Marvel: Contest of Champions Arcade Game

Characters on this cabinet are not chosen from an on-screen grid. Players scan a Champion Card to load a fighter out of a roster of more than 100 Marvel heroes and villains, then field three of them in a three-on-three match. Every completed play dispenses a collectible Champion Card, and the Upgrade option awards more cards, including super rare foil printings. Series 3 is the card printing currently available. That single mechanic is what separates this title from a conventional fighting cabinet: the card is a consumable the operator keeps stocked, and it is also the reason a player comes back next week with the card they earned last time.

Raw Thrills built the cabinet around Kabam's mobile title, with arcade software by Raw Thrills and game software by Kabam Games, Inc., a Netmarble company, both under a 2024 Marvel licence. It stands 96 inches tall with the marquee fitted and 83 inches without it, on a 47 by 35 inch footprint, and weighs 468 lbs. Power is rated at 5A on 120V / 60Hz or 2.5A on 230V / 50Hz, so the same cabinet drops into a North American route or a 230V room. Betson lists it as item BETM 027214N and publishes both an operator manual and a Series 3 brochure.

Start with the ceiling, because 96 inches is exactly 8 feet. A room finished to a nominal 8-foot ceiling gives this cabinet no clearance at all above the marquee, and any duct run, dropped beam, or hanging fixture takes the usable height below that. Measure to the lowest obstruction over the spot where the game will stand, not to the highest point of the ceiling. If the number comes back under 96 inches, the 83-inch figure is the one to work with, since the published dimensions place everything above 83 inches in the marquee.

Then measure the path in, using the crate dimensions rather than the assembled ones. Shipping is 87 inches high by 50 inches wide by 40 inches deep, so the crate is three inches wider than the 47-inch cabinet inside it and will not pass a 36-inch residential door or most 32-inch interior openings. Plan on uncrating at the receiving point and moving the cabinet itself through the doorway. Note also that the published shipping weight and the unit weight are the same 468 lbs (213 kg): the crate adds nothing to the figure, and 468 lbs is what has to be handled either way.

Electrically this is an easy cabinet to place. At 5A on 120V it pulls roughly 600 watts, which is why two machines share a single 15-amp circuit without approaching its continuous limit, and why adding one to an existing bank rarely means new wiring. The 230V / 50Hz rating at 2.5A matters if the location is outside North America or on a 230V house supply, and it is worth confirming which inlet configuration your unit ships with before the electrician quotes the drop.

Finally, price the cards, not just the cabinet. A game that selects characters by scanning a Champion Card and dispenses one after every play behaves like a redemption piece in one respect: the consumable is part of the operating cost, and running out of cards changes what the machine does for the player. Series 3 is the printing currently available, so confirm the series when you order stock, and expect the foil rares to be what keeps collectors feeding the machine rather than the base cards. That collection loop is the differentiator here, and it is also the part of the game that needs restocking.