Anyone own an arcade machine?

April 02, 2017, 09:50 PM

Skins2881

My neighbor built one. Comes disassembled case. You buy flat screen monitor/TV, computer (emulator), and graphics (Lord's Arcade etc.) cabling. It came with speakers and backlighting for display, you purchase and customize joysticks which were precut for cabinet.

He's got it working but I haven't played with it much because I suck at video games and he changed careers. Pretty freaking cool though.

April 03, 2017, 07:24 AM

joel9507

I have a Chicago Gaming "Arcade Legends" machine that came with a weekly-beach-rental house I bought in 2012. I don't know how old the machine is but it is the first edition and they are up to edition 3 now.

I had to replace some of the switches in 2012 - the Chicago Gaming people had spare parts, manuals and gave good service when I called in, and the work was super-easy. And it's held up great since then.

Rental usage is pretty hard but only for 1/3 of the year - the rest of the year it's not used at all - not sure how that would map into normal usage.

It's a multi-game machine rather than a dedicated machine.

No moving parts in this one, of course.

Growing up, my family had a pinball machine in the basement. Gottleib Wishing Well (1955)

5 balls for a nickel! Woo-hoo!
Now that one - that one needed mechanical maintenance all the time as I recall.

April 03, 2017, 09:21 AM

cruiser68

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Originally posted by joel9507:
I have a Chicago Gaming "Arcade Legends" machine that came with a weekly-beach-rental house I bought in 2012. I don't know how old the machine is but it is the first edition and they are up to edition 3 now.

I had to replace some of the switches in 2012 - the Chicago Gaming people had spare parts, manuals and gave good service when I called in, and the work was super-easy. And it's held up great since then.

Rental usage is pretty hard but only for 1/3 of the year - the rest of the year it's not used at all - not sure how that would map into normal usage.

It's a multi-game machine rather than a dedicated machine.

No moving parts in this one, of course.

Growing up, my family had a pinball machine in the basement. Gottleib Wishing Well (1955)

5 balls for a nickel! Woo-hoo!
Now that one - that one needed mechanical maintenance all the time as I recall.

I've got a multi game like the one on top. My kids played it all the time with their friends. Now that they are in college it gathers dust. No maintenance required since the day I bought it used. Just keeps working.