In an unexpected retail coup (or potential disaster), 62-inch-tall
arcade cabinets featuring Midway games like Joust, Rampage, Defender, and Rootbeer
Tapper will be available for under $500 at Target stores nationwide by November of this year.
Now you won't need the last
existing cabinets of Robotron to get your omnidirectional game on, or spend the time and
expense
building a sleek working system on your own. Once you tire of the 12 included titles, you can simply plug in
different game consoles through the built-in
monitor's A/V inputs.
Home versions of Golden Tee and Tomb Raider will reportedly be available in 2006 as well. (Wait,
when did Tomb Raider even have an arcade version?) Hopefully the
"slightly smaller-than-stock cabinet" won't pose
too much of a problem to interested arcade purists and nostalgia-filled collectors.
[Thanks, Ken]
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