Tiny Arcade - Playable Mini Arcade Games

A look at the tiny but fully functional collectable mini arcade machines.
Available from Amazon US:
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Pac-Man & Space Invaders can also be found on Amazon UK.

Note - if you are thinking of importing to the UK - not all Amazon resellers send outside the US. I used a store called -importcds (if it doesn't default to them, look in the 'Other Sellers' drop-down box in the right-hand column).

You can also find them in the store Red5 in the UK (which MenKind owns)

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[Nostalgianerd]

I'd love to create a model arcade full of these. With the camera close up, you could almost mistake them for the real thing.

[AnalogX]

If you are on a budget you can add a selector switch and play all 4 games on one unit, since each unit contains all four games on the circuit board, there are videos on youtube showing you how to do this.

[buymeskittles]

I know for a fact I'd get one of these and play with it like twice and show it to a few friends and then never use it again, but I still want one.

[tubeviewerX]

What an awesome novelty! It really shows how far technology has come, from a huge 6-foot-tall machine to a keychain.

[edwardgreenjr]

FYI - All four of these use the same exact circuit board. The game playing is done by a jumper setting. So if you were so inclined, you could just by one and still play all four games. There are videos showing how to mod this with an external switch to make it easier, as well.

[Clell]

You always come up with the oddest things. I've seen these minicabinets in a few videogame shops but never imagined they were actually playable. Much too small for my old eyes, but still interesting.

[ThePiquedPigeon]

Stuff like this really makes you think about the technological progress: 40 years ago, you needed a big full sized cabinet for even these games, and now...

[ELECTROHAXZ]

A friend of mine has one and he had the issue that it didn't save high scores, so I took it apart, added a 1 farad super capacitor across the battery input and now it saves highscores for up to 8 hours after removing the batteries, would have been nice if they put one in while manufacturing them.

[NeilVanceNeilVance]

I think I saw one of these in TK Max last week ... I love the look of them in your dark room demo ... cool that the marquee's are back lit! ... Thanks so much for making this!

[WalcomS]

These seem somewhat better than those Arcade Classics mini arcade machines because these actually keep score when those don't, but these don't seem to run at full speed and they're considerably smaller. Hard to say what's the better buy.

[Jrg]

Technology has really come far. I used to have the earlier version of the Pac-Man one that was really just a shoddy Game&Watch-like rendition of it.

[InvidiousIgnoramus]

I've seen these on store shelves but not once did i think to try them out. I'm impressed that they have full color screens

[Perktube]

How cute. And they bring back memories. You need to mount them in a small diorama display with a little black light on top and pre-recorded arcade sounds. If like to see missile command, tail gunner, and Victor graphics on a miniature scale.

[MrThunderwing]

If Sega did some tiny versions of Outrun and After Burner (complete with the back-lit marquees like these ones) I would be all over those, even it the practicality of playing on a tiny screen with a tiny steering wheel or joystick isn't really ideal.

[rchaffer]

1:37 "I'm looking through the camera's viewfinder at the screen" - welcome to the Ashens Experience™

[CoinOpTV]

awesome - some classic arcade games for sure!

[liverush]

If they made a load more of these, I would build a cardboard arcade to put them in.

[ViciousAlienKlown]

I have the MS Pac Man cabinet and plan to buy the other three. I already have 5 of the Walmart arcade cabinets. The fact that these are playable make them even better.

[BestVideosToWatchTV]

I have three off these that i bought. I hang them on the wall in my game room. Cool little mini arcade machines!

[runetech]

I saw a tear-down of a couple of those, and apparently they are all identical. The difference is a jumper on the main board which determines what game will be started. So theoretically you could mount a four-way switch on one and attach it to the jumper-pins and you would have all four games. However, it might have been another version. But worth checking out.