I'm big into fashion, as my colleagues can attest. They won't attest that it's good fashion, but it's certainly fashion, from Tommy Wiseau attire to button-down rayon Dragonball Z shirts. Still, I can respect the Supreme style juggernaut, which has become a big enough fashion label to make special Supreme versions of fish bowls, lipstick, vases, and pipe wrenches.
Gamers aren't left in the lurch by Supreme. As street fashion maven Hypebeast reports, the latest Supreme lookbook includes a special Supreme Mortal Kombat arcade cabinet. Here's what you need to know about it.
The Supreme/Mortal Kombat Arcade Game is a Supreme'd-up version of the Arcade1Up Mortal Kombat cabinet we reviewed last year alongside the company's Street Fighter II cabinet. Arcade1Up manufactures home arcade cabinets, which are generally scaled down, priced for consumers, and designed to be assembled at home—the arcade equivalent of Ikea bookshelves.
The Supreme version of the cabinet features Supreme red all over, complete with Raiden's outfit sporting a huge Supreme logo. Besides the design on the outside, it appears to be identical to Arcade1Up's Mortal Kombat cabinet. That means it includes Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat II, and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 on a single system, with two sets of arcade controls (classic joysticks and big round buttons) for two-player combat, and a 17-inch LCD screen.
We can't tell for sure from the single picture in the lookbook, but the marquis over the screen on the Supreme cabinet might be backlit, a feature the original Arcade1Up Mortal Kombat cabinet lacked (but was added to later models like the Star Wars Arcade cabinet).
The cabinet is about three-quarters the size of a commercial arcade Mortal Kombat cabinet, which would make it a little too short to comfortably play while standing up. Fortunately, Arcade1Up and Supreme realized this and included a Supreme-branded riser you can set the cabinet on to make it about a foot taller.
It's not clear how much the Supreme cabinet will cost, but the non-Supreme arcade cabinets start at $300; with a riser it's an extra $60. It's safe to say a rare, Supreme-branded version of the cabinet will cost significantly more when it ships.
We quite like the Arcade1Up cabinets, since they offer multiple games in one package, with arcade controls and an arcade feel for significantly less money than if you were to collect the original cabinets. They're a bit smaller than full-size arcade cabinets, but they're still big enough to comfortably take up a corner in your home and let you think, "Yeah, I have an arcade cabinet." If you like Supreme and Mortal Kombat, you might want to keep an eye out for this.
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