Aug 12

Californians can now rent original arcade games like Street Fighter 2, Ms. Pac Man

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All You Can Arcade will bring you Millipede and Street Fighter 2 for $75 per month

Sure, there’s a cool factor to having a vintage arcade game parked in your rec room. But there’s more to it than that — as we saw for ourselves at Engadget Expand, people are genuinely excited about playing the original cabinet games from their childhoods. Now you can rent titles like Ms. Pac Man, Pole Position 2 and Donkey Kong for $75 per month in California, thanks to a company called All You can Arcade. It started as just a collecting hobby for brothers Timothy and Seth Peterson, but has blossomed into a business that now rents over 100 games and is constantly adding more. The best part is that you won’t have to part with any of your allowance to play — hit the More Coverage link for the copious list of titles.

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Feb 14

Beercade replaces arcade coin slots with beer taps, rewards winners with brew

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DNP Beercade The Last Barfighter replaces arcade coin slot with beer tap

Forget prize tickets or high scores. The minds at McKinney creative agency may have come up with the greatest reward for arcade victors — an ice cold pour of beer. Created as a marketing tool for Big Boss Brewing Company, the aptly named Beercade features The Last Barfighter, a Street Fighter-like arcade game set inside a biker bar. To begin, two players place their cups in the tray below their respective tap, which replaces the machine’s coin slots. Beer-thirsty combatants can do battle with a selection of five characters, all named after Big Boss brews. After three rounds of intense fisticuffs, fire throwing and unicorn horn impaling, the winner’s cup is filled with a sample of beer from a keg placed within the machine. Don’t believe us? You can click past the break for a video of the machine in action.

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