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Prepare To Joust

Vinny replaces the soundboard on his classic Joust machine on his quest for "woup woup woup."

Sep. 15 2011

Cast: Vinny

Posted by: Thomas

In This Episode:

Joust

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I’m lucky that my local arcade has a working Joust cabinet.

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Great stuff Vinny; Joust is such a weird amazing game.

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I always have a quarter for you Vinny.

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Edited By ItBeStefYo

Scary SCARY transistor thing! DONT THEY HOLD THEIR CHARGE?!

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Edited By RagingLion

I just became a subscriber and this is pretty much the first video I searched out.

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Professional. :D

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Always be flappin´?

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Vinny is nice. What a guy!

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I live this, so good! I really do like Vinny!

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@Scodiac said:

Cool, I love these random subscriber videos.

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I hate to admit it, but I've never seen Vinny before. I've listened to every podcast, but I guess I had never really seen him. I was kind of surprised when I saw him speaking. I don't know what I thought he'd look like, but that wasn't it. At least now I'd know him if I run into him.

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So much dust! I'd take care of that next, I'm sure one of the Tested boys has some compressed air somewhere.

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Great video. Thanks Vinny

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Yeah, what's up with the Futurama-esque music?

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Is it just me or does Vinny's voice totally change a couple times in this video? A few times it was like he became a different person, or the real Vinny that he keeps hidden appeared.

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This is fantastic. More videos like this please! Also, I'm glad Vinny didn't electrocute himself. Thought I'd mention that.

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@Kinapuff said:

I'd never dare use that black-taped cable.

Heh, yeah, I've been forced to mod or make power cables a couple of times, and I'm terrified every time I use them, I connected them to extension cables with integrated power switches in case I really have to cut the power or yank them out some time.

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Edited By strangeling

That's an odd looking cabinet.

My brother has an upright Joust machine in his bicycle shop in Iowa City.

http://www.thebrokenspoke.com/ If you're near, you should stop in an say 'hello.'

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Lol awesome video Vinny.

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@Scodiac said:

Cool, I love these random subscriber videos.

Ditto!!!

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Cheers Vinny, keep 'em coming.

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the music they play in the last few minutes of the video sounds suspiciously like the Futurama theme...

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I am so hungover! but this video is stil awesome xo

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Edited By mkskillz16

Very enjoyable video, ijterested to see more, and Vinny is a great host/cabinet repairman.

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Nice job Vinny

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ALWAYS BE FLAPPING!

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vinny's colour blindness is adorable!

"this one's really colourful... and this one has red in it!"

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I have no idea what "joust" is or means and I have no interest in tech stuff, yet Vinny sells this with no problem. Kinda like that Dirty Jobs guy in Discovery; I don't care about the downsides of working in the cow poo industry or a pig pen, but that dirty jobs guy sells it so well. Vinny could run his own show easily.

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Love these subscriber videos !

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I'd never dare use that black-taped cable.

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I fucking love Vinny.

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Edited By Dingofighter

Great news everyone!

Futurama-like music at the end?

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more videos like this would be great,

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Gotta have the whop whop whop

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Awesome!

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More, please. This is great. Crossing over into Tested territory. Diggin' it.

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Nice guns. Which way to the beach?

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I miss the days when computer repairs were a lot more of this and less screwing around with buggy software. Why couldn't we have had a few more decades of the 80s?

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Super fun, super awesome subscriber content. Vinny McGuyver right there people.

Vinny Vinny Vinny..... :)

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Edited By Whiskeyjack

Watching this video I could hear a voice in my head shouting "Don't die, Vinny!" over and over again whenever he stuck his hand in the guts of the arcade cabinet.

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That was a really cool video. Some good subscriber content coming in lately, I'm intrigued.

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Congrats, Vinny!

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Cool stuff. Fun and interesting to watch.

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Keep Flappin'

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Edited By Baal_Sagoth

Oh man this is really funny on top of being pretty informational, awesome video! I unfortunately know very little about the whole old-shool arcade gaming stuff except for the much appreciated retro videos some guys do on occasion. GB's quest for arcade machines goes way above and beyond any coverage I know of though and this has to be the highlight so far. Excellent stuff.

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I love how this looks like some sort of archaeological dig site.

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A boy and his box! Awesome video.