Arcade1up BurgerTime - Extended Gameplay!

RetroRalph·video·8m 40s·analyzed·Jan 20, 2020

Analysis

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TL;DR

Arcade1Up BurgerTime cabinet review: $399 limited release with 5 classic games and authentic curved design.

Summary

RetroRalph reviews the Arcade1Up BurgerTime cabinet, a limited-edition (3,075 units) retro arcade machine priced at $399 featuring BurgerTime, Karate Fight, Joe and Mac, Caveman Ninja, and Bad Dudes. He praises the cabinet's faithful curved design, accessible gameplay, and quality controls, while noting that horizontal games display with letterboxing on the vertical monitor.

Key Claims

BurgerTime was originally created by Data East for their Deco cassette system in 1982
high confidence · Video content states BurgerTime 'was released in 1982 and it was created by Data East but it was initially created for their Deco cassette system.'
Arcade1Up changed their cabinet lineup from all-Karate Fight to BurgerTime based on fan feedback
high confidence · RetroRalph states: 'the fans originally wanted an all-Karate Fight cabinet, and I think they kind of spoke up and said, actually, you know what we really would like is a Burger Time cabinet.'
Arcade1Up improved button and stick quality in recent cabinet waves
medium confidence · RetroRalph notes 'they put on really better quality buttons and sticks over the last couple waves of systems or Arcade1Up did a great job and the game plays really well.'
Arcade1Up retooled their user interface around E3 last year
medium confidence · RetroRalph states 'They retooled this around E3 last year' regarding the user interface.
The BurgerTime cabinet will ship within the first month for the first 1,000 pre-orders, rest ship a month later
high confidence · RetroRalph: 'if you're in the first thousand, they'll actually ship them out by March 1st. The other ones get shipped out a month later.'

Notable Quotes

“You just walk over the hamburger ingredients and as you walk over them they drop down a level and you keep doing that for each component till you compile the whole burger. It's a really simple game and I think that's why people enjoy it.”
RetroRalph@ 0:53 — Explains the core game mechanic of BurgerTime and why it remains appealing to casual players
“They're only making 3,075. So get on it now if this is something you really want.”
RetroRalph@ 7:46 — Creates urgency around the limited production run and pre-order availability
“As Arcade1Up matures, they're starting to even develop the product more where they're not as cookie cutter and they actually look really unique and looking like their arcade counterparts.”
RetroRalph @ ~16:45 — Positive assessment of Arcade1Up's design evolution toward authenticity
“The controls are actually working really well for this, you know, they put on really better quality buttons and sticks over the last couple waves of systems.”
RetroRalph@ 1:54 — Notes improvement in hardware quality on recent Arcade1Up products
“If you have this and you put this in your arcade, you know, someone can be over your house, a guest or whatever, that maybe isn't a gamer. And they go, 'Oh, I remember that.' And they could start playing.”
RetroRalph@ 6:45 — Highlights accessibility appeal of the games for casual/nostalgic audiences

Entities

Data EastcompanyArcade1UpcompanyRetroRalphpersonMatt ScottpersonJean-Claude Van DammepersonBurgerTimegameKarate FightgameJoe and MacgameBad DudesgameBloodsportgame

Signals

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community_signal: Arcade1Up demonstrated responsiveness to fan feedback by pivoting from all-Karate Fight lineup to include BurgerTime as flagship title
high · 'the fans originally wanted an all-Karate Fight cabinet, and I think they kind of spoke up and said, actually, you know what we really would like is a Burger Time cabinet, and they put Karate Fight on the Burger Time cabinet'
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market_signal: Arcade1Up reports limited inventory with pre-order urgency; first 1,000 units ship by March 1st, remainder ships one month later
high · RetroRalph states 'They're only making 3,075' and provides specific shipping windows based on order position
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announcement: Limited-edition Arcade1Up BurgerTime cabinet officially announced with 3,075 unit production run at $399 pre-order price
high · RetroRalph confirms specific production numbers (3,075 units) and pricing ($399) with shipping timeline (first 1,000 by March 1st)
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product_strategy: Arcade1Up improved cabinet aesthetics by faithfully reproducing curved cabinet designs rather than using generic cookie-cutter form factors
high · 'it is very, very cool that they followed the original curvature of the cabinet' and 'they're not as cookie cutter and they actually look really unique and looking like their arcade counterparts'
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product_concern: Minor manufacturing defect noted: dust particle trapped under screen bezel required removal of four screws to access and clean
high · 'Before final thoughts, I have no idea how I didn't notice this piece of dust under my screen' requiring disassembly of bezel

Topics

Arcade1Up product design and manufacturing qualityprimaryRetro arcade game preservation and porting historyprimaryLimited edition product availability and pre-order strategyprimaryGame accessibility and casual player appealsecondaryClassic arcade game mechanics and gameplay designsecondaryHardware controls and user interface designsecondary

Sentiment

positive(0.82)— RetroRalph is enthusiastic about the cabinet's design authenticity, game selection, and hardware quality. Minor reservations about horizontal games displaying with letterboxing, but these are presented as acceptable trade-offs rather than serious flaws. The review emphasizes value and accessibility.

Transcript

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Okay, first thing first, when you boot up you're going to see the user interface. They retooled this around E3 last year. They did a really good job and one thing that Arcade 1UP is kind of known for at this point is just being simple and easy. You turn it on, it's really easy to use. You will not find any additional game options here, so things that we saw at CES this year like scanlines are not going to be in here. You're just going to be able to launch the game from this menu. And always keep in mind if you ever want to get back to the main menu, you just hold down your player one button and it will bring you back to this screen. All right let's go and jump right into gameplay. All right let's play some Burger Time. This game's got an interesting history. It was released in 1982 and it was created by Data East but it was initially created for their Deco cassette system. So this system allowed arcade owners to actually swap out games and the games were on cassettes. So kind of neat. But anyways let's get into the game really quick. So the objective of the game is super easy. You just walk over the hamburger ingredients and as you walk over and they drop down a level and you keep doing that for each component till you compile the whole burger it's a really simple game and i think that's why people enjoy it you could put this in your arcade and pretty much anyone can walk up to it and figure out how to play it now another interesting tidbit of information about this game is it was ported to just about every platform imaginable apple 2 are you know it's atari 2600 calico vision and television ms dos just to name a few i believe i played it on either the atari 2600 or the commodore i couldn't find any references of it being released on Commodore, so that's kind of weird, because I could have sworn that's what I played it on, but maybe it was like a Commodore hack or something, because I think there's probably a lot of hacks in this game too. So anyways, you also have Pepper that you walk around with. You can actually throw the Pepper at your opponent to stun them. You can also kill them by having them, if they're underneath a component of the burger when you're assembling it, and you walk over it, it'll drop over and it'll actually kill them. So anyways, long story short, I think this game is a really fun game the controls are actually working really well for this you know they put on really better quality buttons and sticks over the last couple waves of systems or arcade one up did a great job and the game plays really well so we we wrap this up here and move on to the next game all right here another game that interesting because it was released in 1984 but it has two joysticks for each player So this was kind of an interesting format. And you may have actually played this game on other platforms and not the arcade, depending on how old you are. Because this actually was ported to both the Apple II, C64, the Nintendo Entertainment System, and I think there was even an iOS Apple version that came out at some point. There may be other versions floating around too, but I do remember playing this one on the Commodore 64 and graphically looking pretty good, or at least what I remember. The game is really fun. There is a bit of a learning curve to this, but you could walk right up to it and start playing it and figure it out relatively easy. You don't have to read a manual to play this game, although some of the more advanced moves you might want to reference back to the moves to see exactly how you do it. But anyone can kind of pick this up and have fun with it, even if they're someone that doesn't really play arcade games or video games in general. So super fun. It plays really well on this too. You know, the two sticks are very well spaced between player one and player two, so you're not bumping into each other or anything like that, which I was afraid of. But when I played Scott at CES, who's the CEO of Arcade 1-Up, we had a really good time, and we didn't feel like we were bumping into each other or rubbing shoulders too much. So this is a great title, and I think, you know, the fans originally wanted an all-Karate Champ cabinet, and I think they kind of spoke up and said, actually, you know what we really would like is a Burger Time cabinet, and they put Karate Champ on the BurgerTime cabinet. So this was actually something where Arcade 1-Up changed based on fan reaction to what they had announced. There is one interesting piece of information about this game. So the game came out in 1984, but four years later, a movie called Bloodsport with Jean-Claude Van Damme came out. So there is a bit of a pop culture element to this game. So many people that were fans of the game probably were excited to see it pop up in a movie that was fairly popular in that time period. All right, let's move on to the next game. Alright next up is Caveman Ninja No no no it not It Joe and Mac Well it might be Joe and Mac depending on how old you are and if you ever played it in the arcade or if you played it at home So this game was ported to Super Nintendo Genesis NES Game Boy Commodore Amiga a bunch of different systems but it was released under a different name Joe and Mac The arcade release was called Caveman Ninja so the game may look very similar you just don remember it by that name Anyhow, this game might look slightly different than the other games we showed, because it's a horizontal game playing on a vertical monitor. So Arcade 1-Up had a choice, do we stretch the image to fill up the whole screen, or do we maintain its original aspect ratio? I'm glad that they did that, because honestly, it would look like total junk if you stretched it. So it is something that you're going to have to get used to, but over time you don't really notice it. I'll do a quick zoom in so you can see, you know, over time you kind of end up looking and it looks more like this, but obviously it's something you're going to have to get used to. Alright, let's move on to our last and final game, Bad Dudes. Alright, here we go, it's Bad Dudes, another game that depending on your age you may not have experience in the arcade. So this game got its fair share of ports as well. This was available in the arcade itself. The Commodore Amiga, Apple II, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, you name it, it was pretty much ported to it. It's a side-scrolling beat-em-up, and it's a pretty fun game. You know, it kind of reminds me of games like Kung Fu Master or even a game like Shinobi. So, pretty fun game. I've had a good time playing it on here. Again, you're going to get the horizontal, you know, you're going to get the bars on the top and bottom because, again, it's a vertical screen. So that may bother some, but I'm telling you, at least for me, over time, I just kind of didn't really notice, and you just kind of fixate yourself on the game, so it's not that big of a deal. I also think that the flagship games on this are really Burger Time and Karate Champ, and that's who this cabinet is speaking to. It's speaking to the fans of those two games. And, you know, these are add-in games, but they're pretty fun games, and I think they make a great addition to the cabinet. So I'm going to wrap things up and give you guys my final thoughts. Before Final Thoughts, I have no idea how I didn't notice this piece of dust under my screen. So in replay when I was editing, I noticed it. So guys, you had to remove the four screws on the bezel to just get this little piece of dust off. But anyways, just thought I'd let you know. Let's go to Final Thoughts. Alright, it's Final Thoughts time. So what do I think about this BurgerTime cabinet from Arcade1Up? Well first of all it is very very cool that they followed the original curvature of the cabinet As Arcade 1 matures they starting to even develop the product more where they not as cookie cutter and they actually looking really unique and looking like their arcade counterparts That's really cool. So the other thing I like is most of these games are pick up and play games, right? They're really easy with little to no learning curve. So if you have this and you put this in your arcade, you know, someone can be over your house, a guest or whatever that maybe isn't a gamer. And they go, oh, I remember that. And they could start playing. It's really easy to pick up. I also think it'll look unique because of its curvature with your other arcade one-up cabinets. If you are the super uber burger time fan, then this cabinet's definitely for you. And if you like Karate Champ, it's definitely for you as well. The other games, although good, are horizontal games on a vertical monitor. So I'm just letting you know, and so you can see that in this video, whether or not, you know, that's something you, you know, don't like. And if it is, then maybe this isn't for you. It didn't really bother me over time. Now I'm going to show you where you can get it because it's limited time, and you're going to need to get it pretty soon because they're starting to run out. Okay, so you're going to mosey on over to arcadeoneup.com and I'll have a link in the description to get you directly here. And this is the pre-order. It is for $3.99. So keep in mind, it is a limited amount. They're only making about 3,000 of these things. I think to be specific, I keep forgetting this number. I think it's 3,075. Yes, 3,075. They're only making 3,075. So get on it now if this is something you really want. and if you're in the first thousand they'll actually ship them out by March 1st the other ones get shipped out a month later so get on it anyways guys if you like this video please like it please consider subscribing to the channel if you enjoy this content turn on notifications to be informed of other videos like this one and put your comments below I want to know are you getting burger time all right that's it guys we will see you on the next one Thanks for watching!