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As a kid in the 80s, I spent a lot of time in arcades. I recently decided that I wanted one in my home.
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As a kid in the 80s, I spent a lot of time in arcades. I recently decided that I wanted one in my home.

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The top picture is my living room. On the far left is the Iconic Arcade Street Fighter II cabinet. It currently has 20 total classic Capcom games across fighting, shmup, beat ’em up, and action genres- several versions of Street Fighter, Final Fight, GigaWing1/2, Bionic Commando, Progear, Knights of the Round, etc.

Then left to right in the main spread:

  • an Atari Centipede cabinet (with a trackball) that also has Millipede, Missile Command, Asteroids, Major Havoc, Crystal Castles, and 30ish original Atari 2600 games
  • a Return of the Jedi cabinet with the yoke style controls that also has the original Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back games in old-school vector graphics
  • a 2 player WWF Wrestlefest cabinet with two classic WWF wrestling games as well as Super Dodgeball , Acrobatic Dog Fight, and The Big Pro Wrestling
  • a Dragon’s Lair cabinet that also has DL2: Time Warp and Space Ace
  • a Mortal Kombat II cabinet that has all four 90s arcade versions of MK (1/2/3/Ultimate 3) as well as 10 other classics- Paperboy, Gauntlet, Rampage, Toobin’, Bubbles, Joust, Defender, Root Beer Tapper, Wizard of Wor, and Klax
  • an OG PacMan cabinet with five other variants- PacMan Plus, Pacmania, PacLand, Super PacMan, and Pac and Pal.
  • a Class of 81 cabinet featuring Ms. PacMan and Galaga with 10 other games- Dig Dug, Dig Dug II, Galaga 88, Galaxian, Mappy, Rally-X, Rolling Thunder, Rompers, Tower of Druaga, and King & Balloon (some of these are also on the PacMan cabinet).

Of course, like I do with everything I do in my life, it’s all gas, no brakes so there’s now overflow which has ended up in a bedroom, as can be seen in the bottom right image:

  • an NBA Jam cabinet with an updated Tournament Edition and a similar third game, NBA Hang Time, which they released after they lost access to the NBA Jam trademark
  • a Terminator 2 cabinet which only has the one game but allows for two player simultaneous play with the light guns
  • a Big Buck Hunter cabinet with five different game variations all based around the large shotgun light guns
  • a Fast & the Furious cabinet that has two different versions of this frantic racing game with driving style controls: steering wheel, gas and brake pedals, and gear shifter

YOLO!

edit: just to clarify, these are not original cabinets. These are reproductions. The Street Fighter cabinet (9/10 scale) is by Iconic Arcade and everything else (~3/4 scale) is by Arcade 1up/Basic Fun.