Arcade Collecting > Arcade1Up & Similar
Could the Arcade 1up thing have been succesful if handled differently?
yotsuya:
--- Quote from: Mike A on February 27, 2019, 02:55:43 pm ---What would that be?
A cardboard box with a screen drawn on it in crayon?
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Even cheaper materials. Existing multiboards.
pbj:
The Chinese are already making multiboard cabinets that are plug and play location ready, and they're like $800. We can sit here and debate what Arcade1up should have done different but that's clearly the price ceiling. They're also making $150 joysticks with multiboards built in that are suspiciously similar in size to the Arcade1up control panel boxes. I've played them side by side and it's very clearly the same people making both.
leapinlew:
Arcade1up back up to full price at my 3 Wal-Marts around me. They were discounted yesterday. Using the OPs logic, they must be a success now!
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: pbj on February 27, 2019, 04:15:53 pm ---The Chinese are already making multiboard cabinets that are plug and play location ready, and they're like $800. We can sit here and debate what Arcade1up should have done different but that's clearly the price ceiling. They're also making $150 joysticks with multiboards built in that are suspiciously similar in size to the Arcade1up control panel boxes. I've played them side by side and it's very clearly the same people making both.
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It's a custom board, but they are confirmed to use the same chip as those control panels with the games built in that you see on aliexpress all the time. Honestly, those are probably a better deal as they cost about the same yet everything is full-sized..... plug it into a tv and you are good to go.
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: Zebra on February 27, 2019, 02:49:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: pbj on February 27, 2019, 02:29:44 pm ---They're already Chinese knock offs. :dunno
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I was gonna say that too. If you asked me to say what an Chinese knock-off of our fav arcades would be like, the 1UP is pretty much it. Poor build quality with careless low quality emulation just like all the knock-off ten million in one "PCBs".
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Well they had plenty of experience with those x-1 boards, which was running Mame and they didn't get into any legal hot water. My guess 1Up took that as a cheaper option, as they had a legal right to use the emulator. It hasn't caused them any legal waffles. I kind of hoped it would so we can see if Mame had any legitimate legal weight. It is clear they don't. So lets hope they use mame over blue or whatever it is called in the future. Same goes for any other company that sells retro arcade products.
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