16 classics and the high-end hardware.
Capcom has decided to get in on the plug-and-play classics gravy train themselves this time. But they didn’t just shoot out some box and a controller. Introducing the Capcom Home Arcade:
The Good? The buttons and sticks are those nice (and fairly expensive) Sanwa ones. The Capcom Home Arcade also outputs everything in HDMI. And it comes with 16 of Capcom’s arcade classics from back in the day, most from the CPS2 with a few from the CPS1:
- 1944: The Loop Master
- Alien vs. Predator
- Armored Warriors
- Capcom Sports Club
- Captain Commando
- Cyberbots
- Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors
- Eco Fighter
- Final Fight
- Ghouls and Ghosts
- Giga Wing
- Mega Man: The Power Battle
- Progear
- Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting
- Strider
- Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
It also features a USB port. And I bet you all know how that’ll get used…
The Bad? The thing is huge. and yeah, it’s meant to be since you’ve got controls for 2 players. but good luck finding appropriate space in front of your display for it. There’s also the price; £200/€230, or about $260. It also seems to be Europe only right now. There’s also the fact that, for all the games they have on it, there are so many more they could’ve tossed in. And that’s not considering the fact that CPS3 games are, themselves, probably pretty doable with modern off-the-shelf hardware. I suppose Capcom should have the main takeaway be that I want more Power Stone. That has nothing to do with their original arcade systems, I know the original was a Sega Naomi game, it’s just, you know, what I want and need in my life.
All that said, I can’t wait to see what abominations hackers are guaranteed to do to this thing.
The Ugly? As sad as it is to say, the design of the unit itself. I’m not alone in this; plenty of comments on the trailer and elsewhere have pointed out that the design of their box doesn’t follow with the deliberate appeal to nostalgia their game selection is aimed at. When you think of that era for the company, you’re probably thinking of something along the lines of the inserts that were more typical for the era. Why they wouldn’t deliberately ape that design is beyond me. It was simple, sure, but that nostalgia rush is what these things are for.
Anyway, the launch of the Capcom Home Arcade is still a ways away. But pre-orders are open now. It launches in Australia, Europe, the Middle East, New Zealand, and Russia October 25th this year.
Source: Engadget
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