Dream Arcade News

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Happy New Year. Dream Arcades would like to offer our best wishes for a healthy and prosperous New Year. Thank you for helping make 2006 our best year yet.

11/27

Make Room on Your Holiday Wish List: Dream Arcades Introduces a 100-inch Home Video Arcade Center. The worlds largest home arcade comes with a lighted trackball, spinner, light gun, state of the art computer and high powered projector. It is great not only for video games, but is also a video jukebox and home theater in one system.

11/16

It's hard to believe, but it has been 4 years since Michael Ware built the first Dream Arcade in the garage of his Folsom, CA home. We've grown since then, but still maintain the same value of quality craftsmanship and customer service. To celebrate we are offing a very special price on our original arcade, our Side-by-side kit. Save $70 now.

4/28

Dream Arcades Announces Cabaret-style Dreamcade, Complete Home Arcade Comes Ready-to-Play with 165 Classic Games. 

2/12

Dream Arcades' new Dreamcade™ 3-sided cabinet is featured in the March issue of Playboy Magazine. Check out the article as well as this new pre-built arcade.

1/26

Dream Arcades offers special themed arcades for Valentines Day. Read all the details here about this special limited time offer.

12/12/05

The cut-off date for Christmas delivery has passed. However, we do offer expedited shipping options as well as local pick-up at our Folsom, CA facility. Additionally, shipping times for our customers on the West Coast may still allow for Christmas delivery. Please email us for additional details or expedited shipping quotes. Remember, there is still time for New Years delivery!

12/7/05

We are still taking orders for Christmas delivery on all the cocktail arcades and kits. We will stop taking orders for Christmas delivery by this weekend at the latest. If you delay ordering you will most likely miss out on Christmas delivery, so order now & remember to-
Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

12/4/05

Check out this article about Dream Arcades in the New York Times. We also recently received a great review on IGN. We now include a lighter tint acrylic top and zinc coated screws for easier setup and operation. 

12/1/05

We are not able to take anymore upright arcades orders for Christmas delivery. While the upright arcade can still be ordered it will be delivered after Christmas. However, there's still time left to get your cocktail style cabinet delivered in time for Christmas, but we recommend ordering now, before we have to cut-off cocktail style cabinet orders.

11/27/05

Yes, there's still time to get your arcade delivered by Christmas, but you better act fast! Within the next week or two we will stop taking orders for Christmas delivery. For the upright arcades the cutoff date will be even sooner. So don't delay, order your Dream Arcade today. 

10/24/05

Dream Arcades is offering an Arcade Table Kit as the grand prize in this year’s RetroBlast Holiday Giveaway. Winner will have the choice of a Head-to-Head or Side-by-Side model.  Winners will be drawn on December 1, 2005. If the Grand prize winner has recently purchased a Dream Arcades kit or complete arcade they will receive a 100% refund of their purchase price up to the value of the grand prize, so there is no need to delay your arcade purchase.

10/19/05

Happy Holidays! Yes, the holiday season is quickly approaching. As a result our order volumes are already increasing. Thus, there may be a longer than normal delay in shipping times. We recommend placing your holiday orders as early as possible to insure delivery before Thanksgiving, Hanukah or Christmas.

9/07/05

We are moving to a new ISP. If you encounter any broken links on our webpage please let us know. We expect this changeover will only cause a very minor disruption to website.

7/28/05

Dream Arcades announces an agreement with the MAME™ development team to distribute MAME™ software with our arcades. Read all about it here.

5/6/05

Dream Arcades is proud to announce the release of our highly anticipated upright arcade. Just like our cocktail arcades, our standup arcade will feature our easy to setup CAM and post system. It is available as a kit and complete unit; both with everything you need to setup the arcade of your dreams

5/4/05

Dream Arcades will be offering new side-art with all our tables. The side-art will be released in several weeks. Previous customers will have the option of purchasing the new side-art at a nominal fee.

2/9/05

Dream Arcades is pleased to announce that we now include a free setup DVD with every arcade table and arcade kit order. The DVD shows how to assemble your arcade, install a PC system and how to install and configure new games. 

1/5/05

Check out the RetroBlast.com video review of our side-to-side arcade table. The review shows just how simple our arcades are to assemble, as well as the quality that goes into building them. We received Retroblast's highest honor, RetroBlast Recommended.

10/6/04

We are happy to announce that we now offer second level telephone support for all our arcade and arcade kit customers. If we are unable to resolve your support needs via e-mail we will provide you an issue number as well as a contact phone number (toll charges may apply).

10/1/04

Dream Arcades has expanded our line of arcade parts and accessories. We have re-done our website and lowered our shipping prices. We are so confident that we have the lowest prices we even list our competitor’s price next to ours.

9/16/04

Our office will be closed the week of 9/20 to 9/24. We will be periodically checking e-mail during this time. However we will not be shipping orders until we return the following Monday. Thank you for your patronage.

8/21/04

We have made a special purchase on JAMMA harnesses. These are high quality 5 foot long harnesses with quick connects for easy installation. They’ll only be on sale for a few weeks, so order today.

8/12/04

Our office will be closed on Friday the 13th. We will not be returning e-mail until Sunday, the 15th.

7/21/04

Check out the RetroBlast.com video review of our head-to-head arcade kit. The review shows just how simple our kits are to assemble, as well as the quality that goes into building them.

6/28/04

Take a look at our newly released trackball add-on for our cocktail tables. Simply plug this trackball into your the PS/2 port on your computer and you are ready to go. It's easy to mount to your Dream Arcades cocktail table and requires no additional software. Works great on trackball games such as Centipede and Crystal Castles as well as spinner games like Supper Breakout.

5/31/04

We are proud to introduce our Head-to-Head arcade table, now in kit form. This kit includes everything you need to build your own MAME arcade except the computer system. We mean everything; hardware, IPAC, t-molding, and tabletop. We have even pre-wired the control panel for you. As if that wasn’t enough we have it on sale at a special introductory price.

5/3/04

We have just completely updated our website. If you encounter any broken links or other errors please send an e-mail to: webmaster@dreamarcades.com

4/28/04

Great News! We've lowered the price on our complete side-to-side arcade table, for a limited time . Check it out today.

4/9/04

Dream Arcades now offers a head-to-head style arcade table. This new table offers all the same features as our side-to-side table, but supports cocktail flipping mode on games like Ms. Pac-man. Check it out now.

3/19/04

Our Dream Arcades side art is complete and will be included free with every table we sell.
It really gives your table that authentic arcade look.

11/01/03

Our Cut-off date for Holiday ordering will be December 13. Any orders placed after that date will be shipped after Christmas. If you need delivery for Christmas, please order soon.