Vintage 1989 Rock Ola 498 Jukebox Fully Repaired And Playing Great!

ladies and gentlemen this is Joe's classic video games back with another really cool arcade game video for you this evening this is actually a jukebox video which we've done a few of here on our Channel um we always uh hook it up and let it play a record so you can see what they sound like but this is Rock ola's 1989 classic rockola 498 model jukebox pretty classy looking machine I think I just like the way it looks it looks like 1989 all that silver on it always reminds me of like you know Top Gun and stuff like that that probably came out around that time so it kind of looks like a I don't know I just like all that aluminum look even though none of it's aluminum it's a cool looking game uh jukebox though um as I've said before in other uh videos these rockolas from the 80s in my opinion were some of the best best machines they just s sound cool they look cool they're pretty reliable um fairly easy to work on easy to get parts for I think I don't know for sure I wasn't operating games back then but I would imagine in the 80s that the uh The Operators were very happy with their rockola Juke boxes because they seem to just keep playing and playing and playing now since I've said that one this one will probably die tomorrow but as of right now it's working great so this is a uh a rockola 49 8 they made a version of this as well where you could play CDs on it this was right when CDs were first starting to come into the Juke boxes so they had a version where you replace these title strips with little uh um things that held the CD strips so you could play a couple CDs um this one doesn't have that option on it this is just the straight record player version which is my favorite anyway so I'm not complaining it has this fake burled wood look on it rockola very cool it has this cool infinity mirror thing like they did a lot on the uh on the on the front door very cool um and it has a little thing down at the bottom now we had a rockola 496 I believe it's a 496 494 496 uh that we did uh a few weeks ago it sold really quickly but we've got a video of it up here too on our YouTube channel you can check that out if you like very similar machine has the same basic look but just different artwork and a different color um here's the side it's kind of like a gray this one's actually kind of stained we cleaned it up the best we could but it's definitely not in perfect shape it's also missing the coind door I think the coin doors were the same on most of those rockolas uh from the late 70s all the way through the 80s so we're going to track down one of those for it but uh just got a nice look to it um got the silver up at the top and then the they switched from the one ones that were before like the rockola 496 they had push buttons still these are actually uh it's like a membrane you know where you it's hard to explain if you can't tell what I'm talking about you just press a little spot and it makes it work but the same basic layout the same uh CPU setup we got this from a gentleman who used to operate him and he had it at house out in his garage he had a whole bunch of uh Juke boxes and games and stuff we got this years ago we've been sitting on it and uh it was doing some weird stuff I couldn't ever quite figure out exactly what was going on with it so uh we had kind of put it on the back burner for a while we've got many many many many many many Juke boxes and arcade games and stuff that we're working on um but we always I always kind of liked the way this one looked so I wanted to get back to messing with it so I finally whenever I got that other one the $49 9 6 it was so similar to this one that I uh brought this one out of storage and started working with it eventually what I figured out was all all these years this thing's been broke because of one tiny little capacitor in the power supply now we had to do other stuff to it you know there's you had to U uh put a remote battery pack on the CPU board there's a lot of connectors that need clean uh the amp needs some reworking things like that but generally speaking the only thing keeping this thing from working was one tiny little capacitor in the power supply it's a little 3 Cent part um now I don't know if the thing broke on location and he had to bring it in because of that little part and never figured it out or if it just died sitting out in his garage all those years but uh whenever he pulled it out of the location it must have been I'm a big country music fan so this thing is full of country music and it's all stuff it looks to me like would have been early '90s so it was probably pulled off location in about 1995 or so um it's got stuff like Allan Jackson chattah huchi on it I think that was probably 93 or so it's got um my Blue Angel by Aaron tippen I remember that was probably 95 or so so I think that's about when he uh pulled this off location and it was somewhere in a uh in a bar or something that all they wanted to hear was country so it's got a couple songs that aren't country like it's got this uh George thorough good here but that's about as country as you can get and not be country so uh this thing is steeped in it let's just put it that way and uh that gentleman actually that we got this from has passed away is is an operator here kind of locally and uh so we thought you know what I remember him telling us whenever we bought this Juke box and a couple other ones that he really liked this one so I thought you know what let's just leave it exactly how he had it we'll at least sell it that way I'm sure whoever buys it will uh swap out a lot of that stuff with their own songs uh that they want in it but this is a country juke box the way it sits so there it is really cool it's a rockola 498 and uh I will uh I'll uh turn off the lights and show you how this thing lights up really nice looking machine in my opinion and then we play a song and you can uh you can see how you think it sounds uh as interpreted through my camera and then interpreted through YouTube's compression software you can tell me how you think it sounds all right folks so that's what it looks like lit up check that out really cool looking machine our crane machines lighting up a little more of it than usual I just I like these designs I just think they they did a really good job like I was saying all of these rockolas uh from the 80s are pretty cool pretty sweet so this is a498 of course so I will play a little song this thing is full of country records so I don't really uh have a good rock and roll one to play which is a little little better uh I don't see one so let's find something here that uh might be pretty good here um something with a little uh here we go this one will get your blood boiling get your get your your foot tapping what you think now I got it turned up loud to show you how these suckers sing imagine you're in a bar or something got a beer beside you you're waiting on your chili cheese [Music] nachos I'll be strong may be I'll be you'll be the one won't be strong maybe right maybe I'm start tonight you not cry like me baby let's just wait and see maybe I'll [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] startonight my maybe I'll as you may I [Music] [Music] break [Music] [Music] make sh me me my [Music] maybe you maybe I'll break I you down around never to [Music] you you a so [Music] [Applause] [Music] good [Music] all right folks so there you go that is rockolas 498 super cool now by the time you see this video This Rock Ola may have uh two stepped its way right out the door right to somebody's house we may not have it for sale anymore but uh you can see all the things that we do have for sale we always like to keep a jukebox in and usually it's right there by the door if you walk in our shop uh we always try to keep at least one jukebox in um but plenty of arcade games we always have arcade games and pinball machines for sale you can see them all on our website at Lions arcade.com now if you're 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