Quick Look: ARCADE GAME SERIES

All about these custom frames.

I'm diggin' all these great arcade based quick looks that GB has dug out for us.

Brad should just get a new TV. Constantly having to worry about burn in sounds like something I would not want to deal with.

Nobody stops the Game Room Quick Look! NOBODY!

I've been playing this on PS4, the loading time on some of them is terrible. I half expected to play a game of Ridge Racer while waiting for Galaga to load.

EDIT: Also, that's my gamertag in the friends list. I brought all of the games, the same as i brought the Arcade Archives games. I'm a sucker for retro games and nostalgia, and emulation doesn't unlock trophies.

Also: Wayne's World reference FTW!

Good memories

Man I think that sideboard art is real great but the way it has those breaks in the outlines that look like someone messed up on their illustrator paths is driving me nuts.

EDIT: I only ever played DIG DUG 2, which I always thought of as the Dig Dug.

800 megs is INSANE. NewRetroArcade is just over 200 and it has multiple machines and A FRICKIN VIRTUAL REALITY ARCADE HALL YOU CAN WALK AROUND IN!

Sure the ROMs of the actual games are downloaded separately but they are measured in kilobytes to a few megs for something like Street Fighter 2.

Set inflate to kill.

Unless he wants to shell out for one of the crazy expensive OLEDs, it would come with a downgrade in image quality.

Sweet classic games with Jeff!

........why......does pac-man......have LOADING SCREENS?!

These aren't perfect, but they're not bad for the price (plus each has 1000G on XB1 which can be fun to aim for). 800MB/ea is a little crazy though - I wonder how long it'll be before we can completely fill a standard PS4 with nothing but arcade ports.

I do like that they include the self-test option though - completely useless, but fun nonetheless.

A 800mb for these is completely insane. Grow home for PS4 is 825 mb.

Xbone controller support on Steam is indeed borked. Works fine with an old D-input pad ... but it shouldn't need to.

I do love JEF's love for Dig Dug.

Pac-Man Championship Edition DX+ is listed on Steam at 500MB.

Man, Tekken is taking forever to load! 35 minute Quick Look and they didn't even get to it!

Also, that menu jingle is incredibly close to the Wii Shop jingle

@internetdotcom: The steam releases are 2-300mb each. Awful ports though, although I should have realised that as I was one of the suckers who bought Pac-Man museum.

It's a bit of a shame that the UI for the PC versions of these are pretty bad. No key bindings, iffy deadzone settings on 360 pads, dodgy arcade/fightstick support, no exit program button.

The game emulation itself is fine but goddamn, they missed some real basic stuff! It'll probably never get fixed either.

I admit it, I yelled at the screen when Jeff missed the one during the 1st challenge stage.

Also, yes Bosconian is awesome. Nothing wrong with a little Xevious as well.

NOTHING STOPS THE GA... Oh, well, this seems rather poor frankly. This seems worse than Game Room.

Wouldn't mind Pole Position and Rally-X for the inevitable next round of releases.

so wait, can I play this with my SFV fightstick?

Watching Galaga being played just makes me smile!

thanks for the intro, I was laying in bed sick it wasnt jarring it all

Truely nothing stops the gameroom.

I had a chance once to buy a Galaga machine for about $300. Would have done it if a voice inside me hadn't said 'You don't need an arcade machine in your life.'

If i'm reading Wikipedia correctly, There are only 7 people to have gotten a perfect score in pac-man of whom Billy (USA) Mitchell was the first.

800mb size for fucking pacman blows my mind lol

@brad, @jeff: You should check out the Ms. Pac Man post mortem from this year's GDC: http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1023366/Classic-Game-Postmortem-Ms-Pac. It's really good and will answer your questions about the differences between it and Pac-Man and its origin as a "speed-up kit" called Crazy Otto. Plus, in an earlier version, MISS Pac-Man had hair!

I'm guessing the reason Ms. Pac-Man is left out of the bundle is because of royalties. Namco has to pay the guys who made it royalties for any downloaded versions. They may have decided bundling it would cost them too much money or whatever.

$4 games with platinum trophies?! That's nuts. I'm not much of a trophy hunter anymore but this is kind of speaking to me. Especially since they are classics.

Are you listening Nintendo? Achievements in VC games would be a lot of fun.

With the patent on games on loading screens gone, what else can they do with galaga?

It isn't just you Jeff, the input has some delay on it. I picked up Ms.Pac-man the day these appeared and found it maddening how many turns I was missing in later levels.

Also fun tip: getting Platinum is super easy cause the trophies to get up to round 17 work when you use round select.

Get right out of town.

Also supporting your theory: In the "Pac-Man Museum" package on PS3, "Ms. Pac-Man" is not included and has to be purchased/downloaded as its own separate thing.

Jeff's issue with pacman controls around corners is what I've always experienced while playing pacman.

All this arcade game releases remain a cool thing, but they are still too expensive for me to actually get any. Then again, Galaga really is great.

After watching this quicklook, I decided to take matters into my own hands. I was severely disappointed:

This game has a title about as well thought out as Game Party.

gettin dem Dig Dug pro strats from the Gerst

when do we get the lego dimensions Midway set quick look, You build your arcade and then run the roms inside the arcade machines (25 roms included)