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526: Galloping Ghost: The Story of America’s Biggest Arcade - The Retro Hour EP526

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast) · April 10, 2026

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01:38:59 - 01:39:13

And we got a call from him and he's like, you know what this game he's like, there's Beavis and Butthead arcade game. Is that a real thing? And I'm like, yes and no. It was an unreleased prototype.

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... well. I mean, what's kind of the story with that one? We do. A friend of ours, Jeremy Fox, who now And we got a call from him and he's like, you know what this game he's like, there's Beavis and Butthead arcade game. Is that a real thing? And I'm like, yes and no. It was an unreleased prototype. canceled. There was Beavis. There were six Atari games that got canceled. Primal Rage 2 and Beavis ...

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01:30:23 - 01:30:57

... It's like unreleased prototype game just sitting with this guy. And just in the closet. Yeah. He's like, oh, I bought it off somebody on eBay. And I'm like, oh, maybe he's got a weird version of Primal Rage or something. I don't know, but so unlikely that he has Primal Rage 2. ...

01:27:11 - 01:27:48

Like, and we've been so fortunate. The industry has been so generous to us. Collectors have been so generous to us. Industry people have been so generous to us. We do have probably over 40 prototypes. There's so many outrageously rare games and one of ones. And it's one of those things that really bring people into the arcade. The Primal Rage 2 was kind of like the complete package of everything happening all at once where we had a professional Mortal Kombat team, team GGA, that went out and we sponsored them.…

00:06:35 - 00:08:44

It's like one of these legendary places. Thousands of arcades there. Absolutely huge amount. You just see the images and it's bonkers. I've seen documentaries that have already been filmed in there going around. And it's like a military effort to get all of these working. Keep them going. Some of the rarest arcades in the world there have a lot of prototypes there as well. A lot of prototypes. Yeah, which we actually cover in the interview. ...

00:46:36 - 00:47:09

... In fact, America's biggest video game arcade. We're talking about the incredible galloping ghost. Now it's got more than a thousand games, including some ultra rare prototypes that you won't find anywhere else. Lots of unreleased cabinets as well. So to find out the story and lots of arcade geeking out on this episode, of course, to get the man behind it all, we're going to welcome on Doc Mac and also filmmaker Craig Bass is working on a documentary called Ghost Lord and the quest for dark presence. We'll hear…

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