Why are arcade cabinets so expensive? (beehaw.org)

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The tech strore has a capcom arcade cabinet, its one of those multi game ones

Seems to be this model

https://arcade1up.com/collections/trending-now/products/mvc2-arcade-game

The marvel vs capcom2 one

Why are cabinets so expensive?

I get they are bulky and licences exist but how do like 15 games make a 200 euro price increase

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

So, they are just a fancy decoration?

Exactly. There's so many better ways to play these games:

Pandora's Box
Batocera / Emulation Station / RetroPi on a Raspberry Pi
Various mini systems with a jailbreak (Sega Genesis Mini and PlayStation Classic are particularly good)
SteamDeck or PC with Emulation Station and RetroArch

So the price is really only justifiable, to me, by thinking of the cabinet being a piece of the decorated furniture.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yea, emulation is in general better. Tho what's a Pandoras box?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Pandora's Box is a game machine, with games pre-loaded. It tends to have thousands of arcade games pre-loaded.

It's a popular choice for restoring actual full size arcade machines, with dead motherboards. It's also an option to upgrade (or just revive from motherboard death) an Arcade1Up.

With some effort, a cheap PC will do the same job, but some folks like that they're premade and ready to use.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Nice :3

I should find some romsets

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