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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]

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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. More »

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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 now to the public by 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 »

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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]

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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 »

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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 »

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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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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

This winter Microsoft will start letting developers bring their Xbox Live Arcade games to the PC. [Gamernode]

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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 »

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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]

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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]



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The iPhone Crane Game

Those you who didn't get an iPhone in our Eureka contest earlier this month can head down to Point Pleasant, NJ, and try your luck there. Instead of coming up with a cool invention, all you have to do is master the forbidden art of pulling crap out of a glass box with a crane. There are at least two arcade-style claw-grabber boxes with the iPhone as the "grand prize," but we all know how difficult it is to grab anything with those atrophied mitts. Even Bender couldn't do it with his own arm. [Joeygadget via ArcadeHeroes via Kotaku]

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Arcade Basketball: Captain Insano Style


All we can do after watching this kid play arcade basketball, beyond picking our jaws up off our desks, is apologize to our parents for wasting their money at Chuck E. Cheese. We obviously didn't fulfill the potential of the game and could have won whatever crappy toys we ended up throwing away three days later with much greater efficiency. More »

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Soviet Arcade Machines Fully Explain Russians' Vodka Addiction

While Russian president, former KGB agent and failed comedian Vladimir Putin polishes his ICBMs, a group of friends at Moscow State Technical University has decided to do the same with a whole bunch of video game machines from the Soviet Era. And like the USSR's old missiles, these primitive Japanese arcade crude knockoffs look to be just as fun. I know this is all about nostalgia, but someone should tell them that some things are better left in the graveyard. At least the ICBMs. More »