Maybe this tip will be helpful to someone else. I couldn’t get my finger nails between the display and the cabinet.

I assembled it with the plastic on and used a wooden toothpick to pry up the edges of the plastic film from the lower-right corner of the display. Might make it easier, however you risk potential scratches in the process.

You may want to take the plastic off the monitor before assembling into the cabinet.

It wasn’t difficult but there are a few tips I’ll share below, based on my experience: Assembly Tips Realistically, I think most anyone would be able to assemble the cabinet between 30-60 minutes. It took me a total of 2 hours, but that was primarily because I was organizing pieces for the camera, recording, reading instructions as I went along (double-checking to make as few mistakes as possible). The assembly of the Star Wars Arcade1UP went without any issues. Primarily, because I have less game time in with those games. I find both of them just as fun as Star Wars -at this point.

Once I powered on the cabinet and selected Star Wars, I felt that familiar rush I experienced back in the early-mid 80’s coming back to me! You know, the feeling that you’re in the cockpit of an X-Wing fighter taking on the Empire! Of course, there are two other games in the unit which I played less as a youngster: Empire Strikes Back (ESB) and Return of the Jedi (ROTJ). I was pleasantly surprised, once it was all assembled that it worked as well as it did. I wasn’t about to spend several hundred dollars on a unit that didn’t perform well. If it didn’t, it would have gone back to Game Stop and you wouldn’t be reading this review. I found the Yoke on the Star Wars Arcade1UP to perform admirably. With the Star Wars game itself, there is a unique component that few cabinets have – the Yoke! Sure, I can build my own cabinets but there is a lot of expense associated even with building your own – and doing it right! MDF is expensive (wood for the cabinet), making (or buying) the patterns, lots of time cutting, wiring, painting, artwork design, software, etc. Like many folks in their 40’s+, I spent a lot of time in Arcades growing up. Star Wars Arcade1UP on Game Stop Why the Star Wars Arcade 1UP Game?

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