![]() ![]() The big update on Black Tiger is that it is now available to play on Nintendo Switch! I’ll refer you to my recent article for all of the gory details, but to just cut to the chase you can download the Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium collection for free from the Nintendo eShop and then individually buy games. If you are a Joust fan I highly recommend it.īlack Tiger It’s a far cry from an ’80s arcade but you can’t beat the portability! (Image by Skip Owens) It is a home-quality arcade unit and it looks absolutely amazing. ![]() ![]() It was pretty easy to assemble and the quality of the screen and controls is about what I expected from Arcade1UP (perfectly acceptable and playable but not super high quality). We have covered Arcade1UP cabinets here on GeekDad before, so take a look at those reviews if you want a more detailed look at what you get with an Arcade1UP home arcade cabinet. The ostrich art on the Joust cabinet is just awesome (Image by Skip Owens)īut you can also buy the Mortal Kombat Midway Legacy edition, and it has the same games available except with Mortal Kombat cabinet art. The version I highly recommend (because I bought it myself) is the Joust 14-in-1 Midway Legacy Edition Arcade with Licensed Riser from Arcade1UP (which is available from Amazon for about $450). Arcade1UP has released a couple of different 3/4 home arcade cabinets that have Joust as part of the game offering. The biggest update on Joust is that you can now buy a 3/4 scale home arcade and play Joust at home just like you could in the arcade back in the ’80s. I am not going to revisit why these games were important to the plot of the book or go into any background, so reference the original article for that information. Searching for the ‘Black Tiger’ 80’s Arcade Gameīut since this wasn’t the only update, I figured I would revisit the original article and point out more recent offerings of these great games. I recently published an article here on GeekDad explaining how I had recently discovered Black Tiger had come out on Nintendo Switch. Each dot that a toy touches turns into a bigger dot that is worth five times as many points.Įach maze is too large to fit on the screen, so the maze scrolls up or down when you get close to the upper or lower edge of the playfield.A little over five years ago I published an article titled “The Video Games of Ready Player One” where I went through the video games that played a major role in the book-not the movie… big difference-and told you some of the options on where you could play these games today.Ī lot can change in five years. You can rack up bonus points by eating bouncing kites, tricycles, balloons and other toys that appear at various times throughout the game. When you are energized, you can eat the ghosts, sending them scurrying back to their home in the center of the maze. ![]() Scattered throughout each maze are energy pills which you can gobble down in order to temporarily turn the tables on your foes. Depending on which difficulty level you choose, between one and four ghosts will chase after you during your feeding frenzy. Your job is to guide the little pie-shaped fella around a series of five different mazes, clearing them of dots. Pac-Man took over the role of dot-munching maze dweller. ![]()
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