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Arcade 1Up Reveals Killer Instinct, Dragon’s Lair, X-Men And More

Arcade 1Up Reveals Killer Instinct, Dragon’s Lair, X-Men And More

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Arcade1Up is going to have a packed 2021. They just revealed their lineup of new products for the next few months, and there are some real killers coming your way, if you have the instinct. Look at this lovely machine! An authentic recreation of the Killer Instinct arcade unit — we never thought we’d see that, especially with the 90s Rare logo stamped all over it. Rare released four arcade games during the brief period they made them, and all four are playable here: KI, KI 2, Battletoads, and Battletoads / Double Dragon. The Big Important Question is if the Killer Instinct cabinet says “COMING IN THE FALL OF 1995, FOR YOUR NINTENDO ULTRA 64!!” when you turn it on. Unfortunately the arcade KI is already available for XBox One and the message has been removed there. If an altered version already exists, and Arcade1Up has never licensed anything from Nintendo, we don’t expect to get that message on the machine. Worse comes to worse, you can always hack it

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

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