240in1 Mini Arcade Machine

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With the Mini Arcade Machine you can take yourself back to the good old days of video games! With 240 entertaining games and a dimmable screen that is easy to see in both bright and dark environments, fun hours are guaranteed!

• Miniature arcade machine
• Contains 240, 16-bit video games
• 2.5 inch TFT screen
• Size: approx. 20 x 5 cm
• 3x AA batteries are required (not included)

Arcade Machine

Arcade game is a term for video games that have been offered for a fee since the 1970s in public arcades in the USA, so-called penny arcades, or in Europe in amusement arcades. In the early 1980s, arcade machines were installed in Germany not only in amusement arcades but also in many snack bars, kiosks and supermarket vestibules until this was prohibited by law. Arcade machines allow the user to play for money. The game price in Germany was usually one D-Mark, while abroad it was usually lower. Successful games were later often implemented for the PC as well as for various video game consoles.

The first commercial arcade game was Computer Space (1971) by Nutting Associates. The inventor was Nolan Bushnell, who later also founded Atari. At the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s, during the heyday of arcade machines, arcade classics appeared, such as Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong and many others, which are still known and popular through reissues. At the end of the 1980s, the arcade boom slowly ebbed away as home computers and video game consoles became more widespread. Today, only a few arcade machines can still be found in Germany.

Arcade games were the basis for the success of the computer games industry in the early years. The first big success was the game Pong. Most of the older games today are also emulable with M.A.M.E. As part of artistic projects (arcade art), such as Blinkenlights, Pong was displayed on a house wall.