A Little Inspiration For Your Own Arcade Machine!
A Little Inspiration For Your Own Arcade Machine! It has never been easier to build an arcade machine and here at DIY Arcade we have all the things that you need to get up and running. We have the joysticks, buttons and Jamma boards that have thousands (yes we do have a Jamma board with over 2000 games on it!) and everything else you would need to bring your childhood memories of standing in an arcade into your own game room in your own house! To get you inspired I have had a look around the internet and found some...
Customer Builds
Hey all, we have now starting to put together a customer build page where we've put up pictures of what our customers have done with the kit they brought from us. It might give you a bit of a helping hand in some design ideas, or just get you excited about your build.
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Mega Man: The Power Battle
Mega Man: The Power Battle Year Of Release: 1995 Studio: Capcom Description Capcom are the undisputed kings of the one on one fighting game thanks to their Street Fighter and Marvel vs Capcom series of games. Mega Man though was one of their first huge games and a series that has had just a ton of games released over the years. For some reason though these days Capcom seems to want nothing to do with the Blue Bomber and Mega Man fans as a result feel let down by Capcom. But back in 1995, Mega Man was still a huge priority for...
Ikari Warriors
Ikari Warriors Year Of Release: 1986 Studio: SNK Description Ikari Warriors would be the first big hit for developers SNK when it was released in the West in 1986. In Japan the game was just known as Ikari. But in the West, Warriors was added to the title. The game is one of many games that played similar to the hit game Commando. But SNK have gone on record saying that the main inspiration for this game was actually the movie Rambo. While the game was developed by SNK it would be Tradewest who would publish the game in the West. Story...
Donkey Kong 3
Donkey Kong 3 Year Of Release: 1983 Studio: Nintendo Description Here we have the last of the original Donkey Kong games to be released ( well if you do not count Donkey Kong Math, but who does?) this is a very interesting entry in the series in that it is just so far different from the two incredibly popular games that came before it. The game introduced a new character called Stanley who is a bug exterminator and apart from Donkey Kong 3 was only seen in an episode of the animated series Saturday Supercade and as a collectable in Super Smash...