Your decision to buy a home arcade cabinet just got slightly less irresponsible

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Want to make your game system or computer less convenient, but infinitely more awesome? X-Arcade has announced that "in celebration of its hometown Pittsburgh Penguins recent Stanley Cup Victory," it is offering a version of its X-Arcade Mame Cabinet for $799, down from its usual $999. That's a great deal (relative to the normal cost)!

The cabinet includes a 2-player X-Arcade stick, though if you're crazy enough to buy this kind of stuff, you'll probably want to swap out your own Sanwa sticks and buttons. You'll need to provide your own game system or PC, your own monitor (or add one for $425), and your own speakers, unless you use a TV with speakers. Of course, with your all-Rush mixtape, you won't even need arcade audio.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/24/yo...-slightly-les/

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Originally Posted by wraggster

You'll need to provide your own game system or PC, your own monitor (or add one for $425), and your own speakers, unless you use a TV with speakers.

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So in this mega sale your paying $799 for the arcade stick and an empty wooden cabinet?

I just checked the x-arcade site and the x-arcade tankstick is $200 so your paying $600 (£363) for the empty wooden cabinet? My advice... Get to HomeBase, get some mdf and knock one of these up your self for a fraction of the price! lol


I've actually got the x-arcade stick in my loft hooked up to my xbox 1 (which is basically just my mame machine now :)) and its pretty sturdy... but theres loads people out there that don't rate em.

Each to their own though.

My gf got me a x-arcade 2 player stick for xmas a few years ago (it was £60in tk max of all places)... never used it, shame