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Yes, you can add games-in a bunch of waysĪtGames clearly wants you to add content to this thing. The kit's updated price at AtGames' official store is $150 more-and that's coincidently how much you would've paid for the platform's biggest downloadable table pack, which is now included in the $750 SKU. Shockingly, AtGames' superior construction launched earlier this year at the same $600 price as Arcade1Up's tables, but once the sets began selling out, AtGames changed its tune. Arcade1Up's backglass, on the other hand, has a print-out of a single, static picture. Lastly, AtGames' backglass includes a second LCD monitor, which changes its art based on whatever pre-installed game you play. (Arcade1Up's product doesn't include these nifty nudge buttons.) Fourth, the flipper buttons aren't alone next to each is a 'nudge' button, so you can virtually bonk your table and nudge a pinball where you want it to go instead of relying on an imprecise accelerometer.

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Third, this screen is covered in a full sheet of glass, which looks handsomer than Arcade1Up's plexiglass topper. Second, that screen natively renders at 1080p, compared to Arcade1Up's 720p, and it sports much better color calibration. First, its playfield screen is 33 percent bigger: 32 inches versus Arcade1Up's 24 inches.

While that basic description applies to both of the cabinets we recently tested, AtGames wastes no time differentiating itself from the competition. Tap some buttons to page through an on-screen menu and pick a game, then use a real, physical plunger to launch the ball and side-of-cabinet buttons to work the flippers. Put it all together, plug it in, and a monitor lights up across the top to display virtual, pre-installed pinball tables. While I would definitely recommend that savvier virtual pinball fans choose AtGames' product between these two options, that recommendation comes with a few crucial asterisks-along with the fact that less-picky players (particularly families) may be better off sticking with Arcade1Up. You want expandability? You want more options by default? The $600-and-up AtGames Legends Pinball delivers. And after a recent testing period, I'm glad they reached out. Soon after, I got a friendly email from rival manufacturer AtGames that pointed to its own virtual pinball product. But its great virtual table selection and solid physical construction were marred by enough issues to make it a tough sell to anyone beyond families. Still, I saw its potential as a moddable machine, whether to add more virtual tables or to use its $600 base as a cheap path to a dreamy homemade system. I don't have the cash or space for a fleet of classic pinball machines, however, so I like the idea of a single system that emulates dozens of tables while maintaining the genre's physicality-staples like flipper buttons, nudge options, and a plunger.įurther Reading Arcade1Up pinball cabinet review: Fine for families, interesting for moddersLast month, this led me to test the Arcade1Up Williams Pinball table, and I was left amused, if not charmed. But pinball's orientation, form factor, and tactile nature have always precluded it from feeling authentic when virtualized on something like an Xbox. When I play classics like Pac-Man or Donkey Kong on a console, I generally feel like it's the same experience as standing up with chunky joysticks (your mileage may vary, in which case, there are tons of products for you).

Yet while stand-up arcade multi-cabinets have rarely gotten me excited, virtual pinball is another story. A replica arcade experience seems like a great antidote for any nerd going stir-crazy in a pandemic. If you'd told me at the beginning of 2021 that I'd review not one but two virtual pinball options for the home, I would have nodded and said, sure, that sounds entirely unsurprising.

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