$700 Actually isn't that expensive for an arcade cabinet, I know these aren't and were never meant to be arcade quality but one of those cabinets can easily set you back 3-5k.
@@BriBCG Yea 3-5k for a full sized cabinet with no issues. For a mini cabinet less than half the size, $700 is still good chunk of money for most people. At that price there should be none of these easily avoidable issues presented in the video.
You just haven’t factored in that the $ has failed . Wait for it . It’ll sink in . Then you’ll realize this is a arcade 1up at 3/4 scale and this is all frankly par for the course .
Yeah I can agree with everyone on here but I guess it boils down to each there own. Arcade 1up should have already taken into account From there first run of arcades that the number one thing to get right is the controls. I’m sure they’ve heard people’s concerns and complaints they have already had the opportunity to see what they can do better.I bought the MK Arcade 1Up and I knew already it wasn’t going to be the best, so I bought it more just for the retro look the memories and etc. Almost the same reason why I’m going to buy a few more of these just more for nostalgic. I’ve built my own with a 40” lcd screen with the same dynamics of a real arcade but made mine a bartop, I’ve built it for anyone can play from adults to children, big arms small arms big hands small hands lol.. just enough room to enjoy… I had to put all these wonderful games that a lot of us grew up on.
For all the young gamers, I remember this arcade machine from back in the day. It was the loudest bass heavy game in the arcade. 50 other machines around, and thats the one you heard over them all, and that includes ridgeracer and daytona that were reeeeeaaally loud. Very unimpressive Cabinet the arcade1up
Man when RGT, probably the biggest supporter of Arcade 1up I know, says their quality has gone down hill the company should stand up and pay attention.
RGT has been a long time supporter of these cabinets. I think we were all kind of wondering what was going on with this hefty price increase on these cabinets.
@@nikolas_schreck I'm in the UK and we don't get most of these cabs. I did see a couple and I was impressed with the aesthetics. The build quality of the cabinet and the artwork was great. But the controls and everything else sucked. They'd be fine if I wanted to rip the guts out and fit a Mame PC with decent controls. But they are just too expensive to do that.
300$ seam ultra cheap. If I buy a good wood housing for a DIY arcade wich is made here... Note no decals or paint at all. I need to invest over 300$ here without everything.
For $700 you should be getting a larger screen, better controls and a near flawless gaming experience. This year, Arcade1up took a turn for the worse. Maybe Burt & Ernie can steer this ship right.
@@eazyc404 Yes, but for a lot of this, you can update later if it's an issue. They were kind enough to not do anything at all to prevent people from disassembling the unit and installing better controls and a better monitor. Not to mention, adding new games, so long as they can handle the number of buttons given.
I remember when these little cabinets first came out and I couldn't believe the price at $300. I've been waiting for the price tags to drop but $700!? No way
If I bought ONE of these, it would have been this cabinet. That’s really sad that they couldn’t have done a better job on one of the games that would have possibly got me into the idea of setting up my own home arcade…
You missed another issue with the cabinet: You can only play ONE person per cabinet online... so if you and a buddy are over and want to play together online... NOPE
I played this in an arcade a few days ago. I took one look at the control board and instantly went for Marge and never played anybody else. Thank you for acknowledging my pain
I would return that cab for the control problem. I can wait for a software update, but like you said in the video, you cant fix a hardware problem like that. Also, I haven't been excited for an arcade 1up cab for awhile. I feel like they are slipping
@@MovieEnvy Yes, I have actually bought the final fight arcade 1up from walmart on sale because someone returned it. The 2 player joystick wouldn't register down, so I put in a ticket to support at arcade 1up and they sent me a whole new control deck.
I am just surprised that these even caught on, simply because (in my humble opinion at least) the quality has always been janky. But $700? That's just nuts.
My friend has a few of these arcade, and there pretty awesome. but 700 is not worth it 350-500 is the price point of these games. Anything more is not worth it. You can buy a arcade pi and upload a simpson emulator for 350 -400.
They really did capitalize on the hobbyists who always wanted to build a cabinet but couldn't dedicate to buying and making the cabinet from wood and materials.
For the price I rather A1P make a cab that has all the Konami beat em ups in it. In Australia this costs a thousand less than buying the real arcade machine. The emulation issues is is just embarrassing when this game was emulated perfectly in MAME for decades, with the tiny sound I wouldn't be surprised if it's just the cheap speakers in the cab
The audio problems were from the original sound module that was in the arcade when it was made. Mame just released a update to all of these games and fixed it.
As someone who made his own MAME cabinet back in the day and has kept it running, I have limited myself to buying these for my home arcade for games that I just wont be able to do properly (Outrun, 4-player NBA Jam). I really wanted the TRON one just for iconic the look of it, which I love. But $700 for scale sized Tron, a game I think is OK but not great......yeah they are starting to price these out of reasonable range.
I’m building a portable briefcase arcade with a Raspberry Pi and now my little brother has me convinced I can pull off a two-screen, four player cabinet for NBA JAM.
Yeah the price is the issue with these things. These things are fantastic for casuals, but when you charge a few hundred more than they are worth, you are going to draw a more demanding crowd that these cabinets just cant live up to in their current form.
Using some custom ARM MAME, and slapped together. This company went from being small to having a board of directors. Now it's so everything fast. Profit, Profits, PROFITS!!!!!
Man, I remember playing this back years. The sound impact you hear when punching a boss enemy was the cherry on top because it was so loud and full of bass which was just so much fun to hear! I have to agree with RGT, no bass no the sound issue.
I got NBA Jam at Wal-Mart on clearance for $111 about 6 weeks ago. There's no way I'd spend $700 on any arcade1up cabinet. Sad to see the price inflation on these cabinets
The Homer button placement is the biggest issue I had in my review too. I plan on opening mine up to see why they placed the button there and to see if there are any potential fixes
I also noticed on their X-Men cabinet each player has buttons in different places all over the control panel? It’s odd… and supposedly the Player 1 & Player 4 positions have extra useless buttons for the 2 Player game Avengers:GS? It’s very peculiar they would waste real estate & buttons for zero functionality🤔
I was expecting to have issues with it, but it's really not. I've got rather large hands and so I was expecting it to be an issue. I simply go from using my pointer and middle finger when playing as Homer to using my pointer and ring finger when playing. Apart from that little minigame with the balloon inflation, it's not at all a problem. The biggest annoyance for me is that you can't play 2 players on the local cabinet with online players join in. Or at least I haven't been able to figure out how to make that work. Which is a shame, because that's got to be possible with just a patch.
I'm up to like 17 cabinets now, love my arcade1up machines. Part of the appeal was I wasn't spending 1-2 grand on actual cabinets. I was really looking forward to the Simpsons, Xmen and T2 cabs but at prices like $900 CAD for T2 I think I'll have to pass
Yeah I own 3, and wanted to get another one but the prices are so high for some of them. Im gonna get the defender 40th anniversary cabinet since its 400$ on walmart right now. 400-500 should be the price point for these machines tbh
Which ones did you get for $250? I just bought my first one from Best Buy at $100 off so $350.00. I'm happy with that price for the Mortal Kombat II Legacy edition since it includes 12 games and the cabinet is a deluxe version. Since I'm a novice at Mortal Kombat this is much cheaper than dumping money in a real machine to get the skills up and learn the moves for each character.
@@dgross2009He may be reffering to the countercades. Right now, A1UP released NBA JAM, Marvel Superheroes (has MVC1 on it), Turtles, and the Mortal Kombat. I got the Marvel Countercade, and it's pretty decent.
The audio thing with Lisa and her saxophone is in the MAME versions too. It isn't 1UP with the problem, its the emulation in general. Or else that's just how it is with the original cabinet and you're seeing it through rose colored glasses.
It really begs the question of how someone at Arcade1Up playtested this, heard the audio issues and thought "so what", then found they couldnt play the game properly without constantly hitting their thumb like in the video, and still signed this off as good to go. Clearly worrying signs that cash is now king with them......
I know having console games is frowned upon in the community, but this cabinet could have benefitted having all the Simpsons SNES & Genesis titles like Virtual Bart, Bart’s Nightmare, Krusty’s Funhouse, Bart vs. The Space Mutants, The Itchy & Scratchy Game, Bart vs The World & Bartman meets Radioactive Man.
I was really considering ordering this when it came out, I would have barely been able to afford it at best. Decided not to at the time. This video pretty much saved me from making that mistake at a later date. Hope to hear it gets updated but still probably passing on it. Audio glitches would be enough to piss me off at that price point.
I'm 42, so I'd be lying if I said I never dreamed of owning a home arcade. This isn't it though. There's just no way I could justify the price or use of space for what is essentially the least efficient way to play emulated games ever devised. The cabinets do look super cool lined up together though.
At my local big box stores, they all still have 2 or 3 of these machines sitting on the shelf. Arcade1up must've thought this cabinet was gonna sell like hotcakes rofl.
Thanks for the review...hate how this is 700 bucks. I absolutely loved the arcade game in my childhood. It was a milestone for me, one of the first arcade games I beat by myself, and am a big fan of the show (even still).
Protip: Q&A DOES pick up on the issues you mentioned. It's just that most issues get ignored if it doesn't prevent the player from finishing the game. I can promise you the testers told management about these problems, but they didn't care or got told by shareholders "Too bad, just ship it".
Commodore 64 and MS-DOS got physical home versions, of The Simpsons Arcade Game. I always wanted a physical version of this game, on a system like Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast or Playstation 2.
I’ll never forget, I was playing the Bowling game in the arcade section of Cici’s Pizza as Lisa, and when I lost, she turned into some weird alien. Mind you, I was at least six at the time & got scared pretty easily, so this left a bad taste in my mind.
Looks like it’s going for $500 now. The only real issue for me is the button placement. The sound being tinny and the into being slightly out of sync isn’t that bad considering that the price is $500 now. In my opinion, 3/4 scale machines shouldn’t be four players
The cackling in the audio isn't from the speaker, it's from the emulation. And the "weird" syncing with the saxophone intro also happens in MAME as well as on my ALU... which uses a MAME core, which I believe is also what 1up Arcade use, I think that's just how the game was(or an issue with MAME), they do the sound effect/music when they show the characters profiles.
Mame on my laptop dose not freeze when playing simpsons... no lag in music eather... idk if mine was fixed or never had the problem but mine was downloaded about 10 years ago..
@@mikebigelow561 What I mean is all the let's play I've seen on youtube, and my own personal experience, Lisa's Saxophone plays when her profile appears, not when she's moving it. I've tried to find a single video where this isn't the case, and I just can't
@@Zantagor It’s an emulation issue. There’s a video out there by someone called moomert1 I think where he plays on an actual arcade cab and the sync issue isn’t there.
I just checked some emulation of this and Lisa's sax solo also starts after she's already shown playing, but the horn sound synch's perfectly with Marge and Maggie hitting the horn. I couldn't hear the horn in your clip.
Yeah, in the rom rip on MAME that sax riff also kicks in at the very end of the clip and continues through Lisa's title card. Might be a MAME bug since I assume these cabinets are just MAME machines underneath the hood.
Honestly for the price point I don't see it being worth it for the size and for only getting one or 2 games. I always thought it was a an impulse buy. Now if they had a fully customizable machine where you can purchase cartridges I think that would be a lot better than wasting so much space. I imagine having a main cabinet and you can choose the controller layout based on the games you'd like to purchase. Have at least the ability to plug in 4 cartridges' at a time so you can switch between them as well as storage for more if you end up buying more than 4. Also being able to swap out the artwork would be a nice addition as well. They really need to change it up if they want more people to actually buy into, also better quality control would be nice.
Shame about this cab, because Simpsons was something that everyone was clamoring for, and yet they somehow managed to drop the ball here. What a shame, Arcade1UP.
I just put my cabinet together last night and it’s great! More than happy i got it, only thing I seen as an issue is one screw for the controller didn’t actually grip onto anything and is just sitting there. The arcade game is exactly how I remember it and it never really had great audio to begin with also I’ve just watched a heap of videos showing the intro, some from as long as 6 years ago also some recorded from the og cabinet and nope Lisa’s part is exactly like that. Also I have huge hands and when I stand and play homer as intended (front on) i don’t have any collision issues with the joystick. However If I stand over closer to Marge’s side I can recreate the position you had your hands in tho, but that’s not how I would play it.
Every Simpsons owner I've spoken to has the same issue with the loose screw, myself included. I agree strongly with all your other points. To be disappointed by all of those things might be missing the point.
I had a technical issue with my marvel super heroes 1 up. It had a defect in the hardware that the games ran at 75% speed, along with difficulty locked at max. The ai was able to read my inputs and react faster than me. I ended up selling parts and made an arcade machine with the shell instead.
It’s never going to be perfect but you’re right. The price is the sticky wicket. $400 to $500 would be more reasonable. It’s clear that the ball for the bowling game comprised the layout of the board. If that wasn’t there or possibly done some other way would have been better. You don’t want a side scroller beat’em up with cramped Joy stick and action buttons laid out weird. 🤷♂️
Thanks for such an honest a straightforward review. Just one nitpick: the QA department (if there even was one) certainly detected these issues. Then being present in the final product was most definitely a managerial decision.
@@bigballrecall Because, if you've ever worked at product development, you will notice that QA tends to have a good handle on what needs to be fixed, but they don't control the businesses roadmap. It's fairly common for managers to say that they are willing to launch a product with the issues that QA has identified.
I got one on clearance for $199 at Walmart and it came with a matching riser stand. The buttons don't bother me, I hadn't even noticed, I can see how it could bother some people. The audio I thought was perfect because I remember the original cabinets audio sucking. The bowling was unwanted but I tried it and it wasn't too bad. Wouldn't have paid 700 for it tho sucks for you.
Being a smaller cabinet (& without looking under the control panel), I'd say that's the only orientation they could come up with to physically fit everything in there. IMO, it would've been better to scrap the bowling game which would've given them more space for the sticks & buttons. By cramming everything in there just made the main game borderline unplayable.
I wouldn't have bought it if it were any wider. It's 3/4 scale, and with the controls sticking off the side like that, I think it's more or less the same space that the original game had. I was very young and much smaller the last time I saw the original console, but I think this is about the same size in terms of the controls. There's also the issue of viewing angles and an LCD display.
Thank you for your honesty. So the arcade game has an audio glitch in the intro, the control stick hits your thumb, and terrible audio with no base. After I purchased my new PS3 years ago, I downloaded The Simpsons arcade game for only $10 and it sounds much better than this!
Great review! Finally someone who can admit no more! I’m right there with you; for that price it should be much better QC. Can’t believe people are rushing to buy these. I’m also done buying these unjustifiably overpriced machines.
Simpsons Arcade is fine but it really is The Simpsons Bowling that I'm excited about. That game's voiced dialogue does not work at all in emulation, which means the only way to ever hear it was on an original cabinet from over 20 years ago. Knowing that they somehow got this emulated version to work with voice is great to hear.
IMO, the selling points of single-game cabs are uniqueness (artwork, tailored controls) and price. When the price goes above the price of multicades like the atgames LU and the iiRcade, it begins to lose attraction for many fans, especially given recent competitor price drops. If theyre going to sell at a higher price, the quality better be in there. This is just disappointing.
Which may be part of why the cabinet isn't locked down to prevent people from loading their own games onto it or swapping out in favor of their own components..
$700 is crazy for these, but this was a top 5 game for me when I was kid and I have great memories of playing this and a couple others at the beach arcades in the Summer. This was a must buy and luckily my final purchase since I am out of space. It is coming next week and looking forward to it, but the button placement of Homer is terrible! Bowling looks super easy and I wish the trackball was the same size as Golden Tee but hopefully I am wrong and it does require some skill....and bud - use the stools and riser, looks and plays much better (plus you need to get your moneys worth lol)
I have looked around the Internet and seen the original versions of these arcade games refurbished, perfect working order, some upgraded to LCD screens from the original CRT monitors they had being sold off and on and when you see their price tags suddenly $700 doesn't seem so crazy.
Rgt, well done. When you’re right , you’re right , Kudos to you for pointing out all this flaws that all the 1up shills and lovers (and so called Arcade experts) failed to point out.
I suspect that the increase in price is the licensing of the Simpson' s Characters. With the controller set up, it almost looks like you can play one handed.
That is brutal. I haven’t had the best luck with my 1 ups. My Pac-Man legacy went out after a couple months and still trying to get it fixed. $700 for this plus tax is crazy.
I bought it on the PS3 store and just play it there. Back then one would buy an Arcade console because the games looked nicer than the console. Nowadays it is the arcade games that dont look as nice as the console. Save your $700 on a game that takes up the same space as a refrigerator. Try moving houses with all those arcade cabinets.
Great critique as always for the 1ups. 700usd is the same price they sell for in the UK so I know how you feel. We do have legacy cabinets now for 475usd but they never get discounted. As you said its a flagship game especially for 1up so they want to milk it I'm sure it will get heavily discounted in the future. As with light gun games 2 hotd games won't hold value they need to put 12 games standard. This simpsons cabinet could have easily had put 10 other Konami games on Anyway my point with simpsons is like the final fight cabinet they are great but these are longer arcade left to right games where you have to invest time and once complete it's easy just to leave it for months and then revisit. As with SF or MK you can always just turn it on for a quick fight or you guys have NBA jam play one game online perfect play for 5 min then come back another time. Simpsons bowling is okay/fun but kinect sports bowling would be better if you have 4 ppl round in opinion.
I imagine folks in the US would have heart attacks if they had to pay UK prices. I saw someone griping recently about the Legends cab being $600. I’m thinking: OK. It’s £800 ($1100) in the UK. Even when you take into account taxes, it’s an expensive hobby on these isles!
@@CraigGrannell the uk charge VAT the same as import tax @ 20% and anything that weights 50kg/100lb then air freight is the same minimum so hence why it doubles the cost. The main problem is the UK market for these machines only get sold via 2 outlets and are marketed poorly. So a lot don't see enough value to buy one even mod on top so just stays a specialist product. Shame as the legacy cabinets in my opinion at £349 are good value with a stool at £49 then that's 530usd as of writing. Our main issue is choice I understand no one over here will buy basketball but the outrun or golden axe version would be a winner. I will also mention that in the us places like Walmart massively reduce these 1ups down to 100usd so any old Joe will just buy one
@@jonarsenal Yep. And this is all further compounded by the average size of UK homes not really being conducive to these cabinets - and certainly not large collections of them. I adored the Ultimate when I had it in for review. But even if I could justify the outlay, I don’t have anywhere to actually put one. (Best I can do are the wee Quarter Arcades, which are at least shelf-friendly!)
To be fair, for some reason they redesigned the controls. If you look up the original Simpsons (or TMNT arcade) cabinet, all the buttons are further from the joystick, but also, they're rotated so that 4 players can actually stand in front of the cabinet without hitting each other. A 4-player cabinet in this "reduced size" arrangement is going to be a problem. The machine either should have been an entire foot wider, with a bigger screen, or they should have put 4 USB ports in front of the controls to allow a wired arcade controller to be used from further back.
got mine a few days ago and when it worked it was really great! went to turn it on this morning and it wouldn’t turn on. i've only owned it for four days! i understand these cabinets take a little bit to boot up but the marquee wouldn't even light up. i always keep the cabinet off when its not in use and was very careful with the assembly. i even switched the power cable with my other arcade1up machine and it still didn't work. entering a customer support ticket on their website right now : (
The price, control layout, audio quality, and washed out marquee are definite concerns. The audio can hopefully be fixed through an update, I agree my tmnt sounded pretty good out of the box as well. I’m surprised you don’t like the coin doors, I’ve been wanted A1up to include those for years now. Also wondering why you don’t use the risers. I don’t know anyone that doesn’t unless they set them up for kids. I can’t imagine poker night with a bunch of 6 ft to 6’5 dudes playing these on the floor. I actually built 4” platforms to make them even taller, even with the risers they’re not tall enough.
Excellent review, thanks for your honest opinion and feedback. As a teen in the 90's this game was epic, a serious quarter muncher and fun! There is a lot of bass in the game so that's a shame that is missing. Everything on the base game looks poorly emulated.
You can load up your own version of MAME if you like, I haven't gotten around to trying that, but the game plays well, and I never had the quarters available to play the original. This should bring the price of the original cabinets down a bit, as people just wanting to play on a cabinet wouldn't be forced to buy the original one.
I would like to say Thank You!!! I'm a huge Simpsons fan with my legs sleeved in Simpsons tattoos. I have wanted this machine for a bit, but was nervous about pricing and how good is the system overall. I think I am going to pass on it. Thank you for saving me the money. I will use it to grow my switch collection.
@@geoffglumm He's not being mean. He said he likes the videos, he's just pointing out a speech error so RGT knows now. If anything it's a nice thing to do because he's helping RGT not make that mistake in the future 🤷🏻♂️.
@@chucktownattack No, actually it's a FACT that correcting ANYONE will result in them having at least some hidden issue with you or what you've said. They will try and hide it, but I absolutely GUARANTEE you, correcting someone will cause feelings! It's literal human nature...
You’re bugging- the sound is PERFECT! I put the volume on 5 bars out of 15 and I can hear it perfectly. My girl said she can even hear the sounds through the walls in the other room when the volume was at 5 bars so I don’t know what’s wrong with your cabinet man.
I advice anyone not to buy any of their arcades!! I bought the TMNT one and only worked for one day and the next day I couldn’t get it to turn on! Secondly it’s hard to get in contact with them for a refund
I own this. I liked it. My issue was there was no sound on the bowling, after a quick update I got the sound to work. The controls didn't bother me there was enough room for my hands to play homer and not touch the track ball or hit my thumb with the joystick and I have big hands too. This one and TMNT are great additions to my 1 up arcade collection in my opinion.
@ian1753 No problem. I hope this helps. I downloaded an update via a hotspot on my cellphone after the update it worked. That was it. Very easy, I hope it works for you!
I don't play fighting style games but I will never ever understand who thought that most right handed people would want to control a joystick with their left hand.
It also makes no sense why the screen isn't bigger. The original cabinet doesn't have this much controls sticking on either side of it. A larger screen would allow for the controls to be less cramped and spaced apart more.
I remember playing the sh*t out of The Simpsons game at this place called Fun World over at Co'op City New York when I was a kid. Sigh I miss the 90's and in some cases I miss being a kid.
@@kcadventures1454 good deal, no one is buying these things anyway…with the price of food and utilities going up, no one can afford these. I’m just waiting for them to do the same with the X-MEN cabinet. It shouldn’t be long. They’re still trying to milk it between $589 and $750 though.
Since arcade 1 ups are nothing more than an emulated game with a flat screen why not simply buy a Pandora Box and have 4500 to 5000 games so they won’t be able to complain about its overly expensive price?
For $700, I expect everything to be perfect. Issues like these are inexcusable for this price point.
$700 Actually isn't that expensive for an arcade cabinet, I know these aren't and were never meant to be arcade quality but one of those cabinets can easily set you back 3-5k.
@@BriBCG Yea 3-5k for a full sized cabinet with no issues. For a mini cabinet less than half the size, $700 is still good chunk of money for most people. At that price there should be none of these easily avoidable issues presented in the video.
Yeah, imagine paying that kind of money and then not having the music line up or having to go spend another $50 dollars on decent cabinet speakers.
You just haven’t factored in that the $ has failed . Wait for it . It’ll sink in . Then you’ll realize this is a arcade 1up at 3/4 scale and this is all frankly par for the course .
Yeah I can agree with everyone on here but I guess it boils down to each there own. Arcade 1up should have already taken into account From there first run of arcades that the number one thing to get right is the controls. I’m sure they’ve heard people’s concerns and complaints they have already had the opportunity to see what they can do better.I bought the MK Arcade 1Up and I knew already it wasn’t going to be the best, so I bought it more just for the retro look the memories and etc. Almost the same reason why I’m going to buy a few more of these just more for nostalgic. I’ve built my own with a 40” lcd screen with the same dynamics of a real arcade but made mine a bartop, I’ve built it for anyone can play from adults to children, big arms small arms big hands small hands lol.. just enough room to enjoy… I had to put all these wonderful games that a lot of us grew up on.
For all the young gamers, I remember this arcade machine from back in the day. It was the loudest bass heavy game in the arcade. 50 other machines around, and thats the one you heard over them all, and that includes ridgeracer and daytona that were reeeeeaaally loud. Very unimpressive Cabinet the arcade1up
Daytona!
Killer Instinct!
yes but nothing beats the sound of the elephant from dhalsim's stage in sf2
A movie theater I still go to, the drive-in, still has the original arcade game and the thing is loud.
Ahhh...Happy days lads
Man when RGT, probably the biggest supporter of Arcade 1up I know, says their quality has gone down hill the company should stand up and pay attention.
RGT has been a long time supporter of these cabinets. I think we were all kind of wondering what was going on with this hefty price increase on these cabinets.
Arcade 1up has always been cheap cheap alternative. The sticks on all of them are as awful and useless as the buttons lol.
They never had quality.
@@nikolas_schreck I'm in the UK and we don't get most of these cabs. I did see a couple and I was impressed with the aesthetics. The build quality of the cabinet and the artwork was great. But the controls and everything else sucked. They'd be fine if I wanted to rip the guts out and fit a Mame PC with decent controls. But they are just too expensive to do that.
The arcades sell. The company doesn’t care , clearly.
I think their value is about $300 and pinball $500 max. I see them all the time used for $200 on Facebook and letgo.
300$ seam ultra cheap. If I buy a good wood housing for a DIY arcade wich is made here... Note no decals or paint at all. I need to invest over 300$ here without everything.
I don’t know, $700 for the Terminator 2 cabinet might not be that bad considering the guns come with force-feedback recoiling.
Just picked one up at Walmart🤑 clearance for $150.00 plus I picked up an extra riser for $15 bucks🤑
$1k in Australia. We get ripped off on everything here with the poor exchange rate.
For $700 you should be getting a larger screen, better controls and a near flawless gaming experience. This year, Arcade1up took a turn for the worse. Maybe Burt & Ernie can steer this ship right.
That will cost close to $3000
@@codys7703 exactly lol you get what you pay for
@@eazyc404 Yes, but for a lot of this, you can update later if it's an issue. They were kind enough to not do anything at all to prevent people from disassembling the unit and installing better controls and a better monitor. Not to mention, adding new games, so long as they can handle the number of buttons given.
$700 is pretty insane. They're just pricing it all on the aesthetic of it. Mostly just a big expensive piece of decorative nostalgia.
My buddy has a few of the arcade cabinets, and our assumption is the licensing rights is what jacked up the price.
Also, anyone buying 1ups is a sucker, so might as well charge up the wazoo
Only 399 now
I remember when these little cabinets first came out and I couldn't believe the price at $300. I've been waiting for the price tags to drop but $700!? No way
Cause COVID... Its a cash grab now wen you see all the issues. Naturally 1up will now go under.
You can still find the cheaper first gen cabs
Anything over 200 is a complete rip off for any of these cabinets. Sincerely.
@@flightofthebumblebee9529 maybe the particle board is worth about 15 bucks though? 🤔🙄
$200 in Raw Materials and $500 Profit for the CEO.
If I bought ONE of these, it would have been this cabinet. That’s really sad that they couldn’t have done a better job on one of the games that would have possibly got me into the idea of setting up my own home arcade…
This used to be my favorite game to play at Pizza hut. My mom would always take us every Tuesday cause it was their buffet day.
I bought one on sale for $400 last month, and we absolutely love it. Kids play it daily
@@ryanmumford4522 Yes, and when they get sick of the game, you can softmod the thing to play other games.
You missed another issue with the cabinet: You can only play ONE person per cabinet online... so if you and a buddy are over and want to play together online... NOPE
wow thats so lame
wow, talk about limiting...
This is the same issue I had with the Turtles in Time cab. Incredibly disappointing. Hope they can roll out an update for this
What!? I had no idea about this! :(
I played this in an arcade a few days ago. I took one look at the control board and instantly went for Marge and never played anybody else. Thank you for acknowledging my pain
I would return that cab for the control problem. I can wait for a software update, but like you said in the video, you cant fix a hardware problem like that. Also, I haven't been excited for an arcade 1up cab for awhile. I feel like they are slipping
Could you really return it after you build it?
@@AlphaTrion92 ok if you say so. I haven’t bought them before so I was curious. Good to know.
I think some bat tops would solve that issue
@@dannyk1980 True! RGT should try that
@@MovieEnvy Yes, I have actually bought the final fight arcade 1up from walmart on sale because someone returned it. The 2 player joystick wouldn't register down, so I put in a ticket to support at arcade 1up and they sent me a whole new control deck.
I am just surprised that these even caught on, simply because (in my humble opinion at least) the quality has always been janky. But $700? That's just nuts.
Might be able to explain that with disruptions in supply chain. Computer chip price or whatever.
My friend has a few of these arcade, and there pretty awesome. but 700 is not worth it 350-500 is the price point of these games. Anything more is not worth it. You can buy a arcade pi and upload a simpson emulator for 350 -400.
They really did capitalize on the hobbyists who always wanted to build a cabinet but couldn't dedicate to buying and making the cabinet from wood and materials.
For the price I rather A1P make a cab that has all the Konami beat em ups in it. In Australia this costs a thousand less than buying the real arcade machine.
The emulation issues is is just embarrassing when this game was emulated perfectly in MAME for decades, with the tiny sound I wouldn't be surprised if it's just the cheap speakers in the cab
The audio problems were from the original sound module that was in the arcade when it was made. Mame just released a update to all of these games and fixed it.
Bullshit
@@user-ro1vn7ch4cproof?
I lucked out and got Simpsons on the PS3 for the short time it was available for download years ago.
It was on the Playstation Store, for the PS3? I wish I had known that. 😩
@@randyh.7782 It was available for a few months back in 2012 then delisted. No explanation was given. Just poof, gone.
@@randyh.7782 It came out back in 2012. Delisted after a couple months. No explanation given.
I still have this on ps3🤣🤣🤣
I’ve got it on one of those $100 Pandoras Box sticks from Ebay.
As someone who made his own MAME cabinet back in the day and has kept it running, I have limited myself to buying these for my home arcade for games that I just wont be able to do properly (Outrun, 4-player NBA Jam). I really wanted the TRON one just for iconic the look of it, which I love. But $700 for scale sized Tron, a game I think is OK but not great......yeah they are starting to price these out of reasonable range.
I’m building a portable briefcase arcade with a Raspberry Pi and now my little brother has me convinced I can pull off a two-screen, four player cabinet for NBA JAM.
Yeah the price is the issue with these things. These things are fantastic for casuals, but when you charge a few hundred more than they are worth, you are going to draw a more demanding crowd that these cabinets just cant live up to in their current form.
Everything was beautifully said, it’s a shame to see so many issues for a cabinet priced at $700. Thanks for the excellent review RGT 🔥
Omg 700!!!!!!!!!!
An area 51 cabinet with wireless guns would probably sell for $1,000 and we would LoVe It
Using some custom ARM MAME, and slapped together. This company went from being small to having a board of directors. Now it's so everything fast. Profit, Profits, PROFITS!!!!!
If i have 700 i will bus ps5
Wait a second,
they cost 700 now?
Man, I remember playing this back years. The sound impact you hear when punching a boss enemy was the cherry on top because it was so loud and full of bass which was just so much fun to hear! I have to agree with RGT, no bass no the sound issue.
This and TMNT were my favorite arcade games as a kid but it's a little sad to see a smaller version of them have problems. Thanks for reviewing!
Those were my two jams as well as a kid. I was looking at this and very hopeful. Sucks.
Samsies!!!
I got NBA Jam at Wal-Mart on clearance for $111 about 6 weeks ago. There's no way I'd spend $700 on any arcade1up cabinet. Sad to see the price inflation on these cabinets
Yea me 2 I gat nba jam this past Saturday in walmart 200 emoji 😎
Y'all can flip em now for profit
Now thats a sweet deal! I wouldnt hesitate for a second on that price point!
The Homer button placement is the biggest issue I had in my review too. I plan on opening mine up to see why they placed the button there and to see if there are any potential fixes
I also noticed on their X-Men cabinet each player has buttons in different places all over the control panel? It’s odd… and supposedly the Player 1 & Player 4 positions have extra useless buttons for the 2 Player game Avengers:GS? It’s very peculiar they would waste real estate & buttons for zero functionality🤔
Its really not that big of a deal and I have had no issues with it.
I was expecting to have issues with it, but it's really not. I've got rather large hands and so I was expecting it to be an issue. I simply go from using my pointer and middle finger when playing as Homer to using my pointer and ring finger when playing. Apart from that little minigame with the balloon inflation, it's not at all a problem.
The biggest annoyance for me is that you can't play 2 players on the local cabinet with online players join in. Or at least I haven't been able to figure out how to make that work. Which is a shame, because that's got to be possible with just a patch.
@@SmallSpoonBrigadeReally the original arcade machine had 4 player co op
I'm up to like 17 cabinets now, love my arcade1up machines. Part of the appeal was I wasn't spending 1-2 grand on actual cabinets. I was really looking forward to the Simpsons, Xmen and T2 cabs but at prices like $900 CAD for T2 I think I'll have to pass
Yeah I own 3, and wanted to get another one but the prices are so high for some of them. Im gonna get the defender 40th anniversary cabinet since its 400$ on walmart right now. 400-500 should be the price point for these machines tbh
I have 5 A1ups...I paid no more than $250 for any of them, new in store. At the current price point, they are not worth it. $299 is max for these.
Unfortunately you didn't get popular ones like turtles or xmen at 250.
For $700 it should be right
Which ones did you get for $250? I just bought my first one from Best Buy at $100 off so $350.00. I'm happy with that price for the Mortal Kombat II Legacy edition since it includes 12 games and the cabinet is a deluxe version. Since I'm a novice at Mortal Kombat this is much cheaper than dumping money in a real machine to get the skills up and learn the moves for each character.
@@dgross2009He may be reffering to the countercades. Right now, A1UP released NBA JAM, Marvel Superheroes (has MVC1 on it), Turtles, and the Mortal Kombat. I got the Marvel Countercade, and it's pretty decent.
How is that possible.
The audio thing with Lisa and her saxophone is in the MAME versions too. It isn't 1UP with the problem, its the emulation in general. Or else that's just how it is with the original cabinet and you're seeing it through rose colored glasses.
Man, that's a bummer to read the title on. The price is definitely the big issue on these things now. Love the way your arcade is turning out.
Are the older ones the old price or they’re also riding in costs?
@@NinjaFingers19 as they sell out they are not rereleased. you may find a discount at WalMart but the base price of these is $600 now
@@NinjaFingers19 The defender legacy cabinet on walmart is 399 right now, id say get that one and not these 700$ ones
It really begs the question of how someone at Arcade1Up playtested this, heard the audio issues and thought "so what", then found they couldnt play the game properly without constantly hitting their thumb like in the video, and still signed this off as good to go. Clearly worrying signs that cash is now king with them......
I’ve been concerned about the Arcade1up 4th Gen cabinet audio, this doesn’t ease those concerns. I always appreciate a good Jewel reference. 🦊👊🏼
That is because you have good Intuition.
Jewel is a smoke show
These new Arcade 1Ups are foolish games, for sure
Even circled back to it with God awful singing just to make sure we understood it was a Jewel reference
I know having console games is frowned upon in the community, but this cabinet could have benefitted having all the Simpsons SNES & Genesis titles like Virtual Bart, Bart’s Nightmare, Krusty’s Funhouse, Bart vs. The Space Mutants, The Itchy & Scratchy Game, Bart vs The World & Bartman meets Radioactive Man.
I was really considering ordering this when it came out, I would have barely been able to afford it at best. Decided not to at the time. This video pretty much saved me from making that mistake at a later date. Hope to hear it gets updated but still probably passing on it. Audio glitches would be enough to piss me off at that price point.
Imagine 700 dollars is enough to make you go completely broke..
@@Marvel_vs_Capcom84 at the time, yes, and yet I wanted it! Lol
@@TapeManX2 watch other reviews on this arcade machine and don't just take his word as Gospel..
@@Marvel_vs_Capcom84 That's like most Americans. Fast-forward a few months and these are going for several hundred dollars less, including shipping.
@@SmallSpoonBrigade well this arcade machine is still the same price it was 8months ago..
I'm 42, so I'd be lying if I said I never dreamed of owning a home arcade. This isn't it though. There's just no way I could justify the price or use of space for what is essentially the least efficient way to play emulated games ever devised. The cabinets do look super cool lined up together though.
Not being able to "justify the price or the use of space" sounds like a very parent thing to say...
... and I feel your pain, brother. 🤝😔
@@asicsjohnson
It really does, which is scary because I don't have kids. I must just be getting old. LOL.
I always wanted an arcade basement or room but at these prices I don't think that'll happen any time soon if ever
Loving the RGT arcade 🔥
At my local big box stores, they all still have 2 or 3 of these machines sitting on the shelf. Arcade1up must've thought this cabinet was gonna sell like hotcakes rofl.
Thanks for the review...hate how this is 700 bucks. I absolutely loved the arcade game in my childhood. It was a milestone for me, one of the first arcade games I beat by myself, and am a big fan of the show (even still).
For $700 it is a shame it has issues
I bet you spent close to 700 bucks 'beating it'...cause you didn't 1cc it did you?
@@stoicvampirepig6063 5 bucks in quarters
How much did it cost to beat the game? Like in one session how many quarters did it take?
I got it last month for 450
Protip: Q&A DOES pick up on the issues you mentioned. It's just that most issues get ignored if it doesn't prevent the player from finishing the game. I can promise you the testers told management about these problems, but they didn't care or got told by shareholders "Too bad, just ship it".
Commodore 64 and MS-DOS got physical home versions, of The Simpsons Arcade Game. I always wanted a physical version of this game, on a system like Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast or Playstation 2.
Downloaded the dos version years ago, and for what it is, it isn't half bad..that adlib soundtrack tho..haha
Pretty sure this came out on the xbox 360
I’ll never forget, I was playing the Bowling game in the arcade section of Cici’s Pizza as Lisa, and when I lost, she turned into some weird alien. Mind you, I was at least six at the time & got scared pretty easily, so this left a bad taste in my mind.
"I'm done"
Proceeds to list off multiple genres of games that he'd return for haha
Looks like it’s going for $500 now. The only real issue for me is the button placement. The sound being tinny and the into being slightly out of sync isn’t that bad considering that the price is $500 now. In my opinion, 3/4 scale machines shouldn’t be four players
Man I’m glad you did this review. The audio is one thing but the joystick layout is what kills it for me
the saxophone thing in the intro is actually like that in the original version
The cackling in the audio isn't from the speaker, it's from the emulation. And the "weird" syncing with the saxophone intro also happens in MAME as well as on my ALU... which uses a MAME core, which I believe is also what 1up Arcade use, I think that's just how the game was(or an issue with MAME), they do the sound effect/music when they show the characters profiles.
Mame on my laptop dose not freeze when playing simpsons... no lag in music eather... idk if mine was fixed or never had the problem but mine was downloaded about 10 years ago..
@@mikebigelow561 What I mean is all the let's play I've seen on youtube, and my own personal experience, Lisa's Saxophone plays when her profile appears, not when she's moving it. I've tried to find a single video where this isn't the case, and I just can't
Arcade version never had that issue....
@@Zantagor It’s an emulation issue. There’s a video out there by someone called moomert1 I think where he plays on an actual arcade cab and the sync issue isn’t there.
@@tom11zz884 emulation issue. Nothing to do with the arcade version
I just checked some emulation of this and Lisa's sax solo also starts after she's already shown playing, but the horn sound synch's perfectly with Marge and Maggie hitting the horn. I couldn't hear the horn in your clip.
Yeah, in the rom rip on MAME that sax riff also kicks in at the very end of the clip and continues through Lisa's title card. Might be a MAME bug since I assume these cabinets are just MAME machines underneath the hood.
Honestly for the price point I don't see it being worth it for the size and for only getting one or 2 games. I always thought it was a an impulse buy. Now if they had a fully customizable machine where you can purchase cartridges I think that would be a lot better than wasting so much space. I imagine having a main cabinet and you can choose the controller layout based on the games you'd like to purchase. Have at least the ability to plug in 4 cartridges' at a time so you can switch between them as well as storage for more if you end up buying more than 4. Also being able to swap out the artwork would be a nice addition as well. They really need to change it up if they want more people to actually buy into, also better quality control would be nice.
Shame about this cab, because Simpsons was something that everyone was clamoring for, and yet they somehow managed to drop the ball here.
What a shame, Arcade1UP.
I just put my cabinet together last night and it’s great! More than happy i got it, only thing I seen as an issue is one screw for the controller didn’t actually grip onto anything and is just sitting there.
The arcade game is exactly how I remember it and it never really had great audio to begin with also I’ve just watched a heap of videos showing the intro, some from as long as 6 years ago also some recorded from the og cabinet and nope Lisa’s part is exactly like that.
Also I have huge hands and when I stand and play homer as intended (front on) i don’t have any collision issues with the joystick. However If I stand over closer to Marge’s side I can recreate the position you had your hands in tho, but that’s not how I would play it.
Every Simpsons owner I've spoken to has the same issue with the loose screw, myself included.
I agree strongly with all your other points. To be disappointed by all of those things might be missing the point.
Had the screw problem-- just pushed downward on the control panel (it's not laying flush.) And the panel popped right into place
I had a technical issue with my marvel super heroes 1 up. It had a defect in the hardware that the games ran at 75% speed, along with difficulty locked at max. The ai was able to read my inputs and react faster than me. I ended up selling parts and made an arcade machine with the shell instead.
It’s never going to be perfect but you’re right. The price is the sticky wicket. $400 to $500 would be more reasonable. It’s clear that the ball for the bowling game comprised the layout of the board. If that wasn’t there or possibly done some other way would have been better. You don’t want a side scroller beat’em up with cramped Joy stick and action buttons laid out weird. 🤷♂️
The Simpsons Arcade game is one of the few reasons my 360 is still plugged in.
Thanks for such an honest a straightforward review.
Just one nitpick: the QA department (if there even was one) certainly detected these issues. Then being present in the final product was most definitely a managerial decision.
How do you know?
@@bigballrecall Because the managers have final say
@@Emerald_Knight45 yea ok sure
@@bigballrecall Because, if you've ever worked at product development, you will notice that QA tends to have a good handle on what needs to be fixed, but they don't control the businesses roadmap. It's fairly common for managers to say that they are willing to launch a product with the issues that QA has identified.
Yep, just like in the movie Elf, he signs off on a book, even though it has missing pages, instead of fixing with a rewrite 🎅🏼
I got one on clearance for $199 at Walmart and it came with a matching riser stand. The buttons don't bother me, I hadn't even noticed, I can see how it could bother some people. The audio I thought was perfect because I remember the original cabinets audio sucking. The bowling was unwanted but I tried it and it wasn't too bad. Wouldn't have paid 700 for it tho sucks for you.
Being a smaller cabinet (& without looking under the control panel), I'd say that's the only orientation they could come up with to physically fit everything in there. IMO, it would've been better to scrap the bowling game which would've given them more space for the sticks & buttons.
By cramming everything in there just made the main game borderline unplayable.
Yeah that was common sense
I wouldn't have bought it if it were any wider. It's 3/4 scale, and with the controls sticking off the side like that, I think it's more or less the same space that the original game had. I was very young and much smaller the last time I saw the original console, but I think this is about the same size in terms of the controls. There's also the issue of viewing angles and an LCD display.
Thank you for your honesty. So the arcade game has an audio glitch in the intro, the control stick hits your thumb, and terrible audio with no base. After I purchased my new PS3 years ago, I downloaded The Simpsons arcade game for only $10 and it sounds much better than this!
Great review! Finally someone who can admit no more! I’m right there with you; for that price it should be much better QC. Can’t believe people are rushing to buy these. I’m also done buying these unjustifiably overpriced machines.
That's a lot of money for an arcade cabinet when you consider what the last generation cost.
Simpsons Arcade is fine but it really is The Simpsons Bowling that I'm excited about. That game's voiced dialogue does not work at all in emulation, which means the only way to ever hear it was on an original cabinet from over 20 years ago. Knowing that they somehow got this emulated version to work with voice is great to hear.
IMO, the selling points of single-game cabs are uniqueness (artwork, tailored controls) and price. When the price goes above the price of multicades like the atgames LU and the iiRcade, it begins to lose attraction for many fans, especially given recent competitor price drops. If theyre going to sell at a higher price, the quality better be in there. This is just disappointing.
Which may be part of why the cabinet isn't locked down to prevent people from loading their own games onto it or swapping out in favor of their own components..
I have the street fighter champion edition cabinet.
All it does for me is collect dust , sit in my basement unplugged.
I never play it !
$700 is crazy for these, but this was a top 5 game for me when I was kid and I have great memories of playing this and a couple others at the beach arcades in the Summer. This was a must buy and luckily my final purchase since I am out of space. It is coming next week and looking forward to it, but the button placement of Homer is terrible! Bowling looks super easy and I wish the trackball was the same size as Golden Tee but hopefully I am wrong and it does require some skill....and bud - use the stools and riser, looks and plays much better (plus you need to get your moneys worth lol)
Bowling is painfully easy, however, there is a game mode called SPARES which is much more challenging and fun.
@@timandrews7139 👍
I have looked around the Internet and seen the original versions of these arcade games refurbished, perfect working order, some upgraded to LCD screens from the original CRT monitors they had being sold off and on and when you see their price tags suddenly $700 doesn't seem so crazy.
Thanks for the honesty, that joystick positioning is a deal breaker on something this expensive.
Rgt, well done. When you’re right , you’re right , Kudos to you for pointing out all this flaws that all the 1up shills and lovers (and so called Arcade experts) failed to point out.
I suspect that the increase in price is the licensing of the Simpson' s Characters.
With the controller set up, it almost looks like you can play one handed.
The control placement is def a deal breaker. Thank you for the heads up. Cuz I was convinced on buying this. Not so much now.
It's not an issue. Just play Homer with your pointer and ring finger and it's fine.
And now it's a $199 cabinet courtesy of Wal-Mart! :) That is about the price their quality warrants.
That is brutal. I haven’t had the best luck with my 1 ups. My Pac-Man legacy went out after a couple months and still trying to get it fixed. $700 for this plus tax is crazy.
Go through warranty
Really I was about to get the ms pack man so it’s not a good idea
I bought it on the PS3 store and just play it there. Back then one would buy an Arcade console because the games looked nicer than the console. Nowadays it is the arcade games that dont look as nice as the console. Save your $700 on a game that takes up the same space as a refrigerator. Try moving houses with all those arcade cabinets.
Great critique as always for the 1ups. 700usd is the same price they sell for in the UK so I know how you feel. We do have legacy cabinets now for 475usd but they never get discounted. As you said its a flagship game especially for 1up so they want to milk it I'm sure it will get heavily discounted in the future. As with light gun games 2 hotd games won't hold value they need to put 12 games standard. This simpsons cabinet could have easily had put 10 other Konami games on
Anyway my point with simpsons is like the final fight cabinet they are great but these are longer arcade left to right games where you have to invest time and once complete it's easy just to leave it for months and then revisit. As with SF or MK you can always just turn it on for a quick fight or you guys have NBA jam play one game online perfect play for 5 min then come back another time. Simpsons bowling is okay/fun but kinect sports bowling would be better if you have 4 ppl round in opinion.
I imagine folks in the US would have heart attacks if they had to pay UK prices. I saw someone griping recently about the Legends cab being $600. I’m thinking: OK. It’s £800 ($1100) in the UK. Even when you take into account taxes, it’s an expensive hobby on these isles!
@@CraigGrannell the uk charge VAT the same as import tax @ 20% and anything that weights 50kg/100lb then air freight is the same minimum so hence why it doubles the cost. The main problem is the UK market for these machines only get sold via 2 outlets and are marketed poorly. So a lot don't see enough value to buy one even mod on top so just stays a specialist product. Shame as the legacy cabinets in my opinion at £349 are good value with a stool at £49 then that's 530usd as of writing. Our main issue is choice I understand no one over here will buy basketball but the outrun or golden axe version would be a winner. I will also mention that in the us places like Walmart massively reduce these 1ups down to 100usd so any old Joe will just buy one
@@jonarsenal Yep. And this is all further compounded by the average size of UK homes not really being conducive to these cabinets - and certainly not large collections of them.
I adored the Ultimate when I had it in for review. But even if I could justify the outlay, I don’t have anywhere to actually put one. (Best I can do are the wee Quarter Arcades, which are at least shelf-friendly!)
To be fair, for some reason they redesigned the controls. If you look up the original Simpsons (or TMNT arcade) cabinet, all the buttons are further from the joystick, but also, they're rotated so that 4 players can actually stand in front of the cabinet without hitting each other. A 4-player cabinet in this "reduced size" arrangement is going to be a problem. The machine either should have been an entire foot wider, with a bigger screen, or they should have put 4 USB ports in front of the controls to allow a wired arcade controller to be used from further back.
“Main point of contingency.” 😛
You beat me to it!
RGTisms
got mine a few days ago and when it worked it was really great! went to turn it on this morning and it wouldn’t turn on. i've only owned it for four days! i understand these cabinets take a little bit to boot up but the marquee wouldn't even light up. i always keep the cabinet off when its not in use and was very careful with the assembly. i even switched the power cable with my other arcade1up machine and it still didn't work. entering a customer support ticket on their website right now : (
The price, control layout, audio quality, and washed out marquee are definite concerns.
The audio can hopefully be fixed through an update, I agree my tmnt sounded pretty good out of the box as well.
I’m surprised you don’t like the coin doors, I’ve been wanted A1up to include those for years now.
Also wondering why you don’t use the risers. I don’t know anyone that doesn’t unless they set them up for kids.
I can’t imagine poker night with a bunch of 6 ft to 6’5 dudes playing these on the floor.
I actually built 4” platforms to make them even taller, even with the risers they’re not tall enough.
Just got this cabinet on sale for $299.99 usd. I feel like this is the max I'm willing to pay for 2 games.
Excellent review, thanks for your honest opinion and feedback. As a teen in the 90's this game was epic, a serious quarter muncher and fun! There is a lot of bass in the game so that's a shame that is missing. Everything on the base game looks poorly emulated.
You can load up your own version of MAME if you like, I haven't gotten around to trying that, but the game plays well, and I never had the quarters available to play the original. This should bring the price of the original cabinets down a bit, as people just wanting to play on a cabinet wouldn't be forced to buy the original one.
There's a reason why it's 700 dollars. It's called inflation and supply chain issues. Turn off the Simpsons and turn on the news.
I would like to say Thank You!!!
I'm a huge Simpsons fan with my legs sleeved in Simpsons tattoos. I have wanted this machine for a bit, but was nervous about pricing and how good is the system overall. I think I am going to pass on it. Thank you for saving me the money. I will use it to grow my switch collection.
Bought a nice joystick from Amazon and installed RetroArch on my Series X, my childhood has been resurrected.
FYI: the expression is “point of contention” NOT “point of contingency.” Keep these reviews coming! 👍
he's the ricky of youtube
Make your own video, then you can say whatever you want bud. Till then, if you have nothing nice to say shut your face 🙂
@@geoffglumm He's not being mean. He said he likes the videos, he's just pointing out a speech error so RGT knows now. If anything it's a nice thing to do because he's helping RGT not make that mistake in the future 🤷🏻♂️.
@@chucktownattack No, actually it's a FACT that correcting ANYONE will result in them having at least some hidden issue with you or what you've said. They will try and hide it, but I absolutely GUARANTEE you, correcting someone will cause feelings! It's literal human nature...
I got the simpsons cabinet the other day. Rang up for $529. Didnt have the price tag on the shelf. Got it for $315.
I just got the Simpsons for 199
Same!!!!!!
Same. Apparently there is an update that makes the game better to play.
You’re bugging- the sound is PERFECT! I put the volume on 5 bars out of 15 and I can hear it perfectly. My girl said she can even hear the sounds through the walls in the other room when the volume was at 5 bars so I don’t know what’s wrong with your cabinet man.
Wow thank you for this video
POOPIE HEAD!
It’s only $400 at Walmart. Game is great. Bowling is fun too! The button placement is fine.
I advice anyone not to buy any of their arcades!!
I bought the TMNT one and only worked for one day and the next day I couldn’t get it to turn on!
Secondly it’s hard to get in contact with them for a refund
I own this. I liked it. My issue was there was no sound on the bowling, after a quick update I got the sound to work. The controls didn't bother me there was enough room for my hands to play homer and not touch the track ball or hit my thumb with the joystick and I have big hands too. This one and TMNT are great additions to my 1 up arcade collection in my opinion.
I know you wrote this awhile back but what update or how did you get the sound to work?? Thanks in advance!
@ian1753 No problem. I hope this helps. I downloaded an update via a hotspot on my cellphone after the update it worked. That was it. Very easy, I hope it works for you!
I just picked this up. Literally the only reason is because I got it on sale for $399. The price it should have been originally.
Glad you made this review, I was considering this cabinet, now I’ll stay away from the disappointment.
I don't play fighting style games but I will never ever understand who thought that most right handed people would want to control a joystick with their left hand.
I don't know man I'm 6'2 and I have some pretty big hands. And I have no issues with any of the characters.
MAME cab people. Smaller footprint, bigger screen, higher quality, only 1 cab for +10k games. Actual arcade roms. No brainier.
Matt Groening's signature is on everything Simpsons. He has some kind of iron-clad contract that requires it.
“Shoutout to Jewel.” 😂 Thanks for the warning, saved my wallet
AFAIR, the fourth player's (Lisa) joystick handle and buttons were orange in the original cabinet.
6:08 I fell in love with you!
I'm a vintage handheld guy and that is the ultimate song about using your hands for your own purposes.
the button / control layout is just inexcusable , they had more than enough room to lay them out perfectly .
It also makes no sense why the screen isn't bigger. The original cabinet doesn't have this much controls sticking on either side of it. A larger screen would allow for the controls to be less cramped and spaced apart more.
I’ve been done with them since they raised the prices. The cabinets are cool for what they are, but they should never be over $500
I remember playing the sh*t out of The Simpsons game at this place called Fun World over at Co'op City New York when I was a kid. Sigh I miss the 90's and in some cases I miss being a kid.
They’ve dropped the price down to $400 in Walmart…some even have them on sale for $200 depending on which one you go to.
Yeah just picked one up for 200 at mine
@@kcadventures1454 good deal, no one is buying these things anyway…with the price of food and utilities going up, no one can afford these. I’m just waiting for them to do the same with the X-MEN cabinet. It shouldn’t be long. They’re still trying to milk it between $589 and $750 though.
700$ used to be top dollar for an actual machine. At that price I'd want Sunset Riders, Turtles, and Simpsons in one machine.
Man I’m so glad I held out. This would have been my first arcade machine purchase…..I’ll stick to my retropie for now
At games comes with 300 game and not 700
Got mine for $299 and added TMNT. I'm really happy with it considering I got the stool and sign with it.
Since arcade 1 ups are nothing more than an emulated game with a flat screen why not simply buy a Pandora Box and have 4500 to 5000 games so they won’t be able to complain about its overly expensive price?