Time was, if you wanted an arcade cabinet in your house, you had to make a lot of sacrifices. You either had to sacrifice space and a lot of money for a commercial cabinet or sacrifice more time but less money on building a custom MAME cabinet, or some other solution for home arcade gaming. Arcade1Up’s line of 3/4 scale arcade cabinets hit the scene and shrunk the cabinets down from their full-sized versions, added more than one game per unit, and kept the price manageable.
The question remains with Arcade1Up cabinets: what sacrifices have to be made to get a 4-foot arcade cabinet replica in your home? The good news is the Mortal Kombat Arcade1Up cabinet (See it at Walmart) manages to distill the arcade Mortal Kombat experience into a device without a lot of sacrifices.
Source: IGN.com Arcade1Up Mortal Kombat Arcade Cabinet Review