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Austin's Fantastic Arcade lives up to its name

by JC Fletcher on Sep 26th 2010 11:30AM

You wouldn't expect to walk into an arcade and find a cabinet dedicated to Every Day the Same Dream, Molleindustria's browser game about white-collar malaise. If you happen to be in Austin, TX this weekend, you can experience this particular anomaly for yourself, along with refurbished arcade machines housing Monaco, Nidhogg, Norrland, Enviro-Bear 2000 and more.

These unique machines are just part of the Fantastic Arcade event within the Fantastic Fest film festival -- an event that also includes panel discussions, tournaments, and demos of Microsoft's upcoming XBLA Game Feast titles. We snapped some pictures of the handcrafted indie arcade for those of you who couldn't be there. Find them in our Fantastic gallery.

Fantastic Arcade 2010 game room

Tags: every-day-the-same-dream, fantastic-arcade, fantastic-fest, fantastic-fest-2010, indie, messhof, nidhogg, pc

Reader Comments (12)

I'd buy an Enviro-Bear cabinet. Then I'd cover it in angry badgers

@Cleric I'd have badgers drop out of the top of the cabinets overhang.

Fantastic!

That Norrland cabinet looks like an old Bally/Midway Wacko cabinet.

If so, someone should be shot for that one. Wacko cabs, in any condition, are pretty rare.

Isn't it badge exclusive?

@cylet Today's the last day, most of the Highball is open to the public with the ballroom in the back open to fest/arcade badge holders, but you can get a 1-day wristband for $20. Datapop 4.0 is tonight (chiptune concert), worth the price of admission.

@cylet

I had a badge through work and it was mostly for perks like free bowling at the Highball, panels, and some free drinks! :D For the most part, anything in the Highball seemed open to anyone as far as old school arcades, unreleased XBLA games to play, or just talking to fellow indie-devs. They had a few parties at night, we went to one. It was fun!

There were no envirobear cabinets before??! Shame on you arcade-industry! That game is dope and deserves it's own theme park, tv series and merchandise!

For the record, Enviro-Bear is impossible to play with a trackball, which made it even more fun.

@djblewis

Lol, it was so completely impossible to play on that trackball! Didn't help that the trackball had to be spun very firmly to make it work as well....

Who is Driving!? BEAR IS DRIVING!!!

@jozanovic How can that be?

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