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Arcade 1Up Adds Fifth Game To OutRun Seated Cabinet

Arcade 1Up Adds Fifth Game To OutRun Seated Cabinet

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Last month Arcade1Up finally announced a racing machine — their first. They are known for recreations of classic arcade machines for home purchase, and have offered near-authentic versions of everything from Pac-Man to NBA Jam (the only difference is a flatscreen instead of a CRT, and the fact that their cabinets are vertically smaller and require a booster box to raise to proper stand-up size). A racing cabinet was long overdue, and the game representing their foray was one of the finest examples, Sega’s OutRun. It’s got everything: the wheel, the starter, the music selector, the shift lever and, most importantly, the brake and gas pedals. Arcade1Up also included three other games, most of which are sequels and spinoffs of OutRun: Turbo OutRun, OutRunners and Power Drift. BUUUUUT they made a surprise announcement this morning… For the first time ever, Arcade1Up will be adding a fifth game to one of their machines, post-release. Arriving by Internet delivery, it’s Rad Rally. another Sega racer released in 1991. The original version was

Arcade1Up Announces OutRun Seated Arcade Cabinet

Arcade1Up Announces OutRun Seated Arcade Cabinet

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Arcade1Up has brought many classic arcade machines to the home in their original form, from Pac-Man to NBA Jam, and they’ve done a great job all around. But while they’ve faithfully reproduced maze munchers, fighters and sports games, there’s one genre they’ve ignored entirely: racers. We’ve always found this strange — racing games are one of the few genres that would truly benefit from a home arcade conversion, with their steering wheel controls and physical brakes being a cool part of the experience. The wait is over. Today was the day Arcade1Up finally announced a racing machine — and what a machine it is! They went above and beyond by making this a seated cabinet…something you rarely got to experience unless your local arcade had enough room for one. The game they chose is Sega’s OutRun, recreated spotlessly. In addition to the wheel, it’s got all the buttons: the starter, the music selector, the shift lever and, most importantly, the brake and gas pedals. In the Arcade1Up tradition, they’ve included

Dragon’s Lair 1/6 Scale Replicade Now Available

Dragon’s Lair 1/6 Scale Replicade Now Available

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Replicade specializes in miniaturizing the world’s most popular arcade classics to pencil size. These devices not only look nifty displayed on your desk, they are fully playable. They’ve produced twelve-inch replicas of the Asteroids, Tempest and Street Fighter cabinets, and now they’ve turned their attention to 1983’s Dragon’s Lair. Despite its size, the Replicade contains everything the original cabinet did…the trapezoidal marquee, the digital score displays, the attract mode on an endless loop. While the Kickstarter campaign for these things was a massive success, delays occurred in production (the original date of release was March 2020, but…yeah). It’s out now, though. Replicade’s commitment to detail here is so obsessive, the Dragon’s Lair cabinet includes a mini replica of the Laserdisc player installed in the back that powered the thing. Just open the back panel and you can remove the plastic Laserdisc model, and even insert a tiny facsimile of the Dragon’s Lair disc. Plays the original Dragon’s Lair arcade game running on Daphne LaserDisc Emulator Fully functional secondary scoreboard displays

Legends Ultimate Arcade Machine Crosses The Sea

Legends Ultimate Arcade Machine Crosses The Sea

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Last year AtGames got into the home arcade business with the Legends Ultimate Arcade Machine. At the time of its announcement, we held a skeptical view on the product, given AtGames’ reputation and their history of badly put-together “retro” plug-and-play machines that filled the gift shelves of drugstores last decade. But ever since its release, we haven’t heard very many complaints. In fact, we’ve been hearing quite a few compliments. According to the video below, the construction is sturdy, the machine is simple to set up, the built-in library of titles is solid, and it is VERY easy to add more (officially and otherwise). Did AtGames finally get one right? Seems so. The Legends Ultimate is enough of a success that a European version is now being introduced to the UK market, courtesy of Liberty Games. The British model looks very similar to the US one, except with a slightly different lineup of logos on the front (it now advertises the fact that it has Genesis Aladdin and Lion King).

Check Out Sega’s New Pocket Arcade, The Astro City Mini

Check Out Sega’s New Pocket Arcade, The Astro City Mini

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Sega has been on a “mini” binge recently, creating miniaturized versions of its most popular devices from the past. You know about the Genesis Mini, and we just found out about the Game Gear Micro last month, but they have even more in mind. Not a miniature Dreamcast, not a microscopic Master System, but an homage to their formative years: a tiny arcade machine, the Astro City Mini. Though Sega is known for its 80s and 90s consoles, it also had a long and profitable stint in the arcade business. Sega developed a scaling engine that wowed crowds in games like After Burner, OutRun and Space Harrier. None of those three are yet confirmed for the Astro City Mini, though with 36 games packed in, we’d be shocked if they were all left out. Here are the games Sega HAS confirmed: Alien Syndrome Alien Storm Golden Axe Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder Columns II Dark Edge Puzzle & Action: Tant-R Virtua Fighter Fantasy Zone Altered Beast So about

Dragon’s Lair Now Shrunk To RepliCade Size

Dragon’s Lair Now Shrunk To RepliCade Size

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Dirk the Daring has been shrunk to the size of a pencil! How will he defeat Singe and save Daphne now? Oh wait…they’re also the same size, so everything’s proportionate. Dragon’s Lair is one of the hardest classic arcade units to keep running, because it’s not powered by a chipset like most other machines…it was basically a Laserdisc in a box. The Dragon’s Lair RepliCade is far easier to take care of and also much cheaper. This is because it’s twelve inches tall, or one-sixth the size of the original. Are RepliCade games truly playable at that size? I’ve argued before the point of these things is just to collect them, but I got to try one out (the Centipede machine) at Portland Retro Gaming Expo. The trackball was smaller than my thumb, but it worked well enough. Tough dodging the spider at that size, though. They also had the Dragon’s Lair unit operational and demo-able, but someone else hogged it. It works just like the real thing does, including

Chippy (Steam) Review – One Block At A Time

Chippy (Steam) Review – One Block At A Time

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In a time where video games often seem to be pushing for the titles of “best-looking”, most “details in the world”, or a “deeply satisfying and emotional experience”, we often forget that sometimes the best games out there are the ones that do something simple, and do it very well. There was a time when twin-stick arcade shooters were the most-challenging video games out there, and now, one new example of the timeless franchise has come in the form of Chippy. As noted, this is a twin-stick arcade shooter (though you can play it fairly well on keyboard) where you’ll need to literally chip away at your enemies. Or in this case, the boss of the level. And it is in this simplistic notion that things get both fun and challenging. You see, not unlike certain video games, Chippy is basically a “you vs. the boss” title. With the twist that every time you “kill” the boss, they evolve to become something greater. And you have to start all over

E3 2019: New Arcade 1Ups Include TMNT, X-Men, Star Wars

E3 2019: New Arcade 1Ups Include TMNT, X-Men, Star Wars

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If you want an arcade machine that plays Star Wars, just ignore AtGames’ suspicious “Legends Ultimate” cabinet and feast your eyes on the newest offerings from Arcade1up. A Star Wars cabinet was revealed on the show floor today, along with cabinets for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Marvel properties. First, Star Wars. The cabinet was announced months ago, but this was the first time anybody got to look at it….and it’s mighty sweet, recreating the vector-age original Star Wars arcade stand-up perfectly. The Arcade1Up version also contains the arcade versions of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. WELCOME TO DIE! The Marvel arcade machine contains X-Men: Children of the Atom, plus the lesser-known Marvel Super Heroes and The Punisher games. Seeing as the Capcom brand is already stamped on the unit, I would have gone for any Marvel vs. Capcom game instead. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade cabinet is one of the most iconic, with its painting of a model representing April holding a camcorder.

AtGames Is Getting Into The Home Arcade Business

AtGames Is Getting Into The Home Arcade Business

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AtGames has built a bad reputation for itself as a company quick to capitalize on nostalgia with very cheaply-made retro consoles, using poor emulation and stuffed with bad games that never even appeared on the original devices. Now they’re entering the growing home arcade market………fear for your children. The company announced today that Legends Ultimate, an arcade machine of their own creation, will be available for preorder this summer. Features will include “a modern user interface, intuitive and customizable menu themes, network play, Internet connectivity, leaderboards, and cloud gaming streaming.” The majority of games available on Legends Ultimate will no doubt be the same cheap bad ones that AtGames stuffs onto its plug-and-play devices, for the company boasts “hundreds” of games will be included in the unit and that “among them” will be arcade favorites. Asteroids, BurgerTime, Centipede, Fighter’s History, Pong, and Tetris are mentioned in the press release and their logos can be spotted on the cabinet. They’re good picks, but they may be as good as it gets.

Konami Turns 50; Announces Anniversary Collection

Konami Turns 50; Announces Anniversary Collection

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Japanese pachinko manufacturer Konami will be 50 years old this year, and while they’ve burned all their bridges regarding modern games and the community that supports them, there is still plenty of love for the old days. Might as well lean on it, ’cause it’s all they’ve got. Introducing the Konami Anniversary Collection! Three digital compilations of the best the 80s and 90s had to offer. Castlevania, Contra, and arcade collections are on the way this year, and there could be more after that. Konami has revealed half the lineup for the first two: the Castlevania collection will have Castlevania (NES), Castlevania 2: Belmont’s Revenge (Game Boy), Castlevania 3: Dracula’s Curse (NES), and Super Castlevania 4 (Super NES). The Contra collection will have Contra (arcade), Super Contra (arcade), Super C (NES), and Contra 3: The Alien Wars (Super NES). These collections will contain eight games in all, which seems like too little for Castlevania and too much for Contra. There simply aren’t eight good Contra games, but Castlevania needs Symphony

Arcade Version Of Ice Climber Rereleased On Switch

Arcade Version Of Ice Climber Rereleased On Switch

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For the first time since its original release in the 80s, the arcade version of Ice Climber (more commonly known on the NES) is available for purchase, thanks to Hamster and their “Arcade Archives” series. I’ll bet you didn’t even know there WAS an arcade version of Ice Climber. There are actually arcade versions of over two dozen NES games, thanks to Nintendo’s interchangeable “Vs” arcade machine. Before some NES games were released in the US, Nintendo would sometimes “preview” them in the arcades with a modified version. Vs. Ice Climber came out in March of 1985, six months before the cartridge was first sold in New York. Most Vs. games were visually identical to their home console counterparts, but contained extra modes and features that wouldn’t be possible on the NES hardware. In the Vs. version of Ice Climber, the player has to deal with additional elements like blizzards and wind, more enemies onscreen, plus 16 additional levels not included in the cart. But If it’s truly unaltered from

Street Fighter II Champion Edition X Replicade Now Available

Street Fighter II Champion Edition X Replicade Now Available

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Arcade collectors have all sizes to choose from these days. There’s the full-size upright. There’s the 2/3-sized chest-high models sold by Arcade 1Up. And then there’s the smallest option, the RepliCade….an arcade machine that measures just twelve inches in height. A new RepliCade is now available, one of the most demanded ones…the Street Fighter II: Champion Edition X RepliCade. Standing at 1/6 scale, it’s a fully licensed, 100% authentic recreation of the classic Street Fighter II Championship Edition cabinet. There’s just one difference….two games are playable inside, the other being Super Street Fighter II Turbo. Believe it or not, it’s possible to play a two-player game on a machine this small, but it requires an extra controller. The two-player mode can be enabled with a USB Mini Fight Stick (included with the RepliCade) or other USB game controllers. Key Features Plays the original Street Fighter II: Champion Edition and Super Street Fighter II Turbo arcade games Miniaturized Fight Stick control panel which includes bat style joystick and microswitch action buttons

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