And yet another small diversion

Video Game Reviews

Entry posted by Nathan Strum October 4, 2018

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A couple of things I didn't mention about the mini-arcade games from Super Impulse that I've been collecting:

First, they're sold with keyrings attached. They're a bit too large and impractical to be a keyring though:

Second, they don't have a coin door on the front sticker. It would've been that much cooler had they added a little coin door and had the coin slots backlit. But that probably would've been cost-prohibitive.

The irony is, you couldn't actually fit a quarter into the cabinet anyway. For that matter, they're a little too small even for saving "next game":

But having a coin door would've been a nice extra touch.

Which brings me to the point of this post.

Some months back, a company named Replicade announced they'd be crowdfunding their own mini-arcade games. One of the rewards backers could get would be a coin slot keyring.

I thought, "Cool - that'd almost be worth the $25 pledge to back the project!"

But then I remembered I don't do crowdfunding.

So I didn't get one.

But then they showed up on Amazon anyway.

So I got one.

For $15.

Saved myself 10 bucks.