Home Use

Machines designed or marketed specifically for home use rather than commercial coin-operated routes. Home models were typically stripped of coin mechanisms, sometimes simplified in playfield design, and occasionally offered in furniture-grade cabinets intended to blend into a living room rather than stand out in an arcade. Manufacturers pursued the home market most aggressively in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and again in the 2010s as boutique manufacturers and major producers like Stern began offering home-edition variants of popular titles at lower price points.