Does anyone have (or have played) any of the Arcade1Up machines?

I've been dropping hints to my wife that I need one of these for Father's Day

https://arcade1up.com/products/the-simp ... de-cabinet

This guy wasn't a fan. Bad sound and uncomfortable control layout it seems.



Having built-in online play sounds cool, but that's a lot of cabinet just for two games IMO.

This may not suit you at all, you might just want an online Simpsons cabinet that works out of the box - but I had fun acquiring and restoring some original vintage cabinets from the late 70s/80s (mine are from the 70s but it's the typical 80s style). It's not too difficult to do, and parts are readily available.

With a JAMMA wiring harness in there, it's easy to swap out the electronics. You can stick an original arcade board in it and it will run just like it always did. But these days you have all sorts of other options. You can stick in a GameELF (these are a bit crap, but cheap and have thousands of games on them) or a raspberry Pi with JAMMA interface running MAME (which is what I usually use), or to a MisterCade which is the latest thing, FPGA-based. Or you could get an old Neo-Geo MVS and put a 200-in-1 cartridge in there... all kinds of options.

May not be your thing at all; you might just want the Simpsons cab and fair enough. But I think I'd get bored of The Simpsons soon enough and want to change it up. And depending on where you live, you might still be able to pick up an original cabinet going cheap.

Former Space Invaders became a Bomb Jack sometime in the 1980s, now has a Raspberry Pi in it.
It still had the Bomb Jack board in it when I got it but it's glitchy; it needs repairing. Also pictured - a GameELF (blue) and Neo-Geo with multi-cart. Not pictured: The Raspberry Pi. But they are about the size of the GameELF.
Two cabinets so you have one vertical and one horizontal monitor, you see...
Well, it's more old-school than most people like to go with these things, and also not the authentic Space Invaders restoration that would please a true nerd, but I like them.

Each cabinet has a cheap wireless keyboard sitting on top. These are able to connect to the Raspberry Pi inside the cabinet in case you need to mess with settings etc.

Anthony Flack wrote: Fri Jun 03, 2022 1:20 am Former Space Invaders became a Bomb Jack sometime in the 1980s, now has a Raspberry Pi in it.

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It still had the Bomb Jack board in it when I got it but it's glitchy; it needs repairing. Also pictured - a GameELF (blue) and Neo-Geo with multi-cart. Not pictured: The Raspberry Pi. But they are about the size of the GameELF.

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Two cabinets so you have one vertical and one horizontal monitor, you see...

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Well, it's more old-school than most people like to go with these things, and also not the authentic Space Invaders restoration that would please a true nerd, but I like them.

Each cabinet has a cheap wireless keyboard sitting on top. These are able to connect to the Raspberry Pi inside the cabinet in case you need to mess with settings etc.

Adore these cabinets and anyone trying to obtain anything similar. I’m confident one day I’ll have a serviceable street fighter machine somewhere in the house but for now it’s the switch on a bit tv with all the arcade compilations. I also live not too far away from an arcade that restores and maintains all the best shit. I sincerely hope these places stay open forever.

None in my city any more, sadly. But "Video World" was a local arcade back in the 80s. I once got my bike stolen from outside...

Unexpectedly I found somebody selling a "Video World" marquee in another part of the country, and it was the right size to fit in my cabinet, and I needed a replacement marquee for that cabinet, so I bought it. And sure enough the fine print on the glass lists a local PO Box number, so it's from that very arcade from my youth, now an Indian restaurant.

IIRC the copyright date is 1980, and it is a piece of actual glass; screen printed.

love the arcade stuff! Still playing quite a bit of street fighter 2 on super NES with my roommate.
I intended to dedicate my desktop computer to mixing, but ended up installing Mordhau, medieval fights game... It's really technical and a lot lot lot of fun at the same time, i recommend it.

Anthony Flack wrote: Fri Jun 03, 2022 1:20 am Former Space Invaders became a Bomb Jack sometime in the 1980s, now has a Raspberry Pi in it.

IMG_3821.JPG

It still had the Bomb Jack board in it when I got it but it's glitchy; it needs repairing. Also pictured - a GameELF (blue) and Neo-Geo with multi-cart. Not pictured: The Raspberry Pi. But they are about the size of the GameELF.

IMG_3825.JPG

Two cabinets so you have one vertical and one horizontal monitor, you see...

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Well, it's more old-school than most people like to go with these things, and also not the authentic Space Invaders restoration that would please a true nerd, but I like them.

Each cabinet has a cheap wireless keyboard sitting on top. These are able to connect to the Raspberry Pi inside the cabinet in case you need to mess with settings etc.

Is that Raiden II on the machine to the right?

DoDonPachi - check it out.

It can be Raiden II though... well, actually you know what, Raiden II seems to run a bit slow on the Pi. Might need to upgrade to a Pi4 to run that one properly... but I'm thinking of upgrading from emulator to FPGA at some point.

Regarding all of those classic late-eighties to mid-nineties arcade games....I find it hard to believe no one has released an official "Classic Edition"-type console with a three or four dozen of those titles on it. Unless someone has and it's somehow escaped me...? Seems like there'd be a big market for people to play the arcade versions of Super Sprint, Super Off-Road, Rampage, the Double Dragon and Golden Axe games, 720, Paperboy, The Simpsons, the TMNT games and so on, at home. It seems they'll put out arcade-style all-in-one consoles with one or maybe a handful of titles in them, but not many of them in one place. I mean, yeah, those Raspberry Pi things have been around a while, but you'd think there'd be a sanctioned commercial version.

I think it's just a licensing thing, they can make a lot more by just putting 2-3 on each game. BTW, I did get the Simpsons one, will report back tomorrow on how it plays.