PRGE 2019 New Wave Toys Interview Featuring Street Fighter II & Dragon's Lair Cabinets

In this video, we speak with Peter from New Wave Toys about their new 1/6 scale mini arcade cabinets.

Since the 1970s, one of the goals of any video game fans has been to try to bring the arcade experience home. Originally, that was in the form of home consoles, Coleco made small console replicas in the early 80s, and since then people have created MAME machines or purchased full-size arcade cabinets for their home. While this is the most authentic way to do it, it's also extremely expensive and takes up a ton of room. That's where New Wave Toys comes in.

New Wave Toys creates some of the most accurately detailed arcade cabinets ever produced, but they are 1/6 scale. This means they can fit on a desk, a table, or even a diorama. I have been interested in these for some time and was able to meet up with Peter from New Wave Toys at the 2019 Portland Retro Gaming Expo. And boy, did he have some cool gear to show us!

There were a number of their different cabinets on display, including something I had never seen, a sit-down replica of Missile Command. This thing was too dang cool! One of the pleasant surprises was that they were a lot less expensive than I thought they were, especially for the quality that has gone into these machines. It's also great that, unlike other cabinets that may use NES or Atari 2600 ROMs to run the system, these actually feature the Arcade ROMs. That's cool! In addition, they had their to newest cabinets on display, Street Fighter 2 and Dragon's Lair.

The Street Fighter 2 cabinet is amazing to look at, but one of the most fun aspects of SSFII was the 2-player head-to-head gameplay. I know many people might be wondering how can you have a two-player 1/6 scale cabinet? There's no room for two people to play? Or is there? Well there is, as this gorgeous little cabinet has two wired controllers that are included that can be removed for side by side street fighter tournament action. It is way too cool.

Dragon's Lair, while announced, has not started to ship yet. This will be hitting Kickstarter shortly, and they have gone to the next level with this cabinet. The original Dragon's Lair actually ran off of a LaserDisc, essentially a record-sized DVD. The back of the New Wave Toys Dragon's Layer has a drawer that opens up, and inside you'll find a 1/6-scale LaserDisc player. This is the type of detail that you just can't help but love and appreciate.

Finally, one of the coolest things they had was there USB multi-output charger that looks like an old school arcade quarter dispenser. And I will tell you, this thing puts out a ton of power. It is possible that this could even power your Nintendo Switch, it has that much current output. Beyond just the power supply features, I think just looks cool as hell. They even include mini tokens with it so you can take your diorama to the next level in terms of realism and accuracy.

I'd like to once again thank Peter for being so gracious with his time and sharing information with me regarding all of New Wave Toys products. These things are super scale, super detailed, and super cool. To learn more about New Wave Toys, make sure you check them out on social media and on their website.

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