Make Your Own Paper Videogame Arcade

Thanks to Way of the Rodent for its feature providing printable plans for making your own mini classic videogame arcade using paper cut-outs. The accompanying text explains: "Finally - relive those early-to-mid '80s arcade glory days without the hassle of paying for stuff or having to learn how the machines work so you can keep fixing them or negotiating with strange, staring men at frightening auctions", before linking to printable color templates for games including Gauntlet, Defender, Robotron, and Tempest and asking: "Send pictures [of your completed mini-arcade], too. We'd love to see how you interpret and arrange all of this", in a move reminiscent of Konami's Metal Gear Rex paper model kit handed out at E3 2003.

Comments

Hardly origami

[Flexagon]

Hmm. Scissors, irregular polygon, glue, scoring the paper to fold properly. I was thinking of something more clever from that title.

Origami...

[Fizzl]

Nuhhuh...
What's with the topic?
I don't think this has anything to do with origami. It should read something like:

Games: Make Your Own Paper Doll Cloth Videogame Arcade

paper arcade?! kinda neat...IF....

[Xoo]

What's with all the hating? I think this is kind of a nice idea... *if* one of the following conditions apply:

1. you have access to a nice photo/hi-res color printer at work, and printing paper cut-out art is clearly more productive than printing out more cover sheets for your TPS reports

2. you are the illegitamate child of an HP, Epson, Canon, or Lexmark executive and can guilt-trip them for access to a motherload of ink cartridges

3. having pac-man and defender mini arcade boxes next to your Jennifer Love Hewitt shrine in your room may cure cancer, and you intend to prove this

4. you want to re-live the 80's and be reminded on how you spent thousands of dollars in quarters on games that you can play for free on Flash applets.