[arcade zapping goodness]
[game over noise]
I need a smaller quarter!
[jazz jazzness]
Greetings and welcome to an LGR product placement.
That's not what this video is about,
I just happened to have coffee.
Anyway, what we're talking about is this,
which is not a product placement,
but it is a product that I'm placing right here [chuckles]
This is something that I picked up at E3 2019
and if you saw my recap video of sorts
that I released about the show,
then you'll know exactly what this is,
or if you saw the title of the thumbnail of this video,
yes, this is a tiny little Tempest arcade machine.
One of the absolute most impressive ones
that I have seen to date.
Certainly the coolest one that I saw at the show.
And no, this is not sponsored. I'm not getting any
kind of commission for this,
I just saw it, was impressed
and bought it right there on the spot.
This is from New Wave Toys,
and they have a bunch of interesting Replicade products.
Really only a couple on the market right now,
but they've got a lot more coming out,
and I am intrigued by all of them
because of the quality of this one right here,
and let's just go ahead and open it up.
It was on sale too, that's another reason I picked it up.
I think normally it was like $120,
the sale price is $100 and then E3, it was only $89, so.
[relaxed jazz music] [cardboard creaking]
[box boxily unboxing]
So look at this [laughs].
It's just, I mean y'know the packaging alone
is just packaging, but I'm still happy with it.
I mean all the official Tempest artwork,
this is an officially licensed Atari product.
Well, it's licensed from Atari,
it's a New Wave Toys product,
but yeah, Replicade Amusements.
Just what they're doing with these little arcade machines
amuses the crap out of me.
It's a 12-inch, 6th-scale replica using real wood cabinet
and all these little parts and everything that,
let me just show you, because I've been extremely excited
[laughs] to get this thing home
and actually try it out at home,
'cause I only gave it a brief look on the show floor.
[humming] [soft jazz music]
[plastic crunching]
[box shlunks open]
Ooh, such foam.
Got some bags of accessories and replacement parts.
A little manual and a USB power cable.
It has a rechargeable battery in there.
Oh, oh yeah.
And already, that heft.
That's one of the things that drew me to this.
It is an actual wooden cabinet,
but it's all these other little details on here
that just, whoa.
Right, so as I was saying,
it really was just the overall build
and finish that attracted me to this particular machine.
Only other machines that have come close
in terms of detail that I've seen
are the Numskull designs.
I think there's only a Pac-Man of those right now,
and those are a little bit larger.
Those are a quarter scale,
and these, from New Wave, are 1/6th.
So they definitely had to take a few liberties
just to make it playable, because it is a smaller machine,
but for a replica of this particular scale,
I think it looks great!
Let's go ahead and get this off here.
[plastic crackling]
Oh, yeah, so the display looks really nice,
you'll see in a moment when we turn it on,
but the wooden cabinet construction,
the really high quality artwork,
like the prints of all this text
on the front here looks wonderful,
and then there's this down here [laughs].
This actual metal coin slot.
Yeah, it's got the little mechanisms and everything.
I mean, it looks like it's almost functional.
I mean, this part's not exactly,
but you know, you can't put tiny little coins in there,
but I don't know, maybe you could.
Maybe you could make that work [chuckle].
It just pleases me to no end.
And yeah, like I said, it is USB powered,
so you have a USB mini port right there
and back here you have,
looks like volume, power and a little speaker here.
Let's see, what does this do?
Doesn't look like that comes off or anything so, yeah.
Let me just go ahead and charge it.
[plastic crinkling]
Oh-ho-ho wait, there are little coins!
[laughs] This is the coolest!
I love it, look at this, look at this.
It has little coins, aw man!
It's stupid, maybe, to be sold on a tiny arcade machine
because of the coin door,
but man, I'm a big fan of miniatures,
and well, you know, really well made miniatures.
If you can get it as close to any kind of realism
as possible when you get really, really way up on it
and just start inspecting those details,
things like really nicely printed artwork,
you know, it's something that I see skipped over
on a lot of these kind of arcade machines.
Like you look really close at the control panel,
for instance, on the front of the unit like this
and the text is not legible.
Well here, it is!
Or they totally skip out on things like
the coin door or just the overall aesthetic
of the machine itself, like the design,
the physical design of the wooden cabinet
that these arcade machines came in, or like,
just the fact that this has proper PVC trim molding here.
I mean, it's got that rubbery feel
that a real arcade machine does.
I just like it a lot.
Let's get this charging.
[soft jazz music]
There we go.
Oh yeah, and you can see the little [laughs],
the little coin insertion deals.
You can actually press those.
They light up
and they've got the little charging thing on screen.
The lights right there, and oh, man!
I do wish the key actually locked things.
As far as I can tell it doesn't,
but it's all metal here, so it just feels right.
Tiny quarters, tiny quarters!
Okay, while it's charging,
let me see what's actually in the manual here.
I have not looked at this at all.
Yeah, it does have a light up marquee.
I'm happy about that.
How to play the game.
And the rest of it's in other languages,
so yeah, pretty simple.
I mean, it's a tiny arcade machine.
What do you need to know other than turning it on?
I think there actually are some updates to the firmware
for these things available,
so I don't know which version this has.
I don't see anything about that in the manual,
but I've seen some stuff online saying
that there's different firmware updates.
[slow jazz music]
I've got some extra rubber feet here.
Some extra little knobs.
Looks like these are just alternate knobs?
Alternate spinner knobs?
That's a lot of them.
Why do you need so many?
Put this blank one on there.
All right, let's get this thing powered on,
because this was another thing I was attracted to with these
is that original Tempest machines,
they use a vector display,
and of course, this is not that [laughs],
but they mimicked the look of it pretty well actually.
[button clicking] [slow jazz music]
Yeah, yeah!
All right, so it goes straight into attract mode, I believe.
Or I guess it's playing.
Okay, now it's in attract mode.
I don't know how well this will come across on camera here,
but in person, anyway, it looks pretty good, man.
Got some anti-aliasing going on around the lines
and text and such so it's,
I mean, it's a tiny little screen.
Three inches, maybe,
so it does look a little soft when you're looking
at it really close.
But as I'm at right now just, you know,
normal playing distance, it's not bad.
So, I think we, what do we do,
press the coin button.
[metal clinking]
That's four credits, sure!
[electronic Tempest sounds]
Yeah!
[Tempest continues being Tempest]
I wasn't able to really hear the sound too well at E3,
'cause everything else is really loud at the show,
but man, it sounds good here.
[zap zap, pew pew etc]
It's one thing I've always liked about Tempest,
is it has a little bit of oompf to that shooting
the 'do do do,' that, yeah.
[do do do noises]
And you can feel that here,
it's, you know, not booming away the room, but.
[chuckling to himself]
It's got little, whoops, "avoid the spikes."
I did not avoid the spikes [laughs].
So this was the slight little, not really an issue,
it's just a little different
because there's a little,
a slight little tick tick tick
when you turn the knob here, the spinner.
It's not like a free flowing thing.
So it doesn't feel as free as the full-sized machine does.
But I don't feel like it's getting in the way
of the game play, this just feels
a little tiny bit different.
I mean, you know it's gonna feel different.
It's a tiny little machine.
But yeah, I know.
It's one of those things
that I've noticed after playing the real machine a lot.
Like I don't have one of the real ones,
but there's a local arcade that has one I love playing.
This is so cool [laughs].
I just want all of the things now in this style,
this form factor.
And I have a bunch of other small arcade machines,
but like I said, none have impressed me quite like this one.
It's just, it's the combination of all the details
that make me so happy.
Yeah, once you get used to the spinner a little bit,
just that clicking, it's kinda nice, in a way,
because it is very accurate to each of of those clicks
is gonna be moving it in one,
I don't know what you would call it,
one degree of the pit.
Maybe that's what these are for?
Let's just see here.
So I guess this is like a smaller spinner.
It's definitely closer in scale.
Oh, I like that a lot, actually.
I'm not sure how playable this will be,
but in terms of the aesthetic, that looks proper now.
The other one that they have right at the moment
that you can actually buy, or you could,
until they sold out, was the centipede one,
and that one has a teeny tiny little track ball.
I have ordered one of those.
They didn't have any at the show.
Okay, I'm gonna play one more game.
Okay, yep, this is not as playable [laughs],
but it sure looks neat with the teeny tiny.
So if you try to turn it too fast,
it doesn't actually go around.
Hmm, like that.
See, I'm not moving.
That's a weird feeling.
I didn't really notice it with the other one.
I guess with this little tiny one, though,
I just have the impulse to spin it around quicker.
Yeah, I don't have the problem with this one at all
but I guess with the smaller one
I can spin it around way quicker.
Well, that's another reason they use this larger spinner.
Okay, so this is definitely the way to go [laughs].
Interesting, that's a quirk
that I did not notice at the show
because they had the larger spinner on here, like this.
I mean, honestly, this feels way more comfortable anyway.
There's making it look to scale
and then there's actually making it playable.
This larger spinner definitely makes it more playable.
And I don't notice the issue where I spin too quickly.
All right, now I gotta see what in the world
this little coin slot does.
What do the coins do?
Do the coins do anything?
So yeah, there's no actual openings in the coin slots,
I guess you just,
it's like a decoration thing, which I'm totally for.
[plastic crinkling]
Whoa, those are tiny.
Those are just the cutest little teeny tiny quarters!
We can stack 'em up here [laughs].
Look at that!
My little teeny tiny to-scale quarters.
See, now I'm just thinking of modifications
I could do to make this even more accurate.
I want to stick them in the slot!
Oh, what the?
What did I do?
The right coin button opens the menu, oh!
Well, that's put the sensitivity all the way up
and see how that goes.
Oh, okay.
[soft, lovely arcade noises]
That is definitely a little too sensitive,
but yeah, I don't know [laughs].
I wish that was a smooth spinning spinner!
This feels pretty good, actually,
now that I've played with it a little.
Uh-huh, just not gonna be setting any records or anything.
I mean, not that I'm gonna do that.
It's mostly just for display
and quick little novelty factor, that's for sure.
I would love to get an actual Tempest machine someday!
Any arcade machine, man, I don't have any arcade machines
in my home except for miniature ones,
and, well, this is the most impressive so far.
But yeah, despite its slight setbacks,
I think this is pretty great,
especially for the price I got it at, 90 bucks.
Well, do I want to take these little stickers off?
I kinda do.
[plastic peeling]
What a cool looking machine.
Well, thank you to New Wave Toys for being at the show
so I can give you some money
and take one of your things.
And thank you very much for watching.
If you are on the edge of buying one of these things,
I would say, knowing its quirks,
maybe Tempest your expectations [laughs].
As for me, I am completely satisfied with this coin door!
[metal clicking]
And the fact that it just looks so freaking good
just sitting here.
And yeah, it's certainly playable.
I mean, not as playable as the real thing,
but and if you can get it on sale, like I did,
definitely recommend it
if you're into miniature arcade machines
that look seriously good.
And if you enjoyed this video, then cool!
It was a pretty simple one just for Monday morning here.
Check out some of my more involved videos.
They go up every Friday, here on LGR.
Like I said, there was the E3 one
where I covered all aspects of the show.
That was a pretty enjoyable video to put together.
And more stuff coming up soon.
So stay tuned, if you like.
And as always, thank you very much for watching.