X-Arcade making cabinets now

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X-Arcade is starting to make and sell arcade cabinets with 205 games on them: http://www.xgaming.com/store/arcade...ign=1d7d0f0caf-christmas2011&utm_medium=email

The list of games: http://www.xgaming.com/pages/205-classic-games/

They also sell a "MAME ready" cabinet.

WTF??!??

Some interesting quotes:

All this great game play features a massive 29" CRT Arcade Monitor. Don't be fooled by cheap 19"-25" Monitors or LCDs, this machine uses the highest grade industrial monitor available — The 29" Weiya CRT Monitor.

And don't worry about your kids breaking it; it's built like a friggin tank.

Includes 400lbs Of High Quality Arcade Machine Parts

Storage Area Behind Marque For Games/Media/Audio

I'm sure somebody will buy these things. Watch for them on Ebay next June.....


ken
 
Based on how the game list is laid out, it sounds like the cabinet is set up to work with consoles, and then they bundle official classic game packages with it. If so, that's legit, but WTF at that price!
 
1. PC Speakers sitting on shelf behind marquee. No actual opening for them. Neat.

2. Secure 3-cam coin door with a coin chute that has no coin mech.

3. Unclear if trackball is included or not. Some pictures show it, others don't. No specified in information. And evenso, where they mount it sucks since it's two inches from the right joystick.

4. So it's an X-arcade panel sitting on top of another panel that has a long oval hole in it? Really?

If it keeps just one moron from trashing a nice Joust cabinet or something, then great. Sound is as important as video and it's clear to me the sound is gonna be muffled, low-quality and possibly rattle the marquee housing. Shortcuts like this on a $2000 machine are unforgivable.
 
Hmmm:

1) Mix of vertical and horizontal games - so at least some games will look like shit.

2) What's the control panel going to look like? Hard Drivin'? Spy Hunter? Really?

3) Ooh! Video Checkers! :rolleyes:

4) How long before we see these on CL for $200 like those Midway "multigame" cabs?
 
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