Upright Cabinets

The upright arcade cabinets are the classic and most common type of arcade cabinets out there and are still used today. As there name suggests, these cabinets sit in an upright position, usually are six-feet tall and require the player to stand. The monitor is sunken into the cabinet (and usually at an angle) with the controls in front of the screen at the waist level (which usually had one joy-stick and three buttons but this was often changed to accommodate the game-play.) The coin slot was closer to the ground or above the monitor and if the arcade cabinet was a multiplayer game it would feature more coin-slots. For a more in-depth look into the controls, some other variants would be track balls, knobs and rubber pads. An uncommon type of upright arcade cabinet is one with the controls of a steering wheel for some driving games.