Feature Guide · The Final Boss · $14,999 · four players
Complete specifications
The Final Boss comes standard with every option Phantom Arcades offers, plus a few that exist only on this cabinet. This is the long version of each one — the numbers are Dennis's, the parts are the ones he actually fits. Prefer to see them on the machine? Walk round it in 3D.
48″ LG UltraGear OLED gaming monitor
The Final Boss ships with a 48″ LG UltraGear OLED gaming monitor as its main screen — in Dennis’s words, “the screen is what turns wood, wiring and artwork into an experience.” Some owners have gone to a 50″ 4K panel instead; the OLED is the standard fit.
OLED lights each pixel on its own, so a black playfield is actually black and there is no backlight halo around bright sprites. That matters more on an arcade than on a TV: most of these games are bright objects on a dark field.
The panel sits behind the bezel board with the marquee above it.
Four-player control panel
The control deck is 53 inches wide — four inches proud of the cabinet on each side — with a station for every player.
Players two and three (the middle stations) get a joystick and six play buttons in the classic two-row layout for fighting and beat-’em-ups. Players one and four (the ends) get a joystick and a four-button diamond. A 3″ trackball sits in the centre for Golden Tee, Centipede and Marble Madness, and the start and coin buttons run along the back edge.
The layout you see in the 3D designer is taken from the actual hole pattern in Dennis’s cabinet drawings — every joystick is in the left hand.
Custom-built gaming PC · Next-Gen Gamer package
Behind the side panel, in the base of the cabinet, is a custom-built gaming PC rather than a bare-bones arcade board.
It is able to play over 20,000 games from 1970s arcade all the way to PS3 through the Next-Gen Gamer package — the broadest of the game packages — running under the LaunchBox front-end, so choosing a game feels like an arcade, not a desktop.
Dennis builds the PC first: “When we were planning his arcade I told him it all starts with the PC — so I built him a PC his grandkids will be able to game on.” Owners have specced it up to the Phantom Apex and Phantom Unleashed PC tiers; the exact components come from Dennis at the time of order.
Dual light guns · plays 300+ games
The Final Boss includes two light guns with recoil as standard and is able to play more than 300 light-gun games.
They are Sinden light guns — the modern kind that work on a flat-panel display (old CRT-style guns do not).
Dual guitars · 800+ songs
Two guitar controllers are included, with over 800 songs to rock out to.
They connect to the same PC as everything else, so switching from a fighting game to a rhythm game is a menu pick, not a cable swap.
Active marquee — custom 48″ upper screen
On most cabinets the marquee is a back-lit print of one game. On the Final Boss it is an active display: as you scroll through the games the marquee changes to the artwork for each one, and load a pinball game and it becomes a DMD score display.
It is a custom-made 48″ upper screen designed for the Final Boss. In Dennis’s words: “We don’t use ultrawide monitors — rather a custom-made screen designed for our cabinets to keep an authentic arcade shape and size. Other companies will just slap an ultrawide monitor up there; it may pull off the effect, but now you have a huge screen at the top of your arcade.”
Active marquees are offered on every size of Phantom cabinet; on the Final Boss it is standard.
Active kick panel — 21″ screen
The active kick panel is a 21″ display set into the base of the cabinet, below the control deck — the third of the Final Boss’s three screens.
“As you scroll through the thousands of games, watch as all three screens change to show art for each game.” Some owners have chosen to leave the active marquee and kick panel off; on a standard Final Boss both are included.
Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 sound system
“To match the beauty of the OLED screen, the Final Boss will have a Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 sound system.” The two satellite speakers sit on the speaker shelf built into the cabinet behind the marquee band, and the subwoofer lives in the base.
It is the same system Klipsch sells for desktop gaming — a known quantity, not a no-name driver behind a grille.
Plays 20,000+ games · 1970s arcade to PS3
The Final Boss is able to play over 20,000 games through the Next-Gen Gamer package: “every game from 1970 arcades all the way to PS3.”
They run under the LaunchBox front-end, so you browse by system or by game with the marquee and kick panel changing to match — it feels like an arcade, not a PC desktop. The 300+ light-gun games and 800+ guitar songs are part of the same library.
(4) Industrias Lorenzo Competition 8-way joysticks
Every station has an authentic Industrias Lorenzo Competition 8-way joystick — the same iL Eurojoystick fitted to commercial arcade cabinets, in the player’s colour.
They mount through the deck’s real hole pattern, the way an operator would fit them.
RGB buttons with LED controller
The play, start and coin buttons are illuminated RGB pushbuttons (Ultimarc UltraLux chrome) driven by an Ultimarc PacLED64 LED controller.
In Dennis’s words: “Not only will they illuminate to let you know which buttons are needed for the game selected, but they will also change colours to match the original control panel.” Attract mode and your own colour scheme are set from the same controller.
Custom-designed graphics
The Final Boss does not come with a catalogue of themes. Every cabinet gets custom-designed graphics, worked out one-on-one with Dennis from your idea — a theme, a colour, a family name, a favourite game.
The artwork covers the side panels, marquee, bezel, control panel and kick panel. It is printed in-house on Orajet print vinyl on a Roland TrueVIS printer and sealed under an Arlon overlaminate.
In the 3D designer, use “Describe your artwork” to send Dennis a short note about what you have in mind — it travels with your build.
T-molding in your colour
Every exposed panel edge is finished with T-molding, the extruded trim strip that runs round the edges of a real arcade cabinet, pressed into a routed slot.
You choose the colour in the designer; it is one of the few things on the Final Boss you get to pick from a list, because everything else is already included. RGB LED T-molding — a lit outline round the whole cabinet — is available as an upgrade.
Sliding accessory drawer
Below the control deck is a hidden pull-out accessory drawer — standard on every new Final Boss. It runs on a soft-close track and is lined with foam egg-crate so nothing shifts as it opens and closes.
It is where the light guns, Xbox controllers, Wii remotes, steering wheel and even the guitars live when you are not using them.
(4) 2″ casters
The cabinet stands on four 2″ casters, so a machine that is 53″ wide, 34″ deep and 78″ tall can still be rolled out for four players and back to the wall afterwards.