{"id":1160,"date":"2025-09-27T16:28:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T06:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2025-09-27T16:28:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T06:28:47","slug":"sega-astro-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/?p=1160","title":{"rendered":"Sega Astro City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well, this one is definitely a surprise out of left field. I have always been into shoot-em-ups, and the premium arcade cabinet for them has to be a Japanese &#8216;Candy&#8217; cab.  None better than one than a Sega Astro City, living on an Island south of mainland Australia, the option for such a beast being available here (and for a price I could afford) was up there with finding some rainbow unicorn poo \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But here we are, and a Sega Astro City is sitting in my arcade (I had to do some serious shuffling to fit it in &#8211; and I have since moved on one of my cabs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/electricadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_6316-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Sega Astro City\" class=\"wp-image-1161\" style=\"width:363px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/electricadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_6322-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1167\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This one is in really good condition; it has been restored by the previous owner, with him only letting it go as he needed the room for his next purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chassis does have vertical collapse, but I have already taken that out and sent it off to Jomac (in Western Australia) to be serviced. I am fine servicing cocktail cab and older 20&#8243; monitors, but not one of these beasts (plus I want it working &#8211; I don&#8217;t need yet another project).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is missing the side stickers, but I can easily source replacements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also comes with an arcade board I wasn&#8217;t familiar with, a Sega STV arcade board and the Die Hard Arcade game cartridge.  It also has the Die Hard Arcade header and control card on the control panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I really have not seen this arcade platform before (basically an arcade version of the Sega Saturn hardware), but I have already ordered an eight-game multi-cart that has some of the shoot-em-up titles.  I am looking forward to playing Die Hard Arcade for a while as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The previous owner kept his locks (as he has everything on the same keys &#8211; probably should look at that myself!), but I have already put a set of locks in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/electricadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_6318-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_6318-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_6318-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_6318-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_6318.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/electricadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_6317-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_6317-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_6317-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_6317-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_6317.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/electricadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_6321-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1166\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this one is definitely a surprise out of left field. 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None better than one than a Sega Astro City, living on an Island south of mainland Australia, the option for such a beast being<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arcade"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1168,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}