Extreme Arcade
May 11th, 2008 by 
Rory Harper
I don’t normally post here about the tech deals that I so compulsively shop for, but I’m making an exception today.
It’s the Extreme Arcade Home Arcade Model 9900 on sale at Sears for $599 + $65 shipping.
It’s a stand-alone game machine that loads fifty of the classic arcade games from the Eighties. I have no idea how many quarters I wasted on these games during those years.
Certainly more than this unit costs. If only I’d known to wait…
Centipede!
Super Breakout!
Space Invaders!
It’s got Pong!
And Asteroids!
OMFG! It’s even got Tempest!
Get yours before they’re all gone!
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May 11th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
See, I don’t want arcade games. I want a really good classic pinball game. One with the “tilt” function set so a leetle bit of body English is permitted, but too much loses the game. And then I want hours and hours and hours…
I’m not even sure I remember Tempest.
May 11th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Oh, hell yes, Mad. I was a serious pinball addict in my 20’s and 30’s. Spent way too many hours in arcades. Captain Fantastic. Fireball. Royal Flush. The list goes on and on. I gave a LOT of money to ‘Eight Ball Deluxe’.
And used to live across the street from a convenience store that had a ‘Dolly Parton’ machine. I gave Dolly a lot of quarters, too, until I got good enough to keep winning games for as long as I wanted to play.
Dolly seemed to like a little bumpin’…
May 11th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Sounds like a whole lot of tendonitis. Seriously. I loves Galaga and Centipedes.
I so do not need anymore time wasters…
May 11th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
I did some checking, and there’s all kinds of ports out there on the Tubes, many of them free, of a lot of these games.
But it just wouldn’t be the same…
May 11th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Can’t you switch out the controller so you get a trackball for Centipede and a spinner for Tempest?
The spinner MAKES Tempest and I won’t go near it until I find a spinner…
May 12th, 2008 at 12:00 am
Yeah, I was thinking along those lines, too, Ophelea. I agree with you in both cases. Another reason I’m not going out of my way to download the PC ports of the games.
It’s good to hear from another Tempest player. I never got very good at it, didn’t put in enough hundreds of hours. But I rocked at Centipede and Super Breakout.
Remember when the coffee-table Pong games first came out? I found them in only the best clubs, not in arcades. High-class cutting edge tech, man!
May 13th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Rather than downloading ports of your favorite games look for MAME (Multi Arcade Machine Emulator). It runs the code from an image of the original arcade game ROMs. What you get is the game just as it was on the arcade machine. There are literally thousands of ROM images available.
Some hardware hackers are now building special PCs to run MAME and provide the necessary specialized controllers. It wouldn’t surprise me if this machine for sale is simply a commercial version of such a device.