Arcade Games

One of the things that no true home theater can do without is a couple of arcade machines. My friends in Alaska designed and built a couple of machines that use MAME arcade emulator and the setup is extremely cool. The problem with that is that the entire setup is home brew. I don't know anything about engineering and although I can wire stuff and solder it has to be something simple and I can't do it without explicit directions. The there's the fact that when it quits working (and it will) or breaks, you have to completely redo it. I compare that on a smaller scale to the fact that I used to build custom PC cases. The last one I put together was a huge tower. I painted it all black and shiny and had custom neon lights and cables. It was a work of art. Then the motherboard that I had in there fried itself and there was no way I would just swap it out because of the way it was integrated. Now I buy them from other people. I don't have the patience or time anymore to do it myself and the same thing applies to gaming systems as well.

Monkeys Arcades has a huge assortment of coin operated machines including arcade games, pinball machines, Megatouch and JVL touchscreens such as the JVL Vortex, jukeboxes and quite a bit more including pre-played machines is you are looking for a deal. I would love to have a couple of the touchscreens in my home theater and maybe a pinball machine or two.

The JVL Vortex has great graphics and really neat lighting. It's a 17" monitor with a sound system that will help enhance game play and uses Flash Memory so that you don't have to worry about hard drives that wear out or moving parts to break.

It includes over 130 different games and is available in seven different languages. There are also online updates available for commercial users with the addition of a modem if you sign up for tournament play with JVL. You can also customize your own advertising screens that will show up on the touchscreen as well, which is great if you have a bar or restaurant that this will get used in. My personal use would be much simpler but I am sure I could think of something to put in the advertising screens.