Mini Arcade Classics

[lushgirl_80]

Found this video of someone's gameplay of this interesting new phenomenon...

 

 

 

 

 

Thoughts???

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I just bought the Ms.Pac-Man one myself today and about to play it tonight. Wondering if anyone else here is into these? Crazy what they come up with these days! lolz

Edited March 20, 2018 by lushgirl_80

[amiman99]

I have the Frogger version, the kids like to play it often.

It's OK for a toy.

[lushgirl_80]

So far I like it. Heard there's a Rampage one that's supposed to be close to the arcade version.

 

Finally some games I can fit into a dollhouse lol. My Filmation Ghostbusters action figures will look nice playing these.I want one of these too but one that's based on Street Fighter 2...

 

[Andromeda Stardust]

I Scored a buttload on pacman. It's not arcade speed or accurate, but fun for a bit. Made it to the second melon, and I rarely ever beat the first apple normally. There's definite scaling artifacts in the animation where pacman gets big, clearly blowing up the arcade sprite. They didn't even bother with large pacman sprites for the cutscene, just scale the others...

 

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/255982-mini-arcade-alert/?p=3920806

Had an epic game of Pacman the other night. Hit the s3cond melon stage and scored over 32k points. Will post screenshot later. I noticed there's very little to no ramp up in difficulty as you progress in stages, and it starts a bit slow to begin. A few other things are off, no "cruise elroy" mode as you eliminate pellets, and samples sometimes play back incorrectly. When you hit a wall, the sprite keeps munching instead of stops. Also the cutscene with large pacman is blurry with scaling artifacts as if they expanded the sprite. Overall it's still a decent port and fun but behind the scenes doesn't work quite like the arcade.

 

UPDATE WITH PIC:

Pacman_Mini_Hi_Score.JPG

[Newsdee]

I played with the Ms. Pacman one. It feels kind of choppy, as if the screen has a really bad refresh rate. It stays playable enough, sound is nice and the light up marquee is a nice bonus. I'm tempted to get the different ones as a small collection.

[Tanooki]

I think you're confusing the things just a little.

 

That one you showed original is from one completely different group who did 4 Tiny Arcade devices with Galaxian(I have this) Ms Pac Man, Pac Man and Space Invaders.

 

The other which you said Rampage, it does exist it's their newest along with Joust -- both are hacked(and for Rampage upgraded adding Ralph the wolf) NES/Famicom games. There's quite a few others, but only Walmart got the NOAC style stuff as other retail got basically cheeseball knockoff style of the old 1980-83 Coleco tabletop screens basically. Rampage, Joust, Frogger, Centipede, Q-Bert all use that system on a chip. Centipede uses a NES hacked 7800 ROM, Frogger is homebrew Froggie for NES, and the other are legit NES games with minor (title screen mostly - Joust) to major (adding character - Rampage) to the mix. Asteroids, Pac-Man, Space Invaders even at Walmart didn't get better than the more classic style type more or less layout. Bridge Direct/Direct Fun is the name of that company and they retail for $20.

 

There is a third MyArcade who have been putting out $30 stand alone DataEast games like Burger Time, Bad Dudes and Karate Champ but also made a larger $80 10" unit that uses not NES hacks, but the arcade ROM sets instead and it has like 34 games on there. Shortly they'll be placing out this year a Namco set of a few stand alone (like Galaga and both Pac/Ms Pac) and then a beast with dozens on it in the 10" style too.

[lushgirl_80]

Haha I am not confusing anything. I know the differences between the brands(duh like it's that hard to figure out),and I already knew exactly what you're speaking about.

 

Just thought to condense it all in one thread. Nothing wrong with that! No need to get all geeked out about it here LOL

 

Anyways I played some of my Ms.Pac-Man Tiny Arcade earlier. It's okay. Nothing like the real thing. Wish they had at least

put the title screen like they did for the Pac-Man game.

[CaptainBreakout]

If someone took the input seauences from this little joystick and used it in the arcade rom... Would it compare?

 

If it was exactly the same that would be amazing, and it would make the faithfulness of this little toy beyond reproach. If it's different, I'd like to know howso.

[Akito01]

Without a direct line I guess it'd be difficult to know for sure, but do we have an ETA on any of the new products? I like the physical look of the Bridge Direct units for the machines that have great side art, which is why I only have Centipede and Asteroids, so I'm very much looking forward to Defender whenever that finally appears in my local WalMart. The MyArcade machines that are out now are a bit too expensive for what they are, but even so I could see myself going for the Galaga tabletop once that is for sale (though by then, my local ToysRUs will likely be gone, and I'll have to order online).

Edited March 21, 2018 by Akito01

[Tanooki]

Agreed at $30-35 for the MyArcade NES style games vs the same thing Bridge Direct does for $20 seems like a really stupid pricing scheme there. Though I think for licensed games at the 10" machine with 30+ on there, that's not too bad even if $80 feels like sticker shock.

[King_Salamon]

I think you're confusing the things just a little.

 

That one you showed original is from one completely different group who did 4 Tiny Arcade devices with Galaxian(I have this) Ms Pac Man, Pac Man and Space Invaders.

 

The other which you said Rampage, it does exist it's their newest along with Joust -- both are hacked(and for Rampage upgraded adding Ralph the wolf) NES/Famicom games. There's quite a few others, but only Walmart got the NOAC style stuff as other retail got basically cheeseball knockoff style of the old 1980-83 Coleco tabletop screens basically. Rampage, Joust, Frogger, Centipede, Q-Bert all use that system on a chip. Centipede uses a NES hacked 7800 ROM, Frogger is homebrew Froggie for NES, and the other are legit NES games with minor (title screen mostly - Joust) to major (adding character - Rampage) to the mix. Asteroids, Pac-Man, Space Invaders even at Walmart didn't get better than the more classic style type more or less layout. Bridge Direct/Direct Fun is the name of that company and they retail for $20.

 

There is a third MyArcade who have been putting out $30 stand alone DataEast games like Burger Time, Bad Dudes and Karate Champ but also made a larger $80 10" unit that uses not NES hacks, but the arcade ROM sets instead and it has like 34 games on there. Shortly they'll be placing out this year a Namco set of a few stand alone (like Galaga and both Pac/Ms Pac) and then a beast with dozens on it in the 10" style too.

 

Tanooki... I think we could talk for a long time about these little machines... we both get all geeked out about them. And that's good! lol

 

One nit pick though... the 10" cabinet with the Data East games... it's $99 on myarcadegaming.com now. $100 is a lot but to get at least half a dozen good arcades games and a plethora of curiosities is worth it to me. Just gotta find one locally as Amazon and MyArcade don't ship to Canada..

 

As for guesses for the future Bridge Direct games...

 

#9 Defender

#11 Ms Pac Man (I'm guessing similar to PacMan #7)

#12 Tetris (Please use the Tengen version... PLEASE! Or really use the arcade Rom!)

 

I seriously can't get enough of these... Frogger has been the latest game where I try to get a better score... it's just Basic Fun! (Pun intended!)

[King_Salamon]

Oh as for the Tiny Arcades... as cool as they look, I'm not getting them. I want to play the games and these are simply too small for me. The others are small enough but the Tiny is too tiny.

 

Just give me more time... I'm sure I'll snap these up too... can't resist cool arcade cabinets that have working games inside.

[SiberianSpForces]

Join Glen's fb group;

https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1846311259033075&ref=content_filter

 

Scroll down and you'll see a Rampage that's been Pi'd, and what looks like a Pi in a tiny arcade.

[Tanooki]

I was in that group but I'm so fed up with Bridge Direct and their handling of stuff I got rid of their cabinets, and then of all things I end up gifted with a couple (go figure.)

 

KS -- I would actually want to agree with you in that. My only question as I thought of it before with Tetris is which version and how? The Nintendo one is out, the BPS from Famicom only is out too over licensing blocks (it's in the history stories online), and the Tengen would be legal in this respect as it needs no Nintendo license so maybe? Defender isn't even a guess, come on. People already jumped the two points on the mobo of Joust bridging it for game B as it were, and it is Defender. With the Rampage cab having the added 3 button mold that would work as it's the Famicom release which is 3 button (4 for the pause feature that's removed.) Ms Pac-Man is pretty likely since Namco has worked with them and it's an easy NES rom to use, but it also has lots of other modes they'd either leave in or hack out to make it more bare bones arcade like.

 

Other Famicom stuff from Namco I would think that Mappy may work, Digdug 1 (FC only release) would make sense, maybe even Dig Dug 2. Xevious would be an interesting choice since it's in so many museum packs.

 

 

The Tiny Arcades the problem with them is 50/50 cramping the hands on size, the other is that they don't work 100% right. Galaxian pauses less than a second when you fire so no clean scrolling. Pac/MsPac have some odd unique behavior but work ok, and SI is just fine but just different than the original is all. If you're wanting NES or Arcade accuracy they definitely are not, but they are playable.

 

 

The best bet going forward this year so far is My Arcade. You have the 10" 34 game Data East beast for $80 at Gamestop (or stupidly $100 direct...why?!) or their overpriced stand alone at $35 DE games. In a few months or later this year same treatment for namco with stand alone Galaga(I want!), Ms Pac and Pac Man and then a beast of a multicade 10" for that too which I'd probably get instead anyway.

[lushgirl_80]

Bought 2 more mini arcade games lately! LOL

 

Disappointed with Karate Champ though,it sucks imo. Just a bland port of the NES version

without the voice synthesis.Meh. Gonna sell that one soon.

 

The Rampage one is good. The one that really blows me away though is the Ms.Pac-Man Tiny Arcade keychain. It's exactly like the arcade except without the flashing Insert Coin on the title screen. It's literally the arcade at the palm of your hands,complete with a light up marquee. The cutscenes are even spot on. More accurate than the Jaxx Pacific handheld version from the 00's even.