Home Arcades…are you into the retro craze?
8I know I’m like 5 years late to the party, but I’ve really enjoyed building out my arcade. I’ve been at it for 3 years or so and have owned about 90% of the arcade 1ups. I love the setup I’ve worked into and had to change tack along the way to fit my space, but it’s a fun setup and enjoyable. Curious if anyone else gets into these. I know Meh had a few on the site a while back, but i didn’t see any other threads on home arcades. Let me know if you are into it, what you have and what you might be looking for. My latest is quarter Cades and new wave toys replicades. I’m out of space for big ones and I like the machines I have, so will probably only do minis from here on out. That is unless I convert my office…
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I knew someone who built what was effectively in arcade into one cabinet. Now he was a super uber Hands-On techie type but he had a trackball of joystick I forget all the different things built into it and about 16 or 20 games. And he did it it wasn’t bought that way it was kind of cool because he could bring it to events and stuff and have fun. I worked registration at a small game con with him and he had it behind the registration station and we could play with it when we were on duty but there wasn’t anybody coming through the line
@Cerridwyn I had thought about this, but found one called Legends ultimate and it has about 6000 games on it. While it has great selection, sometimes the gameplay is a little off, hence the other ones
My hubby has an arcade room- not as many cabinets as you have, but it’s still a work in progress. He has like 6 or 7 cabinets and two pinball machines. (one vintage Doctor Who and one digital with like a bajillion and six games on it) We got UV reactive carpet in neon polka dots for ambiance’s sake. It’s pretty nifty.
Very nice…What you need now is an old fashioned dollar bill change machine!.
I have a “big red” Neo Geo cabinet. I love it. It’s a 4-slot with a 24’’ screen.
I also have it flanked by two first-generation Arcade1Ups that I got cheap that look comically undersized in comparison.
I was excited to get the trackball machine with Centipede, Millipede, Crystal Castles, and Missile Command. I played the heck out of Crystal Castles. The problem with it, though, is that the trackball isn’t great. You can fairly easily flick it too fast and the cursor (or Bentley Bear) just stutters around instead of moving. I got pretty good at Crystal Castles, but ended up being trackball limited, trying to coast on the upper end of the speed the trackball could register.
I also got the Asteroids/Major Havoc/Lunar Lander/Tempest cabinet. The stock spinner was complete garbage, so I upgraded it.
I think I heard Arcade1Up is heading out of business if they aren’t there yet. I get it. They’re kind of pricey for what they are, and most people who would want one probably have one (or more) by now.