Halo Fireteam Raven 2 Player Tethered Arcade Game

Raw Thrills and Play Mechanix built this edition with Microsoft to put Halo: Fireteam Raven into rooms that cannot surrender floor space to an enclosed attraction. Installed, the cabinet occupies 49 inches of wall and 65 inches of depth, and both players stand at a single 55-inch display with force-feedback rifles modeled on the Halo Assault Rifle. The campaign runs through the events of Halo: Combat Evolved from the position of the ODST soldiers of Fireteam Raven, fighting alongside Master Chief across six levels against the Covenant and the Flood.

Assembled height is where most installations run into trouble first: 105 inches, or 8 feet 9 inches, taller than a standard 8-foot ceiling. Power is modest by comparison, at 5 amps on 120V/60Hz or 3 amps on 230V/50Hz. Freight arrives as two pallets, a 375 lb main cabinet and a 225 lb pedestal, which together account for the published 600 lb location weight.

Start with the vertical measurement, because it is the one no layout change can solve. At 105 inches assembled, this cabinet wants a ceiling above 8 feet 9 inches plus working room to raise it during assembly. Measure to the lowest obstruction over the position the cabinet will occupy rather than to the highest point in the room, and check that the 88-inch main pallet can travel the same route upright on a jack or dolly before anything is unpacked.

Then measure the way in against the pallets, not the assembled cabinet. Both pallets are 37 inches across their short side, so a 36-inch residential doorway is too narrow for either as packed, and the main pallet's 53-inch width leaves no room to swing it broadside in a tight hallway or a stair turn. The 49-inch assembled width is the figure most buyers plan around, and it is not the figure that has to clear the doorframe.

The format decision comes before the spec sheet. Fireteam Raven is published in three builds: 2-player tethered, 4-player tethered, and 2-player environmental. They are not one machine at three prices. The environmental version wraps its players inside a structure, while this one puts two tethered rifles on an open cabinet that stands in 49 by 65 inches, or about 22 square feet of floor. For an operator working a fixed floor plan, or a home buyer working inside one wall, that 22 square feet is the number that earnings per square foot are calculated against.

Electrically there is little to plan around: 5 amps at 120V/60Hz, or 3 amps at 230V/50Hz where the local supply runs at 50 Hz. The 600 lb installed weight spread over roughly 22 square feet is an easy load for a commercial slab and worth a moment's thought on a wood-framed upper floor. That 600 lbs is also why the two-pallet split is useful: the heaviest single piece to move is the 375 lb cabinet, not the finished machine.