PixlBit

I like that tractor at the start of your video.  I dunno, I just like tractors.

I never knew about the Bally console as a kid.  I don't even remember seeing Wizard of Wor in arcades as a kid.  I only started learning about those things after college when I would go to arcade auctions and read about things on the internet.  Too bad the console game doesn't have those great Wizard of Wor voice clips!

That tractor is over 70 years old. It belonged to my grandfather and was passed down to my mother. It still runs, though it needs work done on it. 

I learned about the Astrocade (and Odyssey2) through a book by Jeff Rovin, The Complete Guide to Conquering Video Games. Voice in video games at the time was expensive. Just having a game as close to the arcades as this one was was a minor miracle, given how home arcade ports usually looked. 

Huh ... I have only ever thought of Bally as a sports channel. Guess they like games!

Can't wait for 2030 when "Only a few pachinko machines carrying Konami's name survive!" 

Hopefully kidding, I hear Metal Gear Delta is solid. 

That's probably not going to happen. I looked up Konami's market cap. It is worth $20bn USD, which is larger than any Japanese game company other than Nintendo and almost as big as EA or Take-Two (and EA, as of this writing is about to get bought out by the Saudis and a consortium of venture capitalists including Kushner). 

I always knew of the Astrocade but as of yet haven't had a good reason to own one. That Wizard of Wor port does look good though, way better than the 2600 port. 

This was emulated through MAME. There's even a site that tells you everything you need to know about the Astrocade and emulating it, Bally Alley, and that site helped me get it running on EmulationStation on my Steam Deck, which is what I was playing it on. Bally Alley actually has the entire Astrocade library on it, including homebrew games that were released long after the console itself was discontinued. 

I have seen Astrocades in the wild at Fallout Games, a Phoenix-area used-game store. Unfortunately, I failed to take advantage of them. Next time I see one I will definitely buy it even though I have it running on emulation. 

Emulation is way cool and maybe one day I'll go that route. Console hardware takes up a lot of space I don't have. 

I prefer original hardware where possible, but the Astrocade and its games are a bit hard to find in the wild. I've also got this set up for the Atari 8-bit (though I still have my Atari 400 mini, which does emulation a lot better than EmuDeck does), the PC-Engine CD, and the Saturn - mostly for English language versions of games like Far East of Eden and the Saturn Sakura Wars games and Shining Force III Scenarios 2 and 3.

I used to have a Saturn but I don't really want another one because the games I'd want to play (the ones you mentioned) are really expensive to get for it. I don't know though. If I saw a Saturn for a good price I might pick one up. What the heck. 

Saturn emulation was notoriously difficult in the past, but it is much better now, though I still had to work on it a bit to get it running well on EmuDeck.

I think the last thing I played on Saturn, when I had one, was Shining The Holy Ark which I liked. Hum... I think I have a reason now to get one again. The game is probably through the roof in price nowdays though.