Modern Tabletop Arcades

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Modern Tabletop Arcades

Tabletop arcading has now become a trend once again in the geek community after nearly 3 decades. Now we have Atari getting out of its shell and releasing its ICade tabletop case or people being obsessed with Raspberry Pi or Arduino custom arcade builds. Even sites like Etsy are starting to sell Tabletop MAME closures for the Rasperry Pi. The thing about Tabletop gaming is that us 70’s, 80’s and even 90’s kids remember going to the store with few quarters and trying to beat the local neighbor boy’s high scores. We used to play the classics, I am talking about: Pong, Pacman, Space Invader, Asteroid Belt, etc.

 

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Now, not only do we have arcade gaming back, but a modern turn on it. If you go to DIY sites like Instructables or even watch videos like the Ben Heck Show, you can see same style tabletops but with much better specs. Can’t afford time or money for a custom build? No problem, you can still play your favorite classics. If you visit Atari’s website you will see many of Atari’s old classics rendered in perfect 3D. I don’t know about you, but the closest thing I had to electronics at 5 or 6 years old was a single plug in joystick to the television that played like 12 games. Now we have the power of emulators to emulated thousands and thousands of classic games with much higher speeds. Andrew

Andrew Ks photoAndrew Kamal is an app developer, programmer, and inventor who loves writing about historical technology and old games. He can be found in his free time hugging pugs and debating people about which pizza topics are better. 

 

 

 

 

 

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