Bespoke Arcades is a British manufacturer of custom-built
arcade machines
An arcade cabinet, also known as an arcade machine or a coin-op cabinet or coin-op machine, is the housing within which an arcade game's electronic hardware resides. Most cabinets designed since the mid-1980s conform to the Japanese Amusement Ma ...
. Bespoke Arcades is a subsidiary of Page Global Ltd and was formed on 28 July 2005. Company clients include
Wayne Rooney
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and
Dynamo
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. Their products are sold at
Harrods
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.
History
Bespoke Arcades was founded on 28 July 2005 by Ben Georget and Phil Patsias in London, United Kingdom. In 2005, the company released their first product, the Synergy tabletop arcade cabinet. This was followed in 2007 by their Apex multi-game upright cabinet with multimedia functionality. In 2009, Bespoke Arcades released their Evo, which is a
PlayStation 3
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compatible upright arcade machine. In 2011, Bespoke Arcades ran a charity fundraising for the
British Red Cross
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Tsunami Relief Fund. In 2012, the company created an arcade cabinet for
2K Games
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's ''
XCOM: Enemy Unknown''.
Products
Bespoke Arcades manufacture a range of stand-up and sit-down arcade machines including the Apex, Synergy and Evo. They will unveil their Nu-Gen Arcade Machine at the
Gamescom
Gamescom (stylized as gamescom) is a trade fair for video games held annually at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Since 2018, it has been organised by ''game – Verband der deutschen Games-Branche'' (English: Associa ...
exhibition.
References
Arcade hardware
Companies established in 2005
Manufacturing companies based in London
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