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Nintendo Joins the Retro-Arcade 26

Posted by Zonk from the cue-8-bit-music dept.
pashdown writes "Namco has announced a Nintendo 3-in-1 arcade game that contains Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., and Mario Bros. The new upright has a 25" monitor instead of the traditional 19". Arcadeflyers.com has the flyer."
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  • of things that are certain to take all my time and spare money.
  • I thought this was one of those stand-alone joysticks, not an actual arcade cabinet. I would have definitely bought one of the stand-alone joysticks!
    • I agree, thats what I thought it was too, and I thought that would be great. Then I also thought "One button?" and then I realized it was mario, not super mario brothers. Then I quickly realized I was a moron and none of what I thought was actually truth.
  • Anyone remember the old PlayChoice arcade machines? They were basicly arcade machines that ran emulated version of older games (most notably NES games). If they managed to do this in the past, why stop at only 3 games in a system? Classic games are nice, but considering the cost for only 3 games...

    • Re:Disappointing (Score:2, Informative)

      by sam_van ( 602963 )
      Actually, the PlayChoice machines were not emulators. Their hardware was very similar to that of the NES, and they actually had internal cartridges that could be swapped in and out by the operator.

      Growing up in South Dakota, we often got our first glance at new NES games at the arcade in the PlayChoice machines.

    • I recently played Gauntlet from the Nintendo Playchoice 10.

      Let's think about this. Would you rather spend 25 cents playing a stripped-down Nintendo version of Gauntlet for a fixed amount of time(regardless of you lose your health or not?) or the full-featured arcade version for the same price?
  • Still $0.25 to play, or have they sold out and are now askign for $0.50?
  • "You mean my very own video game!? Where no one else can touch it!?" -King Vidiot. Sorry if you don't know where this quote comes from.
  • Call me a purist (cause I am), but that's some ugly cabinet artwork.

    Can't they get someone to design art for these arcade re-issues who does something more then cutting up the old art and putting it together on the machine like a jigsaw? Maybe, I dunno, be creative and design something from scratch?
  • This can't be 100% the same as the originals, Donkey Kong [klov.com] and Donkey Kong Jr. [klov.com] have vertically-mounted monitors, wheras Mario Bros. [klov.com] has a horizontally mounted screen.
  • Finally they might come out with one of those joysticks that have like 50 games on it and all you have to do is plug in the RCA cables into the TV and play.... and all it will have it mario games... sounds like heaven to me..
  • This is a great gesture, but I honestly don't think it will sell that great on the arcade level at least. I mean the nostalgia is there, I feel it, you more than likely feel it. But we've grown past the arcade stage. Whens the last time you stepped foot in an arcade? Maybe once in the last months, years. I used to spend all my waking hours in the arcade. Hell I used to stay after and help clean just to play games for free afterhours. Now it's been years since I've been near a decent collection of coin-ops

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