 Those of you who have watched my channel for a while know that I've had an arcade system that I built 18 years ago So it's now old enough to vote and it's falling apart And I decided that I was either going to build a new one or buy a new one that I can mod and I decided to buy One of these arcade one-ups a lot of people have different opinions on these arcade one-up cabinets So I thought I would film myself putting mine together and giving you my first thoughts These units come with a little Linux machine built-in But what you can do is pull that out and you can get a driver board for about $25 which I bought here to connect any computer Whether it's VGA out or HDMI out and basically you just take out this this computer and use a Raspberry Pi or a laptop And go to the screen and wire up your own controllers Which is what I planned on doing, but I also saw a few machines And this seems to be one of those that is probably running Android is what look like in the videos You can see we have Wi-Fi antenna here. We have ethernet here another good thing about we have a SD card or micro SD card We have micro USB and a standard USB, so I should be able to hook up I'm assuming a keyboard to this or even other controllers If I wanted to get this because I do have my light up controllers Another thing about this is a lot of the models I saw where people wanted to replace the speakers They had to get some sort of amplifier and wire up things where this one just has a little eighth inch jack To connect the speakers, which means I can plug pretty much any speakers in this. I don't have to rewire stuff So so far I am very happy with this machine it's got a Real marquee with a light which some people say is cheap But I think it's gonna be cooler than the wood and another thing I wasn't sure about when I was purchasing this on purchasing this online is some units have Graphic art up front and then some of them had A flat picture of what looked like a coin slot and I thought that looked horrible And I didn't know what I bought this one if it was going to have the picture or this it's not a real coin slot, but it's plastic, but it's it's Actually sticking out. It looks like a real coin slot I wish they drilled little holes here Maybe I will so I could put a can in there so you could put quarters in it makes the noise But I'm very happy that it had this over just a flat image Putting the cabinets together was fairly simple. It's like putting together any cheap piece of furniture They advise you many times in the manual not to use an electric screw gun to put the screws in But I always do you just gotta be careful not to strip out the screw holes One of the things I would have done a little different is the screen does have a protective plastic wrap on it And the instructions say to peel it off after it's in there and you kind of have the unit together But when I went to do that I could not get the top out from underneath the little bevel of the wood and it took me a while And I still see little tiny pieces of plastic at the top there And I've noticed in other YouTube videos other people have the plastic sticking out there, too So I would take the screen protector off before I finish putting it into the unit And it would be a lot more satisfying because that kind of removed the whole satisfying feeling you get When you peel off one of those protective coats So here it is so that's put the knobs on here But I have next to my old arcade center, which is a little larger than a normal arcade unit Because originally had a big tube TV. I had to fit it build it to fit that TV But I saw him put the riser on which is gonna raise it up like a foot in the half Higher as you can see it's very small But let's have a look at it compared to my old unit And again part of this is not only did I want something nice with the graphics on it Which started to have my sister do here But I wanted something smaller because I don't want to take a lot of room in this new Game room that I built we have big TV for playing video games and we have this But let's look at the two next to each other So as you can see it's just a little baby unit right now Let me go ahead and put together that riser and see how it compares They're with the riser decent height and these controls that came with a pretty cheap and originally I was going to completely swap them out and plug it all into a computer using different boards I am hoping again that this one runs Android and it had that full-size USB port That I'm hoping I can plug a game controller in in which case I can still swap out these buttons and use the onboard Computer I'm gonna flip this on for the first time cross my fingers that it actually turns on Well the light came on up here on the marquee and it says loading Other things about this. It's got a double volume switch It's got like I said Wi-Fi and ethernet because it has a live mode I guess you can play against people online probably that's the thing I'm gonna do But if this is running Android, I want to access it access it remotely. I should be able to well that was cool It also has a headphone jack right here, which is pretty cool And let's wait for it to load and see how it goes so far. I'm very happy with this person So this is me going through. Let's see. Oh, oh, I can go That's neat. I heard a lot of these units only have a high and low volume This one actually I can toggle through and adjust the volume So I'm gonna go through the setup on this for the first time. So I'm going to set up Wi-Fi. Sure Let's see. I hit yes Yeah, this is clearly an Android system. There's my Wi-Fi Enter passcode so don't want to show you guys this I may not mod this as much as again I was gonna hook up a hole in the computer, but since this seems to be running Android I should be able to load other ROMs on here as well as games I make myself and again, there is a micro SD card slot So I have as much storage as I would need so yeah if and when I do mods on this I will definitely do a video on it so far. I'm very happy with this again, you know There's a lot of different opinions about these little cabinets out there I do wish it was slightly bigger But I'm also glad it's not as big as my old one because one of my reasons of getting this was again to save room but also I've had this one I built this 18 years ago and I finally got where you painted on there my sister painted that on there And she hasn't even finished yet a couple months ago. I never did a marquee I drew a puncture skull on here, and I never did trim so almost 20 years, and I never finished this one So now I'm just happy to have something that has some nice artwork, and I specifically picked this one Because of the artwork on the side because there were other models that didn't have that Also, I'm glad I got it because it has the light up marquee. It's got again This seems a little more advanced than some of the cheap ones. I paid 450 for this there was another street fighter one that didn't have this artwork that probably didn't have the extra features I like that was only $400 so 50 bucks less, but I'm glad I got this one And I'm sure to get a street fighter one or something with the six buttons because no matter what I do with this It's gonna probably gonna be a fighting game console, so that's it I will probably do a follow-up video on this, but I thank you for watching Films by Chris Scott, come that's Chris Decay, link in the description