They’re recreating their childhood dream, basically.” “And they do it at a pace that they’re comfortable with. “It’s amazing to see how many of our fans are starting to build their own arcade rooms,” he said. In some months during the pandemic, with people stuck home contemplating better times when we’d happily share joysticks with total strangers, sales grew an average of 96% week over week. According to Bachrach, an astonishing 2 million units have sold since the company’s first products, Rampage, Asteroids, Centipede, Galaga, and Street Fighter II, launched in August 2018. Today, sales have blown away those early estimates. We were, like, ‘if we sell 10,000 pieces, this would be unbelievable.’” “I remember looking at my team, and saying, ‘That’s an amazing product’ the first samples. “This started off as a passion project,” said Bachrach. And, at under 60 pounds, a whole lot less floor-creakingly heavy, too. While they’ll cost you more than a quarter to play, the prices - which range from $299 to $499 - are approximately 10x less than the price you’d pay to pick up an original arcade unit.
The Mortal Kombat II unit, for instance, also includes 1992’s original Mortal Kombat and 1995’s Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. The list goes on and on.Įach Arcade1Up arcade unit features authentic controls, front and side art, and, unlike the original arcade machines, multiple games per unit.
Tastemakers is the parent company of Arcade1Up, a business that creates scaled-down, 4-foot-tall replica coin-op arcades of all your favorite arcade classics. Arcade1Up is resurrecting NFL Blitz and giving it online multiplayerĪrcade1Up launches new Pro Series cabinets starting with Killer Instinctįantasian Part 2 comes to Apple Arcade this week alongside more new gamesīachrach, who traded in the snotty teenaged skateboarder vibe to become a licensing guy in the 1990s, is today the head of Tastemakers.
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