00:00So you've got the cabinet built, the artwork's on, the screen's glowing, and then you press
00:04a button and it feels like a soggy piece of cardboard.
00:07Yeah, been there.
00:09Buttons are the one part of an arcade build people cheap out on and regret immediately,
00:14so I went digging and pulled together the 5 best arcade push buttons you can actually
00:17get right now, including a couple that are shockingly cheap for how good they feel.
00:22First up, the 10-piece HAP-style 5-volt illuminated screw-in buttons.
00:27These are the classic American style, the deep, satisfying travel with a real micro switch
00:32behind it, the kind of click you remember from the actual arcade.
00:36What I like is the LED is built right into the lamp holder, so you're not fussing with
00:40separate bulbs or dodgy wiring, and they come in 5 colors so you can lay out your panel however
00:44you want.
00:4610 of them run about $14.98, which works out to roughly $1.50 a button with lighting included.
00:52Nearly 5,000 sold at a 4.8 rating, that's a lot of people who didn't send them back.
00:58Now if you want that showpiece button, the big one, the start button people slap with
01:02their whole palm, check out these 60mm and 45mm LED arcade buttons.
01:07These are the oversized round ones you see on rhythm games and taiko-style setups, and they
01:12light up beautifully through that translucent plastic.
01:15At $1.49 each, honestly there's no reason not to grab a couple.
01:20Perfect rating, 5 out of 5, from almost 4,700 buyers.
01:25Use them as your player start buttons or your coin drop and instantly your panel looks intentional
01:30instead of thrown together.
01:32Then we've got the Sanwa OBSC-style illuminated buttons, available in 24mm and 30mm, in both
01:395 and 12V.
01:40If you're a fighting game person, you already know Japanese-style buttons are shallow, snappy,
01:45and quiet, and the response time is just faster.
01:48These are copies of the Sanwa design at a fraction of the price, and at $1.99 you can
01:53kit out a full 6-button layout for about $12.
01:57$4,600 sold, 4.8 stars.
02:01Honestly this is the sweet spot if you care about how the buttons actually play.
02:05Now here's the wild one.
02:08These hap-type American-style buttons with the micro-switch included, $0.51.
02:13Not a typo.
02:15Half a dollar.
02:17No LED, so these are your workhorse buttons, replacements for a restore project, or filling
02:22out a big 6-player panel where you don't want to spend a fortune.
02:26The micro-switch is the important part, and it's in there, giving you that proper mechanical
02:30click.
02:32Over $4,000 sold at a 4.9 rating.
02:35If you're building on a budget, buy a whole bag of these and thank yourself later.
02:40And rounding it out, the 10-pack of transparent non-LED Sanwa-style buttons in 30 and 24-millimeter.
02:47These are the clear multi-color ones, no lighting, just clean translucent plastic that looks
02:52fantastic under a bright bezel.
02:54$8.61 for 10 buttons is about $0.86 each, and they're the same snappy Japanese feel as
02:59the lit ones without the wiring hassle.
03:02Great pick if you're doing a Pandora's box build or you just don't want to deal with running
03:06power to every single button.
03:084.9 stars, and dead simple to install.
03:12All the links are down in the description, and I've tried to line them up with the best
03:16prices I could find.
03:26Catch you in the next one.
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