Namco are making 30-somethings rejoince as they offer a new arcade cabinet featuring three of the biggest Nintendo classics ever: Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., and Mario Bros.  The new cabinets will host a big 25-inch screen so you can bask in the detailed 80s graphics like never before.  All cabinet artwork includes the original goofy graphic design work as well as original-style controls for that pizza-and-cigarette atmosphere.  This is vintage stuff, people.  A fine wine, if you will.  Enjoy with a spritz of Aqua Net.

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While you're still thinking about the Megason IV (and don't tell us you're not, because we know you are), we figured we might also introduce another gaming classic, the Poly Play. It may not be from Bahrain, but this recently recovered cabinet hailing from the Eastern Bloc is way tougher for serious, especially since it's one of three known to exist. Basically it's kind like the video-game equivalent of the cold-war nuclear arms race—we started with one thing (Pac-Man) and they followed suit with a knock-off and then a whole load more on top (6 other random games). And when we finally beat them and the Berlin wall fell, the cabinets, which were manufactured in the mid-80s, were recalled and dismantled. But we're assuming it's because they could finally have REAL Pac-Man.  Well, not anymore!

We always knew there was something very dangerous about a video game that didn't require you to sit on your ass while playing it, and now Dance Dance Revolution has almost claimed its first victim, a 15-year-old girl in Nebraska who was playing it at the local mall when she collapsed and needed to have her heart restarted by paramedics using a defibrillator.

[Via Games.Slashdot.org]