Would you pay $1850 for an arcade cabinet with Famiclone and pirate games?
Hi,
I was on eBay the other day, and came across the listing for item 220467193126. That's a two-player arcade cabinet which has a Famicom clone console with "118-in-1" games inside.
The description mentions that Argos sell these. Argos is a large UK retail chain -- and premier supplier of pirate Famicom clones it seems.
There are two similar products on the Argos site: the Arcade Mania 75-in-1 Freestanding Game Machine for GBP 1119.99 (US$1854) and the Arcade Mania 101-in-1 Sitdown Game Machine for GBP 1299.99 (US$2151). Yikes!
A Google search for "arcade mania" brought up several other sites selling the same or similar. What are the chances that all the games are legally licensed?
Now I think an arcade cabinet with NES games would be pretty cool, but those prices are pretty high! You can get a handheld Famicom clone consoles with exactly the same 118-in-1 pirate games for about GBP 10.
From looking at the auction listing pictures, the manufacturer used a PAL Famicom clone, so for all that money you get to play games in slow motion with squashed graphics.
I was on eBay the other day, and came across the listing for item 220467193126. That's a two-player arcade cabinet which has a Famicom clone console with "118-in-1" games inside.
The description mentions that Argos sell these. Argos is a large UK retail chain -- and premier supplier of pirate Famicom clones it seems.
There are two similar products on the Argos site: the Arcade Mania 75-in-1 Freestanding Game Machine for GBP 1119.99 (US$1854) and the Arcade Mania 101-in-1 Sitdown Game Machine for GBP 1299.99 (US$2151). Yikes!A Google search for "arcade mania" brought up several other sites selling the same or similar. What are the chances that all the games are legally licensed?
Now I think an arcade cabinet with NES games would be pretty cool, but those prices are pretty high! You can get a handheld Famicom clone consoles with exactly the same 118-in-1 pirate games for about GBP 10.
From looking at the auction listing pictures, the manufacturer used a PAL Famicom clone, so for all that money you get to play games in slow motion with squashed graphics.
Comments
Absolute garbage, I wouldn't pay $100 for that even if it was shipped to my door. You're better off running a Dreamcast with an NES emulator through a Jammacast. Same effect except you can choose which NES ROMs you want to include, you can have various other emulators (there is a really cool emulator for the dreamcast that lets you boot original Neo-Geo CDs), you have access to the whole Dreamcast library on the cab (why pay $400+ for a Marvel vs Capcom 2 on finicky Naomi hardware when you can buy the dreamcast version for like $30 or less?), you can run ANY other jamma title on the cab, and you can have a button layout, cp, and cab that doesn't look like absolute garbage. Oh yeah, and a Jammacast would only cost you like $200.
I wouldn't touch this thing with a million foot pole.