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more about #arcade more comments → Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Looks like they haven't changed since the last time we saw them... [gizmodo.com] #northkoreanarcade more » Kaiser-Machead: If the rittle chirren want to pray, they need to pay! ~Kim Jong-Il. #northkoreanarcade more » Gary_7vn: Looks like a really happening place. You go Korea! #northkoreanarcade more » yuzan: Hey, I wanna be a fantasistar, too! And every foosball table should have leveling feet; less wasted coasters as impromptu shims. more » dZero: That is really cool. It looks like he did a really great job on the exterior... but I lol'd at the screen mounted by masking tape in the interior. more » FrankenPC: I wish he would post cabinet design specs. more » met2art: That's awesome! But it must be really hard for the kid to find those tiny, tiny quarters. :( more » Kris Aubuchon: come on man, at least wire the game system to the ac power! Really nice little cabinet! more » dufus: Didn't I see this game in Soylent Green? At least it LOOKS like the game in the apartment of the rich guy who got whacked.... more » Sean Scrooby Grube: I never understood why people take these into their shitty driveways to take a picture of it. Do they have little kids locked in cages inside their ho... more » -
#arcade
MaruBot Football League Is Next-Gen Foosball Without Wrist Fractures
The purist will probably hate this. Well, bad luck purists, because I don't care. This MaruBot robotic foosball table is the next thing I want to play. More » -
#diy
Cool Dad Builds Mini Arcade Machine for His Son
Hey dad! Look at what Samuel Seide made for his son. How about it? I'm not even asking for an Imperial Walker bed, just a father-daughter mini-arcade machine building session to sacrifice some games, a DVD player, and random electronics. More » -
#retromodo
Nolan Bushnell's First Commercially Sold Video Game Ever Is for Sale
Computer Space, generally considered the first commercially-sold video game ever, is pretty rare these days, with only about 1800 of the retro-futuristic arcade cabinets made. Yet two of them just popped up on eBay. More » -
#diy
How to Make Your Very Own Badass Arcade Cabinet for Cheap-ish
Arcade games are a touchstone of many of our childhoods, holding memories of hours spent burning through quarters and chasing high scores. Now, MaximumPC has a guide for making an epic MAME arcade cabinet for cheap. So very tempting. [MaximumPC] -
#arcade
Tron's Space Paranoids Arcade Now a Reality
Despite their demise, arcade machines are one of my dearest passions. That's why I can't believe I missed the real version of Space Paranoids, created for the new Tron movie. I want this machine, badly. [Thanks Meredith Woerner] -
#arcade
Games2U Brings a Portable Arcade To Your House
The only time people visit arcades these days is when they're waiting for the 8:30 showing of Transformers to start. Whether it's convenience of quality of games, people just aren't going. But what if it came to YOU? More » -
#xbox360
Dual Choco Baby Xbox 360 Joysticks Herald the Glorious Return of Virtual On
I wasted too many days in a dank arcade that frankly sucked in every respect except the single reason I went: Virtual On. With its dual joysticks, it stood above all other giant robot games. More » -
#controllers
XCM Rumble Joystick Gives PS3 the Quakes
XCM is building the world's first rumbling joystick. You know, like a Street Fighter IV Tournament Stick, but with the shakes. More » -
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#lightningreview
Galaga Remix Lightning Review: Classic Space Shootin' For iPhone
The App: One of the most resilient game franchises of all time just hit the App Store today in Galaga Remix, with both the classic Galaga arcade game and an updated Remix version from Namco. More » -
#gaming
The Shoebox Fightstick Is Made For Cheap Chun-Li Combat
We didn't think things could get sadder in these economically trying times than the Tupperware arcade stick. Well folks, things just went from bad to leap from the nearest skyscraper status. More » -
#gaming
TrashCade Is the Ultimate Hobo Arcade Cabinet
Behold the TrashCade, the arcade game cabinet made of cardboard and tape! But don't hold it too much, or it may fall apart in a clusterfrak of trash and wrap. [Techeblog] -
#gaming
Tupperware Arcade Stick Throws Hadoukens, Totes Sammiches
Can't afford Mad Catz's ridiculous Tournament Edition SFIV FightStick? Just build your own out of cheap fake Tupperware. Plus, it'll tote a sammich over to your friend's house, though I'd avoid tuna salad. [TechEBlog] -
#gaming
Custom Street Fighter IV Cabinets Going for Cheap
I can't promise that these low prices will stay, but right now, there are a small handful of custom Street Fighter IV cabinets (filled with genuine SFIV boards) available on eBay, starting at $650. UPDATE More » -
#watchmen
Minutemen Arcade Takes Us Back to a Time That Never Was
I just love this Minutemen arcade machine. Sure it's just a Flash-based recreation of an 80s-style beat-them-up game that never happened, but I played for a few minutes and I want it for my iPhone. More » -
#mini
Tiniest Vintage Arcade/Pinball Machine Models For Your Desk
You can use these shrunken game machines to decorate a quasi game lounge to entertain your non-existent train set ghostmen while they're waiting for the 12:10 to Rochester. Or you can decorate your desk. More » -
#joysticks
Joystick Coat Hooks Are a Playful Way to Keep Clothes Off the Floor
Here's one way to get hooked on video games—retro joystick controller coat hangers! More » -
#space
NASA Detects Mystery Booming Sound In Deep Space, Origin Unknown
Call Dr Arroway, because NASA has detected a deep space sound that defies belief or any explanation. They don't have a single clue about its origin, according to Alan Kogut from the Goddard Space Center: More » -
#arcadebuttons
Supermandolini High Quality Arcade Buttons Are Made From Arcade Buttons
Kotaku's Ashcraft's book on Japanese arcades may document how well those gaming centers are doing in Japan, but arcades are pretty much on their last legs here in the US. These high quality Supermandolini arcade buttons are how you can keep hope alive. Sixteen euros ($20) gets you ten badges, or buttons, that you can shove on your backpack or shirt or pants to show just how much you love putting quarters into things. Bonus: putting any one of these 10 on strategic areas of your pants can make for a funny joke. [Super Mandolini] -
#xbox360
$99 Live Pack Upgrades Xbox 360 Arcade to Pro
There's just $100 standing between the $199 hard driveless Xbox 360 Arcade and the more functional $299 Xbox 360 Pro. And now you can find that $100 in this Xbox 360 Live Pack which features all the vital stuff missing from the 360 Arcade, like the 60GB hard drive and (fist pump) an ethernet cord. But there's one blatant thing still missing from the kit—component cables. (Luckily all 360s now come with a non-proprietary HDMI port.) The Xbox 360 Live Pack arrives in stores this November for $99. [Kotaku] -
#mame
Coffee Table Makes Retro Gaming a Contemporary Experience
Half MAME cabinet, half pretentious furniture, this new coffee table by Surface Tension mixes worlds to adultize your gaming habit. Available in walnut or oak, the table features a 19-inch LCD, Shuttle PC with dual core CPU, integrated USB and HDMI outputs, 100W of speakers and two sets of high quality buttons and joysticks. With this hardware configuration, you can play games on the table or output the experience to your HDTV. More » -
#arcademachines
Grand Daddy Brings Faux-Classiness to Arcade Machines
Regular arcade machines are neat and all, but if you have thousands of dollars worth of mahogany furniture in your mansion, they tend to clash with the environment. Luckily, Custom Arcades makes a gaming all-in-one that takes your expensive tastes into account. The Grand Daddy Arcade encases a 42-inch flat screen monitor, a 505W sound system, a two to four player control panel, and space to store other home gaming systems in an only slightly gaudy birch casing. Yours for just $8000. [Custom Arcades via Born Rich] -
#rumor
$200 Xbox 360 Getting Motion Control for Christmas?
It's a rumor, but it sure is a juicy one. According to an Xbox360Fanboy source close to Microsoft PR, the $200 Xbox 360 Arcade (the SKU with no hard drive) will be sold in a bundle with a motion controller and a few motiony games during the coming holiday season. The possibility is certainly not all that crazy, as we've seen plenty of evidence supporting the Xbox 360 "Newton" motion controller, and everyone wants a piece of the Wii's big, hungry fanbase. Our guess is that if this rumor pans out we'll hear more around the Tokyo Game Show in October. [Xbox360Fanboy] -
#books
Japanese Arcade Mania Book By Kotaku's B. Ashcraft
Brian Ashcraft's book, Arcade Mania: The Turbo-Charged World of Japan's Game Centers, is available for preorder on Amazon. Brian explains that with the arrival of Street Fighter IV, now's the right time to explain the history, culture and color of Japanese arcades. (For the first time in English, too.) [Kotaku, Amazon] -
#mods
IKEA + Apple = Mamebook Cocktail
A MAME (arcade) cabinet will easily cost you several hundred to several thousand dollars. But one modder used a little ingenuity to take an old PowerBook with snapped hinges and fit it into an IKEA RAMVIK shelving unit. The result is a tabletop arcade machine á la Galaga and Pac-Man that fits in a modern home. Here's the funny shot that tells you it's an Apple: More » -
#homefurnishings
Blu-ray Coffee Table, Pac-Man Tabletop For Grown-ups
When tabletop arcade manufacturer Retro-Tech makes a coffee table, it's gotta do more than hold books on Famous Chateaus of the 18th Century and What Things Look Like From the Sky. It has to hold that stuff and piss off your home theater. More » -
#diy
Bond With Your Family, Build Your Own Arcade Machine
Want to become the coolest parent ever? Turn off the computers, put down the television remote, and do a little DIY with your kids this weekend by building your own arcade machine. While you assemble the pieces, regale little Tommy or Gina with the tales of your Space Invaders past. And when they look up at you, little eyes shining, and ask why you couldn't just get an emulator, tell them they were both adopted. [IGN via Kotaku] -
#microsoftzunegames
Xbox 360 XNA Arcade Games to Come to Zune
Microsoft just announced that the XNA Game Studio, the user-created games program for the Xbox 360 is coming for the Zune. The demo shown at Game Developer's Conference shows a person controlling the game with the Zune pad, pausing the game, going out and switching music on the Zune, then going back into the game. Very neat.
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#gamevalhalla
Retro Arcade Gaming Fan Heaven Is Worth Infinite Quarters
Peter Hirschberg has just finished his stunning retro-gaming heaven, a Valhalla for the best arcade video games ever. His Luna City Arcade has 57 fully-restored arcade classics, which span from Asteroids to Zaxxon, plus a whole load of pinballs. Amazingly enough, he does all this on his own dime, for the love of it. This personal museum is open nowto the publicby invitation only, and the best thing: entrance and quarters are completely free for his guests. Check the video, huge gallery and the interview with Peter after the jump. More » -
#gaming
Homemade Metroid Arcade Cabinet: Bravo!
Amazing things can happen when you combine passion with talent. This homemade Metroid arcade cabinet is definitely a case in point. Unfortunately his talents do not extend into the world of directing, so the video is not quite what it could be. Still, the cool artwork, lighting effects, and controller ports for the NES, SNES, N64 and USB are easily discernible. If you ask me, the best part is the illuminated Mother Brain displayed behind plexiglass. Very impressive indeed. [WiiFanboy via Joystiq] -
#dealzmodo
Dealzmodo: Konami Arcade Cabinet
We've told you about something similar to the 12-in-1 Konami arcade cabinet before, but this is Konami's first appearance on Giz. Featuring (you guessed it) 12 classic Konami games—Frogger, Green Beret, Blades of Steel, Contra, Gyruss, Castlevania, Hyper Sports, Time Pilot '84, Shao-Lins Road, Jungler, Scramble and Super Basketball—its slightly smaller stature will make for snugger play, and its 15" screen will be smaller than many classic machines you are used to. But for a reduced price, it would make a fantastic gift under the tree... More » -
#gaming
True Dream Arcade Features 120-Inch Screen, 145 Installed Games and Wii Adaptor
If an arcade system that features a 120-inch screen, 145 pre-installed classic games, a free Wii adaptor, and two-player control panel with numerous buttons, a spinner, and a lighted trackball doesn't give you a tickle in your pants, nothing will. On the other hand, the $4000 price tag may leave the average gamer a little unsatisfied. Additional pic and info after the jump. More » -
#xbox360
Xbox 360 Arcade is Official
Microsoft's long rumored Xbox 360 Arcade is now official. It's everything we knew before: $279, wireless controller, HDMI, and five arcade games (Pac-Man Championship Edition, Uno, Luxor 2, Boom Boom Rocket and Feeding Frenzy). No hard drive, but there's an included a flash memory storage unit to save your arcade games on. It's a logical system that we predicted was true since almost a third of Xbox 360 owners don't know about the Arcade portion of Live. With this new SKU, even if people don't buy it, they'll at least know what the Xbox Live Arcade is.
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#guitarhero
Guitar Hero "Arcade Syle" Cabinet: Rock Out in Style
A simple but brilliant design—build an arcade style cabinet for Guitar Hero with a real Marshall cab acting as the base, a marquee and speakers on the top, and connect it to a hacked PS2 with every Guitar Hero game loaded on the hard drive. Then go ahead and deck out a couple of guitar controllers to top it all off. Needless to say, I wouldn't mind sucking so much ass at Guitar Hero if I was playing it on this thing. [Arcadecontrols via Arcadeheroes via Gearfuse] -
#xbox360arcade
Leaked Xbox 360 Arcade Product Shot
Ars got their nerdtastic mitts on an Xbox 360 Arcade product shot—the new 360 version we detailed for you yesterday. There's not much else to say other than look at the picture, but you'll notice that the 360 Arcade's DVD drive is the same gimpy white as the Core's, instead of the majestic silver like the Platinum's. [Ars Technica] -
#homecade
USB Whack It (Like Whack-a-Mole You Pervert)
At first glance this USB Whack-a-Mole–like game stirred up all kinds of great Chuck E. Cheese like emotions. Then we realized that Whack It doesn't have two things, one being moles and the other being fun. Everyone knows that the fun part of Whack-a-Mole is when you get to take out all your pent-up aggression on some helpless plastic moles, and how are we supposed to do that when the Whack It guys are so tiny? However, if you still are lusting over owning your own Whack-a-Mole game, no matter how small, it will run you $24.[Random Good Stuff] -
#robots
Japanese Robo Crane Game Takes It Up a Notch
If you're looking for another reason why Japan looks upon us like we look upon third world countries, take crane games. We have a robotic crane we control with a joystick, but Japan has a robotic ROBOT that they control with buttons. Players move the robot around to collect one of many cute dolls—one of which is a deformed Shrek—and take the winnings home. Too bad you can't have the robot grab itself, since that's what we really want. [Stinger Report via Arcade Heroes via Gear fuse via Uber Gizmo] -
#usethejoystick
Vintage Star Wars Machine Costs Curren(t)cy
While we're all waiting around for light sabers to be invented, there must be a better way to occupy our time than staring at walls of unopened action figures (at the comic book store, we're too cheap) or hitting up message boards to debate over which Leia was the hottest (not bikini Leia, I would argue). Maybe this 1983 Star Wars Cockpit Arcade Game will give us something more tangible for our efforts, like a high score, or better yet, a higher score. More » -
#wii
The Wii Crane Game
Those Jersey residents really love their crane game. First there was the iPhone Crane Game where you had to throw down $5 per try, and now there's the Wii crane game, where you can get the chance to pick yourself up one Nintendo console for $2. We're not sure how many Wiis have been won in this gigantic Wii crane game, but now we know why we can't ever find one in stores. [Crave via Kotaku] -
#arcade
Japanese Initial D Arcade Booth Features Actual Tofu Car
Arcades are dying out here in the States, but they sure wouldn't if they were more like this Japanese Initial D cabinet. Instead of just a booth or a mockup cockpit to sit in, you get to actually drive in the tofu car from the Initial D series. Not only do you get to drive the '86, you can also ride in a Subaru Impreza WRX and Mazda RX-7 (also featured in the show). If only their Boong-Ga Boong-Ga game was so realistic. [Response via Q-Taro via Kotaku] More »
