Please stand up and play arcade games the way it's designed to be played.

The well-designed seats should not interfere with the overall idea of total immersion, plus you can surprise even yourself by suddenly standing up to your favorite run-gun, martial arts, or arcade-style supported game.

Players can play in Home built cabinets. It's easy to add a top sliding shelf to your existing desk at a height comfortable to your arm's length. Then place (stick or mount) your arcade pads and start testing the best games.

There are Arcade Machines in your Town! Yes! Please tell us why some of them are your favorite, take a photo of them, and share it here. I will. This is beautiful. You can take a train to another town just to check their arcade machines, and if you find a worthwhile one, please tell us about it.

In any case, this thread serves as an Arcade Cabinet & Arcade Controllers diary, and I ask you to describe one game per post, with its cabinet used and controllers, with a photo if it can be. And by all means, it can be a GOG game.

While the keyboard is an arcade controller, the mouse isn't, is it? Or a trackball? Those light guns and steering wheels are seen in an arcade saloon and will go again. I have invented ; ) an ergonomic "light gun" with laser aim ;D For mouse clickers. Who knows what we could find together here?

What is Arcade Game after all? And how to play this kind?

Am I the only one who sees the irony between the above statement - and the picture provided?

"The way arcade games were designed to be played", is done by using an actual arcade cabinet.

A few years ago, a friend called me late at night while slightly drunk, and said "I have something cool for you from my storage. Do you want it?". He sent over some pictures and explained what it was, and a few days later he brought it over (I'm never carrying this up or down my stairs again). The cabinet is original and very old, but the hardware inside is a more modern Pandora's Box 3 which connects with JAMMA. 520 games. CRT screen, modern Seimitsu sticks. It's quite something. Very fun at parties!

Image link, because the forum's image uploader never seems to work for me.

Hello solseb!

I lean on somewhat agreeing with BreOl72 on the irony in your opening post.

Nowadays, I prefer playing my games in a calm and relaxing environment. The only reason for me to still go to an arcade hall is to play those racing or flight simulation games where you are sitting inside the cockpit or on top of a mockup motorcycle and the whole vehicle is moving and rattling around while playing, especially if it allows for multiplayer with friends at adjacent machines!

Sorry, for not posting any pictures, yet. My friend or both of us are visible on the few photos that I have from our last visit to the arcades in the city.

Kind regards,
foxgog

P.S.: By the way, to relive the authentic feel of the old arcades you would need to add the insertion of "quarters" (or any equivalent coins from your region) between play sessions. Not even the arcade hall here where I am currently living has those anymore! Instead you have a debit-card which you preload with a certain amount of cash.

transformation cabinet : D What you see is only option 1. the standard desk.
Now, lights! Decoration! Game! Joysticks slide front. Standing up to it. Turning self-made screen orientation up xD fantastic season..... Opening and playing Ape Out ; ) awesome, real wooden cabinet with buttons and a CT screen!
Thank you for sharing, your party is on a higher level. appreciating. Normally I sit in front of it like at the desk. Comfortable. Writing, designing, and playing some builders, but it is a game that asks me to stand up to it. Focus on it. The same furniture has two functions. It takes buttons higher than the desk keyboard, and the screen goes up. Only certain games can be played that way, and this is a quest to find it. Instead of coins, you just click on icons and press start, but the standing position, arcade pad, screen up, and right game make it a home arcade multimachine that anyone can achieve. It serves as a Human Cannonball arcade too : ) I could play that Nes with you, there is no pause, we will be very careful with a power adapter : )
All those tables can be imagined and jigged : ) https://www.extremehardware.co.uk/collections/cocktail-cabinet-kits

I will recommend the arcade-suitable game in every post.
https://www.gog.com/en/game/ape_out
controls 9/10
replayability 8/10

Not original to buy Arcade1up products, but those can fit one in a small apartment. Sadly they cost you your first born....

The coolest arcade "cabinet" I recall ever seeing and playing was an Asteroids arcade machine in a table form, ie. the screen was facing upwards from a table with a glass on top of it, controls on each side of the table for two players.

And yes you sat next to the table, you didn't stand next to it.

Here is one sold in Ebay:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/373630047188

I have an Arcade Style setup. No pictures but I have a Monitor wall mount hooked up to an Evercade with an Arcade Stick on a lower shelf set close to average Arcade height. The monitor is a simple small monitor that I got from a second hand shop but is in great condition and matches the average Arcade size (just 16:9).

The mount can rotate so I can switch between normal and Tate mode.

I will admit there is a nostalgic kick playing games standing up.

Two for £17 it was. The bigger ones are 25-50. It is a good feeling to occasionally play with an arcade machine. Wonderful table. Some glass with crispy sticks and fun guaranteed. There is more fun when furniture is rightly shaped and asks to sit with it and play. There we go. And you saved space with wall mounting. It looks more proper than mine : ) Thank you for sharing your experience.... as you are already on it, could you recommend a game that suits arcade stick + standing playstyle? Btw Its good for muscles to be able to play in two different positions : )

Please let us recommend Outrun2, which is included in the Outrun 2006 game, that is, work on Win 10.
This is a Sega game; we know them well.
The game is absent from the market, available via my abandonware under the name "OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast."
maybe one day on GOGotron

Outrun 2 2003 and OutRun 2006
controls: 9/10
replayability: 8.5/10

Scott does a good job sharing his misery and slow mental decline with these lol

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OEC13gqSNXg


edit: gibbering does not, a sentence make......

Play with cabinet or without (quarters optional), as long as one has fun. That is how to play an arcade game.

Some of my first and fondest memories of gaming are in arcades. Like the one time I found a Gauntlet game at a local arcade set to free play (no money needed) mode, and tried my hardest to finish the whole game in one go. Couldn't do so as I had other errands at the time and someone pestering me to get them done, but was fun while it lasted. I love checking out arcades till this day, but dislike how loud they set the speakers on some of the seated machines.

They had one at Castle Park.

That's known as a cocktail design. They used to make them for bars and restaurants, mainly. Sit down, set your drink on the table next to you while you play.

Late reply, but if it's a .PNG extension, make sure it's not in CAPs cause for reason GOG will not accept those. Learned that a long time ago thanks to some fellow GOG users.

Windows 10 for me by default puts all extensions in CAPs. So, .JPEG or .JPG may also need to be renamed .jpeg or .jpg for GOG to accept it. I never uploaded .jpeg images, so it's just speculation on my part. But for .png images, that certainly is the case.

P.S. I don't know if there's a size limit per image or the number of uploads per post, so no idea about those.
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