Minecraft Dungeons 2-Player Arcade Game

Minecraft Dungeons Arcade is licensed from Microsoft and Mojang Studios, and Series 5 is the current software. Raw Thrills and Play Mechanix built the arcade adaptation of the console dungeon crawler around 11 levels and more than 120 minutes of gameplay, with melee and ranged weapons used against enemy hordes and bosses. Every play vends a physical collectible card. Series 5 covers 144 of them across six categories (Melee, Range, Armor, Pet, Skin and ultra-rare Hero) and includes Chicken Jockey, the first LEGENDARY card in the series. Cards scan back into the cabinet to customize a player's adventure, which is what turns the card set into a reason to return rather than a giveaway. Minecraft has sold over 200 million copies and reports 126 million active monthly players.

This is the two-player build. Two stations share one 42-inch HD display, and each station gets its own card scanner and its own dispenser. Installed, the cabinet stands 101 inches tall, 47 inches wide and 35 inches deep, and weighs 460 pounds. It ships as a single main cabinet pallet measuring 50 by 38 inches and 88 inches tall at the same 460 pounds. Power is 120V/60Hz at 5A or 230V/50Hz at 2.5A. A layered marquee and LED lighting carry the artwork, every machine ships with 1,400 cards and a free Series 5 translite, and the cabinet connects to CoinUp at no charge to receive future software updates automatically.

Start with ceiling height, because 101 inches installed is 8 feet 5 inches and an 8-foot ceiling will not take this cabinet. Measure from the finished floor to the lowest obstruction over the spot the machine will occupy, not to the ceiling plane: soffits, duct runs, sprinkler heads and light fixtures are what stop a placement in a basement or a converted garage. The 101-inch number governs the installed position. The pallet is a separate figure at 88 inches, and that is the one that governs the route in.

Width and depth are where this cabinet is easier than most in the range. Installed it is 47 inches wide by 35 inches deep, and the 35-inch depth is the dimension to plan the route around. Turned so it travels depth-first, the cabinet clears a 36-inch interior door, the standard size in most homes, with roughly half an inch of margin per side. That margin is small enough that door stops, hinges and trim are worth checking before delivery day. Palletized, the same cabinet is 50 inches wide by 38 inches deep and needs an opening wider than 50 inches or a breakdown before the door.

Shipping arrives as a single main cabinet pallet, which is the practical advantage this version has over cabinets that come in two or three pieces. One pallet at 460 pounds, 88 inches tall and 50 by 38 inches on the deck means one item to check in and one move to plan, with no matching of a cabinet crate to a separate base or header crate. Check the 88-inch height against the opening you receive through: a standard seven-foot residential garage door is 84 inches, so the pallet does not pass under it upright. A commercial roll-up, a dock door, or breaking the pallet down outside the building all answer that. At 460 pounds on one pallet, the move itself is within range of a manual pallet jack.

Electrically there is little to arrange. Five amps at 120V/60Hz, or 2.5 amps at 230V/50Hz, is a light load for a cabinet this size, and the published rating is a single figure per voltage rather than a per-inlet draw. Plan the card side more carefully than the power side. The machine vends one card per play from the 144-card Series 5 set, arrives with 1,400 cards, and has two dispensers to keep loaded, so card resupply is the recurring cost on this title rather than electricity. The CoinUp connection covers software, at no charge, once the cabinet is online.