81-in-1 Arcade Cabinet

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Costco is selling an arcade cabinet with 81 Games.
Arcade cabinets are tough to find in the wild these days -- one might occassionally spot them at movie theater complexes or in a game classics area (such as Dave and Buster's), but for those of us who lived in the 80s, arcade machines were everywhere. Supermarkets had them sitting by the entrance, it wasn't really a pizza parlour or frozen yogurt shop without Pac-Man or Spy Hunter sitting in the corner, and every mall had at least one, if not two arcades.
Seeing one of these hits us with a wave of nostalgia, and makes us wish (like we did in 1987) to have one of these in our living room. It's got some great games on there -- mainly from Atari (for the early 80s classicists) and Capcom (for the post Japanese Invasion generation). It even has the notorious "Zero Wing", from which the All Your Base craziness originated from. At 2,300 dollars, I'd rather buy a plasma TV and a couple of game collections for my PS2.

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Spotted a 12-1 Arcade machine at a local Target. Surprisingly, there were hoards of kids surrounding the game console demo units (GameCube through XBox 360), but i was the only person was interested in the arcarde cabinet. =P


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