Mini Centipede Arcade - Rerez 

Update: There is apparently an issue with the battery life with certain models (or possibly all models) of this mini arcade. It loses it's charge within an hour or two of playing after a full recharge. You can keep it plugged up to play but these systems do NOT come bundled with a power adapter. I've now noticed this problem with our unit but I'll keep you all posted if a fix becomes available.

I have a track ball controller for PS1 and that's how I play Centipede. You're right, a track ball is a must to play Centipede.

Centipede my all time favorite game..when I was a kid in the late 80s my dad bought us centipede arcade machine.. I’ve spend many many hours playing .. I have yet to play any emulated version of centipede that feels like the true arcade experience.. this looks really cool though

For what it is, that is pretty impresive

The detail on that thing is amazing.

This thing is $159.99? Hah. No.

$160! Nope.

The trackball on the Arcade 1up is Awesome for their Centipede cabinet.

Very cool mini arcade cab. Just to let you know, though. The Atari 2600 did get a Track Ball controller that Centipede and Millipede were compatible with.

It's running Android Jellybean. People will put more games on it.

I'm hoping to snag one this weekend - their stock is running low. This one looks very promising.

Arcade ROM, proper controls, little details that replicate the original experience. This is how you do it. I'd like to grab the Tempest one if they weren't so expensive.

With the Steam Controller, you can get a pretty close fell when you play with the version on steam.

Well goddamn, I'll be waiting for my Golden Tee mini cab now lol!

I'm convinced

I can list all the games I wanna see in the future

Saw this one and Tempest that's coming out in the Spring and thought it was really cool until I noticed the price tag. These toys really shouldn't be over $100 dollars.

Bought one from New Wave, loved it and bought another! (I'm a collector, one to play and one to keep pristine in box.) Btw they're only $120 now. People pay more than that for a heavily modded game boy these days.

Thanks helped me decide

Aren't there still trackballs available?

I've seen track ball smaller then that in a phone made by symphony. I think the model was x110.

And I thought the version on Atari Greatest Hits for DS was more definitive lol

I wish the had super Mario bros on this version, that would be cool.

Why you don’t use the intro tune anymore? 😢

Where can I buy that?

Nice

The resolution is too low to permit scanlines.

you know you could just use a trackball mouse!

Okay.

Sorey boot that

Naah I'll just play centipede for 25 cents at the old arcade

Just for note, but analog sticks can accurately translate trackballs. Also, this Centipede mini-arcade looks like it's running MAME4ALL.

Just turn an old mouse upside down #diy trackball

Rerez, I love my New Wave Toys Centipede as well, but mine came with a faulty battery. I have to keep it plugged in to play it. It stopped keeping a charge after the first 3 days of having it. You may want to test yours by charging it up, letting it sit for 24 hours, and then trying to turn it on. My battery discharges completely after that amount of time, and on a full charge, I can now only get about 5 minutes of play time before the battery dies. But you may as well not report the problem to New Wave Toys. Customer service? None that I've seen. I've reached out to New Wave Toys about my battery issue via their trouble ticket process back on September 28th and they still have yet to respond. They provided me an email, confirming that I put in a ticket, along with a link to check on the status. Unfortunately, the link is bogus. If you try to click on the link, it will bring you to their website and ask you to login. Problem is, I've never been asked to create an account. I tried the "forgot password" method, which just returns an error. I tried to create an account using my email address, and it said there was already an account. I even tried creating a new account, but to no avail. As a last ditch effort, I replied to the trouble ticket email, and still have gotten no response. Don't get me wrong, I still love this little Centipede machine, but I am beyond frustrated with the lack of support to make things right. Unfortunately for me, I backed another one of their mini arcade projects on Kickstarter, a Tempest machine. If this experience is indicative of how they treat their backers, and I don't care how cool their next project is, this will be the last time they'll see another cent from me. Thanks as always for your great video game content! vgv

Bruh centipede wasn't that bad. It ran good and the only bad thing was the graphics. And even then do graphics matter when the gameplay is the same. And i preferably hated the trackball.

$160.00 dls !!? This has to be a fucking joke! 🤚🤣

"Mini" *holds up a arcade machine the size of about a Mac Pro trash can* "MINI???"

First place

Meh

I'm not into this kind of retro games they could keep it my money won't be going on this I would just throw it away or sell it

The menu at 4:40 really looks like android.Does anyone know if it runs android ?

This looks really cool! Not really a fan of the mini arcade machines, but it’s impressive what they were able to do here

I have the Centipede one, I want Galaga and Ms. PacMan.

Does it run on Android? That menu looks likes it.

thats really cool :D though I think ill wait till this company puts out Missile command before I consider buying

Finally! D-pads and joysticks are poor substitutes for a trackball controller. Hopefully this will generate the demand for more products like this so retro gamers can enjoy their favorite trackball games with actual trackball controllers. Thanks for another great review!

$160! Yikes!! It's amazing but... For just a bit more I could get a 1up arcade with 3 other games included as well.

I say it's not accurate enough. Where are the cigarette burns? ;-D I'd kill for one of these.

yeah it's easy for you to say it's worth it when you got it for free, try telling me that after you buy another one for $160

It would be very funny if they would create "fake tokens" like here to trigger "insert coin" function as a fun little gimmick. There's always something satisfying about hearing that coin insertion process happening to trigger the game.

I want Replicade to do more of these!

Sorry guys but $160.00 for a kids toy is just too much.Bettet of just to buy the Xbox or PS4 systems with that kind of money.

I remember there was a sort of Centipede clone for old macOS systems called "Firefall". Was pretty good and the music was awesome. Anyone else remember it or know where to get it nowadays?

Great review, looks rad!

nice I got it too, but my big 19" selfbuild Centipede plays much better, anyway nice tiny replica.

Aside from the price tag, the only way I'd probably be able to play this is with either a Barbie doll or a Mego figure.

Hi! I'm Centipede, i just kind of move down the screen!

This is pretty cool, there’s so many little things that they put into this tiny machine, they could’ve easily slapped it together to get a few quick bucks from nostalgia heads who see this in store, though for the price? OUCH!

I gotta disagree on the controls: I honestly do way better on a keyboard rather than a track ball. Is it authentic? No. Is it better? Yes, in my opinion.

It looks like it would be really awkward to actually use. Are you supposed to sit it on a table and then just float your hands above the machine?

I got mine 1 week and a half ago with free shipping and no tax for a total of $144.00 dollars 💵 I say it is well worth it!

Now, make me a 1/6 scale Hard Drivin' cabinet :D

additional games? you mean like Arkanoid?

just use retropie and tank stick..then you've almost the full experience

Sadly they don't ship to Germany. Would love to get my hands on one of these.

Imagine a mini Sega Sonic with that trackball

I still have that game in my housd things older than me but mines a bit smaller

Good Christmas gift

Damn I've been playing it all wrong in the past 21 years Since I first played the Arcade Classic 2 Centipede/Millipede game boye game.

you may not have noticed this but that machine is actually running android KitKat (judging by the style of the settings menu, it´s identical to KitKat´s Holo theme)

Review bro geo mini pls

$160 bucks? Ha! Pass

gods, they even tried to replicate the edges finish around the cabinet front... O.O

Centipede and millipedes play just fine with a mouse or touch screen unless you try to move very far across the screen (there is a mouse with the trackball on top if you really want to)

If the miniature cabinet doesn't pull you out of the experience, I doubt the battery indicator will.

List of games that should be on here millepied, missile command, crystal castle,

For some reason I remember you having more subs, 🤔hmm... strange.

Just emulate centipede on an early 90s laptop #trackball included

ok I think it fits in your buildings or being on the go better than the actual one well some are coin operated and some are free to play.

lol i thought that background music was neo geo startup

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But I remember playing Centipede on PC using the Microsoft Arcade collection when I was young and it worked just fine..

BlackBerry did it first

I really don't like natari only a few games Pac-Man was okay but other than that I couldn't I did not like that system one like that way to Retro for my taste

Give me my Nintendo Sega Super Nintendo stuff like that I'm happy

But there's no I'm good

Wonder if there's a way to took up a Pi to this thing.

This is so amazing! I saw something just like this on an advertisement on another video. You were totally in it, Shane! I loved it!!

Welcome to The Price Is Wrong!

could just use a track ball mouse on PC

160$ hell no

I love how impressed Rerez is by this over priced ornament. This isn’t a review, it’s an ad

a few points: 1) as mentioned, there is a hardware issues with retaining a charge, which cant be fixed, so be aware of that 2) it's NOT a 1:1 replica, the bezel is wrong, and missing elements, the spacing of the buttons and trackball is wrong, and not accurate with the arcade version, and of course the scale is wrong on the start buttons 3) since a mouse uses a ball (unless its optical pad), it is possible to play this just as accurately on a pc, if you adjust the analog settings in MAME, i've gotten several hundred thousand using a mouse. also there are plenty of trackball controllers for the PC 4) its a nice attempt at recreating centipede, but it's most for collectors and for looks. anyone that's good at the game would never actually use this to play the game due to its scale. i love centipede, but not $160 worth. later -1

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That dead pixel in the backlight bar, though...

I'm not sure if this is the same, but at Comic Con I tested mini arcade cabinets, but each had multiple games. For only $300. Not bad

I picked up an original cocktail cabinet for $10, yes T-E-N American dollars (but wait there’s more) at a garage sale. Was told it made sound but no video. I figured I could take a look at it and if I couldn’t fix it for cheap I would use it as a desk or possibly just part it out. Got it home, opened the top, and reconnected some loose wires. It started right up in all of its neon colored, synth orchestrated glory! The coin box was locked and I almost ave up after an hour or so of trying to get it open. But,! when I did, I found like $6-$8 in coinage. I love that machine, my body and die became so good that we could easily go on to do a three hour marathon‘s. Unfortunately I had to move and didn’t have room, so it sits in my uncles basement two hours away, but something like this or 1ups 4ft cabinet have been calling my name. Great video bro!

We need one of those with segasonic the hedgehog

how to make your own first, grab any old plug and play console second, grab some cardboard (a ton) third, get an old small tv last(for the materials anyway), also get some tape assembly first, cut your pieces into arcade shaped bit then put em together and cut a hole for your plug and play thingy and tv stick em in there and presto chango you have an arcade game

I used a trackball mouce