for a prize!
Question 1: How many working arcade games did we open with?
The correct answer is 130. No one correctly guessed it.
Question 2: Name four, four player games released from Konami that we have on the arcade floor?
Crime Fighters, TMNT, Simpsons, Sunset Riders as guessed by Michael Dietrich! We also have Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Turtles in Time, Cowboys of Moo Mesa, Metamorphic Force, Captain Commando, X-Men or Bucky O’Hare!
Every Monday when we reveal a new game, whoever gets the highest score before we close that night gets a point. First to 10 points gets the 10X Championship Belt
Mases Hagopian: 6 Points: Roc N Rope, Tecmo Knight, Ganryu, Last Resort, Laser Ghost and Rip Off.
Jamie Tibbetts: 4 Points: Battle Shark, Lunar Rescue, Daioh, and Super Punch Out.
Peter Gorz: 1 Point: Guardian
James White: 1 Point: Rabbit Punch
Gga Jeremiah: 1 Point: Gauntlet 2
Mike Waters: 1 Point: Fast Freddie,
Chris Plachy: 1 Point: EightMan
New Galloping Ghost Arcade Mugs are available at the front counter!
Congrats to Jamie Tibbetts for beating Daioh on 1 credit
The new documentary series “Screenland” was released! Galloping Ghost Arcade is featured in episode 8: Arcade Renaissance, as we help produce a prototype Arena cabinet. CHECK OUT THE EPISODE HERE!
Thanks to Mike Waters for donating a Samarai PCB to the arcade. Doc Mack made a custom jamma adapter for Mike to use his Samarai board at home.
The trailer for the new documentary series “Screenland” was released! Galloping Ghost Arcade is featured in an episode as we help produce a prototype Arena cabinet. The show premiers TODAY on the 24th! Be sure to check it out on Hulu or Red Bull TV.
