Pac-Man cocktail table in the living room. I've hesitated on getting an arcade machine for my home, but on a recent vacation, our rental home had a Ms. Over a couple of months, it occasionally became more table than a game console.Īrcade1Up has become popular for its arcade cabinet re-creations, which have anywhere from a couple to a dozen retro games per cabinet. New games kept us coming back, sometimes. And then, like many things, we sometimes grew bored and moved on. Oddly enough, it became a fixture for a while. But, it still made us smile a lot around my home after a week. And it's way too expensive for most people to consider. Space for coffee, tea and backgammon: the Infinity Game Table.Īrcade1Up's Infinity Game Table isn't perfect and it doesn't have all the games I'd want to play on it. And as I look back at a strange year in tech, this game table remains one of my favorite (if imperfect) throwback game experiences. The 62-game (and counting) total library is a much bigger bundle of games than any of Arcade1Up's other cabinets, and it's what makes the idea appealing as a long-term purchase. The Infinity Game Table includes over 50 games for free. They also cost extra ($10 each for those, and anywhere from $3-$8 for others). Most are Hasbro-based, but some, like Ticket to Ride and Pandemic, are welcome additions. True to the "infinity" name, the game table has, so far, kept out a steady trickle of new games since I started playing. The Infinity Game Table is, most definitely, a table. And yet, we all still ended up loving the most unlikely game console to enter our living room: a giant 24-inch screen embedded in a tablet with metal legs. We have tons of board games in our house and tons of iPads and game consoles that can play games, too. We previously did this a lot, but we've done it a lot more since the games were actually embedded in the table, no cardboard box or plastic tokens needed. (incl.I spent all afternoon playing Monopoly, backgammon and Sorry! with my family, sitting around the coffee table.
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