Target : Midway Home Use Arcade Machine
Target : Midway Home Use Arcade Machine
Saw one of these at the local Target tonight for $450. It’s way too short, a bit cramped, certainly not for the larger players. The tube appears to be a standard TV. The one I saw was stuck on a blue screen with A/V in the corner. The game itself appeared to be dead or turned off as none of the buttons changed the screen.
The joystick and buttons remind me of the cheap imitation games and I seriously doubt they are as durable as the real thing, although it’d probably be a trivial matter to replace them with real buttons and joysticks.
$450 isn’t a bad price for an arcade cabinet, but this one is a bit too small, and short, for adults. Set it on a couple milk crates, replace the guts with a cheap x86 MAME machine and you may be on to something though.
* Full-size 12-game machine
* Joust, Defender I and II, Robotron, Rampage, Splat, Satan’s Hollow, Root Beer Tapper, Bubbles, Wizard of War, Timber and Sinistar
* Multiplayer action
* ESRB Rating: Rated E for Everyone
You cant beat a heavyweight homebuilt cab. Unless it’s a restored original that is!
Target cabs suck but you get what you pay for.
Mines here http://dkongarcade.blogspot.com/
Comment by Andy — January 15, 2006 @ 5:08 pm