Have we come full circle?

[Ted_Striker]

Seems that we started out with arcade games, the pc's emulating arcade games, then pc's in arcade cabinet's emulating arcade games, now arcade games with basically a pc in them.  We are coming full circle.

http://pc.ign.com/articles/562/562384p1.html

enjoy

[GGKoul]

Yep. There is a Madden Football Arcade now too.

[Gunstar Hero]

Half Life 2 arcade??

I wonder how that's gonna work... The game has no multiplayer mode, and doesn't strike me as a solo arcade experience.

[teef two]

Or have pc's always been souped up arcade machines just looking for their proper home!

[Hoagie_one]

they are gonna modify the game for an arcade type experience

[dreamcastninja]

quick someone build a console to emulate the pc...

uhhh wait... hold on a second... nevermind

[RetroJames]

Half Life 2 arcade??

I wonder how that's gonna work... The game has no multiplayer mode, and doesn't strike me as a solo arcade experience.

Smart move will be to network the arcade version so it plays others online regardless of the platform they are playing on...

[DYNAGOD]

im curious what a typeX board is gonna go for..
all the game media fo the platform is supposed to be stored on hard disk.
from what ive been getting,basically typeX is really nothing more than a home PC built exclusively for gaming.
security likely will be the only real differentiating factor.

arcade designers evidently got tired of loosing their share to the PC at home, so they decided to put a pc in the arcade.

[RayB]

PC's have been in the arcade before..... 'Round 1991 I recall playing a HORRIBLE game involving a Clown of some sort. The monitor wasn't even an arcade monitor, but a VGA PC monitor. Horrible, horrible game.

[dreamcastninja]

sounds like a real winner... haha

[paigeoliver]

PC's have been in the arcade before..... 'Round 1991 I recall playing a HORRIBLE game involving a Clown of some sort. The monitor wasn't even an arcade monitor, but a VGA PC monitor. Horrible, horrible game.

Standard computer hardware has been in the arcades for a LONG TIME. There was a big multiple install of Space Wars at one college or another BEFORE Pong and Computer Space (there is a big web page out there about this somewhere). The Atari 800, Amiga,  and 386 based PCs all saw arcade use, and the 486 PC platform was massively popular for countertops and quiz/card games.

I have a complete motherboard/card rack set for Tournament Solitaire and it is a 386 motherboard with a couple of custom ISA cards on it.

And my friend Dave and I both have countertop touchscreens from different companies and they are both 486 based.