In a tiny little "arcade" in the Holiday Inn on Lake Buena Vista Blvd, along with a pretty cool racing duo, Guitar Hero, couple of cranes and an air hockey, my son and I played a 60-in-one labeled "iCade" with an 8 way microswitch joystick, three buttons and a trackball. The trackball was smooth as glass but it still could not redeem the awful, half assed sound, lag in controls and general crappiness of every single game we played (Gyruss was the worst offender with less than half the sounds intact and the rest either missing or incorrect). My son (8 years old) has just gotten more or less addicted to Donkey Kong, and tried playing it on this machine and could not control Mario enough to get to the top of the first level. I tried Ms. Pac in both slow and fast mode and couldn't round a corner correctly with the 8 way joystick.
All in all we played maybe 4 or 5 games before giving up on it. It really makes me angry that for a lot of kids, and some adults, this might be the only exposure to a classic arcade experience they EVER come across, and they'll think that's how these games played for real back in the day.
Not to spark a heated debate here - and I do realize this is probably an inferior, older model of the board, but my MAME computer does a much better job of emulation. I do not understand why this type of boardset does so badly.
All in all we played maybe 4 or 5 games before giving up on it. It really makes me angry that for a lot of kids, and some adults, this might be the only exposure to a classic arcade experience they EVER come across, and they'll think that's how these games played for real back in the day.
Not to spark a heated debate here - and I do realize this is probably an inferior, older model of the board, but my MAME computer does a much better job of emulation. I do not understand why this type of boardset does so badly.




