everybody norm fronts esse here at New York Comic Con this massive booth next
to this massive our cake of it is the arcade one up area John from arcade one
of you guys have been around for just over a year now stores but it's exploded
it's crazy right I mean the community the fan community is really supported us
I feel like retro gaming is back in a big way you know we have all the you
know the next-gen systems but there's always room for nostalgia you know I
think like good content is good content like a good song good video game well
you just kind of went through the history of arcades or the whole idea of
course is these are our kids that you can buy they are a little smaller than
what you find you know in your actual arcade but they're they figure home and
you build them they're somewhat yourself almost like IKEA I thought that exactly
right because you know we wanted to find a solution where one is affordable two
successive right you know we found a way to actually package it so it can be
available at retail people just pick it up and then you're right it's so much
easy to put together but one of the really great parts of like arcade one up
is trying to get that arcade peel and a lot of it is not just the games but the
artwork you see outside so I say it's like high-end collectibles yeah some
people in the gear vary and their eyes on that site are not only the stuff that
they remember like you have the Charles which has yeah classic art but also just
new takes on things like space invaders an executive for space invader art and
people even modding there's aftermarket yeah you started with some very classic
like original video games you had you know Calgon space invaders combos but
now moving into more of the early 90s yes exactly so what are the games you
have now so according to the early nineties first of all street fighters
are part of wave 1 Indra and you're right we're picking games for a couple
reasons the fan community is telling us what
games to bring out but also doesn't history right so the first wave of very
iconic games and now we're going into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles our first
four games I'll be out very soon actually it's starting to roll out right
now so if you find at a Walmart make sure you pick it up right away but that
was like one of those iconic 90s games we also have like Marvel superheroes
that would be right up relationship one of those games of the 2009 kind of game
for the 80s which is Star Wars yes and it comes out as a graphics vector
graphics you know it has all three game Star Wars Empire Strikes Back with how
many people have not played which is expansive backward and Return of the
Jedi and the yoke that we've created for it after marking yokes go for like four
hundred five hundred dollars they were able to get something very close to be
able to sell it for $500 told ya these are very customized experiences in terms
of the purity of the experience you know who's working on this emulation on how
do you choose very standard controllers and buttons the sticks on each is what
goes into the parts so that's that's the thing I mean you want to make sure that
we really capture the authentic experience right and so in terms of the
code right we use like the experts in industries the emulation experts like
other oceans and code mystics right and also we have our own proprietary
emulation that we also use in-house but we make sure not only that it's
important to have QA testers that know the game in and out so they
they can see like oh this is a bug that should be in the game are like specially
in fighting if we work with justin wong who's like one of the best fighting pro
fighter games you know an entire world so you know we give them bill t-tests
out like marble you know our Marvel game and make sure that all the combos are
there so yeah the authenticity is very important to us whether you know
sometimes we would pick different fun configurations or button size if it's
like Sanwa or half depending on what's best for the game so we're really into
that kind of stuff but the standardized thing is that they're all using the same
type of display they're all the same structure at least so the scan dumps
well so here's the thing I'm glad you bring that up so the first
wave is the form factor have been pretty much similar right but you know the
buttons are really good but then also we're getting into different form
factors but if you see our Star Wars cabinet you see that it looks closer to
the original we also announced Burger Time which has the the chef you know
today there's a little cutout so yeah we're trying to barrier it up so when
we're looking at is when people are collecting 5 6 7 you know pieces
whatever it looks like a real arcade yeah yeah slightly minotaurs although
there's a riser yeah we exactly here's the thing I mean we made it at 3/4 scale
so one it's easier to move around many people don't have the space for a full
size and it's you know the full size our heaviest happen right back then there
were three thousand dollars this is a tenth of this of a tenth of the price
other way yeah and also we have the cocktail cocktail cabinet that so we
announced during your comic-con hit Black Series because someone may not
want like a big yellow the cocktail or the Black Series has a very elegant
design and that's something we call like functional furniture hey works a little
coffee table full and of course people's are putting it together I've noticed
that in the community there are people for creating aftermarket parts with I
have lice replacing the artwork is that something you guys are behind that's
that we're behind it not only behind it we're taking a little bit we're taking
those ideas and incorporate itself so you don't have to go to a bar but like a
lot of our newer cabinets golden golden tea has a lid Mike peace Star Wars has a
little marquee the limited edition of marble has a llamar key hopefully our
goal is everything going forward we'll have a little marquee and the idea is
more licenses more games yes well that's a factor very quality it is the ability
to pull put an arcade in your home the thing that we all dreamed up one of your
that's I think that's the magic of you know I've always wanted to have yeah you
know hold on kid in my house but again I've never had the size nor the
resources to do it now people are being able to I mean three hundred four
hundred dollars it's not so bad I think it's a no-brainer
yeah and of course it gives you a chance of put something like this I'm your
comic-con that's exactly yeah sixteen foot okay
super cool does it meet you so much you