Arcade1up Failed. 

It's an end of an era but no matter what happens next, credit to Scott, John D and the rest of their team for delivering a home arcade lineup that a lot of us thought was impossible.

MyAracde went from a fun novelty $299 toy to a $999 real arcade. ($249 black friday deal even in their first year). I was big on them at $299 and collected many cabinets (7). But at $699 i haven't bought anymore cabinets. They were like the candy bar in the check out aisle. It was a cheap and fun pick up. At there current price its not a impulse buy anymore. So yeah it sucks ad I was hoping to get a Qbert Cabinet but that wont happen... Sucks.

No one to blame but themselves. We tried to warn them to get their act together.

I wish someone actually knew where all of this "news" is coming from. Scott Bachrach no longer at Tastemakers? Maybe, but where did that info come from? We've all just assumed that Jon D is no longer there, so I guess that's the case, but why has this never been verified? I find if hard to believe that his X account, which he posts to regularly, still lists him has working at A1Up, and his profile pic is him standing in front of an A1Up logo. If your company fired you, wouldn't you want to change that? It would be one thing if he didn't use the account anymore, but he does, and it's been months and months since people started saying he doesn't work there anymore. Not saying I think he does, just feels a bit odd. I think it's weird to say "Arcade 1Up" failed and that it's "the end of an era" just because a vocal minority doesn't really like the direction of the company anymore... they've sold millions of toy arcade cabinets. I'd hardly call that a failure. Arcade1Up probably sold more cabinets last week than AtGames sold all of last year.

Scotty B or Johnny D. If you reading this, i just want to say Thank you.

25 years from now these things are going to take up 95% of the space in Goodwill.

Hey brother , nice to see you creating content again man! I hope all is well, let’s catch up soon, it’s been too long. ✊🏻

They helped create a genre, or at the very least popularize it. I wish them all well. The super-fail of BLITZ, SIMPSONS, KI Pro and some other big name IPs doomed them though. A1up lost the vpin battle when the first gen ALP came out... and they've definitely lost the war now. Good to see you again!

I don’t know dude, $1500 for a vpin is out of reach for lot of people and just because it’s Adams Family doesn’t make it appealing to the masses.

Great to see you back. A1up has stagnated since 2020. Poor choices, confusing messaging, and improving competition. Time Crisis looks fine but I don't know about the price point. One step forward two steps back on nearly every decision, shame.

Welcome back Dave, good to see you. Agreed, Addams Family is the first AtGames product I'm going to buy.

Seemed like A1up just had a frathouse type of management. They really need a shot in the arm. I am the ordinary customer looking at these...i am so on board with Pinball FX on these. I am a day 1 buyer of 4k ALP. Is it perfect no...is it going to give me the scratch to the itch of pinball that ive been searching for without a pc or other platform to get these games on. Good to see ya UC.

When Arcade 1UP first came on the scene, I was genuinely excited, and the overall nostalgia was cool. The pandemic really propelled them; folks needed to spend that stimulus money. Over the years and many, many reviews, complaints and just at times frustration over their product, they are now making a decent machine: the Deluxe Cabinet. Maybe too little too late. I am also excited about the At Games 4K. Hopefully, the tables will be similar to the Steam offerings. But at least OTG can offer you another avenue to play the legit tables. I appreciate your vid: Thanks!

Atgames cookie cutter pinball and arcade cabs are much more sustainable. Plus they've been around for a while and they managed to survive some failures along the way. Arcade1up has a lot of creative people like Scott Bachrach and John D. but clearly lacks people with management skills. Arcade1up needs to find a balance between creative people who take risks and people who can manage those riaks. Seeing the internal changes within Arcade1up is not surprising to me.

These are the musings of a sane man. People really do be salty tho…

Heeeey, girlfriend. 2 things, first of all, I absolutely love your channel, and secondly, I have a question. Who's your plastic surgeon? Seriously, your Botox looks so good. Joan Rivers would be proud.

I’ve had two arcade1up pinball machines die in less than a year. They are providing new PCBs at $100 a pop. I don’t like paying for their design flaw.

other than the at games 4k pinball, what else do they have on the horizon that has people excited? I cant think of one thing.

Great too see you, the market itself is changing covid kinda over.. and the alp 4k looks great glad you can turn that light off for that.. At least wont be glaring on glass now..

The home arcade market is dying. Even the Facebook groups have a lot less posts and interests. I havent bought any home arcade machines in a few years from any company.

I'd love to see them just sell their remaining cabinets. I like the size as I don't have much display space. I ended up replacing everything but the full DMD. Used some old PC components from my box of crap to put in an ATX mobo with a decent GPU inside the cabinet and replaced static backglass with a real LCD monitor, and replaced the 24" stock playfield with a 32" LCD so now I can run all my pinball arcade/FX3/FX/VPX tables with Pinup Popper as a frontend. Loving it! I would absolutely buy some empty/near empty cabs from Arcade1up if I had the chance and just do the same again with PC components as bare cabinet kits from other vendors cost more than I paid for the full Arcade1UP product out of the box. No headaches or licensing issues on their part, just sell those cabinets. I'm not a giant, but at 6'2" I've been very pleased with feel and form factor of my Attack from Mars cab I modded. Thanks for the update on what's up.

That's why I gutted the two Arcade 1UP machines I had. I have a Pac Man and Asteroids. Got rid of the crap pcb's and controls and went to mini PC based hardware and arcade grade joysticks and buttons. FAR faster, FAR more reliable, and with MAME? FAR more games and options. It's night and day. I'm looking now for a broken Arcade 1UP to make an arcade driving game. As for Atgames? Save your money for now. There are still a lot of bugs to work out with Atgames and I really don't like how they treat their customers, especially when they tell you "Oh you want a better performing pinball? BUY our newest 4K unit for only $1099 if you preorder AND $100 shipping on top of it" umm really? Don't get me wrong, it looks like a nice machine, but their Arcade Legends Micro and Fullsize Pinball has only been out for what? 2 years? I really hope the industry isn't going to "Buy the next shiny object a year later" and your expensive purchases is now obsolete. I've had my Arcade Legends Micro Pinball (What's with the huge names?) for nearly a year and only after the September 15th update has it even worked well. Atgames is a pinball that while it looks great, it has a lot of gremlins to start. Now it's your money ,you do you, but wait until they work the inevitable bugs out of these 4K machines.

As someone who sat on the fence for a while and just never pulled the trigger, it just didn't wow me like I wanted it to. The screen looked washed out at 720p, looked very two dimensional, and I had heard all about the quality problems. Truth is, if you can afford to spend 600 on a pinball machine, you can likely afford to spend 1,000 or so for something a tad better- which I would have willingly paid for some that corrected some of the issues mentioned and made me feel like it was something I would play the hell out of for at least 3-6 months. It wasn't just margins that weren't there, they short changed the product by not making something a bit better and charging a little more. Just one guys opinion anyway. EDIT: Good point about their pricing strategy for walmarts and bestbuys, they weren't going to get them in there at 1000 bucks.

Arcade1up made stupid mistakes. They could have spent a small amount more on production with better buttons and speakers. Ones that are still cheap but better than the junk ones they included. Their scanlines filter looks bad too.

Im hoarding all the Arcade1ups if they go out of business

What ever home arcade company Puts out a 25 inch 4:3 lcd will win the business and will revive the arcade scene.

Atgames Has a surround sound add on too!

if you could get Blitz, Ridge Racer , T2 for $299 in Canada and other markets they would make a lot of money, but really the company is too focused on only servicing the American Market, with Canada as an afterthought. Yes the American market is big, but the rest of the world may be bigger

The new Atgames 4K Vpin isn't that great. they need to do better. 60hz monitor is terrible. 120hz is the way to go.. not surprised at all A1up going under. would rather have a multi arcade machine then 1 machine with 1 game on it

Man, this sucks. I was hoping hoping hoping for a Robotron 2084. Not ever happening I guess....

Good to see you again man. Sad to see A1up walking into the sunset. It was fun, especially at first. I worked for a few financial institutions in the past. One of those financial institutions had a hostile takeover and the CEO was ousted by the board. He was actually walked out of his top floor office in cuffs. The chips started to fall... Glad I wasn't involved, I ended up moving on. Nothing in this world lasts forever though.

I don't think Arcade1up died yet. Arcade1up4life

Arcade 1Up just keeps putting out the same cabinets over and over and over… It’s a shame because i love the company and would love to see them succeed.

Finally someone talking about it I have been talking about arcade 1up cheap prices will not last with arcades

The Frog abides

re: ALP. the playfield monitor is recessed. the other screens are active LCD displays.

Who didn't see this coming? They started off well enough but, they stagnated quality all while raising prices. 1st the iicade died now, its Arcade1ups turn. They have nobody to blame but, themselves.

One aspect NOBODY seems to be addressing, with regards to home arcade cabinetry, is the patent licensing, and the registered mark licensing. Those two forms of licensures costs even more than the license for the use of the rom sets. The patent licensing covers the authorization to reproduce cabinets that look like the original, coin operated cabinet, beyond just slapping a sticker with registered marks all over the cabinet, and loading the licensed roms on it. This is the very reason why the Arcade1up cabinets first came out looking like shark fins. It was an ownable design, that didn't require a patent license to reproduce. Now, the cabinets are looking way more realistic, so there's a massive chunk of the pie being gobbled up from A1up's profit margins. I doubt they'll be able to sustain that much longer, as much as I'd LOVE to see that happen, unfortunately. I feel like we've been extremely lucky to have been able to get cabinets that not only play the roms, and sport the coin-operated cabinets' liveries, but actually to have them in the shape of the original coin-operated formfactors. Time will tell, but I think "that" gravy train will be leaving the station within the year, unfortunately. I think AtGames would loved to have produced authentic looking cabinets, but they well may've made the right decision to go with a multi-cade cabinet of an ownable formfactor, running licensed collections of roms, and other content. That A1up was able to make it this far, in the home arcade ecosystem is amazing, in and of it's self.

David is back baby! We need our guy here on our show! 👊🏼

I agree, this is the first Atgames machine I have really been interested in. Very interesting.

I know i posted this in the past but they definitely had pandemic purchases. Good call how they never figured out monetization.

Keep the ball, I’ve got a whole bucket full.

At games will soon die with there prices they are sell at

Good to see you back man. Get that game room set up! Haha

Well looks who back! Glad to see ya again!

By CEO I hope you mean John D. He's such a freakin liar it's sickening.

A1Up sounds about done, beyond sterile retail releases with minimal effort.

Don't surprise me that changes are being made at A1Up. Some of those prices are ridiculous and being too greedy is probably causing problems. Addams Family is not a must have title for me. Good point that we don't need "4K" printed on the table. 4k has been around for awhile anyway, 8k will be the new standard very soon too.

More importantly, Welcome back!

Yooo!!! Welcome back!!

Long time no vid!

When a company removes the founder/CEO you know shit has hit the fan

Good to see you back.

Who is this strange guy?

I wonder how much AtGames paid for this infomercial.

It was an awesome home arcade fun filled 5 years of collecting! I own 16 arcade cabinets, including 2 full-size arcade cabinets all in brand new condition. I patiently waited for the official announcement of the Time Crisis arcade cabinet and pre-ordered it. I'm strongly looking forward to receiving it 😎🤘

The home arcade biz was doomed from the start. There’s only so many “classic” arcade games with the nostalgia factor. Once you’ve sold through those (and they have) then what? Sell pac man again? Sell obscure titles? There’s only so much demand for home arcades, and that need has been met.

I bet AtGames revises the 1080p ALP and offer as entry level.

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