Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good morning, everybody. Wow, I look like hell this morning. I woke up in the... Actually, I woke up a little while ago, and the dog threw up. So, yes, it's been kind of an interesting morning so far. I'm just exhausted. Why does the intro make you want starbursts? Oh, because you think he looks like a starburst? Mason's going to hurt you, man. What's up, everybody? I hope everyone's having a good morning. Yeah, I'm super exhausted, man. I don't know why. I was just not feeling it this morning. I was like, man, I don't know if I can do it. I don't know if I can do the show. But I was like, the show must go on. The show must go on. So thank you, everybody, for joining. I don't really have a whole lot this morning, to be honest. I usually try not to work on a video the night before the show, because there's usually a lot of prep that goes into the show. I mean, yeah, as much prep as I'm going to do. But, yeah, so I didn't have a whole lot prepared. But, yeah, we'll talk about a couple things. And let's see, how's everyone doing this morning? All right, already hot and heavy. Strayer Films comes in with the $2 super chat. He says, Ralph, can you wait five more minutes? We're chatting here. All right, hold on. I'll start the show another time. Nick Madsen, what's up, buddy? How are you? Mason's in the house. Chad's here. RK Derrick. I could sit here all day and say hi to all of you, but I'm just going to blanket statement. Thank you for joining, and I appreciate everyone being here. I'm going to cut the music here. So something that was kind of interesting over the last couple of weeks, you know, IAPA happened. I'd say the event is really geared toward a place like a Castles and Coasters, like a local amusement park, right? Because local amusement parks are most likely going to have a really huge arcade. They're going to have roller coasters or amusement rides. And so they showcase all those things there. But then they also have big experience rides where like if you're a small arcade, there's no way you're going to be able to afford them. Right. Because they're expensive. They're like but there was one that really caught my attention. I was like, man, that's cool as hell. In certain markets, you'll find they have these big, almost like VR type things. And there's all different companies that make these VR things. And it's like it's interesting because like part of me was thinking, well, why would I go to an arcade to play a VR game when I can play VR games at home? But I think what they're trying to do is is and this is tough because if you're a small arcade, there's no way you're going to be able to afford these types of things. I think they're trying to create what they do with video games where like you'd go to the arcade and the arcade would be a better experience than what you had at home. but it would sort of promote you hey you know i'll use this for example like ghostbusters is at the arcade but the ghostbusters at the arcade is way better than the one at home it's a bad example because i think that game kind of sucks the arcade game but uh but then you could get it at home it was kind of like one market was feeding the other they don't really have that in arcades anymore because you know with raw thrills making games they don't make a home version of their games i wish they did like just pretend we live in a world where uh arcades never died right and these companies or or let's just pretend that instead let's just pretend that right now raw thrills decided to say hey whatever games we release in the arcade we're going to release at home versions but commercial quality like really good quality versions for at home like would would that be of any interest the thing is that market doesn't exist right you know it's not like pinball where if i go to a barcade and i play 007 i can buy 007 for my house it's not like i can go i mean sure you could buy Antonio Cruz and Blast for your house, but it's going to cost you $10,000. You know what I mean? Like, would that be a market that anybody would be interested in? They would be expensive, though. I mean, like we're talking, you know, maybe they're at home versions, a couple thousand bucks, twenty five hundred three grand. You know what I mean? Would that be something that you'd even be interested in if there was a title you really wanted? I mean, I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility. There's people that have filled their whole entire room with arcade one ups. That's not cheap nowadays. So I'm just curious, like, like, are they missing out? Should could Roth Rills or some of these other companies create at-home versions? Like, as if the market never stopped, right? Because pinball does it. Like, that's the interesting difference. Yeah, ICE has them, though, but I don't know whether that's not, like, you know what I mean? ICE has them, and I don't think ICE is unsuccessful in that. I just think their demographic's different. Like, they're dealing with, like, five grand, ten grand machines. But I'm talking, like, bring it down. Could you make a Roth Rills commercial cabinet for your house You know I don know With these big VR experiences I think that feeding the at VR You know what I mean? Like, give them something, because that's the thing. Are the arcade experiences for VR better than what I can get at home? And I can't remember the statistic. We think that a lot of people have VR at home, but I don't think a lot of people do. I think that number's actually pretty low right now. The attach rate for virtual reality is low. like i was thinking it why would i play vr at an arcade i have a oculus quest 2 you know what i mean it works great and i feel like it has a good experience they now have games where you can like set up large geo fences like huge not geo fences but huge um i can't remember what you call the technology to restrict you but i wanted to show you guys there's something that i thought was really neat and i was like wow that's a unique experience that you couldn't get at home actually before we do that. You know I jump around all over the place, but before we do that, I gotta show you guys this. Check this. Do you guys remember these? Tell me if you remember these. Okay, this looks like it's a switchblade, but it's not. It's one of those switchblade combs. Watch this. Okay, this blade is freaking metal. It's freaking metal, bro. I wanna carry this thing around. I feel like kind of a badass for this switchblade comb. Yeah, this thing's awesome. uh yeah man so yeah i but it was funny because before the stream i put this on the table and i had i didn't even notice it was here but there was like a can of a can of red bull and i opened it up and it flinged the can i want to do it but like the dogs might wake up and then kim's not feeling good i'm actually not feeling good either i don't know what's going on something's going around everywhere anyways i'm just that light off we don't need this camera anymore but i'm glad it works i just wish that the software uh the software that i'm using it's pretty fun it's pretty easy to use uh but i had uh but it gives me less options so i'm probably gonna switch back to what i was using before all right so jj says i had one just like that back in the 80s and a lot of the folks would take the plastic comb part out and try to put some sort of blade in its place to have an actual switchblade i guess you could just buy a switchblade but yeah that's crazy man this one this one i swear to god if you just sharpen this if you just sharpen this you'd end up with actually it wouldn't be a bad beard wouldn't be a bad beard comb to be honest hmm i might use it for that just kind of in the morning be like hmm i need like some i need some like uh music that would be you know like like that kind of music i don't know you guys know what i'm talking about all right anyway so if you want i guess i'll put a link in the bottom if you want to buy one of these but i tell them tell my nieces i miss them yeah they're not feeling good this morning all right or bella's not she threw up okay we got a super chat from how to bachelorette says let's go like comment subscribe love you ralph love you too man i've i've been really bad at responding to everyone on all social media platforms so congrats on the house it looks like you might of closed on it so that's awesome try to follow that hot a bachelor journey man i'm glad i'm glad things seem to be working out and i appreciate the super chat all right we got stringer here with um two dollar super chat the guy was a big retro ralph fan and didn't kill me oh so you sold the stool that's cool man that's awesome do you need todd's permission to self-groom on air i don't know i'm gonna have to ask him You know, I want to hear something funny. The Garage Gamer's kind of joking right here, and he says, use the promo code RalphJustForMen. Well, Nick Madsen, who you all know, he was in my last video, good friend of mine. He posted something about him JustForMending his beard on Twitter, and JustForFreakingMen responded to him, like, actual JustForMend. He's like, do you think this is real? I go, click on it. I don't see why not. Like, why would someone make up a just, well, someone would probably make up a Just For Men account, but it was legit. Just For Men really responded to Nick's post. I was like, that's cool. So that was pretty neat. All right, I got a super chat from Haywood. It looks like Jabroni, but it's Jablomi? Jablomi? Haywood? Oh. Not cool, bro. I think that the VR markets are trying to. I'm Canadian, unfortunately. Hey, there's nothing wrong with being Canadian. So I think that VR has been a struggle with it. So I'll rewind even further. I had been talking to Cole Grantham, who was the general manager, one of the general managers over at Castles and Coasters. And we had been talking about maybe we open a VR arcade. My hesitation, and I'd have some retro, we'd have some retro games in there. my hesitation around that is that I feel like the technology gap is is is like not as wide anymore so like what you can experience at home is pretty good but then I was reading an article that was talking about how there aren't that many people that own at home VR so they can have those experiences in an arcade and they can be unique but the problem is I don't know I guess I'm not sold on that and the other thing I'm not sold on is I feel like a lot I was I did a ton of research for the last like i stopped over the last couple months but it was months ago i was talking to all these vendors about vr and it's like are they attendant free because some of these have like vr agent which is a sega game the headset comes down and it's attendant list so you don't need an attendant and then when you're done with the game the headset goes back up but it's still on a wire i just feel like there's so much to break i don't know i i don't feel like i don't feel like they're reliable enough. So I feel like if you were an arcade owner and you had these machines, like some of the VR machines have motion, so there's hydraulics involved. And I'm like, man, if that stuff breaks, that's going to suck. So I just, I feel like I don't trust the reliability of it. And I can't personally fix those kinds of things. If it was an old retro game, sure, I could fix that. I could feel comfortable fixing it. But I've gone to, I did a little bit of research. There's a local place here that has a bunch of VR games. And I went and like, 30% of the games were broken. And I'm all, shit, this doesn't make me confident that I could open a VR location and keep all the machines running. Because that's the worst thing. If you ever talk to Todd Tuckey, he always says, if you own an arcade bar or an arcade if there a bad machine that not working get it off the floor Because the thing is people walk into an arcade and they see broken machines and it gives them a bad experience and then they don't want to come back. Ralphie, hey buddy, how's it going, man? He says they have VR gaming at the Game Lab in downtown Riverside. Very familiar with Riverside. I used to live in Orange County, so I'd take the toll road over there sometimes. But I'm curious, like how's the condition of the machines and do you feel like the experience you get there is unique enough here's the here's the thing right to open up a barcade you need to know about bars i have no like i shouldn't be opening up a bar i've never ran a bar i don't know anything about that side of the business i've never worked in a bar so like and and neither has has coal so it's like if i don't have that experience i feel like that's and that's the that's the part that makes a barcade successful is the bar itself. I think if you had someone that was really knowledgeable about running a bar and I could handle the gaming side of it, then that'd be something unique. So that's not going to work. But anyways, will there be another Chasing Nostalgia episode too soon? Yeah, there will be. So it's not going to be till next year. So I took that break. That was a legit break I needed to take from it because work was getting busy. It takes a lot of time and and effort to get that show filmed. Pretty sure I know the next location. I know who it's going to be. I just have to coordinate going out to visit them, but I think it'll be an episode that everyone will really enjoy. Oh, thanks, man. It was so fun. Thank you for including me. It was really, really fun, and I'm looking forward to the movie being released, so it'll be fun to promote that here and get people into it. So just so you know, this is Arcade Heroes. Definitely go support these guys. So when I was talking about VR experiences that I think are unique, when I was talking about VR, I'm like, well, why would VR be successful in an app, you know, in a bar location or not a bar, but an arcade location or a family fun center or a family entertainment center? And I was like, well, if you offer a unique experience, now, Hologate isn't anything new. Hologate's been around for years, but they licensed some IP to do a Ghostbusters licensed game. that have other stuff in them, other attractions in them, where they would have is Hologate set up. Hologate introduced the latest concept, which uses two of their existing products. The first one here is, it's all Ghostbusters VR Academy. So the first one uses their Blitz motion simulator by driving the Ecto-1. That's what this obviously throughput wasn't huge. Turn that volume up. Here's the one where you... I don't know why there's... I don't have any volume on it at all. Weird. I don't know why it's playing volume. I turned it down all the way. So this is the car. This thing goes up in the air. But this is what I mean. The whole point of this was to show you that there are these unique experiences that you can't have at home. You know, there isn't like... You're not going to buy a... You know, you're not going to buy a $100,000 VR arena for your house. But at the same time, I'm thinking, all right, if you invest in one of these and you're a barcade, or arcade, not bar, I keep saying barcade, sorry. First of all, when do you get your return on investment? And I'm sure when you buy it, there's all this math they give you. Like they do, I've gone through these places and they give you like all these, you know, a spreadsheet that says, this is when you'll pay it back. And it's like, well, it's based on a certain amount of foot traffic and all this stuff. Thank you for the super chat, Chad. I forgot to mention that. And you know, there's no guarantee, there's no guarantee that you're gonna get that kind of foot traffic and make that kind of money. but I do think there is a market for a unique VR experience like that but then I'm wondering all right if you invest a hundred whatever it is like you're financing this thing for 180 80 grand 100 thousand dollars it's a lot of freaking money number one how fast do you pay it back uh when it breaks that sucks because if it breaks during that time that's more money potentially or if there's a warranty that you and I don't know how uh how well they they actually um service those things. Did anybody watch the Mario trailer? I actually watched, so Mason forced me to watch it. I'm not like super, I'm not super into movies like that. I don't know why. Like I liked, um, I liked Wreck-It Ralph. I thought that was really good, but you know, because my name's in the movie title, but then I saw it and it looked interesting. I don't know. It seems like a lot of movies like that when we were kids were shitty, like they weren't good, like they weren't great game. They weren't great movies. So, I mean, we thought they were good as kids, but then watched them as adults. These, like you look at the Sonic movie, they're well produced and the characters look good. The stories are decent. So I'm going to probably go see it. But I did watch the trailer and it looked good. There's a recent video Bob Berger sent around a crappy VR arcade. I know that's the thing. Like it could be crappy, but it could be good. Like VR Agent by Sega is so cool. And I have a video on that somewhere on my channel. It's when we went out to that expo in Las Vegas and it was awesome. All right. So the thing we're going to talk about is so for the first time ever I'm selling a couple systems at Captain's Auction so one I made a mistake I bought NFL Blitz the real NFL Blitz 99 I got all excited because everyone that was buying the arcade one up was like oh my god NFL Blitz and I was thinking to myself after I had it and I played it a little bit I was like man I haven't played NFL Blitz and like there are arcade games that I play on the regular that wasn't one of them I I loved it we used to play it on Dreamcast we used to play it on on n64 but like i like the game it's fun but it wasn't like one of those games where i was ultra nostalgic for it so i was like why did i buy this you know i mean plus it took up a ton of space for four four player you know control panel arcade games they take up a lot of space you could fit almost like one and a half in that space so so you could you could easily squeeze two in if you had the room on either side so those games don't really if you are going to do a four-player control panel, you better love the games that are in those cabinets. So I got rid of it. So that's going off to Captain's Auctions. I didn't do anything to it, as is. It works. I didn't do anything to it, though. It's a four-player NFL Blitz, so you will see that as part of Captain's Auctions. And I was looking at the more recent terms, and of course I closed that one. Oh, I didn't close that window out. So the recent terms for Captain's Auctions, I'll share this with you. So this is important. If you're going to bid at Captain's Auctions, you also need to know this so understand that when you when you are going to buy something at Captain Auctions now read this with me so you understand it Highest bidder purchase price. So first of all, if I win it for $500, okay, $500. But there's an 18% buyer's premium. So you have to be aware of that. So just know that your purchase price isn't necessarily the price you're walking away from it. And then also, there's the shipping cost. So you have to factor those things in. So you can't just buy it and be like, all right, I'm cool. Here's my budget. You have to be aware of the bidder premium. Now, the bidder premium is online, and it's the same online as it is on-site. Now we've got this to deal with, my hot photo here. No, get away, leave. Why are you on YouTube? Why do these accounts pop up? They're so ridiculous. Like they're all over YouTube. How does YouTube not have the capability? Like they got all this stuff they can do. They can literally figure out, they can figure out what video goes with what target audience, but they can't figure out how to remove spam accounts. Like I don't understand. The Road Blasters will be going out there too. So I have no idea what I'm gonna get for that. That to me is a pretty rare and unique piece. I did not wanna get rid of it, guys. I did not. I wanted to keep that arcade machine. It's pretty rare. You don't see them very often. But it's super cumbersome, and it's way longer than you'd think. You could probably put three arcade machines in the length of that thing. So it's that long. It's very cool, though. I'm so bummed getting rid of it, because I feel like that's one of those pieces where if I did have an arcade, if I had an arcade or a barcade, I would showcase that somewhere. But it is what it is. There are always hidden costs when buying from an auction. Yeah, Klax 29, totally. Everyone has to just be aware of that. So if you go into any auction, go look at the buyer and seller terms. If you're selling something, look at those. If you're buying something, look at those. Because there are people that are like, oh man, I'm all excited. I want to buy things at auction. They don't realize there's a premium on top of it. And they get kind of disappointed or shocked, which you don't want to get shocked when it comes to money. That's never a good thing. I will purchase your road blasters for $12,000. Yeah, that'd be awesome. So they haven't posted it yet. I don't even know if it's actually showed up yet, but I also shipped it to it got lazy. I could have drove it there. So there's another. There's another. Caveat, another super chat for Stringer, the nudist colony had a Commodore. I'm not familiar with the Commodore 69. I think you're making that up. I don't think that's an actual. I don't think they made a Commodore 69, but maybe that was like a special release for the nudist colony. I don't know. got a message from Brandon. He said, I used to love watching John's arcade channel. He has a really nice basement arcade and would do repairs, but he has not posted in a long time. Yeah, John has been MIA for a while, over a year now. I don't know. I've never really gotten contact with him. It'd be really cool if he was still in the hobby. It'd be really cool to do some kind of collaboration with him. I don't know him personally. I don't even know anyone that knows him personally, so I don't know if he'd be into something like that, but I know he's not gone. he does the outs i think it's called the outsiders i can't remember they have a big podcast where he does modern gaming i know he has a band he's into a lot of different things he has an arcade in massachusetts somewhere i think and i don't know maybe he just got burnt out i mean he did it for a lot of years i want to say it's over 10 years so i mean i i'm i'm going on december 18th will be four years for me uh and sometimes i get burnt out i told kim yesterday i'm like man i don't know like I don't know like how much how long I can keep doing this I love it though that's the thing and she's like well if you love it keep doing it obviously and I do I do love it I just don't know like time wise you have to invest a lot of time and I'm just and I but I but I love it like I love it I love that you guys all enjoy it so it's definitely something it's definitely nothing I'm gonna stop soon but I would be lying if I didn't say uh you do start to feel the burnout the Carl Weathers's nice so I want to do work on the arcade machine so I'm doing that now but it's like it's really hard to film that because you're like all right you get excited like you're in the middle of a restoration project and you're excited but then you're like oh crap it'd be cool if I captured it from this camera angle and that camera angle so it's it's one of those things I don't I want to put out the best possible product that I can with my ability and sometimes that takes longer than if I were to just turn on the camera and talk. Thank you, everybody. I got to be better about, in the next show, I'm going to be better about getting to all your chats. I'm not going to have a big topic. I want to make the topic Christmas. So the next show is going to be all about you guys. I want to highlight the chat more. It's hard for me to tell a story and then also manage the chat. So I want to make sure that everyone's chats are heard. So we'll spend a lot more time on that next time. All right, guys, I appreciate you. thank you so much for joining be on the lookout for a video tomorrow on this channel it'll be about the robotron restoration it's going really well so mason get to it my friend i know you're gonna go watch the mario trailer like 175 times not edit it and i'm gonna have to bug you i don't feel bad when i do that i feel bad when i do that i'm like i see i do these things right i do these things where mason's on to me though i'm like hey how's it going like it But he knows. He's like, what do you mean, how's it going? It's going good. You don't ask me that normally. But that, hey, how's it going, is like, how's that video come? But I don't want to say that because that's annoying. Bro, you asked for a thumbnail like an hour later. It's going to be five crying gifs. How stupid do you think I am? So I find a way to make small talk, but he's on to me now. Sucks. Now he knows. He knows when I'm asking about the video status. All right, guys. We'll see you next time. Appreciate you. and I'm sorry I still haven't fixed the outro so cover your ears and we will see you on the next one Thank you.