Editors Pick: BEST BAR-TOP ARCADE

Editors Pick: BEST BAR-TOP ARCADE

What is a Bar-Top Arcade?

Doc and Pie Arcade Factory’s Bar-Top Arcades bridge the gap between Full-Size/Full-Height  machines, yet offer the look, feel and gameplay experience of their larger counterparts, authentic joystick and buttons. These are far more heavy duty, and offer a much more authentic Retro Arcade experience than the far lower quality 1-UP ARCADE, that you might find in your local Walmart 







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412 Games – Galaga Theme


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412 Games – Frogger Theme


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412 Game – Donkey Kong Theme


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412 Games – PacMan Theme

Bar-Top Retro Arcade with over 400 Games

Do not let the Galaga or Pacman display make you think this has only one game, all of these baby’s include 412 classic games. This high quality bar-top arcade weighs 50 pounds and features a 19″ gamer quality monitor. The study MDF constructed cabinet dimensions are 21″ L, 22″W, 33″H.

Pro’s:

  • Consistently one of highest rated “home pro quality” bar-top’s sold on Amazon
  • Ready to play out of the box, no oftware setup or cabinet assembly required.
  • Authentic arcade 8-way joystick & buttons, fits standard replacement parts
  • Internally. it’s powered by Game Elf’s “412-in-1” gaming CPU unit, which itself is highly rated on Amazon 
  • Two year hardware warranty with lifetime web and phone based support
  • Seemingly exact ROM’s of must-have classics like Pacman, Frogger, Galaga, .DigDug, Galaxian, Xevious, Burgertime.
  • Authentic licensed cabinet decal artwork with attractive matching color schema

Con’s:

  • The most common complaint is that the arcade does not save game high scores.
  • The list of games is not sorted alphabetically in the game launcher
  • No external volume control, however there is a helpful, but not very quick workaround by Michael show here
  • Does not have a back-lighted marquee
  • While it has 412 games, most folks will probably recognize 75 of them, probably 100 “junk games”
  • Though pretty obvious, since there’s no spinner or trackball, some of in included games like Centipede and Tempest are basically unplayable.
  • Unknown if hardware BIOS is upgradable.

Complete List of 412 Games

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