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TapperP:

Hey everyone,

Newbie here. Hope you guys can help me out with a decision. I was on vacation and saw this multicade cabinet that seemed pretty nice, and am thinking of buying one for my home. Even the wife liked it. :-)

After some research, I think it may have originated from a company called Arcadeshop (see here: http://arcadeshop.com/cabinets/cabinets.htm ). It looked like this one:



Is Arcadeshop safe to buy a cabinet from, and has anyone recently bought one from them?

I would be putting an ArcadeSD board into it ( http://www.phoenixarcade.com/ArcadeSD.htm ).

Thank you.

BobA:

Don't pay their prices.  Make your own fully tricked out cab for 1/4 the cost or less.  This is the BYOAC forum.

TapperP:

I wish I could. But I don't have the time, skills, or resources to do it.

I'm amazed by the stuff people here build. It's very inspiring, but it's beyond my circumstances to do it myself. So I'm willing to pay good money for something done right.

Please feel free to offer suggestions for good alternative sources to check out. Thanks.

Peja:

I once saw one of these in a bar and decided it would be fun to play some Pacman.  I'm not sure if it was just a bad joystick or a cheap game board but I am almost 100% sure it was a an 8 way stick in there.  I didn't look through all 60 games in the list but when I tried playing Ms. Pacman it was about useless.  I don't even think I finished the game. Turning a corner was almost impossible unless you were moving it exactly up down left or right.  Otherwise you would miss your turn all together. 

I'm not sure if this is standard with these cabinets or I just played a bad one but I would definitely be aware of what joystick and games come with the unit.

Good Luck.


TapperP:


--- Quote from: Peja on April 08, 2013, 12:21:21 pm ---I once saw one of these in a bar and decided it would be fun to play some Pacman.  I'm not sure if it was just a bad joystick or a cheap game board but I am almost 100% sure it was a an 8 way stick in there.  I didn't look through all 60 games in the list but when I tried playing Pacman it was about useless.  I don't even think I finished the game. Turning a corner was almost impossible unless you were moving it exactly up down left or right.  Otherwise you would miss your turn all together. 

I'm not sure if this is standard with these cabinets or I just played a bad one but I would definitely be aware of what joystick and games come with the unit.

Good Luck.

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Absolutely.

In fact, the reason I'm interested in this machine is because I just got back from a little vacation with my wife, and we saw THREE of these Multicades at different locations. Each one was slightly different, and one had an 8 way while the others had a 4 way. The 4way ones had old versions of the Arcadeshop programmable board installed, and the smaller cabaret one had that Chinese 60-in-1 had an 8way. They all controlled pretty well (the 8way was great for 8way games of course), but the 4way was amazing for Pacman, Galaga etc. I was also impressed with Missile Command and Moon Patrol running on the Vertical monitor -- the Arcadeshop board really does a great job with that. So the joysticks seem to be an option, and I would choose the 4way so the majority of classics control properly. Maybe get an additional 8way panel made eventually for other games. We'll see.

Anyway, I emailed Arcadeshop.com yesterday, so I'll find out everything.

Even though I would not be building the cabinet myself, eventually I do want to make some mods, so this forum will be invaluable down the road.

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