Arcade1Up’s replica cabinets hit the UK to immerse you in 1980s gaming bliss

When you fancy playing an arcade classic, you can fire up an emulator on your PC or phone, or delve into virtual consoles, but there’s something lacking. Authenticity, mostly. Fortunately, Arcade1Up’s replica arcade cabinets (£349 each) have this in spades. Although they’re a bit ‘shrunk in the wash’ at 75 per cent scale, they come with original artwork, run arcade ROMs, and feature authentic full-size controls. This means you get to hammer the requisite number of buttons when punching someone’s face off in Street Fighter II, hurl your ship around vector webs using the Tempest spinner, or yank your joystick like a champ when trying to get dot-gobbler Pac-Man to that last power-pellet, so he can give those ghosts a taste of what for – and himself a taste of ghosts.

Craig Grannell Contributor

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I’m a regular contributor to Stuff magazine and Stuff.tv, covering apps, games, Apple kit, Android, Lego, retro gaming and other interesting oddities. I also pen opinion pieces when the editor lets me, getting all serious about accessibility and predicting when sentient AI smart cookware will take over the world, in a terrifying mix of Bake Off and Terminator.

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Mobile apps and games, Macs, iOS and tvOS devices, Android, retro games, crowdfunding, design, how to fight off an enraged smart saucepan with a massive stick.