No coins or queues just anytime one/two player action
05 March 2021
Growing up in the seaside town of Blackpool, an exposure to arcade-gaming is long established, spending many a spare hour seeking out the best arcade cabinets.
Formative years, pockets crammed with coinage, wandering from one machine to another. People would often gather around players gaining on well-established high-scores. Football on Saturdays? No, fully immersed in the flashing lights and digital din is far better.
There’s a multitude of ways to get your nostalgic fix on the joystick front. From eye-wateringly expensive original cabinets to desktop versions which use the same chipset and licensed artwork from original machines.
Mortal Kombat Midway Legacy Edition Arcade1Up Cabinet is Live
Following hot on the heels of the new Mortal Kombat movie trailer, Aracade1Up has opened up pre-orders for their Midway Legacy arcade cabinet, which comes jam packed with 12 iconic Midway titles including three Mortal Kombat games Joust, Rampage, Gauntlet, Paperboy and more. It s also priced at $399.99, which is pretty solid given the fact that Arcade1Up cabinets are regularly creeping up to the $500 range. They even included a custom riser with this model.
At the time of writing, pre-orders for the Arcade1Up Midway Legacy arcade cabinet were going in and out here at Best Buy. They were also live here at GameStop with a release date slated for March 19th at one point, though that link has been up and down as well. The complete list of games on the cabinet are as follows:
Arcade 1UP announces their 2021 CES lineup by: Nathan - posted: 1/11/2021 9:29:00 PM
CES is a fantastic time of year for a classic arcade nerd like me because it means that
Arcade 1UP will be revealing part of their 2021 line up of games. Today,
Arcade 1UP dropped info on eight new cabinets being released including one I have been waiting so long for, Killer Instinct. No release dates, prices or details of what will come with each package such as different SKUs.
Here were all the cabinets announced and the games included on each one.
Pong 4 Player Pub Table - Pong, Quadra Pong, Pong Doubles, Warlords, Pong Sports, Circus Atari, Tempest, Super Breakout.
New Arcade1Up Cabinets Are Up For Pre-Order
Arcade1Up hit the ground running at CES 2021 with the announcement of a whopping seven new cabinets for your home arcade. Among these upcoming releases are the 1992 game X-Men, Dragon s Lair from 1983, Killer Instinct from 1994, a 4-player pub table, and a new line of Legacy Edition cabinets packed with a dozen games each.
Release dates and pricees for these new Arcade1Up cabinets were not released as part of the announcement, but it appears as though the pre-order process has begun. At the time of writing, Best Buy has pre-orders up for the Bandai Namco Legacy Cabinet ($399.99 - arrives on March 30th, 2021) and the Pong Pub Table ($549.99 - arrives on April 1st, 2021).
Arcade 1Up Killer Instinct and Dragon’s Lair Cabinets Revealed
Killer Instinct, Dragon’s Lair, and Space Ace cabinets available in 2021. Some offer a new sort of look or take, such as the Atari, Bandai Namco, and Capcom Legacy Edition cabinets. Meanwhile, the
Pong and
X-Men variants give you a way to play four-player games.
Some of the variants are pretty basic and offer exactly what you’d expect. The Arcade 1Up
Killer Instinct cabinet is also something of a celebration of Rare in general. It includes the original game,
Killer Instinct 2, and then both
Battletoads and
Dragon’s Lair, Dragon’s Lair 2: Time Warp, and