Anyone has one or knows where to get in Malaysia?

How do arcade centers get their machines? Surely must have some distributor.

Distributor=PDRM. They confiscate the machines from unlicensed shops and distribute it to licensed shop. LOL.

Haha... can imagine PDRM house got even better gaming room than ours.

If old machine maybe PDRM has it, but what about new arcade machine? Sure got distributor somewhere

you can try googling for AllGaming Sdn Bhd...

in the mean time lemme dig for their agent's namecard..

I believe this website will give you another inspiration.
http://arcadecontrols.com/arcade.htm

Wonder how the arcade centers operate .... based on lease machines or buy. And what happens to the old machines... hmm.

Interesting to know.

If im not wrong.. They would normally purchase the machines.... never heard of leasing. Old machines.. are normally pushed to other outlets..
TKA (Msia/Singapore) and Cosmic(Penang) are rather huge here.

You can visit www.tkaworld.com , they sell arcade machines n cabinets.

Wah... their website looks good, started from Singapore and have grown.

But no mention of sale or prices.

those old arcade machine can only play 1 game. most people go for cabinet with MAME. http://www.x-arcade.com/htm/cabinetimages.shtml#images

basic setup cost around 3k, in USD. that's why a lot of people built their own.

OH ... forgot to give the website for COSMIC. Here u go www.cosmic.com.my They use to put the prices on their website. For a PCB board of old games, its around RM1k. Cabinet is around Rm4-5k , new games can go up to RM7-14k.

Yea its not pratical to buy a single game machine. Unless u r the arcade owner. Maintenance of the machine also will kill.

Go Sungai Wang or Ipoh Parade thr playing arcade gameslo

What kind of maintenance is there? Isn't it the same as home consoles?

remember chandler(friends series) play arcade game, pac man in his house.

Hmm... the monitor(projector type) i heard doesnt last long need to change wor.. , machines needs maintenance.. buttons rosaks, stix cacat... all of a sudden no sound... its complicated.

The parts isnt tat cheap. For a button its RM8 , sticks Rm65...

I see. I thought the stick and buttons are stronger than the home consoles. So many people whack the machines, but can tahan, compared to home versions.

As for screen and sound, not sure what kind.

Will be cool to have one.

How to get the arcade machine?

hmm...this is something i am interested in also...

If you guys are interested....i heard abt recond machines complete sets, but without games.

There are ppl doing this recond business in town...

I was thinking of buying the cabinet and then from there figure out how to install a working mame system into it....

They say u can get a used good cabinet complete with A/V, TV and controls and all minus games for less then 2 k

Games range from few hundred onwards.....phew depending on how new and popular it is...

This post has been edited by jeisern: Nov 9 2006, 10:51 AM

i thought arcade game is illegal in malaysia to own 1??

Only if it's gambling.