Built like furniture. Plays like 1982.
An arcade breakdown — what's actually inside a Phantom, and why it outlasts the flat-pack alternatives.
All-plywood advantage
Every cabinet is built from 3/4″ plywood for the ultimate in durability, beauty and longevity. Other builds use fibreboard — twice the weight, half the strength, brittle, and prone to water damage and swelling. The entire cabinet is finished in a durable layer of black laminate.
Using a slim LCD screen means a Phantom is about half the depth of a traditional arcade cabinet — easier to move, and it saves space in your game room.
Whole-cabinet artwork
An arcade isn't just a gaming machine — it's a piece of art. Phantom's graphic artists design the artwork around you: show off your favourite games, or keep it subtle and let it blend into the room.
Prints start with thick air-release vinyl in a matte finish, protected by a thick polycarbonate matte laminate to keep it vibrant for years. The industry standard is to wrap just the control panel — Phantom wraps the whole arcade.
LED & RGB buttons
LED buttons come standard on every arcade — when the machine turns on, so do the buttons.
Upgrade to a controller and the buttons illuminate only when the game needs them — load a game and look down: exactly the buttons that game uses are lit. Go one step further with RGB buttons and each one also changes colour to match the original cabinet's button colours for that game.
LCD kick panel
On the front of the kick panel — where the coin door would normally sit — you can fit a vertically mounted screen. When a game loads, the matching arcade flyer for that game is displayed. No other detail sells the arcade feeling harder.
Commercial-grade controls
Authentic commercial-grade arcade parts throughout — the same joysticks, buttons and trackballs the originals used, rated for arcade-floor abuse, not living-room duty.