Ever since it was introduced in 2018, the Quarter Arcades range of quarter-scale classic coin-op replicas has been a hit with collectors, thanks to a potent combination of great games and attention to detail. To find out more about how the range has evolved and where it’s going in 2024, we spoke to Matt Precious of Numskull, the company behind the range.
Releases planned for 2024 include the Taito trio of , and , games that Matt says are quite far along. “We made thegonna light up, aren’t they?’” The detail had been missed as the bulbs in the machines that Numskull used for reference had blown long ago, so the company had to retool the replicas to account for the lights. “As soon as we’ve got what we call a T1 sample we’ll go through that, then go to a T2 sample and put it back on the group,” says Matt. “As long as everyone’s happy those three will probably be coming out at the same time, so they’ll be a bit like London buses.”
