For gamers who are desperate to relive that nostalgic arcade cabinet experience the options are limited. Most of the video game arcades are gone and those that remain are filled with Dance Dance Revolution and Virtua Fighter 82. If you want to play the games you remember from yesteryear then you might find the only way to do it is to track down an old arcade cabinet and buy it.

There is a whole enthusiast scene into refurbishing arcade cabinets and you can either pick them up or buy an old cabinet at auction and fix it up yourself. Most people install boards which include several titles since they don’t have the room to house multiple cabinets. There is an argument between purists who restore the machines complete with bevelled screens and antiquated controls and those who choose to adapt and update their arcade cabinets with new control methods and flat screens.

You can spend a great deal of time and money on old arcade game cabinets and fixing them up yourself can be hugely rewarding if it’s the kind of thing you like to do. Naturally you can always find companies and individuals who have already done the hard work for you and just buy the finished article but they don’t usually come cheap. If I had a few grand to spare I’d buy one of these Star Wars Cockpit Original Arcade Machines.

If you are interested in finding some yourself then you can always start out at Ebay there are lots of cabinets in various states of disrepair available there.