That and taxi offices. They were my local go to when I couldn’t get to the beach to go to the arcades.

Love these write ups. I lived through the platform wars fighting on the side of Light (Spectrum) against the hordes of darkness (C64) and the one grey teary Amstrad user.

Loved Bomb Jack, it’s a great game and I think it’s going into the curriculum for the kids next week to show them a great game with a simple game dynamic compared to them playing tosh on Roblox all of the time.

I remember playing the arcade on a ferry to France as part of a school trip. Best part of the trip was this cab.

Thanks for the memories.

And base model still unavailable in the UK.

If I was just buying for myself I could live with the mid range price point. But for four kids that’s a lot of money to shell out.

I’ve got a better chance of buying buying crocodile tears or hens teeth.

Bit late to this party but R-Type was one of favourites at the arcades and back when ther were so many outstanding games.

I occasionally get my kids to try them and despite the fact the controls are so much easier they can’t play them, the games are too hard!!!

I feel the same way about their games or at least the controls, I feel like I need to learn to be a court stenographer to use the controls using multiple combos to do something. Pah I say!

Sorry about that, following so many communities at first after joining Lemmy good stuff dropped off the bottom. Unsubscribed to a few so I can catch what I need.

I’ll look up that R-Type post, I spent a fortune on that cab as a bairn I should have shares in Irem.

If you can buy one then do it. I’m in the UK and I’ve been trying to get one for months.

I’m sure they pop up from time to time but I can’t spend every waking moment refreshing the page to grab one.

Fingers crossed one pops up soon though.

I grew up on Sinclair machines and yeah the graphics looked like a ceefax page that had died a horrific death but the gameplay was generally great.

Other classic conversions that actually looked pretty good despite the Spectrum limitations and played great were Karnov and R-Type.