Don't they have a credit button on their control panel? If they do, seems like it'd be pretty easy to rewire that button to the switch from under the coin mech that the quarter drops through like on a normal game. Then your coin box can just sit inside the open cab, with no separate door, like on older arcade cabs.

Either way, that place looks damn sketchy, and that manager guy needs to have his background check posted on the wall for all to see. If I had kids, that place would be a heeeuge NOPE!

I'm gonna give it six months before we either see that place close down, or hear about some sort of child endangerment, molestation, or kidnapping from that address.

Careful what you say around here, or the pedos will downvote you like they did me!

Oh man, someone get that Twin Cobra to a better place! Looking like filet mignon on the McDonald's menu.

Some of the new Arcade1up’s come with sticker that looks like a coin door. I highly doubt they take coins.

It's pretty obvious most of you are not familiar with West Virginia. The only poorer states in the country are New Mexico, Louisiana, and Mississippi. That guy's arcade building looks pretty good for around here! He's got fresh paint on the building, a paved parking lot, the roof looks good and not leaky, and the sidewalk's not all busted up in front of his place. It looks clean inside.
You'd be amazed at some of the things that pass for "businesses" in our area! Here are a couple of pics from our local bar's Facebook page. This place is actually open, and people go in there and drink and do karaoke. LOL.
Amoroso's Bar, Piedmont WV 2022
Here's a picture of the owner/chef/bartender. He's a really nice guy, he means well. He comes up a bit short in the execution, like many people around here...
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One of the sayings we hear a lot here in Piedmont WV is "we're doing the best we can with what we have!"
Translated, that means "We've done all we feel like doing right now and it's time to party!"
If you're looking for a cheap place to live, it can't be beat, though. My girlfriend and I live alone in what used to be a 5-unit apartment building. We have a 20,000 sq. ft. warehouse for a garage and storage unit, and a retail store on the main street that we will eventually rent out (maybe to a 1UP arcade! LOL probably not). Everything was paid for in cash, and we still haven't spent as much as we would have on a 2 bedroom condo in Colorado.
We make our own fun and depend on no one. We could live "normally" in a nicer area, but this allows us to do whatever the f**k we want and have all the space we could ever need. "Extreme Homes" was one of my favorite shows!
It's pretty amazing to see how different things are in different parts of the United States.

Personally I thought people were being pretty harsh on the guy. Back in the day people were setting up "arcades" in any random building that had space available.

Person opens arcade. Is accused of pedophelia. Pinside 2022. A place you want to be.

I'm not sure what's worse.... an actual arcade cabinet with a 60-in-1 and an LCD screen or an arcade 1up

Still, I wish him luck and hope the arcade succeeds and grows. Any arcade is better than no arcade.

My Moon Cresta that I have at work for residents has a 60 in 1. When I got it all the original hardware was long gone.

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Haters gonna hate. Yeah it's cheesy but I hope it grows and turns into a huge success. I'd rather see a new buisness open than an existing buisness close anyday.

No drinking or smoking. Didn't say anything about hard drugs. I bet they are allowed.

Put a row of 4 or 5 pins in there would help.

Link no longer works? 404

All the views from pinside overloaded their server

damn, i just sold one too. i could of been 50% owner of this shedcade!

The gall? Really? If it works it works, if it fails so be it. Anyone who has the balls to start a small buisness that's hurting no one should be supported not ridiculed.

It sure is easy to make fun of people, at least this guy has an idea and is trying to make something of himself. I dont know him but I hope he makes some money and improves his life. Some of you guys seem to have real personality problems.

To prove my point about adding a working coin door, this is from four years ago:

https://imgur.com/gallery/vwXIDA3

Still don't know about the legality of charging per play on machines that were possibly only licensed for home use.

To prove my point. Almost every new Arcade1up comes with a sticker that looks like a coin door. Furthermore the news article specifically says coin operated style games, not coin operated games. Not to mention that it’s highly illegal and not in the game code. Golden tee never says “insert more coins to keep playing” like a coin operated game.

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To prove my point. Vision. It's what's used to see that in this picture, you'll notice that those single(versus all of those decals' double) coin entry slots are friggin' glowing(meaning a powered bulb) and that the coin door that is obviously used here matches exactly the model used in that Imgur post about how to add a coin door to a 1up.ba3a0e482a8a2439759a7b82901629681e2e8906 (resized).png

If you take longer than .2 seconds to look at either the video or the pictures, you would've noticed that the doors are also three dimensional. Those must be some fancy decals!
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This post puts everything into perspective

Yeah, I don't fault the guy at all. If he thinks he can make money then more power to him. I lived in Mississippi for a while, if this place was there back then I would have probably stopped by to play a game or two.

I was just curious on how he put the coin doors on the 1ups. You would have to custom fit them through the particle board - then you would have to modify it to actually hold a coin box... wire it into the game so that it would control the credits... and so on. It is a puzzling amount of effort to get it to work. I wonder if someone has created a mod for it?

The other thing... the actual production quality of the news segment is way funnier than the arcade. Again, I lived in a small town in Mississippi and our daily "lost dog" segment was waaaay better produced than this video.

I’ll settle your argument. You are both right… or wrong (depending if you are a glass half full or empty kinda guy)

The newer 1ups ship with a cheap coin door molded plastic. It is not a decal. Here is a picture of my Dragon’s Lair… and I can confirm that it is just a molded piece of plastic without a coin mec behind it

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Google "modding an arcade1up to take quarters" looks like they even make kits to do it

That's pretty cool they stepped up.

I know. I think they look pretty good, too. I did see a couple of those in the footage, as well. My argument was strictly about the ones you can plainly see match the mod and door I posted earlier. Also, these are double coin slot doors, not singles as seen in the pictures and footage. It's pretty obvious this guy, or someone he bought these from, added working coin doors to these machines. And that might be the sad part; If he bought these machines from someone thinking, or was even told, he could operate them, without knowledge of the Arcade1Up EULA, he might be in for some legal trouble he's not expecting. That would really suck.

the dragons lair is bad ass

Do you agree to a EULA when you buy a 1Up? I’m sure 1Up has a license agreement to not sell coin op versions of the IP but the consumer isn’t party to that agreement.

Who is 1Up to say what the owner does or does not do with his purchase?

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I get your perspective but give the establishment owner a break. Maybe the place will appeal to casual arcaders and serve a purpose. Just because those of us who grew up in the golden age of the arcade during the 80's (well, I did but don't know about you), doesn't mean that us arcade snobs have to belittle the place. As long as it's a good place for teens to hang and stay out of trouble or for a 50 something to hang out for an evening to recapture their youth, I'm fine with it even though I would never visit myself.

Yeah, it is pretty cool. I had an original with a laser disc, up until about 6 months ago, but I didn’t play it enough to justify keeping it.

Nope, still only second
An arcade opened up for a short time about 8 years ago
They had four pinball machines, the newest one was a Williams Big Deal EM

The license agreement they make with the owners of the IP and software dictate the markets and environments that A1U is allowed to sell to and in. I'm fairly certain these machines are not only not manufactured with commercial use in mind(as they're made of pretty thin, cheap stuff), but their license agreements most likely specifically state that they can not be operated commercially as it violates not only their end user agreement, but A1U's license agreement with the original designers, authors, manufacturers, and distributors of the games.

There's got to be some of that legal jargon on the box, or on some sort of sheet in the box somewhere with these things. If there isn't, and it's not on a splash screen or somewhere in the menu system on these A1U's, then you're right, they can be operated commercially. However, I'd still want to beef them up with better panels and better joysticks and buttons. But at that point, you're looking at a never ending cycle of upkeep and replacing parts so you might as well just buy a real arcade cab of whatever games you want to have in there.

Wow I've never come across something like that in an arcade but it does remind me of certain video rental stores that allowed you to try out SNES games on a TV set up. Good times.

I can’t tell you how much I hate Arcade1Ups. That being said, if they ever do a Kozmik Krooz’r / Wacko combo, I’ll be a buyer. It would be cool to convert it into a little fridge to keep my beer cold while I play the real thing.
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I have 7 Arcade1up machines and really hope the come out with a SNK cabinet with the rotary LS30 joysticks. Put in ikari warriors, victory road, guerrilla war, Bermuda Triangle, and (most importantly) S.A.R. Search and Rescue

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It does get cramped having 2 adults playing on one game.