I bought a custom 4player pedestal style cabinet from AG 2 years ago and I absolutely LOVE it to this day! I was able to design my own wrap for it, choose the colored buttons the way I wanted and they did an amazing job putting it together. The wrap still looks as new as the day I received it but I wanted to preserve the functions of the joysticks and buttons so I chose to use controllers mainly and the only mods I did were adding holsters for the guns on the side and some RGB lighting under the lip of the control area. These guys are the BEST and I'm certainly buying my next one from them

Id honestly be more on board if they didnt use a TCL screen. We had 3 of them, for a couple years in our house and have since gotten rid of all of them and traded for Samsung tvs. The tcl tvs would all randomly shut off or quit out of whatever app or show and go back to the home screens and navigating the menu screen was super laggy without the ability to delete any caches. Only thing that would help for a short time was fully deleting the app and reinstalling. We finally got fed up and got rid of them all.

Maybe some shots of you playing it so we can judge the scale of the unit next time?

There should be hotkeys to get to the menu so you can adjust aspect ratio and scaling of your emulation. This also includes being able to switch that ugly anti-aliasing off

The 4 player model with 43 inch screen is on my target, did you try to adjust ration to 4:3, from the tv itself ? As this would be concern and ruin the experience. Thanks for great work on this review

i bought one. my only complaint is the guns are kinda meh on the rasberry pi, and you cant really play "modern games" such as the new mortal kombat or guilty gear strive. Going to ditch the pi eventually for a PC build eventually. Overall build quality of the cabinet is fantastic

Him: "I didn't experience a lot of these games as a kid" Also him: "Anti-aliasing ruined my nostalgia."

Man, I already said this before, but I NEED one of those machines. Absolute envy on my side, lmao. If only I had easy access to them over here. Good vid as always, Rudy.

At first I was going to say it was a bad choice to get the Pandora version but you can always buy new versions of Pandora Box to upgrade.

Great video very informative. Thank you. I just ordered the TAG Pedestal which comes with Raspberry pi 4. I have sinden guns, will i be able to plug them in and go?

Cool arcade machine

Man this is awesome! There's just no way I can afford 2,600 dollars lol.

Cool video. Without knowing, I always thought Roms could be added to a Pandora’s box

Are the games licensed or are they essentially selling pirated games?

Baldy, dont know where else to ask this: I have a 2 player pedestal system with one of those small boxes inside that handles 10's of thousands of games (redundant and old). My question is: Can I use this two stick pedestal with a newer system like a PS 4 or some such system? Can I unplug that small box (emulator) with that PS4 or something that will plug in and then give me some newer games?? Thanks for your time. (I am 76 years old and not up on these sytems)

That looks like the Nintendo Entertainment System version of Pac-Man

have you tried the light guns with 2 players? does lag?

My issue is that at this price point with the trash TCL screen and lack of a trac ball I think I could build something better for cheaper

Omg, 2000.00 plus for a cabinet!??? Thats absolutely insane!!! Thats way too much for what it delivers....

Does the MVC2 have access to all characters all ready or do you have to unlock them? If you do, does it save your progress. I used an older Pandora's box that ran the PS2 version of the game and you couldn't save your unlocked characters.

While i would utilize the joysticks for the arcade games. I would prefer a controller for the nes and snes stuff. Does it offer a port to plug in a controller???

Personally I think 43" is way too big, our TV isn't even that big. For the price it can't be that good of a screen too, probably some low-quality white-LED edge lit sub-sRGB panel with backlight bleed and non even illumination. I did like the peek-in-the-workshop part. I got myself this one: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eKxyhbhm2NmUfJ8.html, as it has the Wife Acceptance Factor (I am the wife!).

Great review. Where can we see the list of 17000 games? I wanted to make sure sequels to Tekken, Mortal Kombat, and Soul Calibur were there. Also, do you prefer Raspberry Pi over the Pandora software for gaming?

Looks great but 2700$ cab is way beyond by price range.

no spinners or trac ball, hard pass

How can you call this the LAST cabinet you'll ever need..when it doesn't have a trackball? :D i put one in mine...for golden tee :D

Are these the original games from the arcade or SNES SEGA ports?

Was thinking about pulling the trigger on one of these but the anti-aliasing on the retro games seems like a sticking point because it just makes the games look ugly. Did they let you keep the cabinet because I would like to hear a follow up review after having had it for a few months now. But yeah, that anti-aliasing thing seems pretty bad

they should run batocera in their arcades

No trackball?! A whole lot of space there for one. There should be options for aspect ratio. No trackball and no ratio options seems kind of an egregious miss for this.

Is there a list of the games that are included anywhere?

Yea 3 grand for a pie I'll pass that's kinda nuts

Does it have contra??

so it comes with the games ?

Constructive criticism. Try to use "frankly" and "honestly" a little less. Other than that, great review. I plan on buying one for my game room. 👍🏻

Not hand made, hand assembled.

i wouldnt use any pirated games for any commercial purpose.....that's asking for a lawsuit.

Meh, Pis and Pandora's Boxes Mean No Killer Instinct arcade. I'll check on them when they incorporate mini PCs in their cabinets

Their website seems to claim 17k games is it only 3300?

These cabinets are way overpriced for what they are. If you want a quality cab with better components, better emulation & better build quality, there are quite a few choices for the same money. I have a Pc-Based system that runs Hyperspin and includes better hardware, correct screen emulation for all the games, including vector games & runs games that the Rasp Pi systems simply cant. Total cost for my system was $700. I really feel sorry for people that buy this crap.

The Pac-Man version was the NES version not arcade