Arcade Cabinets

How it works

1. Learn the Hollow Arcade Cabinet with Electrician magazines (level 25) and craft it at a workbench (electrical parts, broken glass for the screen, polymers, wood, paint, mechanical parts). Traders sometimes have one.
2. It is one item with six cabinets: pick the game while placing, like other block variants. The yellow cabinet runs DEAD RUN, the red one HOLLOW DEFENDER, the green one GRUB, the pink one NIGHT PILOT, the deep blue and chrome one CROW STORM and the snowy white one THE MEAN ONE.
3. Wire it to power like a light (10 W). Without power the screen and the marquee stay dark.
4. Use the cabinet to play. The game fills your screen in a cabinet frame; you stand still while you play.
5. Move with the stick, the D-pad, WASD or the arrow keys. Fire, jump or start with A, Space or the left mouse button. B or Escape pauses; press it again to walk away, or fire to carry on.

Tips

• DEAD RUN: jump the wrecks and barrels (hold to jump higher), duck the low crows, and stay down under the high ones. The road gets faster the longer you last.
• HOLLOW DEFENDER: slide behind your barricade and shoot up the lanes. Each lane holds three planks; once a lane is broken the dead walk through and every one that gets past costs a heart. Clearing a wave patches every lane.
• GRUB: eat the grubs to grow. Your own tail, the rubble and the walls end the run. Six grubs open the next floor (faster, more rubble); the glowing grub is worth more but only stays a short while.
• NIGHT PILOT: fly the Wasp north through the storm. Storm cells flicker yellow just before lightning strikes around them. The rotor drains your power bar: grab batteries or you drop out of the sky. Three hull plates.
• CROW STORM: slide your junk turret along the rail and shoot the corrupted flock as it drifts lower. It drops junk, and crows and hornets dive at you (double points if you hit them mid-dive). Four scrap piles shield you until they crumble. Shoot the Wasp when it flies over for a bonus. If the flock reaches the scrap, it is over.
• THE MEAN ONE: sneak over the snowy rooftops at night and pinch presents. Jump between roofs, climb the drainpipes (up), stand on a chimney and hold down to fish out what is inside. Carry up to three, then drop them in the sled on the last roof (three at once pays double). Searchlights and porch lights fill your alarm bar, dogs patrol the street, and dawn is coming. Bank every present to end the night.
• Every game keeps a top 10 shared by everyone on the server, under your own name: one row per player, your best run (a better run moves you up, a worse one changes nothing). A new top score for a game pays 50 Dukes, once per day.
• One player per cabinet. Anyone nearby sees the game live on its screen; an idle cabinet runs a demo and shows the high scores.