Once again, we packed a frankly unreasonable amount of arcade hardware into vans, pointed them towards Birmingham and headed off to VSFighting 2026.

And once again, it was absolutely brilliant.

Every now and again something arrives that reminds you why arcade games were such a big deal in the first place. Our new OutRun 2 SP SDX setup is one of those machines.

Players travelled in from all over the UK, with some even making the trip from the good old USA, all to spend a weekend doing what fighting game communities do best: playing incredible games with incredible people.

And so it was that on Sunday the 3rd of May Arcade Club hosted the UK's very first Kong Off...