Netflix Stranger Things 2 - Arcade in trailer

Hot Rod Arcade posted about this on his facebook account.

Stranger Things Dragons Lair....
Check out what the Dragons Lair looked like when we pulled it from a warehouse last year (pics in comments), converted into a Shinobi, and toward completion, back to it's former glory. It was restored for the show by someone else, using an emulator to make it look like it was running original hardware. It's cabs like this that I save sometimes, in the middle of the big hauls, that I know many think I'm crazy for saving. Glad I did.
 

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I had the opportunity to sell my Dragon's Lair to them for the show. I passed on the opportunity because I had not had the cab very long, and had just done a good bit of work to it. Kind of regret it a little :) They were looking for a whole bunch of games at the time. Kyle over in Atlanta, not on KLOV anymore, is the one that restored that DL and provided them with pretty much all the games for the show. Kinda cool to see them now!
 
I find it annoying to see classic arcade games show up on recent movies and TV shows with LCD screens instead of CRTs. Is there a technical reason (CRT refresh rates?) or just pure laziness or ignorance on the part of production companies? The Ms. Pac-man in X-men Apocolypse was also LCD.
 
I find it annoying to see classic arcade games show up on recent movies and TV shows with LCD screens instead of CRTs. Is there a technical reason (CRT refresh rates?)

Most likely the refresh rate problem, yes. Filming a CRT will give you a rolling black band.
 
I love seeing classics in modern shows. Thanks for posting.

Not to be picky, but the front of the Pac-Man is missing the speckle and the marquee looks repro (looks like the white is fading). I'm assuming it's a restoration.

Did the Tempest and Asteroids have LCDs? If so, multi-vector boards or MAME?

Scott C.
 
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Actually that Arcade set is in my town and I took a visit to it right after they stopped filming. I know that Michael Brian Rich lent out some of his games and that Patrick Wall's Missle command is in there somewhere so not everything is LCDs.

The set is located on Church St in downtown Douglasville GA.

PS: the history of the place is that in the '80s and the '90s it used to be a laundromat...before it was built into this set
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Most likely the refresh rate problem, yes. Filming a CRT will give you a rolling black band.

One way to dealing with that with a single TV/CRT is to plug the camera into the same outlet as the tv. This syncs the shutter to the monitor refresh rate. Worked on older cameras, I don't know about today's all digital stuff.
 
For the few seconds they appear in the trailer, it would hardly have been worth the effort to change out tubes for LCDs.
 
Actually that Arcade set is in my town and I took a visit to it right after they stopped filming. I know that Michael Brian Rich lent out some of his games and that Patrick Wall's Missle command is in there somewhere so not everything is LCDs.

The set is located on Church St in downtown Douglasville GA.

PS: the history of the place is that in the '80s and the '90s it used to be a laundromat...before it was built into this set
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That is so cool. Besides games, movies are another one of my passions. Merge the two like this and I fire on all cylinders, ha!

So they just came, transformed this empty building into an arcade shot a few scenes and left? Almost seems like a lot of work for what I imagine to be a quarter of an episodes air time, but that's Hollywood. If I was passing through that area I would think that was a real arcade and would be disappointed it's not lol.
 
That is so cool. Besides games, movies are another one of my passions. Merge the two like this and I fire on all cylinders, ha!

So they just came, transformed this empty building into an arcade shot a few scenes and left? Almost seems like a lot of work for what I imagine to be a quarter of an episodes air time, but that's Hollywood. If I was passing through that area I would think that was a real arcade and would be disappointed it's not lol.
There were a few abandoned remenents from when it used to be a Laundromat but it was otherwise empty. I don't know how much of season 2 they used for it... we'll find out in October
 
For the few seconds they appear in the trailer, it would hardly have been worth the effort to change out tubes for LCDs.

True, but the Stranger Things production did such a great job of recreating the early 80's in season 1. I just feel like using LCDs on 80's arcade games is a glaring oversight.
 
I'm not a dig dug owner but didn't that game NOT save high scores on power off and only allow for 3 initials on the names?
 
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