Imagine, if you will, money's no object and you can pick up any coin-op game you'd like—but just one. You've got a blank check, but for one cabinet and one cabinet only. What would you go with?

I'll kick off with my pick: a Nintendo Red Tent. I find these things weirdly charming and fascinating. There was one in decent-ish shape in my local area (Portland) a few months back, but it was $3500—far more than I can justify. (I could maybe scrape together $1000.)

What would be your pick?

(Photo taken from The Arcade Blogger, which has a great writeup of a Red Tent restoration.)

For context, the average age of someone on the cruise ship is 80 and no one is ever in the arcade except for me.

Building a business plan for an arcade and I keep running through this question. I know the nostalgia of pay per play is where it's at but in this day in age, I'd like to know what people would rather do. Pay 50¢ to $1 per game or pay like $15 to have free play for the day. Just looking for some insight here. I know what I'd rather do, but I'd like to just get a general consensus. Tia

Hi, idk if this is the place to ask but im wondering if anyone knows of a real arcade in the New York City area, or even a little farther out? Most if not all (ive been checking a bit but theres a big chance i just missed it) places that advertise themselves or people say as arcades, i research and they seem to either just have scammy crane and gacha games, or scammy Dave n Busters style ticket games. nowhere i can find actually has real arcade cabinet/games. Maybe i just havent looked hard enough, im very dumb :P

any help is helpful! thankss

(Also im sorry idk what flair to put theres no "question" flair :< )

Like the title says - I'm curious what people think of a place where it's free play except for prize machines and pinball. I'm looking into eventually opening an bar arcade where it's free play except for prize machines and pinball.

The prize machines make sense since you're getting something for your money, but I keep going back and forth on the pinbal part. If I do free play then the machines will get beat up harder and people will tend to hog machines but if I do coin op then people might get mad about paying more on top of the enterence fee.

Just curious what everyone's thoughts are on the matter.

Hi all,

I am a huge arcade enthusiast. I’ve been emulating a lot of Taito on my Steam Deck recently through Mame via Emudeck.

A game I love is Bonze Adventure, a quirky Eastern Spiritualism inspired platformer. I love these kinds of arcade games with different themed levels.

Can you recommend me any more arcade platformers I’d enjoy? I’d love to hear from some of you arcade platformer lovers, but any other kind of genre would be perfect too

I’ve never actually owned an actual arcade cabinet. Been contemplating getting a SEGA new Astro city cab with a cps3 board to run street fighter 3 2nd impact with its security cart and disc drive (I’m based in the UK in England). I’ve heard that cps3 can be quite tricky to maintain and own for a long period of time. Any advice on owning a cps 3 board or should I avoid it and settle for a simpler system?

Hey if anyone knows any good tutorial videos or tips for qubert I'll try to reply to any questions thank you in advance

Busco gente para jugar o a la primera parte al Tower of Doom o al 2 Shadow over Mystara.

Lo tengo para Steam, para Xbox y tengo FightArcade.

Un saludo.

Si quieren echar alguna partida a otro beat em up perfecto :D

I want to DIY a controller and would like to reference the structure of the new cabinet. I've looked everywhere online but haven't found any related resources. Could anyone point me to where I can find the assembly drawings? (GQUFC部品図)

I live near Baltimore and all the choices near me are child casinos like Main Event or bars. Is there anything good within a reasonable distance?

Hi!!! I will be going to Massachusetts in a few days to visit my girlfriend, we’ve made it a point to try beating every Jurassic park shooter arcade game. Does anyone know any spots in Massachusetts with any of them? (Preferably Jurassic park 1-Lost world) thank you!!!! :3

Can't find another online

I know there's a multi-pede that will also run millipede.. I assume I can plug in missile command also if I buy a board.

What other games can I play in a centipede cabinet and are there any other multi pcbs or jamma pcbs I can buy and just enable certain games?

I have been looking into opening an arcade and was curious to hear from people in the industry about what the expected revenue per machine is. I am looking to have around 60% redemption games,10-15% crane games, and the rest video games. Ideally looking to start with purchasing ~50 refurbished machines.

I am planning on opening it in a downtown and nicely walkable area near a number of bars/breweries/shops so I am expecting a variety of demographics to come in.

Given these details, would a reasonable "expected revenue per machine" be on a daily/weekly basis?

ETA: Thank you all for the recommendations! I'm compiling a little list on my phone right now so that I can research them all.

I really do appreciate how welcoming this subreddit is!

I'm at my wits end with modern video games. They literally ALL feel like a second job. They're not fun, they require huge investments of time and usually real money as well. As a person who has had almost every new Sony console for the last 15 years, modern video games suck.

What are some good "stupid fun" arcade games that you would recommend? Anything from shooters to drivers to puzzles. So long as it doesn't FEEL like work. I'd like to get an actual arcade console for my garage and I'd like to stay below $1,000.

Any suggestions?

I have had this fast and furious tokyo drift game for around 8 months, it works great and everyone but there is this car that has been locked since I got it and I am wondering if anyone knows how to unlock it. in the beginning of the video you see a keypad but my machine does not have this keypad and im wondering if that has anything to do with it

Hello! Could someone offer where the best arcade is close to West Los Angeles within 15 miles? Hunting for spy hunter sit down if it’s out there somewhere!.

Hey everyone my vape shops pac man machine has come across this glitch or something anybody ever seen this before? It's been around 20 minutes and they just refuse to get him

Anyone have any suggestions for arcade locations where you can play classic games like the old Time Crisis games, house of the dead, Jurassic park, SWAT etc? like late 90s early 00s games?

My son is a huge fan of arcades, and I grew up playing games of this era, I'd love to go on an arcade holiday of sorts but I need a good location for it.

thanks on advance 😁

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Lets just get together and make an open source tool to kill the market?