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Arcade 1Up's Ikea cabinets
paigeoliver:
None of these games have cabaret height. Cabaret games have the control panel at the same place that normal games do, they just cut off all the stuff above the monitor to make them smaller. These games just chopped the bottom of the cabinet off to save $8 in production cost while completely killing anything that would ever make them feel like an arcade game.
The manufacturers don't care if these games work right, if they did then they would possibly have a 3 player game with a 19" wide panel, that requires every player to sit in a chair.
pbj:
According to their twitter, Walmart isn’t a price mistake and the riser will be $40....
Howard_Casto:
Walmart probably pre-purchased the cabs in bulk to get a discount that they could pass along to us. I'm thinking the small size is purposeful.... probably requires them to use one less sheet of mdf or it dramatically reduces the artwork cost or something, which would be more than $8. Yeah the rampage one is cramped, but it uses real controls, the cp layout is correct and the art on the cpo is correct. Let's not complain too much when things are improving compared to multi-cades in the past. I mean they aren't perfect but seeing as how none of us built them how could they be? ;)
Personally I'd build a riser myself as they are generic and don't reflect the art of some of the cabs. We could probably make one that doesn't like the thing is sitting on a glorified milk crate as well.
JDFan:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on July 26, 2018, 11:38:09 pm ---Walmart probably pre-purchased the cabs in bulk to get a discount that they could pass along to us. I'm thinking the small size is purposeful.... probably requires them to use one less sheet of mdf or it dramatically reduces the artwork cost or something, which would be more than $8. Yeah the rampage one is cramped, but it uses real controls, the cp layout is correct and the art on the cpo is correct. Let's not complain too much when things are improving compared to multi-cades in the past. I mean they aren't perfect but seeing as how none of us built them how could they be? ;)
Personally I'd build a riser myself as they are generic and don't reflect the art of some of the cabs. We could probably make one that doesn't like the thing is sitting on a glorified milk crate as well.
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THat and probably makes them cheaper to ship since they only weigh around 60 Lbs. so don't have to be shipped by Freight ! ( though not sure if they are MDF or a cheaper pressed board since MDF would weigh more than 60 lbs. even for that small of a cab ! )
Also looks like they are probably being imported rather than built here since the Mom and Pop distribution says to contact - Master Toys and Novelties, Inc which is an importer based in Los Angeles
Howard_Casto:
I watched the assembly video and it was very enlightening. There are several exposed screws throughout the machine.... most notably on the sides of the cab and the top of the cp. I don't seem to see those in any of the promotional shots. It also looks like the brains of the thing are attached to the lcd because that's the only way having the power plug only into the lcd and having a ribbon cable with so many wires going to the cp makes any sense. The marquee is a solid piece of wood, so there's no hope of lighting it up.
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