div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;">#diy Don't feel like dropping a few thousand on luxury arcade cabinets? Build your own! Gamespy's thoroughly detailed look at building a custom arcade cabinet from the ground up might be a good way to spend your next fifty weekends. [Gamespy] More » [Link] [Cache]

div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;">#screengrab Mega Man, reimagined in one of 12 old-school ads by Brian Miggels and Brian Altano of IGN. Zelda, Pac-Man, Solid Snake and more are at the link. [IGN] More » [Link] [Cache]

Capcom will begin releasing their arcade classics on the Wii Virtual Console. The first release is SonSon, a game that came from the Chinese fable Journey to the West. This was originally released in 1984 in arcades. Don't act like you remember that. This version supports two-player action and is set to release this summer for 800 Wii Points. This is the first of many. Capcom plans to follow SonSon with "regular additions of its classic titles to the Virtual Console Arcade." They say that they recognize the importance and growth of the online business and plan to break into ... [Link] [Cache]

Filed under: Weird But True, Opinions, New In Pop Culture [Star Raiders Tribute Page] It would appear that Haunted House marked the beginning of a new series of revamped Atari classics. Siliconera spotted GameFly listings for PS3 and Xbox 360 games called "Star Raiders" and "Centipede." Centipede, of course, is one of the most well-known early arcade games, featuring a trackball-controlled avatar firing lasers at on-screen centipedes and mushrooms. Star Raiders isn't as well known. It's a first-person, Star Trek-style space exploration and combat simulator released on various Atari computers -- as well as on Atari 2600, where it used ... [Link] [Cache]