Playing Pole Position During Lightning Strike

[rockmanx2002]

If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 250 miles per hour...

[DJCandyManMike]

Was the game badly damaged by that lightning strike?

[Aning85]

all i hear whenever my browser isnt responding, is rreeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrr SCCKKKKKKK!!!! then a few bumps.

[kd4adv]

DOH!!!

[railfreak99]

if that loud noise was thunder then the storm was on top of your house. i would crap my pants.

[jro9001]

did anyone know that the lightning struck when he was exactly 250mph.

thumbs up if u noticed

[davidlee110]

250 mph = wipeout. xD

[jro9001]

and u just started playing lol

[HarlemHyena]

Insert Price is Right Fail Horn @ 0:26

[ThePacmanClassic]

I love cool shit like this.

[TheEightBitLink]

*kerchunk* DUHDUHDAHDUHDUDAHDAHDAHDAAAAA!

Prepare to qualify.

BIP BIP BEEEP WIRR

*Beeeow*

DAMMIT! THAT WAS MY LAST QUARTER!

[Sabathiaman]

if that was @ an arcade i would try breaking it open and getting my quarter

[MavsFan1982]

And somewhere, God was playing the Pole Position II "Beginner/You Fail" cue as He struck that tree with lightning... XD

[bigben0316]

Holy shit, the car went back to 1985. Oh wait, that's "Back to the future".

[LiteShade06]

"Prepare to qualify"

Vrrrrrrrrrrr *BOOM*

"Sorry, you did not qualify"

[newkillergenius]

Holy.........Crap.......do the gods of thunder REALIZE how flaky and expensive Pole Position boards are???!?!?!

[Fett316]

You shall not pass!

[CloseTheDoorNathan]

caption: PWNED!

[nemoslumber]

you broke the game!

[Magicsidekid123]

OH FUCK THAT HURTED MY EARS OW!! btw did it hurt u and did the game crash?

[Parrambusties]

You don't pay taxes to Bernie Ecclestone...no surprise!

[jro9001]

that just sucks. BAD!

[GamingHistorySource]

did it damage the machine ?

[geniusinmath]

I am glad you were ok after that strike it could have been a lot worse. :) plz don't spam or block me. :) I like Pole Position too. :)

[tovara22]

In soviet Russia You strike Lightning!

[Nintendavin]

God just wanted to play too!

[marioworld882]

do you really have the arcade machine

[wmba]

@marioworld882 - Yes

[ENTERTAINMENT35]

@wmba: it survived that deadly bolt of lightning!

[thesnake383]

GAME OVER YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAH!

[compman3000]

lmfao

[uggla03]

scary shit lol

[ssjcmc82]

I laughed so hard I couldn't breath at :26 ROFL!!!!!!

[kurisux]

Talk about losing the game... whoa..

Well, at least you, and the machine, are ok. :D Always good.

Say, that tree it struck, how badly was it damaged? Are we talking split in half? (im just curious, lol)

[wmba]

The top part of the tree was damaged.. pretty much blown apart. Not split in half... most of the tree is still there.

[pbloo574]

Can you post a video showing us the cabinet

[wmba]

Yes... but probably not for a while. The game is currently not in use and being stored - not easy for me to get a video of it at the moment. But if you look around on the web, my cabinet is the standard upright Pole Position variety. Looks just like any other PP cabinet.

[AJBSONIC]

that would have scared the crap out of me

[transmissionjimmy69]

wow!

[meteormanmike]

Holy crap! GAME OVER!!!

[CoolDudeClem]

Wow! You have an original game in the original cabinet? I hope it survived the strike!

[wmba]

Yes.. it survived!

[journeystarr]

Did you win the race? lol

[plateshutoverlock]

Yikes ====\ I'm suprised the rom didn't turn into a bunch of $00h after that!

[shaynebraid]

Did you take any video restoring the game? I have just bought one and any tips would be great, thx!

[wmba]

Haven't really done much to it. Didn't work when I got it. Jiggle some wires and tapped on the circuit boards and it fired up. Just cleaned it up and a friend replaced all the artwork for me.  But we did not shoot any video.

[sudochop]

You know, I never post on youtube but... All I have to say is, that was freaking awesome.

[gtq838]

grats on getting thing thing to work at all... I have the original and I gave up trying to fix it and put a mame in it to emulate pole postion, lol.

[marcomugnatto]

And then, you travelled back to the future lol

[bogger383]

awsome...

[Jeet27]

rofl....yikes....!

[blinkingblythe]

Woah! Did the machine survive?

[wmba]

Yes... amazingly it was fine. I expected it to be fried... especially since I felt a small shock in the hand that was holding the camera (which was also fine)

[Bluetailvappy]

Well, when God says Game Over, he means Game Over.

[wingnut4427]

@Bluetailvappy I think God likes Ridge Racer better. lol

[notyoursavior78]

@wingnut4427

Ridge Racer 4 is one of my favorites games of all time hehe

[DJCandyManMike]

@wingnut4427

Maybe it's Turbo that He prefers. Ridge Racer is also a Namco game, whereas Turbo is not.

[mikethegamer]

God's way of saying game over.

[Mind0verM4tter]

You are the idiot for actually playing with electronic equipment in a lighting storm.

[wmba]

Ha ha.. you are probably right. But you have to understand that I had just gotten the machine.. and just fixed it. And I didn't realize how bad the storm was until the lightning strike. I had intended to just take a short video to show a friend, and then turn everything off... but I wasn't fast enough!

[weirdalfan1980]

ROTFL, that made me laugh so hard.

[cpe1999]

No, The lightning Stroke The Power

[tovara22]

At 0:26 You hear a The Lightning that sounds like a gunshot,that's awesome!

[notyoursavior78]

Phew, Game Over man! Game Over. That was incredible.

[tovara22]

It's Game Over Man,Game Over,What the Fuck are we gonna do now?

[Arkthurius]

well it would have been worse if you had been writing an email...!! :)

[nephildevil]

WTF8?

HAHAHA!!

[manafao]

well that was the most coolest game over i have seen in a long time but seems like the lightning knew what was speeding and decided to ticket you!!!anyways did that brake apart?oh ps how much was that arcade machine and do u have to pay to play?

[xEvanSmithx]

either way, if he does have to pay, he can just unlock the thing and get his quarter or w/e back.

[wmba]

It was about $100.. because it was not working when I got it. And you can either pay a quarter to play, or push a button inside the cabinet to start the game.

[xEvanSmithx]

Ah, Nice find! And I have lightning here now, as I reply to your message, so im like D::'

[Bugsbunnyluvsbabs]

ur lucky it dident screw ur game up, espically the pcb!

[risjnet]

Lightnin' Wins!!

[tovara22]

Score This dude=0 Lightening=1

[bogger383]

That was cool!

[thesnake383]

Did the machine break?

[thesnake383]

Most. Epic. Game Over. Ever.

[SantiCbaArg]

game over man! xD lol!

[teedot]

LOL

[enique1103]

You are brave playing anything electric during a storm. When it starts lightning, I start unplugging...LOL

[dogcoon]

haha that sux

[TehErrorOfDoom]

lol i noticed somthin the lightning struck when the sign with the atari logo showed up in the game god hates atari?

[TehErrorOfDoom]

lol that happened to me 2

[tallicafan85]

funny, u just started it too.

[Derykey]

if that happend to me i would be like oh shit holy shit

[notofthisworld08]

Hahaha. That re-defined "Game Over".

[ospi1984]

this is the real way to say "Game Over"

[drumfreak87]

I love that game. That's so cool that you have an arcade machine.

[dorkydorkone]

The 26 second point made me laugh so hard!!! ROTFLMAO! XD

[andremus3]

lol that had to suk

[5c0tt3wart]

lol GAME OVER insert new ueffe=-'#';.' :P

[tovara22]

What's a ueffe=-'#';':P?

[olloffan]

haha thats was Game over!! Lol

[ospi1984]

that was a Game Over

[MavsFan1982]

If he would've stuck the Pole Position "BEGINNER Cue" at the end, that would be hilarious! :-P

[Pashune]

Dx I've watched it...50 times now... and I still..twitch..at the end....

T-T

[LisaxxStorm]

holy crap...

[Pashune]

o_o Wow...xD I jumped

[ArcadeGames]

LOL!

[tbone2004]

Heh...GAME OVER, MAN!!! LOL

[CoastersNSich]

I remember playing this arcade version at a restaurant my family often ate at over ten years ago. I doubt they still have it, though.

[beartunes]

Prepare to Qualify.... BOOM!

If its bad weather. Unplug Unplug Unplug.

[wmba]

Yes... you are right. The thing was.. I had just bought the machine the day before and it was broken. I had just gotten it working and was excited.. so I wanted to take a quick video to send to a friend. Next time I will wait for the storm to pass!!

[vikingscool]

I remember I was playing Pac-Man during the storm in the bar, lightning strike hit about less than 1/4 mile over the lake near the shore. Wow!

[srgamers]

to be cliche' Thats a shocking good time!

[tovara22]

@srgamers I guess he got a good jolt out of that one eh?

[matttheman597]

does it still work

[wmba]

Yes... just fine. No damage at all (surprisingly.. since I felt a shock come through the game to my hand!)

[WiiFreedom]

How severe was the thunder storm?

[PKMNwww411]

Two words: Battery backup.

[wmba]

For the whole house? This wasn't on a computer.. this was an old, stand up arcade game.

[PKMNwww411]

Is it on a 120 volt cord?

[Tekkin58]

Where's the flash?

[wmba]

That is an interesting question. I never even thought about the fact that you couldn't see the flash in the video. I was in my garage.. and there are only little windows at the top of the garage door (like most garage doors). I don't even remember seeing a flash at the time. The lightning hit a tree across the street.. but my garage door faces the side of the house. There must have been a flash.. but I guess it didn't pick up on the camera..

[ECG3485]

GREASED LIGHTNING!!

[PKMNwww411]

That was the funniest video I ever seen. This qualifies for $10,000 or even $100,000 for America's Funniest Home Videos.

[TheVGC]

Great DALE!!!

[AdamJ617]

Like Roger Ebert would say, "This deserves a big Two THUMBS UP!!!"

[mtiller2006]

You're so lucky from that lightning strike outside!

I always liked the first version. Played it all the time

[jamesposeyrocks]

Same thing happened to me, except it was Midtown Madness 2 on P.C.

[CplNavrasMEC]

omg I would have shit my pants

[JK47Tubing]

Damn!! That's crazy.....

[CHNKYGRLLOVR]

IT STILL WORK AFTER THAT?

[ness682]

weird

[iluvtheboiatchurch11]

that would have scared the crap out of me!!!

[CPPMinus]

Cool. Sorry about the shock.

[sean2me]

Wow, that looked like a promising game! The graphics are so realistic, just like driving in Arizona.

[disasterpastor45]

Geico insurance might want this for a commercial! LOL!

[disasterpastor45]

ROTFLMAO! Great!

[Pinx32]

Lucky the cab made it, nice to see another worker still out there :O)

[xalteridemx]

Bet that made ya jump, jeebus.

[wmba]

Yeah.. you could say that! Actually... I was worried that my house got directly hit, but it turned out that the lightning hit a tree just across the street from my house.

[Nightenstaff]

Is the Pole Position ok?

[wmba]

Yes... amazingly.. nothing in my house was damaged.. including the Pole Position machine! I was thinking to myself "great.. I just bought this thing.. and got it working today.. and now it is fried!!" But it is fine. As am I!