Space Invaders & Qix Twinned For Silver Anniversary Cabinet

Thanks to ClassicGaming for pointing out that Namco is producing a Space Invaders/Qix Silver Anniversary arcade cabinet, combining these two Taito-licensed classics into one arcade machine. The PDF brochure for the machine boasts: "The game that caused a national shortage of coins in Japan is back!", as Namco continues its classic arcade cabinet series that's also spawned Ms. PacMan/Galaga, explaining: "Why bring back these hits from the past? For the past few years, our distributors and we have received comments from operators all over the USA about how well their [classic arcade] games continue to perform, but how beat up the hardware had become." As for Ms. PacMan/Galaga, the info page reveals "the original PacMan is in the game", unlocked by a mutant version of the Konami Code.

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Pac-Man? Pac-Man? There was Pac-Man on that thing?

[GreenHell]

I was recently trapped on a rather boring boat ride where the ferry had a mini arcade consisting of a bunch of the multi-game cabinets and a pinball machine. (How you're supposed to play pinball on a boat that keeps rocking is beyond me, but it was on there.)

One of the machines was the Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga cabinet. I wasted a couple quarters on it, but had I known that Pac-Man was on there I probably would have wasted more.

Instead I spent most of my pocket change in the Missile Command/Centipede/Millipede cabinet.

Hmmmm... I just realised that a truck stop near 15 minutes out of town has that cabinet. Time to go take a look-see!