October 27th, 2005
Home Video Arcade Machines
Vic DaSilva
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Talk about taking retro gaming to the next level. Target Stores will offer BigGames Home Video Arcade machines that will retail for less than $500 nationwide in November of 2005. Each unit plays 12 of the original arcade versions of the most popular Midway® games including: Defender®, Defender® II, Robotron®, Joust®, Bubbles®, Splat™, Sinistar®, Rampage®, Rootbeer Tapper™, Wizard of Wor™, Timber™, and Satan’s Hollow™. The unit stands 62” tall and has an included, built-in, full color monitor. It comes with additional A/V inputs that allow (almost) any existing home video game system, DVD player, VCR or any other A/V product to be plugged in and viewed on the built-in monitor. It’s unfortunate that the machine is missing Galaga (NAMCO holds the copyright ) because that game was my favorite? I know that some serious gamers have built their own MAME systems with up to 1000 games but at $500 with no work required, sign me up. Source: Uber-Review
Mumblix Grumph says:
I like it! I’d buy it just for the cabinet and put in a cheap-ass PC and run all 1628 of my MAME ROM’s.
SOLD!
October 27th, 2005 at 9:49 pm
Alice says:
I want one!
October 27th, 2005 at 10:37 pm
William Jefferson Gates says:
Joust and defender are the only decent games listed.
Donkey kong and mrs pac man, i would buy one too@
October 28th, 2005 at 6:15 am
ed3 says:
Mumblix Grumph, agreed… At $500 this would be cheaper than many commercial MAME cabinet kits.
No need to gut it though so long as it has additional AV inputs for the monitor and the controls are using standard USB or gameport connections (chances are it doesn’t and would need some hacking).
Wonder if we could talk Sauders or someone into making a DIY MAME arcade flatpack kit sold at Wal-Marts? Controller panel and monitor sold separately…
October 28th, 2005 at 7:16 am
Oregon Commentator Online says:
Can we get one of these for the office?
Let’s take a break for a moment from subjects like a new issue, dorm death threats, and bicycle accidents and move onto a more serious topic: video games. There’s nothing quite like memories of playing classic arcade games with Pete…
October 28th, 2005 at 2:27 pm
Steven says:
This will rock, even with all my ROM’s on my PC. I must say that the person who said there are only two decent games on this list cannot be more than 14 because Robotron is one of the best games ever for its time and the rest are def decent based on the fact that games are placed on the machine by rating of National usage not some whim or stupid opinion
October 29th, 2005 at 7:57 am
Moose says:
Damn, I hope these come to Target in Australia !!!
Moose
October 30th, 2005 at 7:15 pm
The Polarbear says:
The only problem I see is that neither Target or the company making the games has any information about selling the game at Target.
November 2nd, 2005 at 3:23 pm
John Rea says:
Au contrare! go to Target.com and do a search for ARCADE and you will find it. $499.99.
Can it be hacked to allow mame? We will have to wait and see.
Only problem I can see is the buttons. It looks like there is only one joystick and 3 buttons on each side. I’d really want 6 buttons on each side and a trackball. But that is just me.
November 8th, 2005 at 11:18 am
Sam says:
On the note target employees might not have a clue Called my local target today they asked for electronics and they have bill boards displayed and one in stock I’m Def. getting one and the a/v ports skys are the limit like hooking up x-box and running Mario classics or playstation and playing 30 of Artari’s greatest hits not to mention Pac-man Ms. Pac-man sony put out.
November 12th, 2005 at 12:12 am
Sinphaltimus says:
This is definitely cool for those who’ve dreamed of having an arcade machine(s) since watching silver spoons, especially if you don’t want to build your own, but for the person here who stated they would buy it just for the cabinet?!?!? Your crazy, I purchased a Mr. Do’s Castle cabinet (PC board missing and monitor not working) for $65.00 from basement arcade dot com. Gutted it, put an old PC in, purchased controllers for about 250 bux (X-Arcade Dual Joystick, X-Arcade Track Ball & Act Labs USB Lightgun) - I’m about 1 month (just in time for christmas) from being 100% completed. It all works great now, just needs to be pretty up’ed a bit. So for 500 bux, you can build your own with many more games or buy this and be happy with what it comes with. But to buy this for the sake of gutting it?!?! That’s crazy.
November 28th, 2005 at 1:51 pm
80s_arcader says:
Tried one today… what were these guys smoking when they built these hunks of junk?!?!?!!!!!
Take lowsy cheap cabinet, add plug and play joystick, add undersized television, over charge $500 for it, what do you get = piece of crap!
The company states authentic arcade games, NOT! These are some lowsy NES games like the Plug and Plays, there are NOT real arcade games… build a MAME cabinet, don’t waste your money on this joke excuse for a “arcade”
November 30th, 2005 at 12:18 pm
Eddie says:
that’s nothing. quasicades are way better. that midway cabinet sucks and is made out of cheap material. Quasimoto Quasicades are way better. www.quasimoto.com for real arcade machines that run MAME.
July 27th, 2006 at 8:55 am
workathome says:
workathome workathome
August 7th, 2006 at 9:54 am
Georgio says:
www.quasimoto.com haha, look at their site, until they update it, nothing will happen
July 14th, 2007 at 12:50 am