STAR WARS ARCADE MACHINE

After watching this for the last month or so, I took the plunge on Prime Day as this was finally at a decent price for the UK (although still a lot of cash for three games). Glad I did as they were sold out an hour later and price back up to normal.It's a really nice cabinet, better finished than the gen 1 modded Street Fighter and Pacman cabs I already have. Built in about 2 hours, from easy to follow instructions. Lit marquee is decent with very little light bleed, and the lit coin door looks convincing. Empire is OK, Return of Jedi not really that good, but Star Wars is the best ever arcade game, and I can finally play this with the proper yoke - how it was meant to be played. Yoke feels good quality, and plays exactly how I remember in the arcades of my youth. Arcade 1 up's best machine by miles - and finally my home arcade is now complete.

Didn't realise it was self-assembly but the instructions are really good and easy to follow. If you like building flat pack furniture this is right up your street. Around 2 hours for me, taking my time to ensure nothing was botched in my eagerness to get gaming. Quite surprised by the quality. Very nice&shiny high-quality decals. Only bought for the original game so won't comment on RTOJ game more than it does look so dated whereas the vector graphics of the 1st 2 games is spot on and don't really age IMO. Controller works really well. Wasn't expecting something as robust as the all-metal 80s build but this isn't far off to be fair. Gameplay is spot on.

What was once a dream at the age of 14 back in the early 1980's when down at my local arcade & played the STAR WARS arcade. WOW! this is fantastic in every detail, & now in my 50's so happy to have this in my games room at home. The flight yoke play's & feel's solid like it did all them years ago, with the added bonus of the Empire Strikes Back & Return Of The Jedi games to play. Very clear instructions, easy to build & looks the business. The sounds & music, excellent through it's speakers with easy menu's to change the difficulty level of play & bonus life awards. Also you have the option to enhance the graphic's if you like. Big thanks to Amazon & Arcade 1up for dreams can come true :) may the force be with you.

This is an Arcade 1UP machine that includes 3 Star Wars games that were release in the arcade at the end of the 90s. The games focus on the original trilogy i.e. Episode IV A New Hope, Episode V The Empire Strikes Back and Episode VI: Return Of the Jedi.The first, and original game, is based on the battle of Yarvin i.e. the attack on the Death Star. It is a 3D vector based game. Initially waves of tie fighters will attack as you fly towards the Death Star. Even Darth Vaders ship joins in the fun and you can hear classic quotes from the movie such as "I have you now", "i have lost R2", "use the force Luke", while all the time the classic John Williams score plays in the background (bliss!). Once you survive the tie fighter onslaught you then proceed to fly down the trench and launch torpedoes at the end into the exhaust vent to blow up the death star, in accordance with the climactic end of the movie.The second game, based on The Empire Strikes movie, centres around the battle of Hoth. You start the mission by investigating the imperial probe droids as per the beginning of the movie. You then pilot your x-wing to attack the AT-AT and AT-ST transports, by wrapping toe cables around there legs, as per the icon scheme in the movie. It uses the same vector graphics that were so successful in the first game and build upon that.The 3D game is based on Return Of The Jedi and is based on the battle of Endor. This game is more of an isomorphic 3D view rather than the vector graphics of the first too.So for me these games hold a lot of nostalgia. As a youngster I loved these machines in the arcades and played them frequently. At the time I felt they were difficult and I spent a lot of 10p on them :). Since then I have played a lot of games on various PCs/consoles however these have not lost there charm for me.As far as I can remember these faithfully recreate those happy memories and take me back.Whilst the graphics are simplistic I think the use of vector graphics has a timeless essence around it and was a great choice back in the day. As a result they have aged better than a lot of retro games on 8/16bit machines that employed sprite based graphics. At the heart of the games however is simple yet addictive game play that will keep you coming back and that's something that is timeless.The 3rd game in the trilogy isn't vector based and the graphics haven't ages that well, perhaps the scaling or increased resolution of modern monitors haven't helped. Perhaps it's just showing it's age. I'm not saying that the 3rd game isn't compelling, it is, yer it's probably the one your going to play the least and possibly the most frustrating of the three.In terms of the 1Up arcade machine itself it comes in an almost IKEA flatpack format. Empty your recycle bin before you order because these things are so well packed. If you have put IKEA furniture together before then I wouldn't say this was any more tricky than that. Armed with a single cross head screwdriver the assembly took me approximately 2 hours in total. The majority of the assembly was very straight forward and I was able to do it myself. The instructions seemed clear and easy to follow.There was a tricky part, when assembling near the marquee/top of the machine. At that point I was thinking that if I could get an extra pair of hands from a family member for 5 mins I might be slightly less frustrating. When I finally noticed that the screen wasn't quite sitting correctly in the groove then it all fell into place after that.The other gotchas I found with assembly were that, when I removed the screen protector it left pieces of polythene around the screws in the screen. I left this for a while but it did start to bother me a little therefore I was able to remove the screws on by one and remove the remaining pieces of plastic. Finally when constructing the riser consider that the graphics should align with the graphics on the main unit. I managed to somehow get the left and right panels swapped and the artwork on the riser doesn't quite match that on the main body. You know what, it's not a big deal to fix, however I am going to leave that for now and fix it another day :). As a not particularly strong, 5'8" middle aged male I didn't find any issue with lifting the body of the machine up and slotting it into the riser.Considering the cabinet itself it's such a fantastic recreation what with the faux coin slot, the light-up marquee and fantastic artwork. The control joke feels to me possibly slightly lighter that the arcade original to me however it doesn't at all feel cheap or fragile.One final thing I did was to buy a small "adjustable appliance dolly wheel cart" here on Amazon and used it to both raise the unit by a few inches and provide a set of wheels to allow the unit to be moved around in the room or be locked in place. At a height of 5'8" looking straight at the cabinet my eye-line is now at the marquee. Therefore will the added height I only have to bend my neck slightly and therefore it's more ergonomic.So would i recommend this? As a middle age man who loved it in the arcades, loves the original trilogy of movies and is a big fan of Star Wars the wholeheartedly yes. The cabinet brings back memories of those simpler, happier time of my youth and has very straight forward but compellingly gameplay that will keep you coming back. My teenage son, who isn't really into sci-fi and is very much generation Z, also enjoyed playing on the unit.For me the only doubt would be around the price. It's currently selling on Amazon for £700 pounds and that would buy you a good mid range laptop or decent phone that you could play retro games on. I got it when it was 30% off and I'm happy that I purchased the unit. May the force by with you ... always!

The media could not be loaded. If you were a fan of this arcade game in the 1980s you will love this! The size is good and the included riser makes it a good height for most adults (I'm 6 ft). The sound is great and the cabinet is of a high quality. It looks amazing even before you turn it on. Star Wars was the only game I was interested in and it didn't disappoint. Total nostalgia. The only bug bear for me is the next credit auto adds after a game ends so obi wan says "The force will be with you" straight after saying "the force will be with you...always" when the game ends. A minor point really. This arcade takes me back to being 6 years old again....keep an eye on the prices as they do fluctuate...I'd avoid Amazon resale as my first one didn't work and was returned. I paid £459 for this, that's the lowest I'd seen it on here.