STAR WARS ARCADE MACHINE

Can’t fault it. Delivery was on time and lads who delivered it were really helpful and professional. Easy to assemble with clear instructions. Plugged in and switched on. WOW, it looks and sounds amazing and plays great. Family love it. Brings back great memories. A really big thank you to all involved. Price I thought it might not look or play as good but I was totally wrong. It’s worth every penny. Good strong quality parts. The look of it with the art work and lighting even down to the illuminated coin slots are fantastic. I’m a Star Wars fan anyway and this is just prefect.

I've been thinking about getting one of these for a couple of years and when I saw the price was down to £399 for a new one delivered placed the order straight away. The instructions for assembly were the best I have ever had, every part even the bags of screws and fittings had a reference letter, The quality is better than I expected, the cabinet and riser are solid, the graphics look great. I've only played the Star Wars game as that is what I played in the arcades back in the 80s, still gets the adrenaline going, and I've not cranked the volume yet!

Wow...straight back to the early 80s!! Delivery was perfect asked me where I wanted the huge box very helpful...took me about 1.5 hours to build on my own..good quality components...think ikea....its lovely to look at the decals are stunning!!...brilliant detailing from the faux coin collector to the star wars logo all lit up...the big switch on...its so retro even the sound has been nailed...graphics similar on ANH and ESB and ROTJ although not on the same level as first 2 still an old school enjoyable game...the controls feel just right..so in a nutshell its fantastic no negative points at all...and for £399 its a no brainer!!...enjoy!!!

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!

Its amazing, really east to assemble, took half an hour, its been used daily by sone very exitable kids as well as adults and still going strong, so build quality is solid, turning all the lights out and maxing the volume and it takes me back 30 years 😆

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.

Good product, instructions clear to assemble.

First all it took 30 minutes to get in the box. The labels that you slice through had sellotape all tge way down the box. I ended up cutting it with a knife and going in the side of the box. Assembly was straight forward l but follow the instructions. I found the plastic on the monitor hard to get off once fitted in the cabinet. Some of the plastic was on the screws and some hadn't come off the top of the monitor. I wish I'd taken it off before fitting. The second arcade panel was very difficult to line up. I used the screws so I could line up this section. If tge screws went into the hole I knew it was right. The top was still a little tricky to line up. With the flight controller it's like being back in the arcade in the 80s. Star wars is the first arcade game I can remember playing, that wasnt space invaders or galaxian.