[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.