r/arcadecabinets

If someone can help I am in Germany 🇩🇪 very interested into some hardware. Guns, panel, bezel …

I’m looking for an indie game I can put into a commercial arcade machine. I build custom bartop arcade cabinets that I sell locally. I have some friends that own several small mall arcades around here. Mostly claw and redemption style games, but also modern video arcade games like Jurassic park and Halo. They offered for me to put my bartop arcades in their 6 locations for sale. The cabinets will be PC based and internet connected so I can run or download games off Steam or itch.io. I would just put a MAME style emulator on it and run like 10,000 retro game roms on it but the trick is I need the game to be licensed for commercial use. They are on a card swipe system that is pay per play. So I’m looking for a game from a small indie developer that I can personally talk to for a licensing agreement. I’ve seen Killer Queen in action and am looking for something similar in game play. I looked at a couple games on Steam like Lethal League Blaze, Hot Shot Burn, Brawlhalla, and TowerFall Ascension. I think those games would work on arcade style controls (2 player, 8 way joysticks, 6 play buttons, start and select.) but I need help choosing a game that would be fun for a mall crowd to play 2 player competitive style, while also showcasing the cabinets itself for custom cabinet orders that the customer could later add their own emulators to later. The cabinet is a bartop style but it will be wall mounted at standup height.

This is a original universal cabinet made by atari, usually called "NOVA", simple to use and super reliable, comes with a original hantarex polo monitor.

Selling two cabinets in great condition:
Rampage cabinet with riser
Marvel Super Heroes cabinet with special Marvel riser
Both work great and have been adult-owned in a smoke-free home. Screens, controls, and sound all work properly.
Looking for:
$350 for Rampage
$600 OBO for Marvel Super Heroes
Local pickup only in the St. Johns/Jacksonville, Florida area. Can sell separately.
Cash preferred.

Hello everyone! I’ve acquired this Asteroids machine, only thing differentiating on it is a 1979 Atari trademark. The machine when plugged in starts very bright, but then dims after 10 minutes to eventually entirely black. However, the shots from the ships light up bright as day regardless of time frame. Photos don’t do the dimming justice. It gets entirely dark. Does anyone know what the issue is or how I could fix this? I’d like to semi-know what the issue is before I contact someone local who does old arcade fixes to ensure I’m not getting ripped off. Thanks y’all!

EDIT: Ground pin is broken on the plug. I am able to replace the plug myself.

There are some rare cabinets going on sale tomorrow. If you're around, it is definitely worth checking out.

I was given an arcade cabinet from a neighbor who moved away. It’s The Pit by Centuri.
My plan is to make it a MAME cabinet using a pc and LaunchBox, but my biggest hang up is the control panel. It’s made of metal, just the two buttons and a P1 and P2 button. I was hoping for at least, to change it to a panel that can do 1 player and play the usual suspects for arcade games including games like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat.

Are there any companies that sell panels that are roughly the same style shape? It appears to be 23 1/2” in across, 8” tall for the top portion of the panel. The bottom portion is 23 1/2” x 3 1/2”

Outside of playing a lot of arcade machines in my youth, and know a decent amount about computers, I am incredibly new to owning a cab and what steps to convert it.

I'm building an arcade with this layout and need some advice for keys configuration

A. Use ❌ ⭕ 🔺 🟪 on the left hand side keys and r/L buttons on the other 4

B. ​Use ❌ ⭕ 🔺 🟪 in the middle 4 and r/L on the extreme left and extreme right