Hello everyone
Welcome to a new extra video
In this video we will conduct an interview with some collectors here in UAE
and we will start with Hassan Al Marzouqi. Introduce yourself
I am Hassan Saleh Al Marzouqi
My hobby is collecting retro games and consoles in general
Such as Nintendo, Sega, Atari
Stuff that I liked and owned back then, so I would like to collect them once again
Of course some of them were thrown in the trash and the others were broken, etc
Salem: It's natural
Sometimes we regret doing that to be honest
Salem: True, True
If I kept them back then...
For you knowledge
Hassan was the director of episode 36, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
It was his idea and he was the director of it
At the same time he acted as a victim at the last minute of the episode
In this video we will show the Arcade boards
for me I don't have that much of knowledge about Arcade boards
But I have little knowledge
that I learned form Mubarak Al Sabah and from you as well
So we will get started with Arcade boards
Tell us
Let's start with the first board. Describe it
Alright, this board is for Street Fighter EX Plus
Of course there are two versions for it, the normal one and the plus
Plus Alpha, which was released on PS1
Yes on PS1
Alright, what are the differences between those two?
The differences might shock you
What?
The regular EX is missing almost thirteen characters
OH! OH!
That's the normal EX
What about the original version?
The later version which was Plus and was released on PS1
They added ten more characters in it
Meaning it had 23 characters in total
23 characters. the PS1 version
Yeah, PS1
and the Arcade had ten
Yeah, that's true
Yeah, the regular EX, not the Plus
The Plus had more
Awesome, meaning
We can completely forget about the Arcade version
Yeah, you can skip the Arcade version
Not to mention that it was not even available on consoles
About Street Fighter EX, of course about myself
I loved the EX series a lot!
Salem: I don't think it was bad by any means Hassan: True
I am shocked there are a lot of haters of it and they are mixing it with Street Fighter The Movie
Hassan: On the contrary Salem: Not that bad
For me I think it was great
Not to mention that there were Arika characters this I liked such as Garuda
Kairi,
and others of known Arika characters
To be honest I liked the Street Fighter EX series
Salem: Back then it was the first 3D Street Fighter game Hassan: True
It was unique and had its own charm
True
Now we will get to the next board, tell us what that is
The second board is for Street Fighter 2
The first Street Fighter 2
Salem: Which had 8 characters
Hassan: Yes, the one with 8 characters but Street Fighter 2 Champion the sequel
added four more characters
Such as Bison, Balrog, Vega and Sagat
That game was a sequel of this game
Yeah, Champion Edition was the sequel
Question: What was the first version you ever played?
Street Fighter?
Two
The first version?
On which console?
I played it on the Arcades
Same as me
I first knew on Street Fighter from the Arcades
It was located in the Mashrif Park in Dubai
There was a small spot that had Arcade cabinets
In that moment I saw Street Fighter for the first time
Awesome. For myself
I saw it too on the Arcades
I never heard of it back then but I heard people talking about it
If you ask me which console version I first played, it was not the SNES version
It was the unofficial Famicom version
*Laughing* Yeah the Famicom version
Yes the unofficial Famicom version
I remember you mentioned it in one of your episodes
Some of them were playable and others were not
Most of them are unplayable except one version only
Which was a shame
But what to do? back then they were amazing
The first official version was the SNES version which had 8 characters
Then we played the Champion Edition on Sega Genesis
It was an awesome memory
True
Alright, Tell us about this board
This board is for Super Street Fighter 2
It's the sequel with 12 characters
Exactly, they even added four more characters
Four brand new characters
They are Fei Long,
T-Hawk,
Cammy,
And Dee Jay
They were the new character that were added after the Champion Edition
But do you have ee.... I mean
Is this the only board from the Super series that you have? Don't you for example have the Turbo Edition?
To be honest I am planning to get it soon
Hopefully I will find it
By the way, the Turbo edition had some additions
Such as changing of some special moves
Yeah
And Akuma was in it
Akuma! His first appearance was in Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo
And you are known as "Hassan Akuma"
I love Akuma
Even they are calling you Hassan Akuma
It was an awesome version but had flaws in it
The voices in this version were downgraded in comparison to the original 2
Yeah, as for the voices I honestly agree
Some of them were bad
You feel a strong voice in the previous game especially the narrator
The voice of the original narrator was way better than Super
True
But as content most of the players will prefer Super of course
True, as content, players will prefer Super
Okay, let's get to the next board
Which looks like Michael Jackson's
according to this figure
Question, is this figure..
attached to the board?
No No, it's just the figure alone. It doesn't come with the board
You just put it on top of the board
This to be honest
is the best board that I found and made me happy for getting it
I said thanks God that I found it
What is this game?
This is Michael Jackson the Arcade Version
The Arcade version
There is the Sega Genesis version
It's pretty known to everybody that it was very amazing
It was one of the greatest games on Genesis
Yeah, one of the greatest
I mentioned this game in the Arcade Games episode
and I was sad because it was never released on consoles
Hassan: True Salem: I played it for first time in Mubarak's place
My regards to Mubarak Al Sabah
I played it for the first time there
I was always seeing it but I played for the first time there
The awesome thing was that it was vey enjoyable
It was also hard and supported three players
Yeah, it supported three players
My first time seeing this game was in Al Safa Park
From a park to a park
In the Safa Park it was the same thing. There was circle Arcade hall
Most of our friends remember it
and I saw Michael Jackson for the first time there
I played it when I was a kid but I didn't expect that I would own it one day
and thanks god that I own it
This board is currently one of the most expensive boards of course
How much is it if you know?
As long as my memory goes it depends
There are mixed prices
Some of them costs 2000$
and the others about 1700$ or 1800$
Too expensive man. Like the price of Neo Geo games
If it was a complete version or with a sticker you can forget about it
Unbelievably expensive
Okay, Tell us about these two cartridges
These two are from Sega
It looks similar to the SNES cartridge
So true, it's so similar but it is a little bigger
This is Golden Axe The Duel
Hassan: This is a fighting game Salem: The fighting one, right?
Yes the fighting one
and also it was available on Sega Saturn only
How is the game?
It's playable. In my opinion It was a good game
It had a specific arcade board
just insert these in it and turn it on
Salem: It was a fighting game that used weapons only, right? Hassan: Yeah
How was it in comparison to Samurai Shodown and The Last Blade?
No No No. It's not at the same level as those at all. No way
Okay, what about the second cartridge
The second cartridge is Pro Wrestling Featuring
Which was also released on Sega consoles
and I think you mentioned it in one of your episodes
Yeah Yeah! Fire Pro Wrestling
Yeah the Dreamcast version
This game was similar to it
Maybe there were some addition to the Dreamcast version that Arcade did not include
Sometimes the Arcade versions had some missing stuff
Weird, usually the Arcade versions were better than home console versions
Usually there were better but at the same time there were a lot of games on home consoles that were better than the Arcade
in terms of addition stuff only
Particularly, the consoles that came out after 16-bit era
True
Because the memory of the consoles such as PS1 and N64 were bigger than the Arcade
Yeah
Indirectly it was true
But in 16-bit era, the Arcade took the lead
True, so true
Okay, What about this red board
This red board was made by Sega and SNK. They worked together on this board
What is this game? 0:11:14.620,0:11:16.900 This game on it is Metal Slug 6
Of course the fist Metal Slug to the fifth and X were released on Neo Geo MVS
The same with AES
but Metal Slug 6 was released on this board
Only?
Only on this board
But on home console it was available on PS2
The Collection
Yes the Collection
I think the standalone game was released in Japan only
on PS2
I think it was available also on Wii as well
Yes, included in the collection pack
Yes, it was released worldwide
I think there was a version for PS2 as well, not sure
True
But either way it was available
In the end this game did not require a language to understand in order to play it
So it does not matter if you get the Japanese or western copy
It's playable anyway
True
Okay, tell us about this cartridge
This cartridge is MVS
Neo Geo MVS made by SNK
This cart is for Arcade cabinet
You insert this cartridge on the arcade board itself
This is the Arcade board, there are many kinds of it and this one is the smallest
You insert the MVS cartridge in it
and you can play MVS games on it
Question
This cartridge
Can I use it on the Neo Geo AES console?
You can use it only if you have the converter
Which converts MVS into AES
What's its price? Is it expensive like the AES games?
Yes it is, back then I got it at its time
But I got it like a new. It's used but like a new
I cost me along side the shipping almost 800 Dhirhams
But nowadays people are saying that now it costs about 1000 something or 1500 Dhirhams
I don't know exactly
Good
Of course Neo Geo is one of the greatest consoles
we have ever played
Of course
But you can say it's only for elite collectors
Of course
Or for rich people as some say
Neo Geo is for super retro players only
Only, now for the last board
Which looks like a PC
What is this board?
This one has a size of a cake!
*Laughing*
Cake!
This is King Of Fighters 98 Ultimate Match
The difference between this and the regular 98 is
that this one had some more additions
Awesome
It was only released physically on PS2
Also it can be found on Xbox 360 store
Aha. Can you get these characters with a cheat code on old consoles?
With a cheat code there are some characters that you can unlock
but the others you can't
Because they only made available in the Ultimate Match
For example Rugal, there is normal and God Rugal or whatever he is called
But there is something weird that I noticed on this board
There is some stuff that we see in a regular PC such as VGA and network card
Yeah, it was made to be like this
Do you know what network port was used for it?
I almost didn't check about the network port
I don't know, maybe
they can add other games on the same board
I don't know but I say maybe
Because it was made by Taito
Taito.. Yeah Taito!
The company that made Don Doko Don 2 which I reviewed
I saw once that it had a hard disk in it
for example if you have the hard disk alongside its USB
and it contains other games you can add them
I am assuming it might work
Do you have any advice for those who want to collect these stuff?
Where should they start from?
If they want to collect
They should look for the convenient price, first of all
I mean I don't say go to the website and order
For me how I got them. I found them locally here while I was searching for them
I managed to find some from old closed stores
Meaning you can't count completely on the websites
You can't
You have to search locally in your country
Yes locally, if you are going to count on the selling websites
Most of them are super expensive
Especially the awesome games
Not to mention the cost of the shipping
Shipping cost, weight and etc. Maybe you will receive it or not
You will worry so much
Big trouble
I think we reached the end of the episode, I will put the link for the account of Hassan Al Marzouqi below
He has some awesome stuff and of course I will put his selling account too
He has also good stuff at awesome prices
Anyway, that's all for now and see you later
(English Subtitle: Ghanem Salem)
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