{"id":86024,"date":"2025-02-13T16:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T16:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/arcade-game\/arcade-heroes-new-theater-model-for-house-of-the-dead-scarlet-dawn-from-sega-amusements\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T16:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T16:07:15","slug":"arcade-heroes-new-theater-model-for-house-of-the-dead-scarlet-dawn-from-sega-amusements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=86024","title":{"rendered":"Arcade Heroes New Theater Model For House Of The Dead Scarlet Dawn From Sega Amusements"},"content":{"rendered":"


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In our industry, arcade games don\u2019t always get a shot at being sold for much longer than five years, let alone receive new models. There can be exceptions to popular titles however, and today we have a new theater-style cabinet design for 2018\u2019s House of the Dead Scarlet Dawn<\/em> from Sega to discuss. Let\u2019s take a look\u2026<\/p>\n

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First off, some background and credit to the people who helped bring this story to light. Early on in the day on Wednesday, Ted spotted a mysterious, slightly different looking cabinet for House of the Dead Scarlet Dawn (originally released in 2018 only as a super deluxe\/SDLX environmental machine<\/a>) in the background of this new FEC opening for Paris, France<\/a>, which was linked in the AH Discord server.<\/p>\n

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Then not too long afterward, whilst looking on Sega Amusements\u2019 site for Maimai DX (which has still not appeared as of yet), fellow AH Discord member and site friend bemBlake noticed a new page for a \u2018theater\u2019 version of HotD:SD, confirming its existence. Following that being linked in the chat too, the page confusingly ended up throwing a 404 error \u2013 but only because whilst we were trying to figure out, the URL had actually been changed to correct the spelling from \u2018theater\u2019 to \u2018theatre.\u2019 Nonetheless, we have official confirmation of it all.<\/p>\n

For reference, here\u2019s what the original design looked like. You have probably seen this out there; I have had one since 2020:<\/p>\n

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House of the Dead Scarlet Dawn Theater<\/h3>\n

So what makes this new House of the Dead Scarlet Dawn cabinet<\/a> different? Like the original SDLX one we all know, it\u2019s still an enclosed sit-down design \u2013 unlike the rare upright models, which came in two forms (one released only by Andamiro in South Korea<\/a>, the other spotted at a few UK locations that Sega Amusements are involved with<\/a>) \u2013 but there are a couple of changes to speak of.<\/p>\n

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Chief among those is the new lighting features on the front; these have been scaled back slightly to not cover the whole thing with the plastic backlit shell and 3D sculpted zombie head with the motion sensor, whilst retaining a similar look with the zombies bursting out. The air blowers\/overhead lighting have also been removed , although the 5.1 channel surround sound and seat vibration are still intact (confirmed through talking with Sega, and per the product page and flyer).<\/p>\n

The idea here is to provide a similar experience at a lower cost, allowing more locations to grab the game than previously. Sega really did go to town on the SDLX version, to the extent that it priced out some operators, so it\u2019s good that they are still keeping an eye on providing some options for the little guys.<\/p>\n

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