zombie84 said:

Heck, shipping is the easy part. I mean, who cares if you have to spend $300 dollars on a freight train shipment. The harder part is how you transport a 1-tonne wooden crate meauring over six feet tall into your home? You literally need a forklift, and at least a cube van, and then a second forklift to bring it into your home. That's how they installed these in the arcades. And that's assuming it's all in working order too. On top of the $2000 you already spent.

The Dave and Busters near me has the SW Trilogy Arcade bench-seat model, so I figure dropping $2 a month there is better than the god-awful expense and headache of actually trying to buy, ship and install one of these in my home. It would simply be impossible. And forget it if there is even a single stair. These jumbo deluxe versions are simply unfit for residential use, unfortunately.

lol! I found it hard enough to move my massive 36" sony CRT flat panel up to a second story...these huge cabinets would kill someone. At least the projection models have detachable screens.

It is better to find a local machine, but more often than not the difficulty will be cranked up. This isn't much of a problem but what makes it impossible at times is when owners take it upon themselves to rig the joystick and buttons to not work properly and thus make it harder for the player to achieve high scores. The one near me has a rigged joystick, fire trigger and they replaced the screen with an hdtv. The image is fantastic, but the edges are even more cropped than the normal 50" version so this makes hitting the edge figures in the later levels nearly impossible.

The Supermodel emulation is promising, but still laggy and buggy at this point.

You can't tell that I play this machine too much...even so I only know a few of the hidden secrets for bonus points.