We're pretty sure you don't see many tabletop
arcade games around anymore for a reason -- mainly, it's not very comfortable to hunch over a screen for more than few
minutes. Luckily for us, our poor PacMan and Centipede skills (and perpetual lack of quarters) made this mostly a
non-issue in our arcade-trolling days, but now a new product called the "Novo Infotainment Table" (or
Novotable for short) is offering to bring spine-curving videogame action for yesterday's hits and today's PC and
console titles right to our homes. The Novotable is basically a 32-inch LCD mounted horizontally onto an articulating
stand, attached to a pair of arcade joysticks, and stuffed with a subwoofer,
Shuttle PC, and your choice of PS2 or Xbox. You also get a a stainless
steel keyboard to swap out the controllers in case you want to use your multi-thousand dollar device (actual price:
unknown, but presumed high) for something other than playing the biggest pixelated hits of the 80's, plus the usual
lineup of PC features that you'd expect to find on a Shuttle, such as WiFi, Bluetooth, and FireWire and USB ports. We
could see installing a few of these in a bar for some drunken Rampage fun, but the Mansion gameroom only accepts
original pinball and arcade cabinets, so no Novotable for us, thanks.
[Via
Joystiq]
posted Apr 9th 2006 11:00AM
eek! thats one ugly POS. gr8 for playing fm ur couch...
if u seriously think this is worth it:
1)ur too stupid to know
2) or uve got WAY too much money to spend
And besides, PS2, XBox? wheres the 360, come ON!
and erm, yay! first com
That's pretty wicked cool, but UUUUUGGGGLLLLYYYYY
Great, the childish "ugly" chant has begun already. ;)
If you think this is ugly, you likely weren't old enough in the 80's to appreciate these things... I'm just messing with you, but who really cares how it looks, as this is definitely a niche machine... and you've got to be as rich as "Kanye Christ" to own one.
Gimme an old pinball machine any day.
The Shuttle PC has Windows on it so that I can play Microsoft 3D Pinball, Space Cadet, for Windows, right? It has the pinball knob for it! Or at least I'm assuming that's what that silver nob on the right is.
Donzel, please don't be lazy around here.
I dunno about you but for me, 2/3 of the nostalgic value lies in the cabinet itself. Playing old arcade games on this thing just doesn't get me excited.
ergonimic?
There is a similar device that plays pinball games. Does anyone know the website?! I've seen it years ago and can't seem to find it again.
It had flipper buttons on the side and allowed you to download pinball machines from the web from that emulator.
Finally! Something I can use to get my MAME groove on...
There's nothing childish about calling it like it is.
Yes; it's hideous.
That is awesome. I love the retro "starcade" styling. Haters can step off.
And tabletop games were awesome! You can set food and drink on them! Just tantalizing inches from your controller hand!