This Big Controller Lets You Relive Arcade Gaming’s Glory Days in VR

Once, in the distant past, gamers stood upright in front of the glowing arcade cabinet, legs splayed like a bipod for support. They would play with faces three inches away from the cabinet’s CRT screen, the scanlines imprinting onto their irises. If that sounds like your ideal setup, X-Arcade’s $400 Arcade2TV-XR stand-up controller can get you halfway to that arcade promised land. You likely already identified by the main image that this machine is missing a crucial part, the screen. The Arcade2TV-XR is a solid arcade stick on its own, and you can connect it to just about any monitor but with the aid of a Meta Quest 3 or Quest 3s headset it offers a surprisingly compact way to play all your arcade games in a VR environment. Just so long as you don’t mind some heavy lifting—sometimes literally. X-Arcade Arcade2TV-XR It's a fighting stick for PC or console, but it can save you from clogging your living room with cabinets. Pros Stick and buttons feel great Stick and buttons feel great ... Read full article.