Okay guys, the kids are finally gone, so I'm able to bring this into the house. I purchased something today, and it could be a good thing, it could be a bad thing, but here we go. An arcade one-up. I got it for a hell of a deal, otherwise I would not be buying something like this. And the thing is, I plan on changing it completely from what it currently is. I bought an arcade one-up machine as a gift for my kid's Christmas. High quality of materials. High resolution art packages. A surprisingly low price. Highly sought after and collectible. and you are guaranteed a return on your investment. These are things that you are not going to hear me say about Arcade 1-Up. Now, I honestly, I never thought I would buy one of these machines. And the only reason I bought it is due to the markdown on price. I was at Sam's Club doing some Christmas shopping and I happened to walk by this Blitz Arcade 1-Up cabinet. And the thing is, there's much more backstory to this machine than I was aware of upon the purchase of it. Now, this merely came out a couple of months ago. I want to say it, like, officially launched to the public in October. And at that time, it was a $600 machine. And for those of you that are in like the pinball hobby and even like real arcade hobby, John Youssi the kind of quality and the size of this thing and then John Youssi a $600 price tag, a majority of you are going to go... Now I'm used to seeing arcade one-up machines at like Walmart or wherever, but I've been seeing them between like the $300 to $500 range when I do actually stop to look at a price. but in my past it's always been it's an arcade one-up i don't care keep on walking but when i walk by this machine at sam's club i see that it's a four-player cabinet i know they've done nba jam and the simpsons and everything but what made me interested even looking at the price of this was that the button layout was going to be little to no work on my end on converting it to something that I find more beneficial to me and my needs because I am limited on space and if I'm going to be taking up space I would prefer it be a pinball machine so when it comes to something arcade related I'm not going to have a whole bunch of separate machines one game each not gonna happen. A couple of years ago I made a two-player main cabinet that you could connect to your TV and play every game you want. But it required you to hook it up to the TV and it required you also to sit down on the ground while you played it but the kids were okay with that but what if I wanted to play it I not as young as I used to be So when I saw this machine priced at in comparison to the normal range being a four-player cabinet at that, it was almost a no-brainer for what I had plans for. Because I would never purchase this at the price that they've been asking for. Never. So at $250, I was like, okay, I think I can make this work. But I was still taking a risk because I did not know how proprietary the hardware was. I mean, is the back of the monitor that comes with this thing something completely different? Spoiler alert, yes it is. Do the controls have some sort of proprietary connection to some board that goes into like another type of proprietary device or something? yep but something that's turned me off from even being interested in any other four-player cabinet they have put out to my knowledge is that the button layout is completely obtuse from converting to a main and when i say that if i show you a picture of what the cabinet normally looks like on blitz and how the control panel looks i merely just had to drill three new holes for player one in player two now i also had to drill some holes in the front portion for the quarter buttons for those of you that do not know if you're playing the arcade roms they still require you to add quarters so i merely have it set up to push a button and add the quarter to a particular player so it's definitely the price and the control panel that turned me on to getting this it literally could have been any theme and I would not have cared. It just so happens to be Blitz. I mean, this thing is perfect for my needs. It's very small, so it doesn't take up much space and I can play any game I want to on a machine. I do not have an entire collection of these damn things in my house or garage taking up a whole bunch of space when if I want to play NBA Jam, I'll walk up and select NBA Jam if I want to play Mortal Kombat Street Fighter or Blitz I can play that on one machine so now that I've got this cabinet set up the way I want it's fully functional as a four-player main let's talk about arcade one-up in general trigger warning for those of you out there with a room or garage full of these pieces of crap now I almost feel sorry for those of you out there that are having a full garage or dedicated room with nothing but arcade one-ups i've i decided to browse through youtube and found quite a bit of you out there to each their own but all i know is that you're not going to get your money back when you purchase an arcade one-up the return on investment on these things is not there once you spend let's just say the $400 plus on one of these and you get it home set it up you are not going to be able to sell it for the same or more than you paid for that's why I felt I had to jump on this particular deal because at 250 bucks I got a bar stool the machine riser which I believe those things used to be like separate and cost at least a hundred bucks per so the stool alone those things usually retail for anywhere between 80 to 100 bucks and then the machine itself with the monitor i felt that the 250 price range for that was all right yeah i can do that yeah it's worth it i can do that i mean what is the target market for arcade one-ups i mean tell me i'm curious if you say it's for kids i would be like well your kids are still going to need training on what they can and cannot do with an arcade one-up. For those of you with a full-sized arcade with joysticks, tell me. I know you've seen it before. Kids will grab these joysticks and hang off the machine while holding on to them. I've seen it. My kids, whenever they were little before they were trained, used to do that as well. If a kid was to do that on the arcade one up one of two things if not both would happen the control panel joysticks whatever would break come completely off of the damn machine or the entire cabinet would fall over these things are not built for wear and tear because it doesn't take much to wear or tear them every piece of hardware on this machine i felt that they cut corners wherever they possibly could like what is the cheapest quality that we could get away with on the joysticks on the buttons the only thing that i'm going to give you them a compliment on is the monitor so far at least as of right now even after the conversion board that i had to get the monitor is actually pretty solid i i'll give them that for a 17 inch monitor with the arcade quality of material it is projecting to me it looks fine it looks pretty good i mean it may not be as bad on solid floor but on my carpet when i'm playing like street fighter 2 or something and i'm moving those joysticks the way i would on a normal arcade that things are rocking from what little research i've done about arcade one up it would seem their quality has been continuously going down and down but their prices have been going up and up. I don't know if my experience when it came to CNC routing being a little bit off but I had that issue on mine. The marquee would not slide into the designated grooves that were already cut for my machine. I had to take it outside and fix it. I'm pretty sure a lot of your target market is not going to be able to or willing to do what I did in order to get that marquee to fit in there. As of right now, I've been just going over function, over form at this point. Down the road, if I feel like I want to or need to, then I'll get some new decals to put on this cabinet to make it no longer look like Blitz NFL. But the kids didn't care about the art on the side of the cabinet, so I kind of don't care either. unless i was an nfl blitz fan then i'd be pissed because the art quality is total crap it's like i saw certain things where i was like okay that's pretty good that's pretty clever as i'm like putting it together and stuff like that and then there's plenty of other times where i'm like why why would they choose to do it this way or why have this particular crap quality to this item I mean I will never tell you or suggest you should buy an arcade one up ever but i will tell you if you want a decent cabinet that does the job for a low price then you may want to go to your local sam's club to see if you can pick up this particular one for around the 200 range now as i stated earlier there's backstory to this particular machine that i was completely unaware of until I got it home. We're talking issues with the online capabilities not working upon launch. Evidently they just became available merely weeks ago. Then you have the fact that they have disabled certain features in the game including late hitting like after the ball is down you can tackle somebody when they've already been tackled. That was a big feature in the Blitz games just because it was fun to do. They decided to remove that. If you combine all these little minor issues that I'm guessing people in the arcade 1up were aware of with the holidays then maybe that's why I was able to get it for a low price of 250 I feel sorry for those of you out there that spent 600 or more on this damn machine whenever it got knocked down to 250 bucks and I have seen images online where it's been even cheaper than that down to like a hundred 172 bucks so you may want to go to your local sam's club to see if you can pick up one for cheap because that is the only thing that i'm going to recommend for those of you out there if you are like me meaning you would like to have a single machine that does everything and doesn't require much drilling or screwing to get the thing converted over then this machine is your best bet when it comes to arcade one-up cabinets some people use the raspberry pi for a retro pi build I have a mini computer inside of this so it's able to do a lot more games like PlayStation, PlayStation 2 or whatever. I don't really play those very often but the fact remains is that I'm able to play them. If you would like me to put out another video showing you how I went about converting this then by all means let me know in the comments down below. I will put in the description of the materials that I did purchase in order to get it converted. So for the price that I paid for it it's worth it but I definitely would not spend what it launched at 600 bucks plus you guys are out of your mind for spending that much money on something that has such low quality it's almost laughable guys have any of you out there ever purchased an arcade one-up machine and if you have let me know how you feel about it in the comment section down below arcade one-up you have two options here one increase your quality or two lower your price what's it gonna be i can i think it would be hilarious to see like a facebook ad on the market like oh selling off my arcade collection and then all the arcade and pinball machine buyers will be clicking on it to see all the images of the collection and it's just nothing but arcade one-ups that'd be a good troll move uh if for those of you out there with an entire arcade one-up collection that would be a good troll move to pull on some people that'd be pretty funny just to see what kind of comments or messages that you would receive from people i mean that would be pretty funny