The 100-Inch Arcade Set Up

For the gamer on your holiday shopping list who has everything—excluding a healthy social life—the DreamArcades 100-inch video arcade center might be the final thing he or she needs. Okay, "he". No woman wants this garish monstrosity in their home.

Featuring a wireless audio and video connection, a DLP projector, a PC with an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ CPU with emulation software pre-installed, and a few dozen arcade titles from Namco, Capcom, Atari, Midway and others, this beast will set you back $4500 (plus shipping). It also features almost every control scheme your little noodle can think of, including a light gun.

I'm ordering now and expensing this bad boy. If I get it approved, 100-inch Home Video Arcade Centers for every reader! Michael McWhertor

Dream Arcades 100-inch Home Video Arcade Center

5:00 PM on Mon Nov 27 2006
By Michael McWhertor
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EnigmaNemesis at 05:04 PM on 11/27/06
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I'll take two, and Paris probably has 3 of them.
Virgil Tibbs at 05:24 PM on 11/27/06
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the buttons are on the wrong sides of the joysticks...
Virgil Tibbs at 05:26 PM on 11/27/06
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or not.. I am retarded.
EnigmaNemesis at 05:42 PM on 11/27/06
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"the buttons are on the wrong sides of the joysticks..."

No they are right, you stand on the "left side of it" in that pic.
Draconis at 05:58 PM on 11/27/06
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I'll take two, and Paris probably has 3 of them.

Come on, you know Paris has far more than 3 VDs.
PD4Ever at 06:00 PM on 11/27/06
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How does the light gun work with a DLP projector?
skamaniscool at 06:00 PM on 11/27/06
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This makes my heart hurt. I would much rather has my cabs as original as possible to preserve them exactly as they were. There's nothing retro or classic about this.
yashichi8bit at 06:07 PM on 11/27/06
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PD4Ever, I am fairly certain that light guns do not work at all with DLP
khdownes at 06:45 PM on 11/27/06
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you can get specialised ones (the light guns) that have the sensor bar like the wiimote.

look up a retro parts seller and your bound to find one.
DGUW at 08:47 PM on 11/27/06
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Forgive me if I'm dumb, but how exactly will that setup play Dragon's Lair? I thought you needed the laser disc.

Although I bet it's on DVD by now and in that case, never mind.
kmhebert at 11:04 PM on 11/27/06
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This gives me a 100 inch boner.
Adam In Texas at 12:20 AM on 11/28/06
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DGUW
They also ripped the arcade roms from dragons lair and copied/compressed the laser disk to a smaller version. You can use dapne on a PC or there is an Xbox emu version for those with modded systems. You can play a ton of laserdisk games that way.
system11 at 01:36 AM on 11/28/06
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Looking at the Laserdisc artifacts on a 100 inch screen is going to be like watching an asteroid field, with pixels as big as your eyes. Better off getting a proper cab basically.
Jay at 08:05 AM on 12/08/06
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Does Peter Moore really have the world high score in Burger Time?