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
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 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'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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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. 😊
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.
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. 😏
One of the greatest Arcade1Up videos on UA-cam… 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
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.
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.
@@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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
@@Type3Diabeto 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 UA-cam 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).
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.
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.
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.
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
My Respect to you! I know this comment may not pertain to the subject your talking about, but glad there's people like you that have an extensive knowledge of the Old School games from the time I was growing up. I too felt the same way about having an arcade cabinet at home, but my parents didn't believe in things like that! Anyways, I'm in my 50s, and hearing you talk about these classics makes me happy. Also, knowing the newer generations will keep these things, (cabinets, 1up cabinets, classic games, etc.) alive and forever! Thanks for This!
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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 was talking to my friends about my favorite UA-cam channels. I told him Scott the Woz, Scott’s Stash, and Jimmy Here. He told me that I watch a lot of UA-camrs named Scott, and I think he was more disappointed in me when I told him Scott’s Stash was run by Mr. Woz
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Hey, Pac-Man Plus was a fun variation! I believe it had 2 players competition, and the fact that eating the fruit did a random effect was definitely a fun way to shake up gameplay. Always had fun with this version as a kid at our local laundromat.
So glad you went through this journey so I don't have to. I've been in the market for an arcade machine(s) and now know it's probably best to just invest in one all bad ass machine
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.
Scott I definitely recommend getting a vewlix or a candycab. Those are way more worth it. You can get them for less than your whole collection and if you get like two candy cabs and put them together it's like super easy to put like whatever you want onto it. It's a little more complicated of a set up but it's suuuper easy to learn and there's alot of places to go for info on them.
I feel like where Arcade1up truly shines is in games with unique control setups. With standard joystick/button setups, I feel like I can get pretty much the experience I want by hooking up a fight stick to my Switch or PC and playing that way. But for games with trackballs, spinners, yokes, etc, those can be hard to replicate without specialized hardware. I have that Pong/Warlords one you mentioned, and it’s so much fun to play when I have people over, because getting that Warlords experience of four people crowded around a table, using actual spinners, and competing with each other is impossible to recreate using a TV and some external controllers! I totally agree they need to slow down on their releases, though. I don’t see myself buying an A1up that doesn’t have a unique control setup anytime soon
Agreed. Unless you REALLY want a facsimile of the arcade experience, most arcade games can be comfortably played on standard consoles. It's just the ones that require special controls that make it more a necessity. For instance, a couple of Midway's driving games you absolutely need a steering wheel for. Joysticks just don't cut it!
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.
Just as with Marvel and Star Wars in the last 3 years, my once joyful enthusiasm for Arcade1Up has receded down to a near resentment and lack of optimism for anything that they release or announce for down the pipeline. I have 11 cabinets in my living room collecting dust and yet my yearning for nostalgia can't muster the strength to get rid of any of them. Thanks for the video 🙂
I MOSTLY Bought Those AtGames Mini Console Bundles, Then Ended with PS-Mini & #LegendsFlashback Consoles! As I Wasn't About To Fork🍴For Sega's "Official" Mini Versions!!
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 too was into the 1Up cabinets when first came out. As said, they were a great alternative for game rooms n such. When they were cheap they were also fun to modify. Wether changing the joysticks to the bat style, adding some color tape to make trim pop, heck, use to make my own protectors for when others played to keep the paint wear down. But with prices up, things don’t care about like online, etc, while still fun to think about have a full blown arcade in the basement, I know in my heart it’s never be used enough to justify the continuing spike in price.
Ive had a full size arcade machine and pinball machine for 6 years. Only had to call a technician once. They came to my house and charged $120 for a 2 hour service of both machines. Fixed the issue with the pinball machine, waxed the playfield, changed out the few bulbs that were out, cleaned both machines inside and out, and adjusted the monitor on the arcade cabinet. So yeah, $120 worth of maintenance on two machines in 6 years. It's not too expensive.
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.”
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 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.
Most arcade games I played as a teen were on generic arcade cabinets from a company that has since been extinct. I was lucky enough to find the same cabinet model that was forgotten in the basement of a cafe. I modified to use a computer with MaLa/MAME, and it is an absolute joy to have all the arcade games I love in the same cabinet model I have always played.
Cool story 👍. I love custom multicades. I'm working on my own A1 multicade conversion + a couple of Qanba Obsidian fighstick conversions/upgrades. The parts aren't cheap, but it's alot of fun putting custom arcade stuff, together.
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 love their stuff. I wish it was easier to mod them because if I could add games directly to the default UI that would be awesome, but otherwise its a nice little machine.
Depends which one you have. I’ve seen all kinds of Arcade1Up mods on UA-cam. There are people who completely changed them to unlicensed games on their machines. Like WWF Wrestlefest.
@@EvaFull yeah but I've only seen them do that with the use of an external board like a raspberry pi. I could do that but I'd much rather have the original boards software modded, kinda like the nes and SNES classic edition consoles where you could just add more games to the main menu, and you didn't need a custom OS.
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. 😀👍🏾
They're novelty items. If the price is low enough you can shrug it off and buy one. But when they push $500+, I would just buy a real cabinet or build a PC or Raspberry Pi powered arcade cabinet. I built two bartop arcade cabinets with spare monitors, a build kit, and Raspberry Pi 4 kits. You only need a $30-80 low-response rate IPS monitor, but otherwise I only spent around $400 on the two cabinets. Download one of the hundreds of pre-made SD images and the Pi 4 will play most pre-2003 games. I have room to throw a full gaming PC build in there and play newer stuff, but I haven't done it yet. I might save that for a proper CRT cabinet build. QVC had a Ms. Pac-Man Partycade with the backlight marquee & 17" screen for $126 shipped. I bought that because at that price, I couldn't build one that low, it has one of my favorite 80s arcade games, and I mounted it on the wall in my game room. I would 100% buy another of these types around that price.
My uncle had a cocktail cabinet with a lot of great games. That’s where I first played Digdug and Donkey Kong, and my siblings discovered Qix. That thing rocked! Best DK experience I’ve had, since it was the arcade version. Unfortunately he sold it when he moved, but it’s my dream to own one someday
Funnily enough, you know what would solve a lot of issues with Arcade 1Up making their previous cabinets outdated with new ones that older real arcade cabinets would do? Conversion kits for people that own the older models.
I have a bunch of countercades. I love those things. I do not have the space for their 3/4 size cabinets. Putting 5 of these on a table though is fine. I think I have all I want though, so I’m probably done. I also have the Pac-Man Couchcade. It was on clearance for $40 so I figured why not. For $40 I really like it. I read its original asking price was $180. I’d never pay that for it. It’s not worth $180. But I feel like I got my money’s worth at $40.
My biggest issue with Arcade1up Was whenever they put out Marvel Vs Capcom 2 on one of their machines. For context, in the months leading up to this announcement there was a big campaign of #FreeMVC2, as while it's considered a classic fighting game by many people, it is not officially available anywhere and hasn't been since a rerelease from 2009 that has been delisted. When they announced the MVC2 cabinet, they marketed it as this being MVC2 freed, with them even bringing on old school fighting game legend and person I have not great opinions of Justin Wong on to advertise it. I personally really disliked this as it was pretty much the worst case scenario of the #FreeMVC2 movement, 90% of people who wanted to see MVC2 back couldn't spend 600$ on a machine that can play exactly 8 videogames, but when anyone tried to bring up #FreeMVC2, they'd be dismessed with the Arcade1up cab. Which sucks because this is a game that could have a much bigger modern day community if you didn't need 20 year old consoles or 600$ dollar machines that you can't plug controllers into in order to run tournaments for it. This is a really personal reason to not like them, but I just can not stand that one particular thing.
I still have mine in the box. Maybe the online will work one day. It was kinda B$ that Justin Wong went silent about the issues after the release but he was there for marketing even though he might have claimed he was a tester &/or consultant.
@@pcharl01 See I already didn't like him for his treatment of Fraud Krew and the entire KoF community, but this left even more of a bad taste in my mouth.
Agreed, don’t get me wrong, I’m glad this exists, I’m glad there’s some official way to buy MvC 2 in 2023, but my issue is that it’s the ONLY way to buy the game currently. The Arcade 1Up is nice but it’s not enough, we need a port for modern consoles and PC
I'm only at the 12 minute mark but it would be really cool if Arcade1Up sold conversion kits like how arcade games used to be back in the day! The main thing that you need would be the proper layout and labeling on the control panel, but idk. It would be a good way to keep people buying more that don't have the space for more cabinets while still able to play more games. I forget the name of one of the home arcade makers, but I know one of them lets you buy games on a marketplace to add to your collection
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The house has definitely become Scott’s dream home. Now, all he needs is a pool table and a flood to make his perfect game room
Don’t forget the rats
Dont forget the divorce in his 50’s
don't forget the sign that says "the mancave"
Oh my god! … That’s Five Gallons of Water
don’t forget the aquarium that doesn’t actually have fish in it.
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
It's been four years!
the mad lad
He did it and later regretted it.
"I've always wanted to have a room in my house susceptible to flooding!"
Oh wow, that's correct!
I feel arcade 1ups are a thing where you only buy one of your favorite game and have it as a decoration that you play with occasionally.
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.
They’re cool when family and friends stop by. Aside from that, they just sit lol
1ups are glorified emulators.
@@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 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
so your uncle?
@@charliebeer31 not anymore lol which is why I worded it like that
@@metalheadgamer665 sorry mate, didn't mean to assume. Tron is one of the first arcade games I ever played, absolutely loved it.
@@metalheadgamer665ex-uncle. And no, you didn’t mention former husband, so we still wouldn’t have known they divorced.
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'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.
Going to uncle Scott's house for Christmas would be the craziest experience ever as a child
"hey uh uncle scotty can you explain the Mighty Wall Of Boxed Wii U Consoles its scaring me"
Too bad he’s an only child, being Scott’s sibling would rock
@@Coolguy12601uncle Scott did you used to run an unsuccessful video game store
Hey uncle Scott, why is there a 3ds game in the toilet?
hey uncle scott how do you have so many wii u games when you complain about the wii u so much?
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.
Well that sounds interesting and really cool😊
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.
@@skycloud4802 I actually just got my hands on an original donkey Kong arcade machine that I'm gonna start fixing up on the weekends
That's actually awesome
It's really surreal hearing Scott's regular speaking cadence. I like it though, feels a lot more genuine
For real. It tripped me out because I thought this was a video from his main channel
I found out about his second channel a few months ago and I've been following it ever since. I get what you mean but I've gotten used to it now lol
I’d still love a Donkey Kong version. I know it’ll never happen but still.
@@TheDarkThunder ?
@@nintony2994 Scott talking as if he were Donkey Kong.
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
It's was 399.99 relax bro.
@@lol_cow $474.18 for the unit after shipping and tax, and then it was $433.00 for the mod kit upgrade. Just checked the email receipts. u relax
@@lol_cowNow they are 299
Yo, I just picked up the MVC one. Any chance you could send me the link for the mod kit?
@@alejandrodominguez9783 I got mine on upgrade arcade. The guy was super helpful with all my questions
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.
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.
Thinkin back.... God I wish I was friends with little Scotty's Dad, not Lil Scotty!
I'm guessing that kid was probably a spoiled little monster who only had friends because they wanted access to his game room, lol.
@@yellowblanka6058 sounds like me I had all the friends that came over to use me for my fathers toys lol now there all gone and I still got the toys 😊
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.
Wow, you weren't kidding with the ghetto part
Oh yeah, that’s pretty ghetto. Damn cool though.
W
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.
This is literally how I'm building a ITG cabinet LMAO
Scott in the actual episode: "Cocktail cabinets... why?"
Scott in this video: "Cocktail cabinets, ohmygod that's amazing!!!"
Character development
Wasted money on them honestly
It's like paying for scoliosis
Scott the Woz and Scott Wozniak are two different people who just happen to share a house, both run UA-cam channels, and look incredibly similar.
"It's evolving, but backwards."
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. 😊
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.
I want the TMNT one but the newer models retail at $700 now and it's pretty depressing how greedy it feels
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. 😏
hi Shesez love the videos.
so cool you met scott.
One of the greatest Arcade1Up videos on UA-cam… 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! ❤
@@Robynbanks396 I didn’t know that. Appreciate it I will check it out!
May I ask what was unfinished with the Blitz and MvC2 cabinets?
@@Yami-no-Raiden Removed the tackles and late hits in blitz, and missing online play in MvC2
@@mikeyyoon I wish I could rediscover Scott, enjoy
@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
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.
@@djhenyo ???
@@djhenyo bruh
@@djhenyo Whatever it is you took, drink some water to dilute it. Dude, chill tf out.
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.
This is the realest video I've seen from Scott, and I appreciate it as much as any of his other videos.
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.
Scott I love you with all my heart. You're a creative juggernaut and your influence on the world has been unfathomably positive.
Woah woah, you gotta save some heart for gex too
If only you loved squirrels half as much
@@ba45742 No. Fuck 'em.
Is this like, a copy pasted/mad-libs, bot spam for farming likes on comments? It reads so strange and so insincere
@@Yixdy agreed, kinda reads like word salad.
For the amount of money they're trying to milk out of their consumer base, you might as well just make your own cabinet.
Yup at that point how hard would it really be to just jig up and configure on your own? Completely custom too
@@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.
they’re getting dangerously close to real arcade cabinet proces
@@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.
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
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.
people who have rhythm game cabs in their houses are so cool, one day when i get the money for it im gonna get a chunithm cabinet
@@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.
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
I love seeing older folk in the comment section of these videos, tell your knee I wish it a speedy recovery!
@@PremiumCheeses Thanks!
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
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
Yea I bought a good amount of them, but I don't think I need anymore. Been thinking about customizing just 1 of them.
I'd feel like a buffoon if I bought one of these trash cabinets.
I’ve literally bought each iteration of Pac-Man…and sold each one to upgrade. Guess I never learned my lesson…
Damn. Crushing.
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
The buck shooting one was my favorite as a kid. I felt a WAVE of nostalgia when I saw it in the background.
It is a terrible cabinet.
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.
You can still play it through Dreamcast
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.
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)
He’s also the guy who’s played Wii chess, meaning he’s also the guy who owns Wii chess
I'd still like to get a copy of Flingsmash from him.
This is the greatest hero arc I’ve ever witnessed, the lad actually did it
Love it when scott rocks the Employee Talking About Walmart for an Advertisement shirt
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.
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.
How hard was it to put a pi in the one up?
@@Type3Diabeto 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 UA-cam 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).
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.
It sucks but now every type of retro games have gone up in price massively
@@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.
I wanted a real pinball machine but they're like 6 grand for a cheap one
@@mrzozelowh can thank youtube culture for that
@@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.
“It’s called an investment, never said it was good one”
Scott the Wii play and Flingsmash owner Woz
Isn't he the guy that owns Sonic Jam?
@@LordArikado nah he’s the guy who owns Sonic 2 with a line
This is the first side-channel video I've seen and I have to say, Scott, I really dig your more down-to-earth and natural speaking here!
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.
Scott is single-handedly keeping Arcade1up in business
adorable.
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.
How much money do you tubers with his sub count make
@@lemonlime8949 we'll say 100k for every 30 million views via ads.
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.
They are cheap compared to the cost of a real Arcade. But seeing them at 500 and up, I don’t know, that's a bit too much.
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
The 1UP rep was incredibly, unforgettably rude to me at E3 a couple years ago. Been rooting against these guys ever since
Can you elaborate?
Details please?
No information at all since 3 months ago?
PLEASE elaborate i need to know
One rep ruins an entire company so much for you that you hope the company fails? I'm kind of rooting for them now.
My Respect to you! I know this comment may not pertain to the subject your talking about, but glad there's people like you that have an extensive knowledge of the Old School games from the time I was growing up. I too felt the same way about having an arcade cabinet at home, but my parents didn't believe in things like that! Anyways, I'm in my 50s, and hearing you talk about these classics makes me happy. Also, knowing the newer generations will keep these things, (cabinets, 1up cabinets, classic games, etc.) alive and forever! Thanks for This!
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.
Scott showing us all what our own lives would be like if we were unexpectedly rich in Ohio
Remember: the chances are low, but never zero.
If you were rich in Ohio you wouldn't buy this trash lol
to be fair, the metric for 'rich' in Ohio is a lot smaller than other places.
Yeah I don’t think I’d ever want these no matter how much money I have.
@@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
I made my own arcade cabinet this year. It was my first real, aesthetic woodworking project.
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.
Satisfaction is a momentary presence defined by the dissatisfaction which leads to it, human condition notwithstanding
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.
This whole video in a nutshell is how he got over a honeymoon phase with arcade machines
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.
@@hi_tech_reptiles and the end they are arcade machines that is a fact and my point stands
@@hi_tech_reptiles If its a machine meant to play arcade games its an arcade machine 🤔🤔
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
at least those were only like $20-30 instead of like these where they are $500+
I loved jerking that Spongebob nose joystick
I loved jerking that Spongebob nose joystick
That looks freaking awesome dude, I’ve been binging your old stash content for weeks. Thanks for the content
I find myself enjoying these videos a lot more than your main channel. Your true, casual self is just so wholesome and calming to watch.
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 was talking to my friends about my favorite UA-cam channels. I told him Scott the Woz, Scott’s Stash, and Jimmy Here. He told me that I watch a lot of UA-camrs named Scott, and I think he was more disappointed in me when I told him Scott’s Stash was run by Mr. Woz
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.
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.
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.
this. sticks are trash, buttons of mashed potatoes. Trash @arcade1up
Yea, it feels like a cheap emulator and like the display has extreme lag. As I mentioned in another comment, it won’t feel the same without a real CRT
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.
the insane ramblings of a man who’s spent a used car’s worth of Arcade 1up cabinets
This guy seems interesting. He should collab with Scott the Woz.
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.
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.
@@rs.matr1x In a newer vid he showed that he has analouge's fpga consoles, so I guess that's the route he went with.
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 wish you the best, Mr. The Woz. Keep up the good work. 👍
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.
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.
If I ever get an arcade machine, it’ll have to be one of those DIY builds where I can put in my own PC and play as many games as I want.
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?
Commenting before watching the end of the video is TIGHT!
Pandoras Box are ok enough these days
Hey, Pac-Man Plus was a fun variation! I believe it had 2 players competition, and the fact that eating the fruit did a random effect was definitely a fun way to shake up gameplay. Always had fun with this version as a kid at our local laundromat.
Reminds me of going to the laundromat with mom and playing Mortal Kombat until laundry was done and maybe a little longer haha. Miss those days
So glad you went through this journey so I don't have to. I've been in the market for an arcade machine(s) and now know it's probably best to just invest in one all bad ass machine
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.
I was thinking the same thing!
Yeah, I was thinking his setup looks more like a real arcade.
Scott sitting here politely asking a company to be more consumer friendly is the cutest thing. Super naive but still, so cute.
Scott I definitely recommend getting a vewlix or a candycab. Those are way more worth it. You can get them for less than your whole collection and if you get like two candy cabs and put them together it's like super easy to put like whatever you want onto it. It's a little more complicated of a set up but it's suuuper easy to learn and there's alot of places to go for info on them.
any vids on them? Have never heard of them anywhere before.
I feel like where Arcade1up truly shines is in games with unique control setups. With standard joystick/button setups, I feel like I can get pretty much the experience I want by hooking up a fight stick to my Switch or PC and playing that way. But for games with trackballs, spinners, yokes, etc, those can be hard to replicate without specialized hardware.
I have that Pong/Warlords one you mentioned, and it’s so much fun to play when I have people over, because getting that Warlords experience of four people crowded around a table, using actual spinners, and competing with each other is impossible to recreate using a TV and some external controllers! I totally agree they need to slow down on their releases, though. I don’t see myself buying an A1up that doesn’t have a unique control setup anytime soon
Agreed. Unless you REALLY want a facsimile of the arcade experience, most arcade games can be comfortably played on standard consoles. It's just the ones that require special controls that make it more a necessity. For instance, a couple of Midway's driving games you absolutely need a steering wheel for. Joysticks just don't cut it!
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.
@@riversart2030 I Have Thought About Buying That Game.
Just as with Marvel and Star Wars in the last 3 years, my once joyful enthusiasm for Arcade1Up has receded down to a near resentment and lack of optimism for anything that they release or announce for down the pipeline. I have 11 cabinets in my living room collecting dust and yet my yearning for nostalgia can't muster the strength to get rid of any of them. Thanks for the video 🙂
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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 too was into the 1Up cabinets when first came out. As said, they were a great alternative for game rooms n such.
When they were cheap they were also fun to modify. Wether changing the joysticks to the bat style, adding some color tape to make trim pop, heck, use to make my own protectors for when others played to keep the paint wear down.
But with prices up, things don’t care about like online, etc, while still fun to think about have a full blown arcade in the basement, I know in my heart it’s never be used enough to justify the continuing spike in price.
p.s. Street Fighter cabinet + Raspberry Pi is a great option for most of you arcade needs.
my arcade 1up is currently unplugged in my room growing dust because i remembered my pc plays galaga better
Nothing can replicate the experience of the arcades in the 80's and 90's.
Ive had a full size arcade machine and pinball machine for 6 years. Only had to call a technician once. They came to my house and charged $120 for a 2 hour service of both machines. Fixed the issue with the pinball machine, waxed the playfield, changed out the few bulbs that were out, cleaned both machines inside and out, and adjusted the monitor on the arcade cabinet. So yeah, $120 worth of maintenance on two machines in 6 years. It's not too expensive.
Wow I love this video, didn't know about this channel! Nice job Scott!!
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.”
The guy who built his, Thrillhouse, has since made even better ones too. You could get one even cooler than Bob's!
@@keyholes iiRcade are made of solid wood & are very durable.
Go with the multicade. Much better option.
Scott getting closer to his dream game room is so heartwarming
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 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.
Most arcade games I played as a teen were on generic arcade cabinets from a company that has since been extinct. I was lucky enough to find the same cabinet model that was forgotten in the basement of a cafe. I modified to use a computer with MaLa/MAME, and it is an absolute joy to have all the arcade games I love in the same cabinet model I have always played.
Cool story 👍. I love custom multicades. I'm working on my own A1 multicade conversion + a couple of Qanba Obsidian fighstick conversions/upgrades. The parts aren't cheap, but it's alot of fun putting custom arcade stuff, together.
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 love their stuff. I wish it was easier to mod them because if I could add games directly to the default UI that would be awesome, but otherwise its a nice little machine.
Depends which one you have. I’ve seen all kinds of Arcade1Up mods on UA-cam. There are people who completely changed them to unlicensed games on their machines. Like WWF Wrestlefest.
@@EvaFull yeah but I've only seen them do that with the use of an external board like a raspberry pi. I could do that but I'd much rather have the original boards software modded, kinda like the nes and SNES classic edition consoles where you could just add more games to the main menu, and you didn't need a custom OS.
I've actually found that the machine runs on android. I'll mess around with it and see what I can figure out.
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. 😀👍🏾
If only you got into the 'home arcade' hobby this year. These new Deluxe/XL lines seem very, very arcade accurate.
They're novelty items. If the price is low enough you can shrug it off and buy one. But when they push $500+, I would just buy a real cabinet or build a PC or Raspberry Pi powered arcade cabinet.
I built two bartop arcade cabinets with spare monitors, a build kit, and Raspberry Pi 4 kits. You only need a $30-80 low-response rate IPS monitor, but otherwise I only spent around $400 on the two cabinets. Download one of the hundreds of pre-made SD images and the Pi 4 will play most pre-2003 games. I have room to throw a full gaming PC build in there and play newer stuff, but I haven't done it yet. I might save that for a proper CRT cabinet build.
QVC had a Ms. Pac-Man Partycade with the backlight marquee & 17" screen for $126 shipped. I bought that because at that price, I couldn't build one that low, it has one of my favorite 80s arcade games, and I mounted it on the wall in my game room. I would 100% buy another of these types around that price.
My uncle had a cocktail cabinet with a lot of great games. That’s where I first played Digdug and Donkey Kong, and my siblings discovered Qix. That thing rocked! Best DK experience I’ve had, since it was the arcade version. Unfortunately he sold it when he moved, but it’s my dream to own one someday
Funnily enough, you know what would solve a lot of issues with Arcade 1Up making their previous cabinets outdated with new ones that older real arcade cabinets would do?
Conversion kits for people that own the older models.
I have a bunch of countercades. I love those things. I do not have the space for their 3/4 size cabinets. Putting 5 of these on a table though is fine. I think I have all I want though, so I’m probably done.
I also have the Pac-Man Couchcade. It was on clearance for $40 so I figured why not. For $40 I really like it. I read its original asking price was $180. I’d never pay that for it. It’s not worth $180. But I feel like I got my money’s worth at $40.
There Are Only Two Tragedies. One Is Not Getting What One Wants, and the Other Is Getting It.
My biggest issue with Arcade1up Was whenever they put out Marvel Vs Capcom 2 on one of their machines. For context, in the months leading up to this announcement there was a big campaign of #FreeMVC2, as while it's considered a classic fighting game by many people, it is not officially available anywhere and hasn't been since a rerelease from 2009 that has been delisted. When they announced the MVC2 cabinet, they marketed it as this being MVC2 freed, with them even bringing on old school fighting game legend and person I have not great opinions of Justin Wong on to advertise it. I personally really disliked this as it was pretty much the worst case scenario of the #FreeMVC2 movement, 90% of people who wanted to see MVC2 back couldn't spend 600$ on a machine that can play exactly 8 videogames, but when anyone tried to bring up #FreeMVC2, they'd be dismessed with the Arcade1up cab. Which sucks because this is a game that could have a much bigger modern day community if you didn't need 20 year old consoles or 600$ dollar machines that you can't plug controllers into in order to run tournaments for it.
This is a really personal reason to not like them, but I just can not stand that one particular thing.
I still have mine in the box. Maybe the online will work one day. It was kinda B$ that Justin Wong went silent about the issues after the release but he was there for marketing even though he might have claimed he was a tester &/or consultant.
@@pcharl01 See I already didn't like him for his treatment of Fraud Krew and the entire KoF community, but this left even more of a bad taste in my mouth.
Agreed, don’t get me wrong, I’m glad this exists, I’m glad there’s some official way to buy MvC 2 in 2023, but my issue is that it’s the ONLY way to buy the game currently. The Arcade 1Up is nice but it’s not enough, we need a port for modern consoles and PC
@@pcharl01 Fairly certain that Justin is a Arcade1Up employee
I'm only at the 12 minute mark but it would be really cool if Arcade1Up sold conversion kits like how arcade games used to be back in the day! The main thing that you need would be the proper layout and labeling on the control panel, but idk. It would be a good way to keep people buying more that don't have the space for more cabinets while still able to play more games. I forget the name of one of the home arcade makers, but I know one of them lets you buy games on a marketplace to add to your collection
If they did that people would realize how much theyre being overcharged for less thank dinky emulators