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Tabletop Arcade advice

By RWH

6 years ago



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#1 6 years ago

Hey guys I've been wanting to get a tabletop system but know next nothing about them. Recently I saw an ad for new units being sold and am considering it but really need advice on if this is really worth it (price/performance) or a lot of BS. Contacted this business and was told I could have it built for $600.00 so here are the specs and a pic of the unit. I have a small game room, 2 pins, mega touch and a pachinko machine so I want to introduce some more variety but as I say, space is a premium so can't go the full size arcade.

Check out our new amazing 28,000 game Tabletop Retro Arcade System. This arcade is a complete ready to go package. All you have to do is hook it up to your flat panel TV using an HDMI cable, plug it in and play!!!
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Again, there are 28,000 games (that's not a typo) that includes over 50 gaming systems. Every game known to man is on this arcade loaded and ready to play. You could literally play 3 different games everyday of the year and it would take you 20 years to play all the games and never play the same game twice.
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Re-live the 80's and 90's with my home built Tabletop Arcades. Perfect for the Game Room, your in-home bar or Man-Cave. No Quarters Required. Great for friends and family fun. It's a 1 or 2 player arcade with two joysticks and two full sets of LED backlit buttons.
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My arcades are brand new, solid and professionally built from the ground up with a new cabinet, new modern computer, electronics and controls. This is new and not a retrofitted or a renovated old unit. But the games play just like you remember they did years ago. This units says it has 28,000 games



ARCADE SYSTEM INCLUDES:

- Arcade Unit

- High Quality Vinyl Graphics Panel

- Two Full Sets of LED Backlit Buttons and Two Full Motion Joysticks

- RaspberryPi 3 - 64bit Microcomputer (Wi-Fi, BlueTooth, HDMI and USB Inputs)

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#2 6 years ago

Xarcade tankstick $149

Raspberry pi 3 kit $69

Preloaded retropie sd card on eBay that features systems u want. < $70

USB keyboard

Vids on YouTube to help setup tankstick. Just put one together this way and happy with it. Added spinner/wheel option to mine. Can pull and plug it if I want to play bowling/golf trackball games. I don’t though

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#3 6 years ago

Well to be honest I don't really think building my own is an option for me. I mean I can work on my pins to some extent but, soldering skills are not my forte', I just get by. I'm just asking is the play of these worth the $600.00 I can get it at.

#4 6 years ago

What I listed requires no soldering and is pretty much exactly what you will get in the $600 kit minus lit buttons and panel graphics.

Plug it up, download x arcade config file, assign buttons and off you go. The extra $300 you’d pay this person is to do these steps for you. See here:

Pi 3 rev b kit is on amazon.

#5 6 years ago

Plus the tankstick has trackball. X-arcade sells a unit without trackball for $30-$40 less.

I run this for capcom SF games ebay.com link: 0

Same seller has a 128gb / 14,000 game SD that includes Daphne which allows u to play Dragons Lair/Space Ace etc...

Whichever way u go it is an adequate option. Just depends what u want to spend.

#7 6 years ago

Tabletop system? How can you play Centipede or Tempest on that thing with just joysticks posted in the first post? I vote no way on that thing!

If you don't want to build your own, look on Indianapolis CL for a guy that builds Multicades. His stuff is good quality for what he asks for them. ~$800

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