Thoughts on Arcade1UP

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

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.

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 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

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

Going to uncle Scott's house for Christmas would be the craziest experience ever as a child

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.

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.

It's really surreal hearing Scott's regular speaking cadence. I like it though, feels a lot more genuine

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.

That was the best old man rant I've watched in a long time and I was nodding my head the entire time. I'm glad I dodged the bullet of getting into these Arcade 1up machines. I'm glad the company has learned things from the initial machine releases, but they need to get back to the $300 price point for a machine with a good looking matching riser. No included bar stool or any other garbage to inflate the price and drop the stupid coin slot stickers or molded plastic. Simplify the product selection and push for volume on the condensed SKU selection you have. Change up the artwork if you want to release a cabinet again, but stop messing with the game selection and screwing over your existing customers.

My uncle and I (he's one of those wonderful ppl who never grew up) basically lived in the arcade when I'd visit in the Summers late 80s, early 90s. Around 2005 or so, I stumbled on CAD blueprints of a popular arcade cabinet design (huge, bulky, full size). I purchased a ton of fiberboard and we built it. We stuck a 27" crt tv hooked into the mame PC (hidden inside the cabinet) via S-Video cable. After the final details (custom Plexi screen guard/bezel, lighted top, T molding, custom slikstik control box, etc.) we sat back in awe of our creation. It's since been updated to run off a RetroPie, and gets used constantly. 😊

Growing up my dad fixed coin operated machinery for a living. He'd buy a broken arcade machine and fix it in our garage. Wed usually have 2 or 3 arcade games or pinball machines at one time and when he noticed that we got bored of one of the games hed sell it for a profit, and buy another broken one. By the time I was old enough to hold a screwdriver I was working on them with him. Because of that upbringing I work with electronics for a living.

Growing up, my friend had all the things that Scott's talking about. His dad had a room with a classic bar in it, at least a dozen real arcade cabinets, billiards, and a honking 40-ish inch screen monstrosity of a TV with the SNES hooked into it. It was sick going from game to game in our own personal arcade.

We owned an arcade machine when i was in elememtary school, it was Final Fight. I spend hours upon hours playing that cabinet with my brothers. After it broke down my little brothers dad converted the cabinet to play our PS2. My fondest gaming memories are sitting on a bar stool in front of a Final Fight cabinet

This is the realest video I've seen from Scott, and I appreciate it as much as any of his other videos.

Scott in the actual episode: "Cocktail cabinets... why?" Scott in this video: "Cocktail cabinets, ohmygod that's amazing!!!"

For the amount of money they're trying to milk out of their consumer base, you might as well just make your own cabinet.

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

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.