


If you love playing arcade games but don't feel like investing in a huge cabinet that will make your apartment feel like either some rich kids basement or a frat house, the Arcade-in-a-Box could allow you to feed your addiction with a bit more subtlety. Featuring two sets of arcade controls, you plug it into your TV to turn it into a giant arcade setup. The box is pretty much just a PC that can emulate arcade games, and it comes loaded with the Midway Arcade Treasures and Atari Anniversary Collection bundles of games. Since it's just a Windows XP machine, you could conceivably play any game using the built-in controls. The one fishy thing is that they're asking $1,800 for this, which is nearly twice as much as the guts of the machine are worth. The smartest solution would probably be just buying a nice gamepad and hooking it up to your computer, but perhaps that's just too boring.
Arcade-in-a-Box, via Oh Gizmo!