Akka Arrh will be playable on the new 1-UP Atari legacy cab
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If it looks like a Tempest, it should be a Tempest and nothing else.
Well, maybe a Major Havoc.
Seems they mix horizontal and vertical games in this too ... and riser included - must have had alot of complaints there at how small they are. LOL
"…a dozen classic Atari titles, packed inside! Asteroids®, Centipede®, Major Havoc®, Missile Command®, Akka Arrh, Crystal Castles®, Tempest®, Millipede®, Gravitar® , Liberator™, Asteroids Deluxe® , and Space Duel. ALL included. Switch up to any included game at will, with the easy to navigate on-screen menus. Additionally, this Atari Legacy Edition includes a Custom riser, if you need to give it some lift!"
Well, maybe a Major Havoc.
Seems they mix horizontal and vertical games in this too ... and riser included - must have had alot of complaints there at how small they are. LOL
"…a dozen classic Atari titles, packed inside! Asteroids®, Centipede®, Major Havoc®, Missile Command®, Akka Arrh, Crystal Castles®, Tempest®, Millipede®, Gravitar® , Liberator™, Asteroids Deluxe® , and Space Duel. ALL included. Switch up to any included game at will, with the easy to navigate on-screen menus. Additionally, this Atari Legacy Edition includes a Custom riser, if you need to give it some lift!"
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I guess its easy to throw rocks out of our purist castle at the advancing hoards of 1UPs, but it's a smart move on their part. The things clearly sell, and they aren't aimed at KLOVers, so I don't see why there's so much hate.
Let's face it, entry into the dedicated cab hobby these days isn't easy - high costs, the pain of maintenance, scarcity of cabs generally.
I get why people buy them. For Joe Blow who wants some sort of reliable "arcade experience" to remind him of his days in the arcades of the 80s, they fit the bill.
The question is, is there any sort of commercial repro cab design that us collectors would actually buy en masse?
Let's face it, entry into the dedicated cab hobby these days isn't easy - high costs, the pain of maintenance, scarcity of cabs generally.
I get why people buy them. For Joe Blow who wants some sort of reliable "arcade experience" to remind him of his days in the arcades of the 80s, they fit the bill.
The question is, is there any sort of commercial repro cab design that us collectors would actually buy en masse?
honestly? no. none. what part of collecting 1980's nostalgia are you NOT. GETTING. HERE?
it's WHY we live, breathe, go to work, spend all our money on parts, wait years for ToG art, etc...
you can't replace the real thing! ugh.
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It doesn't fucking matter. what's the place about? yes. say it with me:
VINTAGE.
ARCADE.
PRESERVATION.
SOCIETY.
with the focus on VINTAGE.
there is 0% tolerance for these new shitboxes with: fake wood, fake games, fake everything. nobody wants that cheap chinese crap for profit infecting our sanctuary here.
there's a place for those kind of folk:
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...or at the very least, post your garbage in the proper designated forum:
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I mean...I see your point totally, and agree totally...but it's kinda pointless fighting it. These emulation machines, big and small, are gonna be here for awhile. There's just so much product out there now, arcade game collecting is literally everywhere. Custom arcade gaming is exploding because of rapidly advancing technology (even here, Retropie, fpga, etc) . Shoot, I watch an RV travel channel on YouTube with 250k subs and now even this dude is now doing arcade game pick up videos. It no longer a small niche club like it used to be.
I guess it's kinda like how the native Americans felt when white man was moving east to west across North America... eventually realized there was nothing they could do to stop it and no amount of fighting could quell the tide.
Personally I just accept them as entry level fad novelty machines for casual gamers and kids..appreciate them for that, and move on to what this hobby means for me, and focus on that.
You're right too...this should have been posted in the emulation board.
I guess it's kinda like how the native Americans felt when white man was moving east to west across North America... eventually realized there was nothing they could do to stop it and no amount of fighting could quell the tide.
Personally I just accept them as entry level fad novelty machines for casual gamers and kids..appreciate them for that, and move on to what this hobby means for me, and focus on that.
You're right too...this should have been posted in the emulation board.
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@thegleek you having a bad week?
But yeah. I know, and I broadly agree with you. But I didn't make this "garbage" (as you kindly put it) thread to advertise these things or persuade KLOVers to buy them. I was highlighting the fact that a rare prototype Atari game, the ROMs from which were the subject of some intrigue a few months back, was now being made available to play on a consumer emulation machine.
I would suggest that had that ROM fiasco not happened, the game wouldn't be appearing this device. That is the point of this thread.
As for posting on the wrong board - I apologize if that's the case.
But yeah. I know, and I broadly agree with you. But I didn't make this "garbage" (as you kindly put it) thread to advertise these things or persuade KLOVers to buy them. I was highlighting the fact that a rare prototype Atari game, the ROMs from which were the subject of some intrigue a few months back, was now being made available to play on a consumer emulation machine.
I would suggest that had that ROM fiasco not happened, the game wouldn't be appearing this device. That is the point of this thread.
As for posting on the wrong board - I apologize if that's the case.
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I'll take a swing at this.
The hate (from me anyway) comes from the model.
It's easy in our society to take something that WAS genuine and original, and clone a cheap copy of it, with the sole purpose of making money. Look around, it's something that's done everywhere today (*cough* DISNEY *cough*). These cabs are exactly that. These companies are taking the games we knew, and love, and work hard to preserve and share within this hobby, and photocopy and pimp that concept out to people who don't know the experience of collecting and restoring games, to make profit.
Why not come up with a new idea? How about a new game or idea that actually contributes something new and fun to society, instead of recycling an old idea in a cheaper, mass-marketed way? Five years ago, when the average person heard about Galaga or Space Invaders or Centipede, they thought of the games they loved as kids. Today they're more likely to think of Arcade1Ups, because they're EVERYWHERE.
These games aren't quality items. They aren't built well. They're made of cardboard. Everything is as cheap as possible. They don't even assemble them for you. They aren't anything anyone is going to care about 30 years from now. They're the electronic equivalent of Beanie Babies.
They play on the addictive nature of social media and the emotional pull of nostalgia to get people to buy them. They play on the blind spots of people, to make money. They're disposable tools of business, whose job is to produce the facsimile of an experience (not an original one, as these games originally did), at as little cost to produce as possible, and take money out of people's wallets, and then end up in a landfill.
And ultimately, they aren't made by people who have any passion for the games themselves. They're whored out by businesspeople who push resources around (taking advantage of foreign labor, no doubt), purely to make profit off of something that WAS a genuine and authentic part of our culture (which we genuinely try to preserve here).
There's an idea in our capitalist consumer society that just because something sells, that means it's good. I don't subscribe to that point of view. It's easy to addict people and manipulate them to buying things, and even repeating ideas. Haven't we learned that in the last decade? That pic @ElectricDreamz posted above nails it perfectly.
What's hard is coming up with something original and authentic, that *adds* to society, instead of recycling a derivative of it. If you can make a boatload of money doing THAT, in a way that doesn't cause harm to people or the planet, then I'm fully behind you all the way. Take my money.
All of that said, I do disagree with Gleek on one point, as I understand the reason you posted this thread in the first place is because of the significance of the Akka ROMs. And for that I am appreciative, and think it's a worthy post. Akka Arrh is actually a fun game IMO (and I'd say a 'spiritual sequel' to Missile Command), and folks should check it out in MAME if they haven't played it.
I have a licensed Global VR 80 game machine that I really like. It has a nice CRT, solid cab, good controls, and a functioning arcade coin mech.
Games like elevator Action, joust, MK, Jungle Hunt, etc look and play just like the real thing. Games like tempest, asteroids, and major havoc, play and look the same other than you lose the coolness of the vector graphics, battle one sucks on it due to not having the correct controls. Overall, I really like it as it pretty much emulates all the games perfectly and it is a real cabinet.
The 1UP are good for kids I suppose. I wouldn't have one just because I don't like to fill landfills with junk a few years later. We already do enough of that.
Games like elevator Action, joust, MK, Jungle Hunt, etc look and play just like the real thing. Games like tempest, asteroids, and major havoc, play and look the same other than you lose the coolness of the vector graphics, battle one sucks on it due to not having the correct controls. Overall, I really like it as it pretty much emulates all the games perfectly and it is a real cabinet.
The 1UP are good for kids I suppose. I wouldn't have one just because I don't like to fill landfills with junk a few years later. We already do enough of that.
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Personally while their quality isn't great I don't have a problem with them, they're not destroying real games to build them and the kinds of people buying them most likely wouldn't have bought real ones anyway.
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