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RetroRalph vs. AtGames - Legends Ultimate Arcade Interview - E3 2019

RetroRalph·video·14m 11s·analyzed·Jun 13, 2019
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TL;DR

AtGames Legends Ultimate Arcade demo showcases cloud gaming, BYOG feature, and arcade-authentic design at E3 2019.

Summary

RetroRalph interviews David from AtGames at E3 2019 about the Legends Ultimate Arcade cabinet. The discussion covers hardware design (66-inch height, ergonomic monitor angle, authentic controls), software features (350 built-in games, ArcadeNet cloud streaming service with subscription and à la carte options, Rewind button, game saving), and innovative features like Bring Your Own Game (BYOG) allowing Steam/Blizzard/Epic library integration via Bluetooth controllers. The interview includes a live Street Fighter IV match demonstrating cloud streaming performance on hotel Wi-Fi.

Key Claims

  • Legends Ultimate Arcade is 66 inches tall with full-scale control panels and monitor angled for authentic arcade play experience

    high confidence · David from AtGames confirming cabinet height and design philosophy to RetroRalph

  • Cabinet will have 350 built-in games with additional games available through ArcadeNet subscription or à la carte purchase

    high confidence · David confirming to RetroRalph; full game list stated as 'to be determined'

  • ArcadeNet offers cloud-based game streaming via Wi-Fi or Ethernet with monthly subscription model or individual game purchases

    high confidence · David explaining ArcadeNet service details; tested successfully on hotel Wi-Fi during interview

  • Bring Your Own Game (BYOG) feature allows integration of Steam, Blizzard, Epic Games, and Fortnite libraries into the arcade cabinet

    high confidence · David explaining BYOG functionality; RetroRalph demonstrates live Street Fighter IV streaming from cloud

  • Cabinet includes Rewind button feature allowing players to correct mistakes in boss fights and save game state for later

    high confidence · David demonstrating features at control panel; describes ability to save games and pick up later

  • Legends Ultimate Arcade will have interchangeable side art options and lit marquee in final production (prototype currently unlit)

    medium confidence · David stating lit marquee 'slated to have' lighting in final production; side art options 'to be determined'

  • Cabinet features Bluetooth capability for wireless controllers to support games requiring analog sticks (e.g., first-person shooters)

    high confidence · David explaining BYOG compatibility requirements and controller options

  • Controls are high-quality and 'very close to' a well-known brand but AtGames not disclosing specific brand at this time

    medium confidence · David avoiding naming control brand specifics; RetroRalph confirms quality in hands-on testing

Notable Quotes

  • “This is the real deal here. It's the full scale, the control panels, almost the exact same height... the monitor is at the perfect angle as well for viewing to stand up and play, as these were intended to be.”

    David (AtGames)@ 1:21 — Establishes design philosophy prioritizing authentic arcade cabinet ergonomics and play experience

  • “We're on hotel Wi-Fi, and the thing's running freaking great... I was so impressed... the thing's buffering the content or not, it did a good job where I'm not noticing that lag within the gameplay.”

    RetroRalph@ 4:43 — Validates cloud streaming performance in real-world conditions; addresses potential latency concerns

  • “Through Wi-Fi capabilities the ArcadeNet is offering the option to purchase games or offering a subscription where you get a variety of different games that will change probably monthly.”

    David (AtGames)@ 3:38 — Clarifies subscription vs. à la carte business model for expanded game library

  • “For BYOG, bring your own game... you can bring over your PC gaming library into the arcade itself. So Steam, Blizzard, Epic games, things like Fortnite, World of Warcraft, anything in your Steam library can now be played on this arcade cabinet.”

    David (AtGames)@ 5:21 — Announces major feature expansion enabling modern PC gaming on arcade cabinet hardware

  • “If you've supported us and played any of our other Blast games, it's not like now you've bought this, you no longer need that. It's you can plug that into this device and it automatically maps out to the current joystick button configuration.”

    David (AtGames)@ 8:45 — Describes backwards compatibility strategy preserving value of prior AtGames Blast product purchases

Entities

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Signals

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    market_signal: AtGames positioning Legends Ultimate Arcade as premium consumer home arcade cabinet at full scale with modern software features and cloud capabilities

    high · Cabinet design emphasizes authenticity and ergonomics; 350 built-in games plus expandable library; backwards compatibility with prior Blast product line

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    announcement: Official E3 2019 debut of AtGames Legends Ultimate Arcade with comprehensive feature set including cloud streaming, BYOG integration, and quality-of-life enhancements

    high · David presenting finalized design and feature roadmap; early prototype hardware shown; David confirms final production will include lit marquee and interchangeable side art

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    product_strategy: Hybrid subscription/à la carte monetization model for game access; flexibility between commitment levels appeals to different consumer segments

    high · David explaining ArcadeNet subscription model with monthly rotation or individual game purchases; RetroRalph praising flexibility of options

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    product_strategy: Future updates include lit marquee implementation, interchangeable side art options, and full audio customization with variable volume control

    medium · David stating marquee lighting 'slated' for final production (prototype unlit); side art options and audio tuning described as planned features with details 'to be determined'

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    technology_signal: Internet connectivity dependency for cloud streaming games and BYOG features; minimum specifications to be published but latency/buffering remain potential friction points

Transcript

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0:00
This is Retro Ralph live from E3. Let's do it! Hey guys, I'm here with David from AtGames and he gave me a special invite to look at the AtGames Legends Ultimate System. So, David, this is pretty exciting. I'm blown away by what I've seen so far, so maybe we can just ask some general questions about the unit, if that's okay? Of course, yeah. Happy to walk you through. Alright, so obviously the height of this alone is just more a traditional arcade cabinet, so maybe just real quick, how tall is this unit? I believe it's 66 inches tall, to be precise, and I'm not exactly sure what that translates into feet, but one of our fans will post that in the comments below. Okay, awesome. So, you know, one of the things I noticed right away on this is it looks like you guys have definitely brought it up and made it a little bit more ergonomical for the gamer.
1:05
Was that kind of well thought out that we wanted to be as true to real life arcade cabinet as possible? Of course, yeah. This is the real deal here. It's the full scale, the control panels, almost the exact same height. Similarly, like, I know you mentioned this earlier off the record, but the monitor is at the perfect angle as well for viewing to stand up and play, as these were intended to be. Yeah, and I noticed that. So I played with a buddy a little while ago, you know, before off-camera, and we were playing Street Fighter IV, and it was, yeah, it was really comfortable to play, and I noticed, you know, something when you're playing arcade games is you don't really want to, you know, you don't really want to have to put your head down like this, because obviously over time it hurts your neck, and we tend to play for a while, so.
1:44
So anyways, we'll move on to some other things. Right now, it doesn't look like the marquee is lit, and that's something that a lot of the guys like to see on their arcade to keep it more traditional. What are your thoughts on the future plans around that? Well, this is an early prototype, so final production may have the light-up. I'm pretty sure it is slated to have the light-up marquee, so don't let the non-lit-up marquee dissuade you because the final production should have it. Awesome. Okay, perfect. And then I did notice the arcade controls seem very authentic. They seem of high quality. Are you guys disclosing at this time what brands you're using, or can you speak a little bit more about that? Yeah, so these are not brand-specific as far as I'm concerned right now, but they are very close to a brand that people are very familiar with in the industry. So I'm not going to drop any names, but they are very high quality, and I know you played on them earlier. Maybe you can attest to this. They are very, very high-end. No, and it feels that way very much so. I had no issues with the controls. They feel really, really good. So, yeah, I love it. So there's some aesthetic details I thought were kind of interesting to talk about, and then we'll get to more of the games, which is really the fun part, right? But I was noticing there's a nice molding on it. It looks like traditional T-molding on a cabinet like this, and that's a nice touch to kind of keep it arcade authentic.

  • “Rewind button... sometimes the boss stages get really, really challenging, and one little mistake can really cost you the end of the game. So you press that button, it'll bring you back.”

    David (AtGames)@ 6:42 — Quality-of-life feature addressing frustration in arcade gameplay; appeals to casual players

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    medium · David confirming Ethernet fallback option and minimum specs coming; RetroRalph testing on hotel Wi-Fi notes successful performance but acknowledges latency disclaimer

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    technology_signal: Cloud-based game streaming architecture enabling arcade cabinets to run modern games beyond native hardware processing capabilities

    high · Street Fighter IV successfully streaming via ArcadeNet on hotel Wi-Fi with minimal perceived latency; David explaining processing offloaded to cloud infrastructure

    • 3:01
    But the things that were most exciting to me, I think, were the software features. I mean, things like, obviously it has the 350 built-in games, and I think that's still, the full list isn't available yet, right? That is right. Yeah, that's to be determined. Okay, perfect. So, but there's, you know, we went through a series of those, and they're more traditional arcade titles. But the ArcadeNet option was really neat. So that was this ability for, you know, at games, you guys are hosting a service for customers It a cloud service And can you tell me just a little bit more about that cloud service what your plans are to offer you know maybe when the product generally available Definitely yeah So through Wi capabilities the ArcadeNet is offering the option to purchase games or offering a subscription where you get a variety of different games that will change probably monthly, or we haven't quite determined the time frame on that. So if you want to pay a monthly subscription fee, you get a variety of games. Or if you have a specific game that you like that isn't one of the 350 games, you're able to then purchase it and run it through our cloud service so the cabinet itself doesn't have to run it. So if it's a more modern game that requires higher processing than a traditional arcade could handle, you're able to run that through the cloud. I love that. I mean, I love that for a lot of reasons. So we were talking off record for a little while, and I really like that, hey, maybe I'm not someone that wants the subscription, but there's a couple games that I do like, and so I'm not committing either way. I can either purchase things ad hoc or go with the subscription and have a little bit more flexibility and options. The other thing I noticed is obviously when you do ArcadeNet, like you said, you're streaming the games. Guys, we're on hotel Wi-Fi, and the thing's running freaking great. Like, I was so impressed. I mean, yes, hotel Wi-Fi usually sucks, right? But it was running really good. And, you know, obviously there's some latency when you're on hotel Wi-Fi, but it did a good job. Whether it's buffering the content or not, it did a good job where it felt that I'm not noticing that lag within the gameplay. And keep in mind, you know, disclaimer, hotel Wi-Fi, like I said. So that was really neat. And then one of the really cool features that I think will open this cabinet up to more people is this whole idea about bring your own game, which that's really cool because it's usually bring your own beer or whatever. But game is cool. You can bring your own beer and game. But bring whatever you want with it, but bring your own game. So maybe tell me a little bit more about, I liked this feature a lot, but I want to hear it from your perspective. But bring your own game was really neat. So tell me what services are offered for bring your own game. Definitely. So for BYOG, bring your own game, I've messed up that acronym a few times actually. but it's allowing you to bring over your PC gaming library into the arcade itself. So Steam, Blizzard, Epic Games, things like Fortnite, World of Warcraft, anything now in your Steam library can now be played on this arcade cabinet. Now, you want to be careful. You're going to have to use, like, not all the games are going to be mapped out perfectly to the arcade itself. So that being said, you may have to do some tinkering. Specific games, like my colleague mentioned, like first-person shooters, for example, there's no analog stick. However, this cabinet does have Bluetooth capability, So you're now able to use a wireless controller if you want to play those games. Oh, sorry. I was getting excited on the camera. Like, you know, David's making my job really difficult because Retro Ralph is all about modding things. So, like, come on, man. I mean, you're not giving me anything to mod. This is, I'm very excited about this because, honestly, I was really sitting here. And, yes, I'm at the booth. And, yes, David invited me. but the software on this thing, even though what we're looking at isn't the final production unit, has so many cool features. And some of the features that were traditional AtGames features are actually bleeding over to this cabinet. And a couple of those, I know there's Rewind. Do you mind talking about some of the other ones? I know there's some options for saving games. Can you talk a little bit about that? Because I think that's going to appeal to a lot of people. Definitely. So if you want to take a look over on the control panel here, there's a Rewind button. So in certain circumstances, we actually talked about this earlier, sometimes the boss stages get really, really challenging, and one little mistake can really cost you the end of the game. So you press that button, it'll bring you back. I'm not sure of the exact time frame, but it allows you to correct those errors and then continue the game as if nothing happened. In addition what this cloud service offers is the ability to save the game in multiple different games So now if you in a specific game and you want to turn down the machine you can save it you can pick it up later and there no problems no questions asked there Okay, cool. And so we went to, there was one other question, obviously, when we were doing this whole idea of streaming games, which is like, you know, really with that Google Stadia, which we're going to see somewhere at the show, I'm sure, like it's becoming a popular thing to stream games. Obviously, you know, Internet connectivity requirements, we talked about it. They seem pretty minimal and reasonable for what you'd need. But is there an option to hard connect it to Ethernet if maybe you don't have, you know, Wi-Fi available that's fast enough or something like that? Definitely, yeah. So it is Ethernet compatible and very similar to Wi-Fi. If you have any streaming service at your house, you should be fine with the Wi-Fi that you currently have. There will be minimum specs uploaded onto our website if you're curious as to what that will require. but any sort of standard Wi-Fi or Ethernet connection will be compatible with this unit.
    8:00
    Seriously, guys, I can't trip David up right now. It's really kind of frustrating me. He has an answer for every question I have. But anyways, so one other thing that I really thought was neat that you guys had, I keep saying one other thing. There's actually a lot that's pretty neat about this. But there's this little, I want to call it a breakout area here, and it's got HDMI and USB as well as this selector switch. So I thought that was kind of neat, and you showed me a feature that I thought was really neat that you can actually connect other consoles of the Blast series. I think it's the Blast series only right now, but that will actually plug in and you can use that. So there's like a backwards compatibility aspect to the machine, which is like, that's a pretty well thought out idea. So can you talk a little bit about that maybe? Definitely. So if you've supported us and played any of our other Blast games, it's not like now you've bought this, you no longer need that. It's you can plug that into this device and it automatically maps out to the current joystick button configuration, and now you can play those built-in games from the Blastic on this unit. Fully compatible.
    9:02
    David's leaving me speechless. I don't even know what to say now. So other things I want to cover, just a couple more items, and then we'll let David off the hook here. But the speakers. So there's two speakers. It seems like they're mounted front-facing. That's right. Yeah, that's kind of a neat feature, I think, because that's traditionally where they would be, and it is stereo, correct? That is correct. Awesome. Yeah, that's very neat. And then there's obviously some aesthetic things that I really enjoyed about it. It looks like there's a nice quality bezel. And we had talked a little bit about side art, because a lot of people are particular about side art. So there's going to be some side art options in the future, maybe? That is correct. We are currently deciding on what that will look like, but currently it does seem like you'll be able to interchange the side art. No more information on that just yet. Okay, so this whole bring your own game feature, I want to jump back to that for a second because obviously I love Street Fighter. And, you know, I definitely want to show everyone that. But, David, will you play me in Street Fighter? Probably. All right. I'm taking David on. All right. Now I'm not going to put my own tires. I've played a little bit. Oh, he's practicing.
    10:06
    But I'll go easy for sure. He's practicing. I am holding a mic at the same time, so I'm a little disadvantaged. No problem at all. Yeah, well, I'm just trying to make it so if you do beat me, I have an excuse, you know. So we're currently streaming this game. A traditional arcade as we mentioned earlier wouldn't necessarily be able to handle the processing power for Street Fighter. The new edition of course We currently running this off the cloud and it doing all the processing power for us and then just streaming it to this arcade Alright David you ready We to do this I been waiting I watched Retro Ralph channel grow from the beginning so this is also a fun moment for me I think Oh, I think we messed up. Yeah, it does. I think, yeah, there you go. I'm on player two for some reason. That's all right. We got it backwards, but we're going to play anyways. Where are you going to be? Well, I always do my standard Ryu, so I'm just going to go there. It would only be fair if I was Ken, though.
    11:00
    All right. All right, we got this. Are you a Street Fighter fan? Do you play the game at all? Yeah, I actually, so early days of the channel, I built a Street Fighter 4 cabinet. But, so yeah, so I definitely like it. But I'm definitely more of an old school Street Fighter, but I'll do my best here. You were kind of talking a big game, so. I know, I know. I got into Street Fighter at Evo, so all the pro players were kicking my butt, but they taught me a thing or two. Oh, jeez. Oh, okay. Maybe I have something to learn here. Oh, was that the spinning kick? All right, all right. I'm going in early. All right.
    11:40
    Uh-oh, David, you're making me feel... Uh-oh. I do this a lot. I fall off the train tracks toward the end of a fight. I don't know why that happens with me.
    11:49
    I started off weak, all right? I got to get some damage. You're going to perfect me over here. I can't talk all this smack and then get my butt kicked on camera. That's not good.
    11:58
    Oh man. Hey, this is a family channel. You gotta watch that language, David. Oh, shoot. Oh, fiddlesticks. Oh, no. Oh, we should just end it here. All right.
    12:13
    All right, we're round two, and then David's gotta go. So we gotta go, and David's gotta go. All right, I need to redeem myself. I can't talk all that smack and get my butt kicked here. Oh, he starts with a Hadouken. Okay. And then, David, we're not running the audio right now, but the audio is stereo and all that stuff. That is correct. We had quite a few meetings in here before you got in, so the volume was muted for professional reasons. But yeah, the sound is very nice. So actually, it'll be fully customizable. It's not just like high, low, off. It'll be fully like, you know. Yeah, it'll be variable. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I forgot to ask you that question, actually. I'm excited about that because there's been a little bit of, you know, people want to have that ability to tune the volume the way they want, right? Of course. Especially if they have, like, people in the house. and I might win again. Well, sometimes, oh, no. You're doing this on purpose, aren't you? No, I'm not.
    13:03
    That's the sad part. Oh, wait a minute. All right, now it's getting intense. Hold on. Oh, no. Oh, we're so close. I'm going to wait. I'm waiting for it. Oh, wait. Oh, there it is. What? All right, we're going to leave it one to one, and I'll just have to come back next time, and we'll do it again. Until next time. Thanks, David, for doing this. This was awesome. No problem. Everyone's been super nice here and welcoming, and I'm just super excited for this to come out. I think a lot of people are going to enjoy it. Thanks again, David. No problem. Appreciate it. All right. Take care, man. Thanks for that.
    13:55
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