I ramble about Arcade1UP to a camera at 2 AM. Edited by Scott Wozniak Main Channel: @ScottTheWoz Twitter: / scottthewoz Facebook: / scottthewoz Instagram: / scottthewoz
holy fuck he actually did it, I remember in 2019 when the game room episode came out and he had the galaga machine and said that he wanted a basement with arcade machines. and now 4 years later, he did it, that’s awesome
I was lucky I guess. My mom and dad were both old school 70's gamers, and when my dad's sister's husband went to an auction, they sold him Tron, Tempest, and Cosmic Cruiser arcade machines for 150$. He just wanted the Tempest machine, so in our basement we had Tron and Cosmic Cruiser. It's why I love Tron to this day
I find it hilarious that scott's weakness and lack of masculinity is the norm in his head. In his mind no one person can carry one of those arcade machines on their own. I'm a scrawny dude and I can easily lift it and carry it for fun. Nice delusion though.
I bought one (street fighter vs x-men) which was something I would've killed for back in the day. I found a custom mod-kit online to put every game on it, and though I hardly use it, I love this thing. best 900 dollar lamp I've ever bought
A total agree...they're all really cool but I can't see having more than one or two at the most...I have the golden tee and the amount I play that then if I added a bunch more I would definitely feel like I wasted my money
Yeah, that’s the responsible adult thing to do. My dumbass has 4 of them in my apartment. My favorite is Ms. Pac-Man but Ms. Pac-Man is NEVER included in the same collection as regular Pac-Man. So then I had to get the regular Pac-Man machine too. When MK2 came out I was like well gotta get that. Then I really wanted a beat em up. And final fight is on the street fighter one so I had to get that too. I wish they were easy to hack. I’d just consolidate them into 2 machines.
@@kevinramsey417 Well yeah, they're not going to reproduce original arcade PCBs when they can just stick a cheap SoC and LCD panel in a particle board cabinet and profit. Worse, they don't even have stereo speakers IIRC.
I'm about in the same place. I fell in love with them, ran out of room, sold them and then bought a MAME cabinet instead. The thing with the MAME cab is it was cool but since you had access to every game, you didn't really care about anything. The dedicated cabinet made you appreciate the individual games more. I do like Arcade 1UP but it really comes to space. If I had a room I could dedicate to arcades, I'd love to fill one up but that's just a fantasy at this point. I just don't have the space to dedicate to arcade cabinets that will collect dust but look pretty.
I went sort of both ways. I built myself 4 cabinets so far, each with limited roms. One is a shooter cabinet with vertical screen for games like Contra, Jackal, Twin Cobra, Devastator etc, one is a regular 4:3 screen one, one is for light gun games and one has the Star Wars yoke for games like Star Wars, Road Blaster etc. It's a good compromise both ways in my opinion.
When my wife and I bought our house a year ago, we finally had enough room for me to actually have an office/game room, and the first thing I bought was the Arcade 1Up Turtles in Time cabinet. I had fun beating each of the two games on the cabinet once, but now it just takes up a corner of the room and only gets turned on when we have guests over. I’ve accepted that it’s a cool and relatively super expensive room decoration, in the same way that the pyramid head skate deck I have mounted to the wall is. They are dope game room decorations, if you have the extra space to accommodate them, but you definitely don’t end up using them the way you envision you’re going to before you buy your first.
I personally went ghetto with arcade machines and built one myself with two sheets of thick plywood that runs on an old tv and a Windows Vista PC that I bought on Craigslist from the Sheriff's department.
What's crazy is that's literally all you need, bare minimum literally. It doesn't take a lot except time and a small amount of commitment. It doesn't have to break the bank.
That was the best old man rant I've watched in a long time and I was nodding my head the entire time. I'm glad I dodged the bullet of getting into these Arcade 1up machines. I'm glad the company has learned things from the initial machine releases, but they need to get back to the $300 price point for a machine with a good looking matching riser. No included bar stool or any other garbage to inflate the price and drop the stupid coin slot stickers or molded plastic. Simplify the product selection and push for volume on the condensed SKU selection you have. Change up the artwork if you want to release a cabinet again, but stop messing with the game selection and screwing over your existing customers.
My uncle and I (he's one of those wonderful ppl who never grew up) basically lived in the arcade when I'd visit in the Summers late 80s, early 90s. Around 2005 or so, I stumbled on CAD blueprints of a popular arcade cabinet design (huge, bulky, full size). I purchased a ton of fiberboard and we built it. We stuck a 27" crt tv hooked into the mame PC (hidden inside the cabinet) via S-Video cable. After the final details (custom Plexi screen guard/bezel, lighted top, T molding, custom slikstik control box, etc.) we sat back in awe of our creation. It's since been updated to run off a RetroPie, and gets used constantly. 😊
Growing up my dad fixed coin operated machinery for a living. He'd buy a broken arcade machine and fix it in our garage. Wed usually have 2 or 3 arcade games or pinball machines at one time and when he noticed that we got bored of one of the games hed sell it for a profit, and buy another broken one. By the time I was old enough to hold a screwdriver I was working on them with him. Because of that upbringing I work with electronics for a living.
I guess to some people fixing up arcade cabinets eventually becomes more fun than actually playing them. In the sense than it certainly might feel more rewarding reviving a dead machine than getting a high score.
Growing up, my friend had all the things that Scott's talking about. His dad had a room with a classic bar in it, at least a dozen real arcade cabinets, billiards, and a honking 40-ish inch screen monstrosity of a TV with the SNES hooked into it. It was sick going from game to game in our own personal arcade.
We owned an arcade machine when i was in elememtary school, it was Final Fight. I spend hours upon hours playing that cabinet with my brothers. After it broke down my little brothers dad converted the cabinet to play our PS2. My fondest gaming memories are sitting on a bar stool in front of a Final Fight cabinet
Yep! I love arcade hardware because you can just retrofit cabinets to hook up to whatever you want. I really want to get a blast city cabinet and put a couple of consoles in it with a selector switch.
Great overview. The thing that definitely convinced me to avoid these was when they announced the Marvel vs Capcom 2 cabinet. They gatekept a potentially cool rerelease (since the only way to play it nowadays is through emulation) behind a $400 cabinet and apparently it doesn't even run the game good.
4:24 When we first met i remember you complimenting my SF2 arcade video and i was floored you watched something so obscure of mine. Now next time we meet i can compliment you on your arcade video. 😏
Scott's thoughts on this is basically exactly how I've felt since I first saw an Arcade1Up. I was originally gonna get a Pac-Man once myself but decided against it as I'd rather have a multicade or the original cabinet myself
Scott, I had a imported DDR cab from Japan, the amount of technical know how to get the machine online and fixing the sensors forces you to be you’re own tech. I have a few friends that have $100k worth of real, imported arcade cabinets that require extensive technical know how to get them to even turn on. Konami is quite the stickler for preventing non-Dave and busters or Round 1 locations from being able to use the cabinets. Quite a big underground community that does get them online, in unconventional ways.
@@bowlseedreal if you’re interested find some of the rhythm game communities, they can guide you to a source to get this imported! Unless you already have a source.
My suggestion: keep the ones you love, sell the rest, and custom build 2 or 3 dedicated full-size mame cabinets with custom controls, each one paired with control-appropriate games. (One with 2 buttons per player, another with dials and ball rollers, the third with 6 button fighter configuration, etc) For added authenticity, add real coin mechs to each one. With a little extra work, you can even make them functional!
Scott doesn't "love" even a single one of them, and they'll be completely gone 1-2 years after he gets a quality multicade cabinet. Arcade 1UPs are garbage, and everybody who bought a collection of them will regret doing so even if their overblown ego doesn't allow them to admit it. I've been saying this from day one, and, yes, it feels awesome to see other people slowly coming to the same realization. What can I say? Feels good to help people.
So... ignoring the first response... yeah tagmedia is probably right. I assume most arcade 1up machines are running MAME anyway (given everyone does) so making a meme machine is the smart move. Plus it can have whatever roms on it you want.
I wanted to do a home arcade, but it was always out of reach financially and spacewise until they did the countercades a few years back. I bought a long card table and put the TMNT, Marvel vs. Capcom, and MK3 countercades on top. Pretty happy with what I got.
@@goobah1389I understand wanting one for your favorite game. But after the second one, why not build a custom machine with a full low cost pc + bigger screen +emulation with improvements.
@@rafindeed because it involves a lot of time for the average person (key word being average). and i build custom cabs. so id know. maybe its easy for you and i but not to most. how many families really have the time or desire to build a custom one? just cause youre handy doesnt mean every one is or wants to be.
@@user-jm8bj1hd3d agreed. Im starting with my premise that due to prices in my country, most of the people are used to learn how to do things on their own to make it cheaper. But i agree, if you want to just buy and play, 1up is the way indeed.
Im a huge collector of Arcade 1ups, and i hugely agree with all this stuff, especially the rereleases. I remember buying my class of 81 cabinet kind of in a hurry because it was sold out everywhere and i didnt know if they were going to be restocked, so i got that, and only a few days later they announce that deluxe version and i felt like an absolute buffoon
why not just buy one modern arcade with a raspberry pi built in so you can update and upgrade every single day if you wanted to? it looks cooler and costs WAYY less in the long run
I know how you feel after you've had them for a while. I built my own full size arcade in the early 2000's using a blueprint someone made and it was a big project for me having to cut all the wood but I got it done. It ran a normal PC inside with a CRT for the screen so it was super heavy. I ended up scrapping it after 3 years and now I wish I had it back once the itch came back to have one. I could have put a LCD with Pi in it and still have a full size one, but instead I got a Arcade1UP. I did end up putting a Pi in it though because of the latency issue which makes playing any fighting game almost impossible. Now I almost have what I want (Deluxe MK II), I just wish it was full size like the one I made.
@@DarkfoX9001 Not OP, but I've done it myself, it's not especially hard, just time consuming. The toughest part for me was planning out and drilling the holes in the control deck & plexiglass to account for extra buttons (you have to add one button per player for an add coin button at the very least, and I also added a few more buttons per player). There are a million guides on RU-vid if you're interested, ETA Prime does a good one (although it's a bit dated now as he uses a gen 1 A1Up cabinet).
Scott flew to close to the sun. I built my own full sized arcade machine that booted to bactocera. I played it alot and then not at all. This is the human condition, we can never be satisfied.
When you said that you were obsessed with having a popcorn marching in your house, and I immediately understood the one we see in the background of the speed dating episode,it always stuck out to me 😃
i have also been so obsessed with having a good popcorn machine for a long time. I mainly wanted one of the big ones that movie theatres or theme parks have. Might do that when i have a bigger house
One of the greatest Arcade1Up videos on RU-vid… this company is all about greed. The company looks for every way possible to raise prices while reducing their costs by cheapening components. What’s worse, they are starting to sell products that are unfinished and falsely advertised (nfl blitz, mvsc2, fast and furious etc.). They are not passionate about arcades or their consumer base. Thank you for being so open and honest with your review. You’re the man! Subscribed! ❤
@Super Sanic the changes to NFL Blitz were announced when the cab was revealed. We want this to reflect the health and safety standards of the NFL today lol
Scott, I understand your pining for design consistency regarding their aesthetics but, even as someone with slight OCD tendencies, I can assure you that the weird design quirks legit make the machines look way more like an actual arcade. Hell, the arcade I went to as a teen had four distinctly different Mortal Kombat II cabinets at the same time. One even had a cool controller pedestal separate from the monitor with like a 5 foot gap in between and it was really grandiose in appearance.
It brings a very small tear to my eye (OK not really), but I have to say I think it's cool as hell to see young gamers like Scott admitting to loving Galaga, and other classics. I was that youngster, playing Galaga in my local arcade in 1979. I miss the old arcades, (and my knees.. Don't get old!) Anyway, jokes aside (the missing my knees was real), I love videos like this. Keep up the great work! -Matt
Galaga has aged very well, which is something you can't say about every arcade game. I'm about Scott's age and whenever friends and I go to a local barcade, Galaga is a must play.
Slight correction... you were playing Galaxian in 1979. Galaga wasn't released until 1981. But yes, these are classics, favorites, and loved by many. I'd rather play Donkey Kong or Mario Bros. Arcade over a console Super Mario game!
@@angelorusso3219 Ahh. Yes of course. I love both Galaxian and Galaga. I think seeing the Arcade 1-Up Galaga cabinet while I was leaving the comment threw me off. Yes, I'm blaming Arcade 1-Up! :P
I agree with you 100%. Growing up in the 90s, the idea of having something like this at home was unrealistic. So when these launched @ $200-$300 in the beginning, I was beyond excited. I remember picking up the original TMNT cabinet at walmart for $250. Now the same cabinet starts @ $700. During the height of the covid pandemic, the owner posted on twitter or instagram a picture of pallets of wood with a passive aggressive caption "Wood is expensive". This was in reply to the criticism that the pricing was out of control. Horse shit, wood came down to 479 a share at multiple points in 2023 but Arcade1up prices froze. While I don't think Arcade1up will ultimately stay in business, I do believe they have spurred a lot of imaginations where we might have better economical choices in the future. Or at least thats what i keep telling myself.
I always thought the most glaring problem with all these is the laggy, sluggish response of the controls. None of them (that I’ve played) feel as tight and responsive as the original arcade games, making the games frustrating to play and not enjoyable.
Tried the turtles in time arcade1up recently because I had never seen it before, I love turtles in time, and a buddy had it. It felt *fine* to play, but the entire cabinet felt kind of unstable, and I was constantly worried about breaking the sticks and buttons because they felt *exceptionally* cheap. Cool idea, not worth the money. If you're a huge fan of these specific games, you can build a more effective custom cabinet for less with a bit of research and elbow grease
@@thehalf10 OR...take 10 min to install IL sticks and buttons (accurate to real arcade cabs and priced at what? 50 bucks total if that) and your controls are set. people act like sticks and buttons are so pricey or hard to install. smh.....OR we do your "custom" route. take hours upon hours to source parts or build them yourself, set up the encoder boards, STILL have to buy the same controls you would have needed, install a PC, learn how to install a front end like BigBox/CoinOps/Hyperspin etc, FIND and add ROMs for the gamees you want, hope they work, buy art work, lay down artwork, buy and lay down the t-molding, have some wood working skills or buy a kit that has most of these parts...and STILL spend hours or days installing everything only for your PC to crap out....yeah, that sounds like WAY more work. and ive build my own cabs, own real arcade cabs, and own 1Ups. custom and real cabs are NOT more cost effective unless you have the time and skills. the average person doesnt have those things. elitists like you really trying to teach casuals like its so easy when it isnt.
@@nazor1if you actually can feel the difference in response between modern LCDs and CRTs you should be studied by scientists. I get it when people like the difference in look that's just personal preference.. but beyond that it's just goddamn silly.
I've always been super invested in Arcade1Up and when Scott said in the game room video that he might get more, ever since I was like "huh I wonder is Scott ever actually got more". I've been looking forward to this video appearing in my feed for far too long. I thought it was kind of a niche and unlikely to get another video, but then again, this is the guy who's not ashamed to talk about Mario and Wario on the Super Famicom
He’s also the guy that’ll be known for owning Sonic Jam on the Tiger GameCom when he’s dead (cause I wouldn’t want to be known as the guy that owns Sonic Jam for the Sega Saturn when I’m dead)
I really like Arcade 1ups, I appreciate the concept and the service they provide to enthusiasts of that type of game, though I can see why you'd quickly begin to relate and empathize with the jaded, grumpy arcade owners of the old days if you had more than just a few or attempted collecting them.
Arcade1Up was a great idea--budget arcade cabinet recreations at convenient sizes--that went off the rails. The idea seemed tailor made for someone like me--who always wanted a home arcade but likely wouldn't have a house in this lifetime, making ideal use of apartment space. But the increasing prices for diminishing returns, the constant re-releases of the same games in different configurations, the punishing of early buyers...it was really eroding the good will they built up. I never wanted an extensive collection from them. I had a wishlist of specific games I wanted in or as close to their original arcade form as possible and I largely managed to do so. I only missed out on TMNT because I didn't have the money until it JUST became impossible to find, and I wasn't going to buy the newer cabinet that was the exact same release at a higher price point (and uglier art). I also would've loved to have gotten the Simpsons arcade as I had fond memories of playing that, but, again--$800 for that and ONE other game? Couldn't squeeze in the SNES games? And then they nailed me on the upgrades when they finally released Marvel vs. Capcom 2. The other games on that cabinet meant I could've saved the purchase of another that had all of them BUT MvC2. So, I got what I needed from Arcade1Up. Recent compilation releases saved me from having to settle on more (and got my TMNT in the end in that way--YAY!), and everything else they offer has been available in emulated form for years and doesn't really require the arcade experience unless they have specific control needs (like Midway's APB, which ABSOLUTELY needs a steering wheel!).
I have a bad habit of just buying things and I'm glad I never bit the bullet on these and I wanted to a few times. I dunno how I been able to not because I'll get spending addiction. If I finally did I think I would get the TMNT one or Star Wars.
Well… I remember one of my friends had The Simpsons arcade cab from that company, and I realized that it uses Android to emulate some of the games (example being The Simpsons Bowling that they included, using a modified version of MAME4droid)
@DannyP-dm1pw - I have one A1U cab and am converting it into a multicade. If I had the room, I'd have gotten a Ridge Racer cab when they were $300 and turned it into a racing multicade. You can get just one or two, maybe even a third for 4 player games. Then, just spend time and $ on upgrading the few vs buying shitloads of A1U cabs just for the games. The A1U emulation on my Shinku Hadoken cab isn't great, anyway.... it's got the same bugs as their previous releases. Joystick and button upgrades are definitely, recommended. Also, there's 19" and 20" monitor upgrade options (check Tulsa Arcade for the mounting parts). I'd like to add a real, working coin mechanism to mine, eventually 👍
Honestly, the MVC2 cabinet appealed to me, but I hate that that's the only modern release of MVC2. I wish Capcom could rerelease all their early licensed games (ie. all their X-Men, Marvel, MVC, and Jojo games). I could MAYBE do without Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, but it would be another cool one as a remaster or rerelease.
@@Ijustusethistocommentstuff Yeah, it's way too hard to play the games people actually WANT to play and way too easy to play the ones nobody gives a shit about.
I've been collecting vintage arcade games for ten years or more, and the sad thing is, before these came out, you could buy legit arcade games for about $100-$200 fully working. I got four or five games for free, just because the owner wanted them gone. Nowadays, a Ms. Pac-Man runs about $600-$800 depending on where you live. More desirable popular titles like Donkey Kong are more than a grand now. Sure, it helped my "investment" of a collection, but I really miss the days of buying a Tempest for $200.
@@mrzozelowh Yeah, I don't think rising arcade cabinet prices have much to do with Arcade1Up. It's more that those of us who grew up playing these now have disposable income. Increased demand, decreased supply (since these things having a finite shelf life). Prices for all "retro" things of the era are going up, including NES games and action figures. Give it a few years for the kids who grew up playing Wii to age into their 30s and 40s and we'll see some of today's $10 Wii games go up exponentially in price too.
@@thenostalgiabusiness It's already happened with some. I bought Rhythm Heaven Fever for like $10, only to see the price skyrocket to like $90 less than a year later.
Yup. I fell down the arcade rabbithole and got a simpsons arcade last year when it was heavily discounted. Built and played it like 4 times and then it just gathered dust. Saw about 2 weeks ago that on marketplace they were going for 300 plus dollars. Put mine up for 220 and same came with their van and bought it same day. Got a lot space back and got 220 dollars. Happy lol
6:00 i went through this exact experience a few years back. I also got a galaga machine on black Friday. It was a dream come true, i would similarly look up arcades growing up and the accessibility of the arcade1ups will always be appreciated.
Arcade 1Up machines are not arcade machines - they are like, arcade simulation machines. Or decorative. Mistercade or even a raspi or x86 emulation machine is so much better for actually playing a game, and the Mister at least is actually accurate.
I thought this channel was just live commentary type stuff, but this is like a slightly off normal Scott the Woz Video! I'm glad i found this right when i ran out of old Scott videos to watch
I bought a DDR 5th mix cabinet that was upgraded to Extreme at an arcade auction. The auction happened every other month, and I went several times biding my time for right price. I ended up getting the cab for $750, with working pads but a janky LCD monitor swap and a dead CMOS battery. I spent probably double that on cleaning up and shopping the pads, countersinking the screws so your shoes don't hit them, replacing foot sensors, and then switching it to run Stepmania. It was great for a while but eventually the arcade feel stopped being novel and a couple years later I sold the cabinet but kept the pads. Now I just have a nice 50" mounted to the garage wall and a high quality sound bar, it feels great to play on and takes up less space.
I feel like the coin buttons could easily be home buttons. Then, they're there, and they provide a functionality that is needed without affecting the design and authentic feel. And just make the leaderboard a selectable option on the home menu.
@@BeesechurgerProductions does that mean that property is cheap there? I wouldn’t mind moving if that’s the case. Buying a 3 bed house in the uk is getting crazy these days
You are my hero! I grew up in the arcades and seeing all those machines behind you is awesome. If I didn’t have a wife and two kids. I’d be in the same boat. Lol
you're so modest scott he goes "300 is cheap" "well not really that cheap" we all know bro that is super cheap for a youtuber of your size but you threw that in for those that may find that price a bit too much, you're good peeps scotty boy.
Well, realistically, calling something cheap or expensive is all just relative. I'm pretty poor but even I would say having a whole ass arcade cabinet for $300 is pretty cheap compared to most others, or even what I think the price of one would be in my head.
I was talking to my friends about my favorite RU-vid channels. I told him Scott the Woz, Scott’s Stash, and Jimmy Here. He told me that I watch a lot of RU-vidrs named Scott, and I think he was more disappointed in me when I told him Scott’s Stash was run by Mr. Woz
I was thinking of picking one of these up with the intention to repurpose it into a full-featured MAME (etc) library. Somewhere down the line though, I decided on building a custom cabinet instead. If I do go through with it, I'll be aiming for closer to 2030 and will be using my current PC as the foundation.
This really reminds me of those plug-n-play things, we had three mainly- a spongebob thing, the blue namco joystick with one button, and another one that's a little bit foggier in memory. But this reminds me of them because there is SO MANY plug n play things out there, and it was frequently the same few games+/- one you really want
I have a bunch of these things ranging from generation 1 to present. ( Video of my game room is on my channel) but i can honestly say i have had no problems with them whatsoever and throroughly enjoy them. They play well and look great and when people see the game room their jaws usually hit the floor.
My dad bought an arcade cabinet with emulated games up to N64 and PSP from Arcade 1up last year and it's super cool. You can add more games to it too or connect wireless controllers.
I think the differences in the machines designs makes it feel more realistic. Like you're in an actual arcade. The machines look like they are from multiple different companies, with different designs and layouts. Although the cheesy coin inserter stickers are pretty bad.
If you want a good arcade setup, aquire an arcade machine with a lot of inputs so that you can play any game, and replace it's internals with a MiSTer FPGA. Then you have a single arcade machine with tons of arcade games on it. This also comes with the benifit of using a CRT. It's expensive as hell, but doable.
MiSTer FPGA also works perfectly fine with a flat panel LED TV and a simple arcade stick. But a MiSTerCade is probably the best option. I thought Scott would have got himself a MiSTer a while back though.
Arcade1Up always interested me with the prospect of owning a life size arcade cabinet for cheap. I went to Hawaii a while back, and the hotel we were staying at had a few of them, and even my brother who doesn't play games much anymore thought they were cool. But with the price increases and all the confusion with the number of different versions, it makes for a less worthwhile investment, unfortunately.
Great video my man... I just realized you had 2 channels... anyways I feel you on the re-releases... I've replaced a couple of mine... I have about 15 of then in my game room. I do have a full sized multicade as well, so I definitely recommend getting they too if you can. 😀👍🏾
Every single thing you mention in this video is what has kept me from purchasing one over the last three years of researching them, and going back-and-forth on which machine to get first. Still haven’t bought one.
Thank you for making me feel great about my custom arcade cabinet with all of the games I want and none more. With the best light guns, 4 players, a trackball and a custom digital marquee that changes based on game. All for less than you paid for all of those!
I really love my Star Wars cabinet. When I was a kid I went to Disney Quest in Orlando and played the original sit-down version. I loved it so much that years later when I was offered a day at Magic Kingdom I decided to just go back to DQ for Star Wars. They also had a cool roller coaster simulator that let you build your own before riding it. Just loop after loop after loop 😂
Ha! I also played the Star Wars cabinet at Disney Quest (Chicago). That big cylinder roller coaster sim where you make your own ride was by far the most fun thing there. Too bad vector graphics can't really be experienced properly on LCD panels. Kind of curious how they might fare on OLED.
I have a friend who built a furniture-quality MAME cabinet and made it all wife-friendly by veneering it in white oak and finishing it super nicely. Legitimately the nicest arcade cabinet I’ve ever seen.
That sounds super classy, definitely something I'd probably consider doing if I were to have a cabinet. An adult cabinet for an adult home (and more than one game for the space it takes up too, lol)
@@ExaltedUriel “a cabinet for the home” is exactly what it is. I completely get nostalgia, or the value of having a cabinet as like an art piece, but I wish there was more stuff like that available on the market that worked to accommodate the hobby in different kinds of homes.
As a child of the 80s, coin-op games were my life. If the space and game selection are a factor, you might wanna go into a multiplayer, multi game, custom cabinet. Some use video screen marquees that change with the game selection and you have, in some cases, tens of thousands of games. You can also customize your cabinet. The only real downside to going that way is the out of pocket cost of around $7-10k. The question is…how much have you spent already?
I love all of my A1UP machines (I have 8). One thing you MUST have is a custom riser in addition to the riser that comes with the machine. This will put the machine at the height of a normal arcade. I don’t care so much for the current games coming out, but I have already gotten all the ones I played growing up. I am thinking about doing the 60 in 1 conversion kit on my A1UP Pac-Man machine, though.
I remember seeing the PAC-MAN machine in Walmart for the first time, and I was mind blown. This was around the time I was getting into the PAC for some reason and I wanted that stupid machine so badly. To this day, I’m sad I don’t have one of those beauties
I had my Pac-Man phase too, so I bought Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures for the 3DS when I was in fifth grade. It turned out to be the worst game I’ve ever played.
Conversely, I'm actually really glad I didn't spend the insane amount of money they were asking for these overpriced TVs. And glad my GF never picked me up one for Xmas or something Edit: insanely overpriced TV with a $10 SBC wired into it*
@@IceFox09 Aww.. Sorry to hear that. You should give Pac-Man another shot. Pac-Man World Re-Pac is a really good faithful remake. It's definitely worth the $20 it's going for right now.
I think the sweet spot is to own like 3 or 4 to add to a game room if your not just picking your favorite for the novelty. I'm glad I stayed patient with all 4 of mine and made sure I picked the right ones for me. No doubt they have gone off the rails with the prices and remakes. Doubt I'll ever buy another one but I love mine to death. Also surprised you never mentioned the mvsx which kicks the shit out of anything arcade one up is done. FYI my 4 are the mvsx, the original marvel super heroes, Simpsons, and the head to head coffee table mk.
For the balltops and battops coming loose issue, that happens even with threaded sticks in the arcade. You can either open up the cab itself to get access to the bottom of the stick where there will be a straight line and you can tighten the top on by twisting it and a flathead screw driver simultaneously, or you can take a pair of pliers and grab the shaft as you hand tighten the top. Go with the latter route if the former sounds like too much work, but note that the pliers will likely mark up the metal of the shaft. That being said, the default parts are absolutely substandard, and I'd recommend swapping out to Sanwa JLFs for fighting games and Seimitsu LS-32s for everything else. The 32 has a sub guide that lets you switch between 2, 4, and 8 way and is really well loved for shmups due to less travel than the JLF, but the JLF is liked for fighting games because it's really hard to get an accidental input in exchange for being generally a little slower to input overall than Seimitsu's line of sticks.
It's weird because, five months after watching this video, I actually ended up buying a couple cabinets, a Joust and an NFL Blitz. I got the Blitz from Ollie's for cheap, paid pretty much full price for Joust, and honestly I'm very happy with them... So far. Both had some issues on arrival and while customer support helped out pretty quickly, that makes me wary about how long they'll last. Either way they're good companions to my pinball collection without taking up too much space.
I bought a pandora arcade board and built my own wood shell around it. It's nothing fancy but people have liked what I did. LED light strips inside for added effect. I need a good painter to do the shell one day, for now it will stay wood
I bought the Mortal Kombat II legacy edition cabinet about a year ago. The box was pretty banged up so I haggled with the store management to knock $80 off the sticker price; walked away with a $175 arcade machine. It was entertaining for about a week until I got bored of the dozen or so C-Tier arcade games, so I modded the hell out of the cabinet. I put in a raspberry pi running RetroPie, added all new controls, and some fun LED lights. Now I can put whatever games I want on one machine, and I'm not limited to arcade titles too. I will say that the build quality on the cabinet was a little bit suspect. There were a few screw holes that were already stripped before I even got my hands on it, so the little acrylic control deck cover is missing a screw. Overall though, I don't regret the purchase.
I think if you want a multicade you could go the route Bob from Wulff Den did where he got a custom arcade cabinet and used emulators to play hundreds of Arcade games as well as full fledged console games from the 3DS to earlier. His video was really sick and I think would fit your vibe of wanting them all in one in a high quality machine, while still having the Arcade1Up cabinets for “authenticity.”
Man I remember in 2012, my friend's dad had an upstairs room in his house, and he had 2-3 arcade machines and his gaming PC since then I've wanted a cool setup but now, I’ve got it all.
I couldn't agree with you more. I have three machines, and we gave our first one to family because, like you said, we got the MK one clearanced, and it had ALL the games we already had on a different cabinet! The only way they'll get me to buy one again is if they make a Time Crisis one, with TC 1-3, and possibly Crisis Zone.
