PINE ISLAND — From the clunk of the Skee Ball machine to the digital soundtrack of the classic arcade games, Homemade Arcade is like stepping into a quarter-eating piece of the '80s. Despite it's ...

More than 300 licensed games. Easy to build. Lovely 24-inch screen. Decent arcade controls. Relatively easy to customize. Internet-connected. It’s big and kinda ugly. Some included games are poor.

Enter a converted warehouse in Brooklyn or a strip-mall arcade in Austin in 2026, and you'll find a familiar scene: glowing cabinets, the hum of old machines, a ...