Arcade Legends Games

Utilizing graphics and features of classic cabinet gaming systems from the arcades of the 1980s, the Arcade Legends system was created for in-home gaming use. It can hold up to 130 games from companies such as Atari and Midway. There have been multiple models and upgrades to the system since it was first released, all costing around $4,000 to purchase (as of April 2011).

Manufacturer

Arcade Legends is manufactured by the Chicago Gaming Company, which produces a line of upright gaming systems for home game rooms and personal use. Besides Arcade Legends, it also sells cabinet systems with Ms. Pacman and Galaga, as well as foosball tables and jukeboxes. Its Supercade system includes 50 classic games such as Millipede, Asteroids, ZooKeeper and Gravitar. Like the Arcade Legends system, Supercade has a trackball, joysticks and multiple buttons for controlling the games.

Games

The first Arcade Legends system could hold up to 90 games, though it often initially came loaded with 30 to 50. Later models, such as Arcade Legends 3, can include up to 130 games. Mostly titles released in the 1980s, these games include Asteroids, Bubble Bobble, Centipede, Elevator Action, Mortal Kombat, Qix, Rampage, Space Invaders, Street Fighter II and the Legend of Kage. Game developers such as Capcom, Taito, Atari, Strata, Midway, Irem, and Williams all have titles included in the system.

Features

The Arcade Legends upright cabinet gaming system comes with a 25-inch CGA monitor, two joysticks, a 3-inch trackball and multiple button controls. It has a coin slot panel door but it has been permanently sealed shut and does not actually function, as this system is intended to be for home use only. Each successive model of the system has been slightly larger than the model that came before. By Arcade Legends 3, the system weighed 345 lbs. and had dimensions of 67 1/2 inches high by 26 1/4 inches wide by 40 inches deep.

Table Console

A smaller, cocktail table-size version of Arcade Legends was released by Ultracade Technologies. This system included many of the same games as the larger version, as well as titles such as Mr. Do's Castle and Darkstalker. Along with a 25-inch screen, two joysticks, multiple buttons and a 3-inch trackball, it also had an ergonomic control panel and dual screen mode so multiple players could sit across from each other while playing. The table version weighed 295 lbs. and had dimensions of 34 inches high by 24 inches wide by 46 inches deep.