Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: fredster on November 18, 2005, 10:13:03 pm
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Have any of you guys seen these new Midway Arcade machines at Target?
They are like $500.
http://photobucket.com/albums/v306/tbombaci/midway/?sc=1&multi=9
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Thread in B/S/T
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=45900.0
Thread in Arcade Misc
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=44831.0
Thread in Main
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=45880.0
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may the target thing should be stickied ::)
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may the target thing should be stickied ::)
Or people should expand their horizons beyond just one forum or another :D
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expanding your horizons is so over rated ;)
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it was also listed on "whats new" (the default opening page of arcadecontrols.com) back when it was new, almost a month ago now :)
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never seen it. how much do they go for on ebay?
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it was also listed on "whats new" (the default opening page of arcadecontrols.com) back when it was new, almost a month ago now :)
most of us have direct links to the forums and rarely go into the default opening page
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They look super-el-cheapo.
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Well, I missed that too.
I think they will sell pretty good.
I'd buy one of those before an XBox360
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I played it yesterday.
The sticks are cheaper than the 4 in 1 units for the TV. The sides are THREE pieces held together with Sauder style hex screws. They are a quarter inch or so in width. The sideart does appear to be a decent quality vinyl print. The TV is less than half the size of the viewing area, the rest is this ugly gigantic bezel. The games are not direct arcade translations but are close enough for the average person, just like the 4 in 1s.
This is basically an oversized 4 in 1 with more than 4 games. I tried to play Robotron and the thing was so light I nearly tipped it over yanking the sticks around.
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I got to try one. Hmm, a TV is in it. I hit reset and an AV showed up in the cornet, like a tv.
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If you hit volume, you get those bars on the screen like on a 13" tv.
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I went to our local Target to see one of these up close but they didn't have one for me to laugh at
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For the average person, it's actually not that bad. If the price were half what they want I would call it a good product.
There is probably $20 worth of fake wood, $5 in controls, a $70 TV in there. Nearly all of the cost has to be that awful artwork.
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For the average person, it's actually not that bad.
I really have my doubts if it would last 1 month in an adult only household.........
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For the average person, it's actually not that bad. If the price were half what they want I would call it a good product.
I was playing joust for a good amount of time. But everything does feel cheap. I don;t think it will last.
Plus if something goes wrong who services it?
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Plus if something goes wrong who services it?
How does that make it any different than anything else you buy?
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There was one in the bathroom at my local Target. I put a quarter in the urinal and wizzed on the game.
Right, Chad? ;)
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Plus if something goes wrong who services it?
How does that make it any different than anything else you buy?
If it was Best Buy selling it then the Geek Squad would service it.
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If it was Best Buy selling it then the Geek Squad would service it.
I am afraid of what the Geek Squad may be.
And yeah, ClubNinja has the right idea. That is the most amusement anyone will get from one of these things.
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For the average person, it's actually not that bad.
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Point. I forgot that.
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man, I just played one of these that was on display at Target.
HORRIBLE. people who don't know a thing about arcade games or controls will have to know that this is horrible.
the sticks are tight, clicky 4-ways. I played Timber and it doesn't even use the 2nd stick for chopping the tree down, you gotta use a button.
the screen is tiny and most the inside is pictures of which buttons to use for each game.
If you leaned on it too hard or spilled a drink on it the entire game is toast. It has the look and feel of glossy cardboard.
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My Impressions of this POS: http://www.retroblast.com/reviews/biggames.html
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I Finally saw one in my local Target. They are very cheap I tried to play Joust but kept thinking I was going to break the buttons, my 7 year old boy looked at it and said ours was going to be way better than that one.
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the price is now $400
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I tried to play Robotron and the cabinet started to tip over.